Basically the title. Old game but I finally got it on sale, I don't care about fighting for the invading brown people, especially when I'm roleplaying as a Rennaisance-era Christian European. What were they thinking.
AC1: I'm an Arab ninja taking out Crusaders currently invading my homeland. Great.
AC2: I'm a rennaisance Italian ninja in a blood feud against another family of rennaisance Italians. Perfect.
AC2B: I'm the same Italian ninja liberating Rome from the the invading corrupt Italians. This makes sense.
AC2R: I'm the same Italian and I'm siding with the Turks in crushing the remenants of Constantinople. What. The OBVIOUS choice was liberating Constantinople from invading corrupt Ottomans. Byzantines who, wait for it, would have called themselves ROMANS at the time. This was so obvious, what were they smoking.
EDIT: Everything else was great though. I enjoyed the cutscenes and the Altair-Ezio-Desmond finale. But the gameplay story (ie most of the fucking game) was ass.
I assume it's because something something templars like everything.
Hey, wait a minute...
No you're not. You're an Arab who is part of an assassin's guild, which is actually spurrned by most muslims irl, and you are being hunted by a Templar disguised as a crusader. In this secret war, you are actively murdering arabs & europeans because the Templars are playing both sides of the conflict and intentionally causing the crusade & counter-jihad as a way to take over the world.
One of the utilities of this narrative is that no side can actually take offense because the real bad guys are actually part of a secret organization on both sides.