Assassin's Creed Syndicate

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  1. alanwaketan
    May 2, 2020
    6
    本作可以说是刺客历史上最垃圾的正统续作。除了伦敦模拟器之外一无是处。看在在伦敦跑酷还是蛮酷的份上，勉强给个及格吧。
  2. Lazyyybone
    Apr 19, 2020
    7
    이비와 제이콥을 선택할 수 있다는 것, 전작보다 나은 전투 액션 그리고 루크스를 통한 다양한 선택지의 게임 전개 그리고 역시나 어쌔신크리드 시리즈의 최고 강점인 1800년대, 2차 세계대전 당시 런던의 묘사와 역사적 인물들은 여전히 좋았다. 하지만 평평하고 개연성 없는 스토리는 다음 미션에 대한 궁금증과 욕구를 크게 불러오지는 못 했다. 시리즈 중 범작과 수작의 어느 한 가운데이비와 제이콥을 선택할 수 있다는 것, 전작보다 나은 전투 액션 그리고 루크스를 통한 다양한 선택지의 게임 전개 그리고 역시나 어쌔신크리드 시리즈의 최고 강점인 1800년대, 2차 세계대전 당시 런던의 묘사와 역사적 인물들은 여전히 좋았다. 하지만 평평하고 개연성 없는 스토리는 다음 미션에 대한 궁금증과 욕구를 크게 불러오지는 못 했다. 시리즈 중 범작과 수작의 어느 한 가운데
  3. ByJuanvi
    Apr 11, 2020
    10
    This game is a really good experience of the immersive London in the first industrial revolution and the WW1. And not forgot the remembers of london with the Queen, Karl Marx, Graham Bell and more.
    It´s a highly recommended game.
  4. Jdperez
    Apr 7, 2020
    5
    Juego poco interesante, la trama no es relevante, enemigos torpes y poco entretenido
  5. gameking
    Apr 1, 2020
    9
    I think this game very successful. It gives London atmosphere very good to us. ı played most assassin's creed game and ı think my favourite this game. Include odyssey. The mechanics good. The story very good. Graphics are enough.
  6. yukokano22
    Mar 8, 2020
    0
    I'm always a positive gamer who tries take the good sides of games and ignore the some hitch. However, in this case I'm so mad! I'm so mad tiny little of game. This piece of slip game IS NOT WORKING PROPERLY. I love ubisoft's history, assassins, city designs, but trucking game mechanics always find something to broke. This kind of work never deserve any appriciate! PLEASE SOME OF THEI'm always a positive gamer who tries take the good sides of games and ignore the some hitch. However, in this case I'm so mad! I'm so mad tiny little of game. This piece of slip game IS NOT WORKING PROPERLY. I love ubisoft's history, assassins, city designs, but trucking game mechanics always find something to broke. This kind of work never deserve any appriciate! PLEASE SOME OF THE STREET BOYS DO NOT RECOGNISE ME ONE SINGLE TIME! IM SO BORED RUNNING AWAY ALL THE TIME. IM SO BORED TO INVOLVED STREET FIGHT EVERYTIME. YEAH YOU CAN SAY YOU NEED TO DO RED MISSIONS WHICH MAKE SAFE THE AREA, BUT HERE IS THE PROBLEM. AS IN THE OLDER GAMES, IM TRYING TO SNEAK ''CROSS ANGLE'' TO SOME GUARD BUT I CANT ASSASSINATE HIM. WHEN WE GET IN FIGHT ONE ON ONE ON THE STAIRS OF SOME ********* BUILDING THERE IS NO REASON TO ALL ENEMIES LEARN AND RUN IN THE BUILDING TO ME! WHILE IM SWINGING MY 3RD KNIFE ATTACK, IM SURROUNDED 15 MEN!!!!!! IS THIS MAKE SENSE!!!?!?!?!?!!? I HAVE PLAYED ALL THE OTHER GAMES, I'VE STANDED FOR VISUAL ART, STORY, CHARACTERS. I WAS SO HAPPY THAT EPIC GAVE THIS FOR FREE. IN THIS CASE I COULD ONLY RESIST ABOUT 5 HOURS! YOU MADE ME AN ANGRY PERSON. WHO KICKS THE DOOR FOR A SINGLEPLAYER GAME!?!?!?! SOMETHING IS REALLY REALLY WRONG UBISOFT. I HOPE YOUR DELAYING FORWARD GAMES MOVE WILL SOLVE SOMETHING, OTHERWISE YOU ARE LOSING A BEAUTIFUL SERIES OF BRAND (AC) AND LOSING YOUR LOYAL CONSUMERS.… Expand
  7. 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
  8. Shimmeywill
    Feb 20, 2020
    7
    A fun enough game for roaming around and screwing with the open world. Combat and story is nothing interesting but the game is entertaining enough.
  9. erdogfu96
    Feb 8, 2020
    5
    Played this game from my friend's account.
    Graphics 4/10
    Sounds 5/10 Gameplay 5/10 Entertainment Factor 5/10 Graphics are good but even gtx1060 gets worse fps than ac odyssey, sounds are ok, not good but not bad, the gameplay is still boring but have revolution inside. They changed the boring future quests like "Go to the laboratory talk with someone and return the machine". And it    Played this game from my friend's account.
    Graphics 4/10
    Sounds 5/10
    Gameplay 5/10
    Entertainment Factor 5/10
    Graphics are good but even gtx1060 gets worse fps than ac odyssey, sounds are ok, not good but not bad, the gameplay is still boring but have revolution inside. They changed the boring future quests like "Go to the laboratory talk with someone and return the machine". And it is good. I don't like them in odyssey also.

