Yeah but they had them pieces. I'm chapter 10 so we will see
There's set pieces in here. Maybe less than UC3 if you're judging by some impossible feat that drake escapes by the skin of his teeth but it's here.
Also the E3 set piece is easily the best set piece ever. The gameplay are the set pieces too as you can pull of some crazy looking stuff while fighting. The combat in this game will be as fun as you make it.
If ALL you're looking for is set pieces in the vein of the plane crash and you don't care about any exploration, story, writing and more open combat zones then you'll be disappointed in
that aspect.
Then again, UC3 had the "most" set pieces and that was regarded as the weakest game in the series since the actual "game" around those set pieces weren't that good compared to UC2. When I tried to replay it, I didn't want to play anything outside of the set pieces as the game around it was weak(Gunplay, combat areas, story, pacing etc.) In here they've improved almost everything else tenfold.