Assassin's Creed Syndicate

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  1. dagamer82
    Nov 19, 2015
    0
    It runs smoothly on PC this year but it has poor graphics, low res textures and bland animations. AA is flawed in many occasions. The game is too demanding for what it offers graphically: it completely saturated my Gtx 980's 4GB Vram at Very High settings but the visual result is lower than the one obtained in Assassin's Creed Unity with less memory usage. The quests are repetitive, theIt runs smoothly on PC this year but it has poor graphics, low res textures and bland animations. AA is flawed in many occasions. The game is too demanding for what it offers graphically: it completely saturated my Gtx 980's 4GB Vram at Very High settings but the visual result is lower than the one obtained in Assassin's Creed Unity with less memory usage. The quests are repetitive, the game is boring, the Templar stuff does not live up anymore with the London environment. This game is pure marketing and a step below if compared with AC Unity.… Expand
  2. jeanbaptistebor
    Nov 19, 2015
    1
    A great disappointment for me that I have bought this game. This is what I think after playing it for around 13 hours:

    Graphics 4/10
    Sounds 6/10
    Gameplay 2/10
    Entertainment Factor 0/10
  3. ciuchina82
    Nov 19, 2015
    1
    It's always the same old mechanics, the same follow the guy and kill it, no innovation. This is a shame. Assassin's Creed Syndicate is a misstep and it shows how the series has fallen into disgrace.
  4. klausmunich
    Nov 19, 2015
    0
    Are you kidding me? The graphics has been downgraded into shame. It looks like a 2007 video game, the first ever Assassin's Creed looked better than this **** And the requirements to max it out are insane! With my Geforce GTX 980ti it uses all the video memory at 1080p Ultra settings but it looks like **** This is ridiculous!
  5. vova22379
    Apr 15, 2023
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  6. Foxcool
    Nov 28, 2015
    4
    Gameplay: 0/2 because it's the worst in the series
    Story: 0/2 very disjointed and hard to connect with.
    Graphics: 2/2 looks and works great even on somewhat dated machines. Sound: 2/2 everything sound as they should How it runs: 2/2 runs great with minimal bugs and hassles. Total: 6/10. -2 for having the worst gameplay design in the entire assassin's creed    Gameplay: 0/2 because it's the worst in the series
    Story: 0/2 very disjointed and hard to connect with.
    Graphics: 2/2 looks and works great even on somewhat dated machines.
    Sound: 2/2 everything sound as they should
    How it runs: 2/2 runs great with minimal bugs and hassles.

    Total: 6/10. -2 for having the worst gameplay design in the entire assassin's creed series.

    Gameplay problems: it has one of the most restrictive mechanic in an AC game, you can't jump when you want. You can only jump when there is somewhere to land. What this does is: you can't jump to your death. You can't make a dangerous jump to trade in your health for some distance or save time. You can't jump off most roofs. A game that doesn't allow you to fail is just a bad game.

    It has one of the worst parkor in the series. Running is very slow and flows poorly. In addition, the controls are very unintuitive, alot of time you have to make several attempts to perform a simple maneuver like drop down the ledge or climb up that waist high ledge.

    It has one of the worst combat in the series, you repeatedly press one button and occasionally press the counter button when you see an enemy hp bar flash yellow. The counter window is HUGE, as long as the counter button is pressed once during the yellow flash, no matter what other buttons you press after or anything else you do, you'll still counter.

    And that is one of the biggest problem in the game: the game play, AC 3 had one of the worst story in the series but it was still fun because of the gameplay. Syndicate takes all the progress and lessons learn from previous series and unlearn them all.

    It will give you one of the most restrictive feeling you ever had in a sandbox game, do NOT buy this game.    … Expand
  7. seagaljoseph
    Nov 19, 2015
    0
    AC Syndicate is optimized but is has low graphics, it's a cheap Pc port and it looks awful with washed out colours, cartoonish style and blurred anti-alias. The combat style is annoying and the missions are all the same stuff. After 10 hours of gameplay I am already bored.
  8. IE-33
    Nov 19, 2015
    3
    Ubisoft words; "Syndicate will shine on PC"

    When I look at Unity now and Syndicate.. I can tell only one thing about this game: HUGE step backwards. Everything was (Literally) downgraded and optimization is still bad. Graphics - Downgraded, Despite running this game on High settings (No Gameworks which slaughter FPS even on GTX Titan) it looks far worse than Unity or any other AAA    Ubisoft words; "Syndicate will shine on PC"

    When I look at Unity now and Syndicate.. I can tell only one thing about this game: HUGE step backwards.
    Everything was (Literally) downgraded and optimization is still bad.