    Price mark is good for today, not best bad good. But for me this game is worst in AC Series.    … Expand
  10. Renaigse
    Feb 5, 2020
    5
    Боевка унылое говно, худшее , что случалось с ассасинами, сюжет убогий и неинтересный, супер банальный, главные персонажи унылы. Из плюсов - Лондон очень красив, исторические личности и их квесты выше всяких похвал, ну и самое интересное, что есть в игре - расследования в стиле Шерлока Холмса, очень интересный опыт.Боевка унылое говно, худшее , что случалось с ассасинами, сюжет убогий и неинтересный, супер банальный, главные персонажи унылы. Из плюсов - Лондон очень красив, исторические личности и их квесты выше всяких похвал, ну и самое интересное, что есть в игре - расследования в стиле Шерлока Холмса, очень интересный опыт.
  11. ItGeraltOfRivia
    Oct 11, 2019
    9
    Красиво, сэттинг, прокачка, выбор оружия/одежды, крюк кошка, поезд=). Всего пару миссий для зачистки территории которые повторяются на всех, в целом слабый сюжет. Но сэттинг уж зашел из-за него 3 раза перепроходил игру)
  12. azgoodaz
    Sep 30, 2019
    8
    Assassin's Creed Syndicate is what Assassin's Creed Unity should have been.

    Controller I used to review this game: ASTRO C40 ---- Assassin's Creed Unity pushed what Assassin's Creed can do with AI and that led to horrible performance issues. While this game cuts down on the AI a tad bit and gives you an amazing game. Assassin’s Creed is a series that “I like,” I don’t love it    Assassin's Creed Syndicate is what Assassin's Creed Unity should have been.

    Controller I used to review this game: ASTRO C40

    ----

    Assassin's Creed Unity pushed what Assassin's Creed can do with AI and that led to horrible performance issues. While this game cuts down on the AI a tad bit and gives you an amazing game.

    Assassin’s Creed is a series that “I like,” I don’t love it (like a fanboy that buys each game on day one) or hate it (for how long the series is). But I like Assassin’s Creed for how in-depth the story is for both the Assassin and the character inside the Animus. One thing that I love the most about the Assassin’s Creed games is the places/city’s the game puts you in. Syndicate has a very 'Peaky Blinders' feel to the game and oh man, I loved every second of it.

    First off lets state the obvious, the performance. It's fantastic on the 3900X with 16 GB of RAM and a 1070... it runs flawlessly. Thought it did an "Ok" job on my old i5-6600. The game is very CPU heavy so you've been warned. So with that being said I have nothing bad to say about it, the game rarely dips under 58 FPS, constant 59 - 60 FPS.

    Gameplay, missions, cutscenes and in-game money. Gameplay, I love it honestly once you get introduced to the 'Grappling Hook,' the whole dynamic and mechanics of the game open up. For cut-scenes when you take over Gang Leaders territories, they're mostly the same with the same animations and dialogue, but in different locations of where the event(s) took place. Missions are widespread throughout the city, they give take advantage of using the whole map. In-game money is somewhat easy to come by, but at the same time it's hard to get if that makes any-sense. Unlike Unity, money can be earned when completing missions. If you are having a trouble time with money, you can spend real-life money (microtransactions) to get more in-game money (don't do this). You just have to experience the game in order to get the full understanding on how everything works, from upgrading your gang to upgrading your outfits/gear.

