But despite all the new assets and graphics, there is no escaping the fact it is based on a game first released in 2013.
Ubisoft had to make lots of calls about what to reuse and change from the original.
Welsh actor Matt Ryan’s performance is excellent, but some of the initial game’s animations – such as characters repeatedly biting and spitting out a cork from a bottle – might have been best left in the past.
The game also suffers from a problem all too common in modern gaming: it holds your hand far too much.
In the most extreme case, at one point it gave me less than 10 seconds to figure out a puzzle before a character spat out the solution.
The combat also clearly draws from modern Assassin’s Creed games, but preserves some of the timing-based battling of the original.
It’s a nice marriage between the two, albeit disappointing that some things were not recreated – such as the ability to wield your assassin’s hidden blades in combat.
That combination of modern and classic combat is a good example of where the game shines. And if Ubisoft uses this as the template, we may be set to see many more remakes in the series’ future.
So perhaps the question is not whether it worth the wait at all, but how long we will have to wait for the next one?