    Graphics - Downgraded, Despite running this game on High settings (No Gameworks which slaughter FPS even on GTX Titan) it looks far worse than Unity or any other AAA game that came out in previous years, hell even dated Crysis 1 which is 8+ years old looks far better than Syndicate maxed out on PC.

    I see this only this way; Ubisoft desperately tried to pump as much performance as possible at a cost of the graphics which resulted in; Terrible distant textures, terrible render distance, terrible NPC models.

    Here are example how bad this game looks on High settings with FXAA:

    Example 1: http://i.imgur.com/rpmcsL1.jpg
    Example 2: http://i.imgur.com/IKSlPof.jpg
    Example 3: http://i.imgur.com/KJDNkDM.jpg (Notice: NPC's in front on the left side, closest carriage textures, street textures right in front of the carriage)

    The best part of this? Those "High" textures require 4GB Vram according to Ubisoft.

    NPC Density - Downgraded.

    Open World Enviroment - Downgraded, One thing I loved in Unity was the freedom to move between one buildings interior to another, in Syndicate almost all of this is gone.

    Character customization - This part of the game was also heavily downgraded, it doesn't even have 50% of customization content that Unity had.

    OPTIMIZATION - It's way better than Unity and a lot less buggy than Unity (In around 10 hours in-game time I only had 2 minor bugs that fixed themselves almost instantly) but this game still leaves a lot to desire.
    Despite being heavily downgraded prior to Unity in order to run better, IT DOES NOT.
    FPS drops are still present here and there (Especially in cutscenes where they tend to drop to 22-29 FPS for no particular reason) riding a carriage at very high speed is the worst idea you could possibly get; game tends to do not load another part of map fast enough which results in 1-2s freezes, FPS drops when sitting on top of moving train.

    ------------------------>TL;DR    … Expand
  9. leanzboy
    Nov 19, 2015
    0
    What can I say about this game? I was very excited of this game for PC after the failure of Assassin's Creed Unity last year but now after trying it I am very disappointed. It has very bad graphics, they reduced all the beautiful stuff which Unity had, objects and characters look dull, even if you push the graphics options to the max. The game is archaic, old mechanic and you'll findWhat can I say about this game? I was very excited of this game for PC after the failure of Assassin's Creed Unity last year but now after trying it I am very disappointed. It has very bad graphics, they reduced all the beautiful stuff which Unity had, objects and characters look dull, even if you push the graphics options to the max. The game is archaic, old mechanic and you'll find nothing new in it.… Expand
  10. mindsweeper
    Nov 28, 2015
    2
    Gameplay = 3 / Graphics = 7 / Wowability = 0 / Overall = 2

    I have all the assassins creed series and the only really epic games were ACII / Brotherhood and Black Flag. Ubisoft need to step back and learn from them games. Turning AC into and online shopping type game has really made it stale. We had a great layered approach to the games in the past now its just bash and dash with in game    Gameplay = 3 / Graphics = 7 / Wowability = 0 / Overall = 2

    I have all the assassins creed series and the only really epic games were ACII / Brotherhood and Black Flag. Ubisoft need to step back and learn from them games. Turning AC into and online shopping type game has really made it stale. We had a great layered approach to the games in the past now its just bash and dash with in game purchasing to boost the bash..

    We have gone from multi faceted beautiful games from Ubisoft to a bland cheese sandwich. My guess is they just cant create those games anymore, when you employ monkeys you get peanuts.