    Where is the Animus by Abstergo? By Sequence 4, the Animus is 5% of this game whole game. No lore outside of the game, I'm kinda disappointed. The Animus is just cut-scenes, you can't wander around. Was I the only one that liked the whole in-real life thing they did where you can wander around the Abstergo company like in Assassin’s Creed 2 and Black Flag?    … Expand
  13. SilverOrlov
    Sep 27, 2019
    7
    Let's just say that in some ways I liked this game, in some ways not.
    There are interesting plot moments that I like here... but they are completely unsuitable for linking them with the main idea of the series, and that what I don't like here. There is an interesting division between brute force and cunning of characters, but the same brute force is not an advantage, but a banal stupid    Let's just say that in some ways I liked this game, in some ways not.
    There are interesting plot moments that I like here... but they are completely unsuitable for linking them with the main idea of the series, and that what I don't like here. There is an interesting division between brute force and cunning of characters, but the same brute force is not an advantage, but a banal stupid barbarism. And the cunning borders on arrogance. And so on and so forth.    … Expand
  14. Lerder5
    Jul 2, 2019
    10
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  15. muzmuz
    Jan 28, 2019
    6
    Assassin's Creed Syndicate fails to amuse with its poor optimization, disappointing graphics, stupid AI, vague and unexciting writing, extremely hollow side activities, and horrible controls. While the general stealth and combat gameplay is fun despite being very unimmersive, I can't say this game is up for speed by 2015's standards, considering there are way better open world games out there.
  16. Krzych
    Dec 21, 2018
    8
    Very good game in the series, much more than I expected. Story and general atmosphere takes a much lighter and less serious approach, which at first may seem like a bad thing, but it isn't. Game has a very strong and defined idea for itself and remains true and consistent over the course of it's entire length. The opposite to many other games in the series, which are trying to be epic butVery good game in the series, much more than I expected. Story and general atmosphere takes a much lighter and less serious approach, which at first may seem like a bad thing, but it isn't. Game has a very strong and defined idea for itself and remains true and consistent over the course of it's entire length. The opposite to many other games in the series, which are trying to be epic but ultimately fail to be and eventually get lost in chaos, inconsistency and underdevelopment. Not the case with Syndicate and it is one of the few games in the series that avoided drastic flaws, at least in animus story and gameplay, because modern day story is like none, again, and apparently never coming back, as developers clearly don't have any idea what to do about it and are placing some poor quailty placeholders ever since Desmond story ended in AC3. Another issue is with graphics and performance, game received a hefty visual downgrade compared to Unity and is not any easier to run. Maxing it out at 3440x1440 requires 2080ti or 1080 SLI to barely maintain 60 FPS, and even then there are major issues with aliasing that is not effectively removed even by MSAA or TXAA and overall quailty/density is notably downgraded compared to Unity.… Expand
  17. MrElazug
    Sep 15, 2018
    8
    this game is good.i pirated the to try it out and its works well on my pc.i may buy it in the future
  18. ItsGosho
    Aug 3, 2018
    10
    -Graphics 10/10
    -Optimization 9/10
    --Conclusion between two of them is that they are balanced
    -World 10/10
    -Story 10/10
    -DLC 10/10
  19. AbeMC
    Jul 5, 2018
    5
    Assassin’s Creed Syndicate is the “last hurrah” of traditional Assassin’s Creed games. After the disappointment of Unity, which had a good story but poor gameplay, Syndicate has great gameplay but an awful story. And on top of that, it is way too easy, even for an Assassin’s Creed game. The Gold Edition is worth purchasing at 75% off (which would be around $15 at current prices), but theAssassin’s Creed Syndicate is the “last hurrah” of traditional Assassin’s Creed games. After the disappointment of Unity, which had a good story but poor gameplay, Syndicate has great gameplay but an awful story. And on top of that, it is way too easy, even for an Assassin’s Creed game. The Gold Edition is worth purchasing at 75% off (which would be around $15 at current prices), but the old magic is gone.
    Total size on my hard-drive (Gold Edition): 64.3 GB

    - - Micro-transactions in a single-player game. Not mandatory, but still: seriously, Ubisoft?
    - No campaign co-op.

    + Graphics are amazing.
    + Optimization is excellent.

    +/- Character writing slips a bit. I was apparently one of the few who liked Arno Dorian in Unity, and neither of the Frye twins has anything near the same depth. Evie is the more traditional assassin, while Jacob is all punkish swagger. Neither ever become more than their action-hero stereotype.
    +/- Combat has been completely re-worked from Unity to be more like the Batman Arkham games. It works and flows well enough, but has very little depth.
    +/- Mission design is a wildly mixed bag. Some feel like vintage Assassin’s Creed (preventing the ambush of Disraeli). Others seem like they were thrown together with only the most meagre of progression clues, like “find the secret passage.” Apparently I’m supposed to slowly wander the mission zone looking for a highlighted candlestick to open a movable wall. That’s if other members of your gang don’t trigger a mission fail by “protecting” their stealthed boss from some enemies.
    +/- Good selection of side-activities. After Black Flag, easily the most time I’ve spent in an Assassin’s Creed game chasing quest markers. But as one of the primary means of gaining money, you’ll being doing them a lot.
    +/- Decent side-quests. A variety of historical figures show up, each with their own independent stories and missions. It was cool following Karl Marx around for a few missions, but the missions themselves are just more tracking / crowd control / defend / drive a carriage etc. that already fills the side-activities in the main game.
    +/- Parkour issues from Unity are mostly fixed, but are still glitchy.
    +/- Jack the Ripper DLC starts well, but then descends into the same grinding bs that I had to do in the main campaign. You lose most of your skills and all your equipment, too – even though the DLC is set 20 years after the main campaign. The story might be good, but I was literally too bored with the activities to bother finding out.

