Amazing steampunk experience. Experience the true feel of ancient London whilst soaring from building to building. The transitions between the 2 main leads from time to time are very refreshing and the balance and freedom of changing characters ads to the aesthetic. The graphics are amazing on its own and for a game made 9 years ago (2015.) The variety of skills there are to choose from while keeping it easy to get skill points is awesome. Most assassins creed games focus too much on the main story and this game is the most open world in the series. Exploration is really fun with historical sights like big ben and more. On top of that if you choose to main the story even that is super enjoyable since the missions for the story have open-world aspects too. GET THIS GAME! It's worth the price. Also make sure to play the "Jack The Ripper"! It was even better than the main game! 8/10

This game series has been hijacked by weirdos who don't understand politics. I mean this quite literally, you have Karl Marx in this game and you free child labor slaves and adult labor slaves. There is literally nothing more communist that you could do then people will say ♥♥♥♥ like "BLACK PERSON >>>>>>>>>>:(" like Ubisoft is suddenly going woke or something. It's not that theyre going woke they've always been this way. I can't buy the most recent one cause im broke af and communism when no video games and only bacon or some ♥♥♥♥

but still people criticizing this game series for being woke is stupid cause they'll also call Karl Marx woke and he is a main part of this game

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Cool and fun game

God I wish this was the co-op assassin's creed.

You can kill English people.

Pleasantly surprising based on the direction Assassin’s Creed is heading.

Playing through Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate for the first time recently, I was surprisingly impressed with it. I don’t approve of the direction Ubisoft has decided to pursue with Assassin’s Creed, specifically with regard to the combat and free-running systems. I much preferred the simpler implementation of combat in the trilogy of Assassin’s Creed’s golden years. The health bars and slightly less predictable combat system is an attempt to make melee combat more complex and less repetitive and is a noble effort, but comes at the cost of a clean, bug-free experience. This is a symptom of game-design which continues from Assassin’s Creed: Unity. The pursuit of more complex game systems was generally at the cost of a smoother, simpler experience as per the earlier AC titles. While Syndicate is not nearly as bug riddled as Unity is. There was clearly a lot more polish in this title and more care paid to most of the game, but that being said, it’s by no means a perfect execution of an Assassin’s Creed game.

I think the largest issue with Syndicate is a problem endemic in Ubisoft games. It’s the open world mission design. The system which makes playing through the game repetitive as the player finds themselves completing side objectives across an open world city, but these side missions are always copy and paste, often using the identical building and NPC models and the same animations. This is just disheartening as a player because it makes completing the game a boring drag, as no new interesting things are being introduced to the player; and it also reeks of laziness, corner cutting and pulls the player out of any immersion because of the amount of forced gamification. To a small amount of credit, Syndicate at least retains a linear, almost fully cutscene’d story as opposed to newer AC titles which are straying further into cutscene light RPG questing games. It’s frustrating to see this but it is clearly a Ubisoft objective to move their games in this direction from a high-level directive.

The gameplay has some positive changes, the changes to traversing the map, via horse & cart, and the new grapple hook are good changes to the traditional free running, which was getting a little stale, and if the world maps are continuing to get larger, making circumnavigating them easier is a must.

So ultimately, it’s an improvement on AC: Unity, but that itself isn’t a huge achievement as Unity was shockingly bad in many aspects. The setting of the game has charm, and the protagonists are fairly likable even though not very memorable. So for the interesting setting, and decent story missions, it’s worth playing through once. But the repetitive recycling of assets and gameplay loops means that playing beyond the main storyline, and some noteworthy side missions, is not worth your time.

still a great game

Chaos 100

Alright first of all the parkour system is amazing, no doubt . The combat is fun, easy to learn and overall enjoyable. Now comes the critics, the game is good but i would say the story could have been better. Both Evie and Jacob are enjoyable but i think some people might not like it. All of the points mentioned are pretty much positive in a sense . Here is the worst part, THE FRICKING ENDING WAS TRASH, the repetitive movement and just for sake of not spoiling anything it was horrible, ubisoft rushed the ending, no doubt and they couldve done better. The villian is absolutely funny and has no depth of a character and is just bad no backstory, no motive just"I became evil because i wanted to become evil" which is sad cause all the AC game s had good templars with motive that just made sense.Now i have to say they did potray London amazingly and is honestly a good AC game for the modern setting. Honestly an enjoyable gameplay.