One of the better recent AC games, they've managed to make running over rooftops pretty seamless which adds to the immersion. The graphics are great, Victorian London is represented really well with all the famous landmarks and historical characters providing quests etc.

Ello Gov'na! This game is very easy to recommend. I know it gets it's fair share of hate, but lets be honest, what game, especially an assassin's creed game doesn't? I'd say, don't listen too much to it. I have played a good number of these titles. I've played the Original, 3, Black Flag (just recently bought it again on steam), Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla, and Mirage, and I find there is something to enjoy in each, but Syndicate really scratches a certain itch, and might just be my favorite.

The graphics are a kind of middle of the road game, but given it's an Assassin's Creed, that's not saying it's ugly in the slightest. The setting is stunning. I often walk down the streets admiring the smoke billowing up from industry, or the puddles shimmering on the ground as you walk. Would have been nice if Ubisoft gave us an umbrella, because it's going to rain a lot, which I actually love. The character models are well done and look great too. Not the best in the series, but great all the same. There is so much eye candy. My biggest complaint in this section is, WHY, lol WHY?! is the day so long, and the night so short! London is gorgeous at night, but the day night cycle is not evenly distributed. You'll be playing mostly in the daylight, like it or not.

The sound is fantastic! The trotting of horse carriages, the billowing boat horns on the Thames River, the hefty crawl of moving trains, the sounds of a gun shot ringing through the city streets, man, it's all here. You can be walking down the street, or along one of the many train stations, and hear the NPC dramas unfolding, sometimes interesting enough to make me stop and take a listen. One man in particular was getting threatened to pay some money, the dialog went on for a while to the point I thought violence might actually ensue, so I pulled out my pistol at the man, and he ran away. That's fun. That's good audio dialog. The music is pretty, and fits the time so well, I just wish there were more of it. Sometimes it's worth a stop to listen to the street musicans or opera singers and the like.

The combat and gameplay. The combat is a very simple system. While I enjoy it very much, I can see this being a turn off for a lot of players. It's not very challenging, but it does feel impactful, and does get the job done. My biggest gripe comes into play in this particular section, we needed more enemy variety. You don't have much. You got like 4 or 5 different enemy types you'll be facing regularly, and that's about it, and the brutes all look the exact same. You have a couple of deviations to this, but not many. However, that said, it still is a grand ole time running about London and delivering some fun knife play, and fisticuffs. This game has it all in the respect that you have fun and functional melee combat, ranged combat, and tools that can be used for aggressive combat, or a stealth aid, however you want to use them. The Stealth is EPIC. Probably my favorite out of the series. Stealth in cover, check. Social stealth, check. Tool aided stealth, check. Aggressive stealth, check. You really feel like an assassin here. More so than any other game do I feel like I am hiding in plain sight, and I love it. And on the flip side of things, this is a game in which you are not bound by stealth at all. In fact, with the Gang System, you're encouraged to rampage about London at a whim. I like the system. Every time I whistle, and a carriage with my men and women pull up, I can't help but think of Optimus Prime saying, "Autobots! Roll Out!". The upgrade system on your Train headquarters is impactful. You feel the gang getting better, and the city changing as you use the system. The horse carriage gameplay is very very fun, and I'm thankful it's here, because there sure is plenty of ground to cover out there. And lastly, the parkour. I really love it in this game. I know this is another point of irritation for many people with the added zipline gun they added, but I'm in the camp that likes to feel like Victorian Batman/Batwoman. It's all very stylish, and you can find your own routes as you play that let you do some real impressive looking traversal.

Story. It's just okay. It's not the best in the series, but it's not bad. I'm not going to spoil a single detail, but I will say, it's worth playing through, no doubt. The main Twins, and the side characters are something I completely enjoy though! I like playing a couple of assassin's who don't take themselves too seriously. I really like Jacob and Evie. They're fun, and dangerous. There are some tense emotional moments, but without seeming too dramatic.

All and all, I've spent hours in this world, and will be back for many, many more. if you want a title with any manner of stealth, or just want to paint the town red, this one will do it for you, and if you want an assassin's creed title that's going to make you feel like Sherlock Holmes, you've found your game.

soulless :/

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.

gud game

A lot of bugs