    - Micro-transactions. Either pay real money to add in-game currency, or be prepared to spend dozens of hours grinding for in-game money. (Micro-transactions are not mandatory.)
    - Too easy. Gameplay is clearly balanced for people who don’t do many side-activities; take over a few boroughs and you’ll quickly find yourself over-leveled.
    - Glitchy. Here’s a perfect example. The bonus objective: “Climb on the same carriage as the thief.” BUT THE THIEF NEVER HIJACKS A CARRIAGE. Result: failed full synchronization.
    - Missed opportunity for campaign co-op.
    - Starting a mission disables fast-travel. Even if the next objective is ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MAP (which happens about half the time).
    - Throwing knives are OP. Makes the rest of the tools unnecessary.
    - Where is the Creed? Some missions require the killing of innocents (soldiers or police, usually). The Creed is actually never mentioned by anyone. The only time the classic phrase “Requiescat in pace” is spoken is after Evie has changed out of a ball dress into her assassin garb and throws the corset to the ground.
    - Story is bad. There’s a templar who is ruling London, oh no! We gotta battle him for London’s soul! The villain is never developed, and his platitudes never move beyond the usual “I was going to make something new and wonderful.” Looking back at previous Assassin’s Creed games – even Unity – it’s just bad. Check that. Unity’s story looks like a masterpiece next to this.
    - Absolutely horrendous final “boss.”
    - Most missions have no penalty for being detected, or no bonus for finishing them undetected. Missions can still be stealthed, but there is very little motivation to do so.

    Assassin’s Creed remains one of my favorite franchises, but with Ubisoft doing its best to copy the Witcher 3 in newer games, Syndicate functions as the final iteration of a classic formula. It’s a combination of exploration, mystery, stealth and over-powered hack ‘n slash thrills that I’m sorry to see outdated. Syndicate mostly does the gameplay justice, but it was an odd choice to make the combat inspired by Batman instead of Hitman. (Imagine: an Assassin’s Creed that had multiple objective paths and allowed the use of disguises. Revolutionary!) Unforgivable, though, is the sad attempt at story telling. At least we still have the classics.    … Expand
  20. Dohbear
    Jun 17, 2018
    8
    Assassins creed back on form after a poor showing with unity, gorgeous Victorian London, good gameplay backed up by a decent story - 8/10
  21. Meta1234
    Apr 16, 2018
    9
    I was undecided between an 8 and a 9, this game was an 8,5 so I rounded it up towards the higher score and gave it a 9 in the end.

    There were in my eyes no major emotions coming out of this game, but overall it was a well-balanced effort of main story and side quests with no major flaws. Enjoyable mechanics with no major glitches. Overall it left me with a neutral towards positive    I was undecided between an 8 and a 9, this game was an 8,5 so I rounded it up towards the higher score and gave it a 9 in the end.

    There were in my eyes no major emotions coming out of this game, but overall it was a well-balanced effort of main story and side quests with no major flaws. Enjoyable mechanics with no major glitches.

    Overall it left me with a neutral towards positive taste in the end. Not overexcited but down-to-earth joy.    … Expand
  22. DarkBee
    Apr 5, 2018
    10
    After the global failure of Unity, which was scolded literally for everything, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate looks like an honest game: the developers in the trailers showed a real level of graphics, not their imaginations; the game could be tried on dozens of events organized by Ubisoft around the world; the game does not load with annoyed conversations about the honor and morals of bothAfter the global failure of Unity, which was scolded literally for everything, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate looks like an honest game: the developers in the trailers showed a real level of graphics, not their imaginations; the game could be tried on dozens of events organized by Ubisoft around the world; the game does not load with annoyed conversations about the honor and morals of both orders, does not reflect on the higher goals pursued by the Assassins and the Templars. In general, the authors have done everything possible to restore confidence in the series. And they did it. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate is a race in Victorian London. The British capital of the times of industrial revolution meets tirelessly milling factories, Big Ben, buzzing locomotives, food-barges roaming the Thames, social stratification and exploitation of child labor. While the elite of the society drinks elite tea from the elite service, wears a smeared mustache and dresses in fashionable costumes, London's dirty lanes are filled with homeless people begging alms in the corners and hellish factories where children work day and night. All areas of the city - from public transport to industry - are controlled by Hanglers, a group of Templars, organized by villain Crawford Starrick. The main characters of the game, the young twins-assassins Jacob and Ivi Fry (in the open world can freely switch between characters), go to London to put their order there and at the same time to find a piece of Eden. To cope with this duet of Fry will help their adventurism, youthful enthusiasm and sense of humor: brother and sister willingly exchange mockery, and this animates history. Jacob arrives in London and delves into the heart of the matter, boldly declares: "Why do not we set up our gang and attack the Villagers?" Having caught Ivy's dubious look (say, how do we do it, did we just come to London?), Jacob resolutely undertakes. As a result, Fry gathers his gang: meet the new players in the London showdown - Rooks. In Assassin's Creed: Syndicate much is done correctly. Here, for example, much better intertwined in the general narrative of historical personalities: Jacob will meet Charles Dickens, Karl Marx and other important personalities. Each has a whole story arc - it's not Assassin's Creed Unity for you, where Napoleon was given a pathetic one and a half cat-scene.

