Santa's bringing me something good..

[Proton]

Everybody expects a great, whopping new experience even though they only had a year to make it.

Before saying anything,
remember everybody =/= you.
Seems more like it's you trying to argue for the sake of arguing rather than having an opinion of your own.

Most fans expected what they got.
They expected more AC.
Thus getting more AC.

The closest thing to a great, whopping new experience was multiplayer,
which was a great feature, and a great addition to the game series.

It's a great improvement from AC2, but it's not AC3.

It doesn't matter if it is or isn't.
It wasn't supposed to be AC3.

The game was targeted to AC fans.
Not someone picking up on the series.

You should've played AC:AC, AC1, AC:BL and AC: D before 2 if you even care about the number in the series.