Azghouls: This should be a sticky actually. It happened to me when I first played it eons ago.

Check point save only applies when you die during your current play through and does not save your game. You need to quick / manually save it.

Weird but hell, it's a great game indeed.

Westenra: Boy am I pissed right now. Is this a joke?

I bought this game a few days ago, played non-stop for several hours (no doubt completing a good portion of it) then turned it off and walked away for the weekend.

I come back today, wait 15 minutes for the intro cinematics to finish, click "continue" and instead of starting me where I left off I get some weird screen with "play", "skills", "documents", "conspiracy" etc. Not sure what these are, all are empty and none seem to have anything to do with, well, anything so I click "play" and it starts me off at the beginning of a new game.

Huh? What gives? I go to "load" and all I see is a big fat list of empty save files, including an empty "quicksave" slot. Quicksave? Since when does this game have a quicksave? It's not listed in the "controls" section and tapping F6 ot F9 (the standard keys for quicksave) in-game does nothing.

Is this a joke? Are you telling me, Ubisoft, that I just played for 10 hours straight and your game didn't automatically save ANY of my progress? How was I supposed to know to tap "F5" in a game that uses checkpoints? When was I informed that I could "tap F5 to save my progress" at all?

I'm so frustrated I can't even... hours, HOURS of playtime, just... gone, because Ubisoft tricked me into believing, hey, you go ahead and play, we'll take care of the rest. Son of a *****. I mean the game is good, but not THAT good. Maybe in a few weeks I'll give it another shot, but ouch. I mean, OUCH. So glad I only paid $6.00 for this time burglar.

So mad at this game right now. Spent all weekend thinking about it only to come back and get crapped on.