    The authors actively juggle with situations: here in one of the first scenes Syndicate cites an episode with a train from Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - right up to camera angles; Here Ivy plays the right melody on the piano to open the secret entrance; in another scene, Jacob and Ivi participate in a shootout on the crews debuting in the series. In Syndicate, you can steal any city vehicle (hello, Grand Theft Auto!) And quickly drive it to the right place, and also ram the enemy transport carriages, in parallel sweeping the lampposts and trees.

    However, a more interesting innovation in the mechanics of Syndicate was the harpoon (yes, almost like the Dark Knight). Thanks to him you can quickly break away from the pursuers, instantly throwing himself at the top of the nearest building. It actively has to be used during a secret passage - the harpoon allows you to instantly change position and save time. Previously, you had to climb for a long time and run from one building to another, and now - once or twice, and you are already shooting the sentry on the next roof. And yes: in Assassin's Creed for once, a fascinating stealth appeared.    … Expand
  23. merijnj
    Mar 5, 2018
    7
    (71/100)
    Pretty ok overall, but it lacks in some areas. It's definitely not the best.
  24. fireyose
    Feb 7, 2018
    8
    Such a fun game. The game play is far better than any other assassins creed game. Stealth is effective and so far the combat is fair. Graphics are great on a GTX 1080 and I get almost no fps drops. It is an addicting formula and the progress feels well paced. Even this early, it might be my favorite assassins creed games.

    Going further into the game it deals the same damage to progress    Such a fun game. The game play is far better than any other assassins creed game. Stealth is effective and so far the combat is fair. Graphics are great on a GTX 1080 and I get almost no fps drops. It is an addicting formula and the progress feels well paced. Even this early, it might be my favorite assassins creed games.

    Going further into the game it deals the same damage to progress as other AC games. Repetitiveness is guilty for this dull feeling towards the ending. Still a great experience and world to get lost into while it's fresh. Lost interest in the story but the pick up and play a side mission or two helped to keep me coming back. Great overall package.

    RECOMMEND.    … Expand
  25. AstiX
    Jan 3, 2018
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A major improvement compared to its predecessor. Gameplay is extremely fun. Combat is brutal and very satisfying, running and climbing feels very natural. This combined with the best stealth system in any AC game to this point allows for silky smooth execution of stealth tactics and makes any kill feel extremely fun. The rope launcher is a great addition which makes getting around much less tedious.

    The industrial era makes this particular Assassin's Creed feel somewhat different from previous games and it sort of "refreshes" the franchise. The atmosphere of a XIX century London looks well-executed and fun to explore.

    BUT, story-wise the game is shallow and empty. It's got some pretty interesting and likeable characters, but the entire game is riddled with boring, tedious and repetitive missions. There's way too much insignificant content. The main missions had some good moments, but the side-missions... oh my god, they felt like a huge chore!

    Concerning the main story, you go through the entire game just killing major Templars one by one, and there's literally nothing there to stop you. No plot twists, no betrayal, no big reveals, no mystery, nothing. This makes the Templar look like an insignificant threat.

    Surprisingly, the best thing about this game story-wise is its detective missions which include solving mysterious murders Sherlock style, which is strange because it's not something the Assassin's Creed games are known for. While far from perfect, they are pretty decently made and I had quite a lot of fun racking my brain trying to accuse the right suspect.