    Really unhappy but we as consumers can do NOTHING except not buy the games, cant see that happening as Ubisoft tempt us with a promise of the past but deliver dust.    … Expand
  11. Luka0101998
    Nov 5, 2016
    0
    This is not Assassins Creed anymore.This is just a pile of junk to keep the series running.
    After Revelations,all the games lost sense.
    The only solid game was Rogue in my opinion because of the story. I hope that the next game goes back to Ezio`s time and what happened after the events in Rome and Istanbul because the new games are just a waste of money and time.And for the love of    This is not Assassins Creed anymore.This is just a pile of junk to keep the series running.
    After Revelations,all the games lost sense.
    The only solid game was Rogue in my opinion because of the story.
    I hope that the next game goes back to Ezio`s time and what happened after the events in Rome and Istanbul because the new games are just a waste of money and time.And for the love of god,NO MORE SHIPS AND PIRATE S*IT!    … Expand
  12. Mandala
    Feb 24, 2020
    3
    This game feels dead. There's no significant story happening. The player characters are psychopaths who are as evil as anybody they kill in the game. There is no journey, no personal searching and meaningful objective. And so, I've found Syndicate extremely difficult to play through. There's little to nothing that's engaging about it. How did the AC series fall from its high of Black FlagThis game feels dead. There's no significant story happening. The player characters are psychopaths who are as evil as anybody they kill in the game. There is no journey, no personal searching and meaningful objective. And so, I've found Syndicate extremely difficult to play through. There's little to nothing that's engaging about it. How did the AC series fall from its high of Black Flag to Unity and then Syndicate? And now to Origins and Odyssey. The series is dead. Whoever has been writing AC scripts and dialog for Ubisoft since after Black Flag is a talentless hack. And these games clearly have not had good direction, either. They've become soulless and moronic husks, undeservedly bearing the AC name.… Expand
  13. jeroengasmart
    Nov 19, 2015
    0
    It is not acceptable that my Geforce GTX 970 can barely run this game at High settins all maxed out 1920x1080. When you put all the settings at the max it sucks you over 4Gb of video memory and the results is way worse than in Assassin's Creed Unity. The developers in Ubisoft downgraded the graphics of the game in a dishonorable way. Was it really necessary to satisfy the players whoIt is not acceptable that my Geforce GTX 970 can barely run this game at High settins all maxed out 1920x1080. When you put all the settings at the max it sucks you over 4Gb of video memory and the results is way worse than in Assassin's Creed Unity. The developers in Ubisoft downgraded the graphics of the game in a dishonorable way. Was it really necessary to satisfy the players who complained about Unity issued one year ago? I don't think it was necessary.… Expand
  14. robertoisidoro
    Nov 19, 2015
    1
    Oh yes it runs well and with fewer bugs but the graphics is bare and very downgraded that it seems you are playing a Pc game of 5-6 years ago rather than a new game. It's a modest Pc port that offers mediocre graphics, repetitive missions, awkward controls which waste your gaming experience.
  15. appyman
    Nov 19, 2015
    0
    Ubisoft sacrificed graphics quality in the name of non-sense framerate. I have never seen such ugly textures in an Assassin's Creed game before. Even AC Brotherhood looked better with my Geforce GTX 260 four years ago! AC Syndicate also requires you lot of graphics card memory to run at high settings and what you get is lower than any other game that you can play this year.
  16. renatogandullia
    Nov 19, 2015
    2
    Ubisoft this game is not what we wanted. In order to make it run with older graphics cards you ruined its graphics, you eliminated lots and lots of details. I think it's not a good thing. As for the gameplay the game is uninspired and flat. No emotional feelings in playing it at all.
  17. giancy
    Nov 19, 2015
    0
    8.5GB of Vram to make run at high quality a game that would have required less than 3GB is ridiculous. This PC port is a joke. If you want to play it at low settings it runs well and smoothly but graphics is ugly. If you want to play it at high settings prepare to buy a Titan X with 12GB Vram because your GTX 980ti won't be enough. Thanks Ubisoft for having cheated pc gamers again!
  18. desvues
    Nov 19, 2015
    0
