The last true classic Assassin's Creed game.

Since the original AC my focus on a good "AC" game has always been about parkour, stealth and assassinations. While it lacks more advanced skills like animation cancelling, catch ledge and sidehops, it has a fluid parkour system and a nice mix of simple controls and advanced user inputs. The basics is a simplification of AC-AC:R - instead of having to choose a climbing destination precisely with your movement stick, you can simply hold parkour up/down to climb. It however is different than AC3/4 in that the map is cluttered with enough buildings that the parkour doesn't feel that much on rails and not simply let you hold one button and climb anything like AC:O onward.

Stealth is superb yet extraordinarily broken, if you don't want to use smoke bombs you can take it very slowly and wait for your target to come to you, yet even with smoke bombs it only serves to accelerate the stealth and decrease the amount of time you have to wait, it's easy to learn, hard to master - you can disguise and walk into the middle of a group before throwing a smoke, you can throw at your feet and then shoot your enemies before relocating, or smoke your enemies, run in and assassinate, and then escape all within ten seconds. It's a tool that requires skill to be broken, and that is a good thing.

Co-op is surprisingly still alive even after 6 years, although you may need to just wait for a mission of a level instead of a specific one, but watching someone ♥♥♥♥ up in one location while being sneaky smooth does make you feel superior, if they die it'll even make you feel fast. If you have friends (which I don't) you can even actually work together and do double assassinations and it is truly satisfying while saving smoke bombs and phantom blades.

If you love AC-AC:R, you will probably like this game a lot more now than when it first launched, I know I do.
If you like AC4 / AC:O, then perhaps you're not a classic fanatic and should roam the seven seas for a copy before deciding if you want to buy it.
If you like Odyssey, why

The last true classic Assassin's Creed game. Since the original AC my focus on a good "AC" game has always been about parkour, stealth and assassinations. While it lacks more advanced skills like animation cancelling, catch ledge and sidehops, it has a fluid parkour system and a nice mix of simple controls and advanced user inputs. The basics is a simplification of AC-AC:R - instead of having to choose a climbing destination precisely with your movement stick, you can simply hold parkour up/down to climb. It however is different than AC3/4 in that the map is cluttered with enough buildings that the parkour doesn't feel that much on rails and not simply let you hold one button and climb anything like AC:O onward. Stealth is superb yet extraordinarily broken, if you don't want to use smoke bombs you can take it very slowly and wait for your target to come to you, yet even with smoke bombs it only serves to accelerate the stealth and decrease the amount of time you have to wait, it's easy to learn, hard to master - you can disguise and walk into the middle of a group before throwing a smoke, you can throw at your feet and then shoot your enemies before relocating, or smoke your enemies, run in and assassinate, and then escape all within ten seconds. It's a tool that requires skill to be broken, and that is a good thing. Co-op is surprisingly still alive even after 6 years, although you may need to just wait for a mission of a level instead of a specific one, but watching someone fuck up in one location while being sneaky smooth does make you feel superior, if they die it'll even make you feel fast. If you have friends (which I don't) you can even actually work together and do double assassinations and it is truly satisfying while saving smoke bombs and phantom blades. If you love AC-AC:R, you will probably like this game a lot more now than when it first launched, I know I do. If you like AC4 / AC:O, then perhaps you're not a classic fanatic and should roam the seven seas for a copy before deciding if you want to buy it. If you like Odyssey, why