Having played and greatly enjoying the first two games, I really disliked this one and barely got through to the end. While the graphics are nice, that is pretty much the only thing this installment has going for it. The downsides include:
- a mediocre at best story
- very little combat compared to the previous ones
- weapon upgrades are meaningless and unnecessary - as well as the skills upgrades - because most of the time you are exploring and solving relatively easy puzzles
- the town/merchant system which falls flat because you don't need any upgrades, the game is easy as is
- an unnecessary stealth system because you can just go guns blazing and avoid the trouble of trying to be sneaky
- bugs (some puzzles are bugged which you will never find out about unless you use Google after spending hours on trying to solve them, some animations are bugged - e.g. talking to invisible characters whose lines you can't hear because they haven't rendered into the world etc.)
- an abundance of resources which you don't need to pick up because you don't really need to upgrade anything
Honestly, if I didn't use these games to brush up on my Italian & German (because they have full voiceovers and subtitles and a lot of dialogue), I would avoid this one altogether.