    On another note, the graphics are a big downgrade compared to Unity. They're not bad, but considering how pretty Unity looked, Syndicate's graphics are just meh. Also, the horrible Anti-Aliasing options make it even worse.    … Expand
  26. leSange
    Dec 5, 2017
    4
    Не знаю какой там суперб, но после отличного вступления, непроходимая тупость и однообразность, единственное что нивелирует, это отличный, красивый проработанный мир. И из-за этого игра получилась НОРМАЛЬНОЙ, пару раз я думал ее удалить и надежды на финального босса не оправдали себя, но за отличный мир, и хорошую работу дизайнеров, можно авансом поставить 5/10Не знаю какой там суперб, но после отличного вступления, непроходимая тупость и однообразность, единственное что нивелирует, это отличный, красивый проработанный мир. И из-за этого игра получилась НОРМАЛЬНОЙ, пару раз я думал ее удалить и надежды на финального босса не оправдали себя, но за отличный мир, и хорошую работу дизайнеров, можно авансом поставить 5/10
  27. Tomle1202
    Nov 5, 2017
    7
    The addition of a new combat system, grappling hooks and enjoyable assassination missions prevents repetitiveness from making Assassin's Creed Syndicate a total disaster.
  28. Agares86
    Oct 13, 2017
    3
    SJW!!!. Everywere SJW ;/ Micro transaction in full game. Total **** bad optymalization, bad graphics, borring, great disappointment for me and not only for me
  29. iAvoe
    Sep 4, 2017
    3
    I paid for playing assassin, however ended up of getting the IronMan's parkour and BatMan's gadget, the design of press shift+W+E and shift+W+Space is even worse than Ezio's, very disappointing gaming experience.
  30. LifeHistory
    Apr 20, 2017
    10
    This is the best AC game to date and they did finally improve the combat in a really fun and solid way that you don't get bored from easily.
    Graphically amazing and well voice acted. Nice story and cool interesting characters and it has even better side quests than the ones before. I Totally recommend this and you have to give it a chance because they did well.
  31. KittyWhisky
    Mar 24, 2017
    7
    It's a good game, better Unity and Rogue. It is a pity that most players do not appreciate it.
    The plot, as in the latter part of the weak, and not fun. This time Ubisoft has pretty good and sometimes funny characters. Jacob fun bouncer is the best character since Ezio. Evie is very beautiful, and sweet, is always considered, and sometimes this game (the developers obviously wanted to    It's a good game, better Unity and Rogue. It is a pity that most players do not appreciate it.
    The plot, as in the latter part of the weak, and not fun. This time Ubisoft has pretty good and sometimes funny characters. Jacob fun bouncer is the best character since Ezio. Evie is very beautiful, and sweet, is always considered, and sometimes this game (the developers obviously wanted to please women). The main villain is not a monster, he's a normal man with perverted ideas.
    Nevertheless, the plot is held interesting - there are a lot of interesting missions. The job of the characters is also very nice place (Darwin's wonderful).
    The main innovation is the combat system. It works well and looks very cruel, especially dobivanie, and it's cool!
    London looks very beautiful and realistic. Ubisoft again confirmed that he can build the most plausible worlds. Recommend this next adventure. Yes, it is regular, but not bad and worth the money spent and time. The characters will hook you for sure.    … Expand
  32. tiho
    Jan 23, 2017
    9
    Finally played it more than one year after release, and I really enjoyed going through it. It's a very classical AC game, don't expect major surprises, but it's well executed and fun to play if you like the established formula. Personally, my only real complaint with it is the large amount of optional content that just seems pointless to me -- but I'm fine ignoring it and just goingFinally played it more than one year after release, and I really enjoyed going through it. It's a very classical AC game, don't expect major surprises, but it's well executed and fun to play if you like the established formula. Personally, my only real complaint with it is the large amount of optional content that just seems pointless to me -- but I'm fine ignoring it and just going through the missions I actually care about, so it's not a big deal :)… Expand
  33. Nyakuya
    Dec 20, 2016
    0
    Una mierda de juego por donde se lo mire. Optimizado HORRIBLEMENTE MAL, o deberia decir, DESoptimizado HORRIBLEMENTE BIEN.
    Es un juego lleno de bugs con mal rendimiento y mala jugabilidad, y como si fuera poco empeora reutiliza todo de Assasin's creed Unity y lo empeora.
  34. Criogen22
    Dec 13, 2016
    7
    Assassins Creed Syndicate suffers from similar conditions like the rest of the recent AC games. It lacks ambition. The game is decent, and has some fun in it, but at the end of the day it is just better AC: Unity. Its not a disaster from the optimization and bug part, but still when it comes to story and gameplay, it is all very similar, with the exception of likable protagonists twins EveAssassins Creed Syndicate suffers from similar conditions like the rest of the recent AC games. It lacks ambition. The game is decent, and has some fun in it, but at the end of the day it is just better AC: Unity. Its not a disaster from the optimization and bug part, but still when it comes to story and gameplay, it is all very similar, with the exception of likable protagonists twins Eve and Jacob. The only new noticeable additions are : grappling hook, coach driving, and leading a gang. None of those features are unique. We saw them in lots of other games already. But I have to admit, London is beautiful and very fun to explore. The main downside of the game is so much unused potential. You can see that the creators of this game were in a hurry. The story of twins Eve and Jacob starts promising, but it falls flat couple of missions in. For me the story was nearly identical wth the AC: Unity, with some twists. I think they should fire whoever drafts the main quest designs. You won't find anything revolutionary here, but still it has some level of fun in it.… Expand
  35. 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
  36. Rok
    Nov 4, 2016
    10
    I really wanted to give Assassin's Creed Syndicate a score of 9, instead of 10, because it's not exactly “perfect“, but it sure as heck comes close enough to perfect. I've fallen in love with Assassin's Creed, the very first game, but some of the later games of the main series failed to capture my intrigue to finish just the same; Assassin's Creed Syndicate does just that, however. ThereI really wanted to give Assassin's Creed Syndicate a score of 9, instead of 10, because it's not exactly “perfect“, but it sure as heck comes close enough to perfect. I've fallen in love with Assassin's Creed, the very first game, but some of the later games of the main series failed to capture my intrigue to finish just the same; Assassin's Creed Syndicate does just that, however. There are interesting main-story missions, and there are also countless side missions, or things to do on the side, like capturing London neighborhoods, which may seem repetitive to some people, but I definitely had fun playing almost every minute of those side missions, too, even if I'm capturing the 10th child-labor factory, freeing its children, and capturing alive the 10th criminal after having disposed of the gangsters near him. For whatever reason for me, it just doesn't get old. It's the same “type” of mission, but the approach is different every single time; the layout of the place is different, the organization of gangsters or mobsters, and their type, is different, my mistakes are different, and so on. And it's actually the “mistakes” that sometimes make things exciting or interesting, like when my mistake alerts a gangster near the alarm bell and he's about to ring it, thus making me fail in the optional challenge of a mission. The graphics may have been “downgraded”; I wasn't really following before release; however, the way they are right now is more than good enough for me. The graphics are actually pretty darn impressive sometimes, and very realistic; like how the puddles of rain look like on the streets when it's raining. Little things like that. The voice acting is superb, especially of Jacob, the main protagonist. The siblings could've done with less quibbling and fighting with each other, though, and more little, innocent banter, coupled with good-hearted cooperation, from a story-perspective. The writers thought for some reason that making the brother and sister argue constantly, creating rivalry, would be cool for some reason, but I very much disagree. Light-hearted banter would've been more than enough really. Also a few funny bugs occur every now and then, like an NPC getting stuck or looping the walking animation, and it occasionally affects a side mission, but for me, these are such minor issues that Assassin's Creed Syndicate easily gets a score of 9. It truly is an amazing and enjoyable game. If you loved the first Assassin's Creed, and perhaps haven't gotten back to the series in a while, you'll be very, very happy playing Assassin's Creed Syndicate. I gave it a 10, instead of 9, because sitting at a user score of 6 currently is extremely underrated for this game. So blame my extra point on the grossly unfair jerks giving this game a score of 0 or 1...that's obviously a subjective score fueled by pure, blind passion, and logic, and not by logic or a fair judgment and assessment of all aspects of this game and its production.… Expand
  37. Tuskymon
    Oct 15, 2016
    8
    [Russian] Абсолютно не согласен с мнением остальных игроков, как такой игре вообще можно умудриться поставить 0 или 4? Выглядит она очень достойно, хоть и по геймплею ничего практически и не добавляет, за исключением нового нестандартного гаджета. Графика в игре просто отменная, играл на ультра и получал максимум удовольствия от игры, люди, которые ставят нули просто тупо не смогли[Russian] Абсолютно не согласен с мнением остальных игроков, как такой игре вообще можно умудриться поставить 0 или 4? Выглядит она очень достойно, хоть и по геймплею ничего практически и не добавляет, за исключением нового нестандартного гаджета. Графика в игре просто отменная, играл на ультра и получал максимум удовольствия от игры, люди, которые ставят нули просто тупо не смогли запустить ее и решили так глупо "отомстить", другая половина людей, ставящая комментарий "конвейер" просто не имеет денег на всю серию и также пытается глупо мстить. Я же все же склоняюсь, что Syndicate одна из лучших игр серии (сразу после второй части с аддонами, сюжета из Unity и Rogue). Эта часть очень завалилась на основной сюжетной линии, однако в остальном игра просто замечательна, в том числе и во второстепенных миссиях с Карлом Марксом, Чарльзом Диккенсом и остальными значимыми историческими личностями. Геймплей, лично меня, во всем устраивает, а учитывая, что я проходил все части подряд в течение трех месяцев и он мне так и не надоел, то значит не все так плохо и не такой уж это и "конвейер", как называют эту серию остальные. И да, Иви Фрай - это мой самый любимый ассассин из всей серии, спасибо, Ubisoft, за такое замечательное знакомство с новым персонажем!
    Мой вердикт:
    Графика: 9/10
    Музыка: 9/10
    Оптимизация: 8/10
    Сюжет: 4/10
    Мир: 10/10
    Общее мнение об игре: 8/10

