If you take a cursory look at the original Assassin's Creed's Metacritic page, you'll see that a bunch of sites and publications thought it was literally gaming sex in your mouth. The sites capable of reviewing it in a more reasoned way, all said the same thing. It was a great game engine that had been given ten minutes of gameplay which was then copied and pasted until ten hours later you were wishing it would just stop.
GF365: "Oftentimes, video games have characters who are antagonistic and really not very pleasant. Here are some of the friendliest characters in games where you might not otherwise expect to find them."
This weekend from August 10-14, players can play for free Assassin’s Creed II, Brotherhood, Revelations, Black Flag and Valhalla on Xbox, PlayStation and PC (availability dependent on platform).
GF365: "Most games are not perfect and that may be because of a character or an enemy. Here are 10 mediocre bosses in great games."
The Pursuer from Dark Spuls 2 was great, I think the author just sucks at games.