    I bought the game and played all the day with bad feelings about it. I really can't understand why Ubisoft decided to lower the graphics of the PC version. There is no explanation for it, this is just ridiculous. And what is worse, it oversatures my Geforce GTX 980 SLI 4GB RAM at 1080p settings!! Ubisoft are you serious? You're only interested in money and making profits. The companyI bought the game and played all the day with bad feelings about it. I really can't understand why Ubisoft decided to lower the graphics of the PC version. There is no explanation for it, this is just ridiculous. And what is worse, it oversatures my Geforce GTX 980 SLI 4GB RAM at 1080p settings!! Ubisoft are you serious? You're only interested in money and making profits. The company doesn't care PC gamers at all.… Expand
  19. petercoed
    Nov 19, 2015
    1
    This is the worst AC ever made. It has no plot, boring characters, it lacks variety. The graphics is obsolete and outdated for a modern PC game. I can only run it at medium settings with my GTX 780 which has 3GB of memory. This is unacceptable for a game that has worse visuals than AC Unity.
  20. mistower
    Nov 19, 2015
    0
    The game for PC looks blurry, rough and flat. AA filter works bad. Shadows are poor quality. Textures are console version and not PC version. World detail is very low. This port is pathetic and unmeaning. Plus the game is boring boring boring again and again.
  21. syldoc
    Dec 7, 2015
    3
    Very disappointed, exactly the same like Unity, but in London
    The bugs are still here and the characters are so poor. The control are very bad and very imprecise, when you run, some time you go down but you just like stop . And the "b" button near a border, it's horrible to do what you want to do. And the "grapnel" is very horrible, you can't use it in running mode, it's so imprecise you    Very disappointed, exactly the same like Unity, but in London
    The bugs are still here and the characters are so poor. The control are very bad and very imprecise, when you run, some time you go down but you just like stop . And the "b" button near a border, it's horrible to do what you want to do. And the "grapnel" is very horrible, you can't use it in running mode, it's so imprecise you have a very little chance to arrive where you want (if you can do, but a lottery ticket)
    I don't speak to the "organisation", we don't know why it's here, why you, how did you arrive in this act
    I received it via a gift, hopefully, I don't spend my money on this version.
    Don't waste your money and return to the unity, it's just a "London DLC", beautiful DLC, but nothing new
    I make 3 for the graphic work, not for the story and for the "innovations"    … Expand
  22. RainXH11
    Nov 20, 2015
    0
    this game is empty, there's nothing worth playing for, no story
    you start the game doing mindless stuff & quests go kill that one & kidnap that, goddamn it it's no longer an assassin's creed game cuz there's nothing about the assassins and templar story there's just a total of 10minutes cutscenes in the entire game about the modern day u kidding me
    the pc port is way better than unity in    this game is empty, there's nothing worth playing for, no story
    you start the game doing mindless stuff & quests go kill that one & kidnap that, goddamn it it's no longer an assassin's creed game cuz there's nothing about the assassins and templar story there's just a total of 10minutes cutscenes in the entire game about the modern day u kidding me
    the pc port is way better than unity in term of perfomance i didnt have any stuttering or fps dropped below the 20s it played very smoothly but the physics seems to be capped at 30fps which makes the gameplay seem slow no matter what fps u r running on.
    the graphics are meh inferior to unity but when i add SweetFx with increased LumaSharpen it looks way better, but seriously this game will take up to 8gb of VRAM if you want to run it at High what the hell i dont know if it's the engine & game design fault or AMD & Nvidia Fault for making us stuck on the same VRAM sizes for years now, im no expert im certainly going to search in how games use vram.
    the combat & the ai are terrible, & there's only 3 types of weapons which none of them are swords or axes or any **** useful weapons you'd expect to find in ac game
    the point is this franchise is getting worse every sequel
    by the way i downloaded the pirated copy, i will keep doing so to bad games like this i hope this game sell poorly, if the next ac game is still bad i will not even bother downloading the pirated copy in the 1st place
    i still didnt complete the game & i wont complete it cuz i lost interest    … Expand
  23. vash47
    Dec 11, 2015
    1
    if you like awful game design and having your hand held through the entire game, this is the game for you. No way to turn off annoying "Go Here" indicators, no thought at all demanded from the player, just press X to AWESOME! Whoever designed the user interface should be put to death.