    Ставить восьмерку, считаю, большим завышением, скорее всего я все-таки склоняюсь к семерке, но, чтобы хоть чуть-чуть повлиять на User Score поставлю именно 8. Очень жаль, что в этом и следующем году не будет ассассинов :( Ждем фильм!    … Expand
  38. tigerskin84
    Oct 13, 2016
    0
    Awful,boring the combat sux is pure button mashing over and over, the quest are repetitive.
    Runs good but is beacuse its downgraded and even with that consumes a lot of vram, the controls are clunky and you cant get comfortable with, the character does anything but the thing that you want...
  39. Neddy
    Aug 21, 2016
    8
    It looks incredible, and I never got bored of walking, running, climbing, and driving about. I took many screenshots. Sometimes of just a brick wall, because I was enamoured by its faithfull reproduction, and its effect on me. The city was incredible. The buildings and parks were truly stunning. It did make me think of The Witcher 3 in London. The details and architecture were staggering.It looks incredible, and I never got bored of walking, running, climbing, and driving about. I took many screenshots. Sometimes of just a brick wall, because I was enamoured by its faithfull reproduction, and its effect on me. The city was incredible. The buildings and parks were truly stunning. It did make me think of The Witcher 3 in London. The details and architecture were staggering.

    The game was 90% perfect. There was the odd difficult to do mission, where it was just tricky to work out what to do. Mostly the missions were a blast. There was an issue in the last mission where on kb+m there was no method to walk slow, where the mission required it. I did that about twenty times.

