User blog comment:The Supreme Diamond-Hooded Eagle/Crimson Polls II: Number 17/@comment-5174994-20130830213256

1. Do side quests - Only because I like to drag out my experience of the game. I will obviously begin with the first few story missions, but once they're done, I will probably just stick around the first place you can go to & do missions there. Although this may be an issue, considering that it's one whole map now. Usually there would be multiple cities, so I can just hang around in one e.g. I stayed in Boston as Haytham for my entire first day of AC3.

2. Renaissance Italy - Obvious reasons...  

QOTW - I don't expect much in changes to combat (4 guns don't count because you could just have two double-barrelled pistols in AC3), but that's not a problem because I loved AC3's combat. I hope they have improved how many enemies know where you are, once one is alerted, because I hated trying to get away from every guard in the city after messing up 1 kill on a roof.