I totally forgot about that, it was awesome, its a shame that the Forgotten Sands ruined the series for me and made me forget about all about the beauty of POP 2008. The Art Style was amazing, the characters were cool and in my opinion one my favourite POP game alongside Warrior within.

I love that game.

Oh, God. The Forgotten Sands was awful. :/

I'm not saying I find their games engaging, I'm just saying that the author seemed to think that the solution was to be constantly surprised.

I was not surprised by Uncharted 2, but it was a great story.

The problem with Ubisoft games isn't their inability to surprise us, just their ability to write something worthwhile.

Look at Watch Dogs. A protagonist no one cares about, working with some asian guy we have no clue about, running into two hackers that are thrown in to make it so we're not talking to ourselves the whole game, and his sister gets kidnapped but there's nothing there to truly give meaning to their relationship with one another. Just showing us someone attacking them in the beginning doesn't do it. That's why The Last of Us intro was powerful. You actually were in control of escaping. You felt the atmosphere weigh down on you as you wondered if you would get through this and how and with whom. It wasn't just some cut scene that no one cared about. It was written and controlled by you. And when you lost that someone, it wasn't out of nowhere, it was predictable, but you felt the emotion associated with it because of the way it was written and given to you to control.

Another example of story telling that I hated was AC4. It got to the point where I was wondering how often they would strip me of everything I had obtained and learned, just to see me stranded on another island. Doing that once, that's fine. Doing it so often that I'm wondering what's the point of learning the new abilities... it just weighs down on you and makes you feel like they don't want you to use what you've learned, just run hoops through the basics over and over again.

I just played Uncharted 2 recently and to be honest i wasnt expected it to be that awesome with so many Holy $#$% moments. The game felt fun and you wanted more of it and wished it never ends.

But with Watch Dogs\Assassins Creed\Far Cry... things get way to repetitive, Climb tower, destroy outpost, assassinate someone, bad stealth missions, extremely boring and forgettable protagonists, hundreds of the same boring activities. It just feel like the people who work there are just working and not having fun with what they are doing, i wonder if the people who worked on the games there sometimes even play their games. That is why i am not optimistic about Rainbow siege and The Division no matter how good they look.