Thanks for the great debates and reads, guys.
I doubt this choice is a shot in the dark. You seriously think that in a game with so much killing no-one is going to maybe think they have to kill a bunch of dudes who attack them? Do you really think that hasn't probably been a problem with other similar sequences in the series? They can track player data, and one bit of important player data is when people got game over screens. It may seem like a minor detail to you guys, but I felt the need to say it anyway. New players understand that, when on an assassination contract, there's this guy you need to kill, and after identifying him, a red dot is enough to work with. Even new players understand that, in a brawl, you need to beat the other guys (the ones with the dots) up. This is just extra hand-holding and seems completely pointless to me. The target had a red dot and 'kill' over his head. I've also seen it in an earlier video, during an assassination contract. In the video, when Edward was beating up some guys on a beach, they all have a yellow dot over their head, as we've seen in AC3, but now it also says 'beat up' over the guy's head. Objectives will show over people's heads. I don't think it has been mentioned before, but I saw it in that interview video (again) and I felt like mentioning it.