    Awful game and the paid (or just idiotic) reviewers are the worst. Last AC game I will play, nothing    if you like awful game design and having your hand held through the entire game, this is the game for you. No way to turn off annoying "Go Here" indicators, no thought at all demanded from the player, just press X to AWESOME! Whoever designed the user interface should be put to death.

    Awful game and the paid (or just idiotic) reviewers are the worst. Last AC game I will play, nothing will come close the marvel that was AC2 and the rough diamond of AC1.    … Expand
  24. kimhughes
    Nov 19, 2015
    0
    London looks disgusting and flat in this cheap PC port. I bought the game today and after spending 8 hours on it I'm absolutely let down. How could Ubisoft downgrade its graphics to such a rubbish? This is intolerable for a game published in 2015. Moreover, the game is boring and uninspired. The quests are not involving, you do always the same things.
  25. therocketeer
    Nov 19, 2015
    0
    This assassin's creed is a big shame. I wish I never bought it for PC but I did and my impressions are very negative because it has unsatisfying graphics, poor textures and poor world. The port has been made with no concern for PC gamers. They have pleased users who last year complained about the framerate and bugs in AC Unity but they have made a disaster with AC Syindicate graphicThis assassin's creed is a big shame. I wish I never bought it for PC but I did and my impressions are very negative because it has unsatisfying graphics, poor textures and poor world. The port has been made with no concern for PC gamers. They have pleased users who last year complained about the framerate and bugs in AC Unity but they have made a disaster with AC Syindicate graphic quality, it's under the average of a 2015 PC game.… Expand
  26. samuel31
    Nov 19, 2015
    0
    The game plays well on Pc when you set medium or low visual settings. But if you push it at High or Very High it will suck you 6 GB and over of video card memory and the graphics appearance still remains mediocre. Unity and Black Flag looked a lot better. London is badly portrayed.
  27. JayJeckel
    Nov 21, 2015
    0
    The graphics requirements for this game are absolutely ridiculous and what did it get them? Absolutely nothing. The same people who constantly complain about a game's graphics not being good enough are still complaining that the graphics aren't good enough. Meanwhile, those that play the game for the actual gameplay and story are left out in the cold or facing the need to spend a thousandThe graphics requirements for this game are absolutely ridiculous and what did it get them? Absolutely nothing. The same people who constantly complain about a game's graphics not being good enough are still complaining that the graphics aren't good enough. Meanwhile, those that play the game for the actual gameplay and story are left out in the cold or facing the need to spend a thousand dollars on a new computer or, at best, half a grand on a new graphics card.

    My advice to Ubisoft, stop chasing the approval of players that care more about graphics than actually playing the game and, perhaps more importantly, stop incorporating NVIDIA's new technologies if you aren't going to provide an ability to disable them. There is no reason a person should have to drop 600+ dollars on a new graphics card when the graphics of the previous Assassin's Creed games were completely sufficient to tell the story and provide the game's standard gameplay elements.

    In short, graphics are the least important part of making a good game. Stop focusing so much on them.    … Expand
  28. hasanoghlu
    Nov 21, 2015
    0
    ASUS K52 ; Corei5 M480 , nVidia GT540M and 8GB RAM ; I am playing Fallout4 in High and its Masterpiece
    But Assassin's Creed Syndicate for PC its Awful and Bloody Bad. FPS = 10
    Ubisoft F*** up.
  29. zereshk
    Nov 22, 2015
    0
    it runs better than unity but its really a downgraded game, its a mixed version of revelation and brotherhood, which has none of their charm, its boring the dialogues are so so corny, don't talk about the gameplay, the music is so rubbish that will thrown u out of the moment every time something about to happen, it doesn't match the moment at all...
    I've played this game from the 1st one,    it runs better than unity but its really a downgraded game, its a mixed version of revelation and brotherhood, which has none of their charm, its boring the dialogues are so so corny, don't talk about the gameplay, the music is so rubbish that will thrown u out of the moment every time something about to happen, it doesn't match the moment at all...
    I've played this game from the 1st one, but this is the worst one by far...    … Expand
  30. Pat
    Nov 20, 2015
    4
    This is one of the most frustrating to control games I have ever played. Somehow player movement gets worse with every iteration of the series. It is a rare occurrence now when my character actually does what I want them to do. The missions are an absolute borefest. Same thing over and over. They should have just ended the series with Black Flag. That game had everything. It wasThis is one of the most frustrating to control games I have ever played. Somehow player movement gets worse with every iteration of the series. It is a rare occurrence now when my character actually does what I want them to do. The missions are an absolute borefest. Same thing over and over. They should have just ended the series with Black Flag. That game had everything. It was enjoyable all the way through and it had a fantastic story along with it. I am not going to finish this game. Made it about 6 hours and it feels like a job rather than a good time.… Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. PCWorld
    Jan 19, 2016
    60
    For all that I'm down on Assassin's Creed as a whole, Syndicate is at least one of the better entries in the series. And there is admittedly a certain charm to familiarity—a ritualistic quality, as every year I load up the latest entry and proceed through its bevy of re-skinned content. “Hello, old friend. Nice to see you again. My, you haven't changed a bit."...But Assassin's Creed has long since been surpassed by its imitators, from Mad Max to Arkham City to Shadow of Mordor to Sunset Overdrive to Tomb Raider. What they lack in recreating a period of history, they make up for by offering something a modicum different.
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  2. Riot Pixels
    Dec 23, 2015
    70
    The aging Assassin’s Creed franchise begs to be retooled and refreshed, and the paint-by-the-numbers Syndicate is yet more proof of that.
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  3. DarkZero
    Dec 8, 2015
    60
    In the end, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate is a far more competent entry than the much maligned Unity, but it does not entirely restore faith in the aging franchise.
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