If they didn't pretty much scrap the modern story and got rid of the first person "you're the assassin" shyt this might've been up there with with AC2 and Brotherhood to me...its got all the ingredients to be good.....seems like they listened to too much criticism and didn't just make the game they wanted to make. Trying to cater too much instead of just putting out a creative project.
Give me a new modern protagonist, get back to the AC2/Brotherhood story telling with more mystery and a cryptic tone, more interesting settings instead of trying to recreate Rome, and maybe something like short modern assassinations building on those AC3 Desmond missions