The third-person sword fighting, along with dashing about occupied France like a shinier version of Lara Croft solving basic retrieval puzzles, will take up most of your time. Swordplay is not half as exciting as it sounds, not simply because you only have three basic moves, but because it never feels fluid or natural enough. There might be dozens of combo moves and missile weapons to use, but combat tends to degenerate into a mess, your allies being nowhere near as helpful as they should be and most opponents, including bosses, being little challenge at all. It's the sheer number of English pig-dogs that you'll face that causes you difficulty, not their behaviour.