    The graphics are fine. Yet there are folk reporting their GTX 980 is not keeping up. My system is GTX 980, i5-4690, 16GB RAM. I maxed out all but AA. Occasionally there was a dip under 60fps, and I discovered my CPU was maxing out all four cores. Basically all the people in crowd scenes were using lots of CPU.

    My own personal reflection was that I wasn't even expecting to like AC:S. It was my first ever AC game. I have a terrible fear of heights in games as well as real life. Yet because I knew I could not fall, I was mostly OK in AC:S.

    Now the bad. There was a side mission where you visit World War 1, which I hated and left alone. I did one mission of it, but it was another complete borough. I hated it because the security forces you had to avoid or kill If detected, were WW1 soldiers. That left a disgusting taste on the whole game and really I wanted to rate it lower. How could they even think about including killing WW1 Tommies. To make matters worse you were working for Churchill, but were not allowed free access to London.

    That bad point really smashed the game in for me. Otherwise I would have been tempted to mark AC:S 10/10. It really was an incredible surprise. I am also tempted to mark it lower because of that WW1 mission. However I can not decide on a mark so eight seemed about right.    … Expand
  40. danstew
    Jul 3, 2016
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I simply can not understand how some people can give Unity an abyssmal rating and rate this game with a high score.
    Yes, Unity had a bad launch and it needs a decent PC, but when I started playing it (mid last year), it worked amazingly well, and I experienced a grand total of two (!) bugs in that game.

    Now, behold Syndicate. I can not even begin to describe how much this one disappointed me, and how much it is NOT fun to play. Let's go through the bad parts, k?

    - Horribly cliche and uninteresting characters. The same tired old siblings conflict, one being the chaotic guy, the other the more moralistic and straight one. Jacob is a bad attempt at combining Hugh Jackman in the Holmes-movies and Johnny Depp - detached, overconfident, a bit goofy, wisecraking, not fazed by anything. Dull, same as his conflict with Evie, which is just cliche after cliche (not to mention that the fact their FATHER IS DEAD" is mentioned about 8 billion times, lest you forget.

    - Bugs. OMG the bugs. Getting stuck, crashes, stuff like: Am supposed to kidnap a guy and chase him in his carriage. I destroy his carriage, he gets flung out and lands on the roof of a cabin about 7 feet off the ground. I climb up, pick up his corpse, and...can't walk or jump off the roof, or drop his body off the roof. Suddenly, I am 600 feet in the air, falling to the ground, without dieing, but have to replay the whole mission.
    Or... if you fight on a slanted roof, the thugs can't hit you. So you can simply take them out without ever being hit.

    - The combat is where this game totally sucks. Totally. This is the WORST combat in any of the AC games, and I have finished them all. Spammy, beating guys with a stick over and over and over (yeah, how realistic). Suddenly, they hit you back with NO chance to block. So no matter how well you play and fight, they lash out and you get hurt. Fighting more than 2 enemies max at one time- forget it, you are dead. See, I love AC, I have beaten them all, and even though most AC games didn't have perfect combat, eventually you could master it and beat even larger groups of enemies. Here? Forget about it.
    On top of it, at first you can only possess 2 health potions. Good luck with groups. Most frustrating, dull, repetitive, unimaginative combat I ever saw in an AC game. Horrible.

    - Parcour. It sucks. It's slow. They took some things from Unity (climb up and down with two different buttons), but it feels liek it takes forever to cross small distances. You get stuck a lot too, and it almost feels as random as in "I didnt mean to DO that!" as some of the earliest ACs. Rogue, Unity, they did this so much better.
    The rope-gun might sound fun on paper, but its not dynamic at all, feels slow and clunky, and doesn't fit the period the game is set in.

    - Hardly any atmosphere. Everything looks bland, and there is no vibe to the city at all. Yeah, you will see the famous sights of London, but apart from, say, Big Ben and Buckingham Palace, it's just dull. Unity had so much atmosphere, with huge amounts of NPCs on the street and this sinister, mysterious vibe to Paris. Here? Dull.

    - The story is so uninteresting, it's hard to believe.

    - Even though it's not as bad as in Unity, there is the same old Ubisoft-stuff with the map.. unlock an area, and there you go, 800 side activities no one cares about. Pick up pressed flowers, visit famous places, pick up some helix items. Yawn. Unity had too much of that, I admit, but even here, it's way too much.

    - There are like 4 different kind of enemy thugs. And it's so obvious. It's like your enemies have a factory where they cloned 4 guys. It's totally immersion-killing, unimaginative and tiring.

    - The new level system sucks, same as the skill trees. And yay, we can upgrade our gang members! /sarcasm. I find this so disappointing... it was fun to hire assassins in Brotherhood and Revelations, calling them into combat, and they'd appear, fight and disappear like assassins. Here, you hire some brainless thugs to fight for you. If this is supposed to be innovative, I'll pass.

    - The music is terribly uninteresting and not memorable at all.

    - The train HQ adds NOTHING

    What ruins the game most to me is
    a) The horrible spammy combat. It never is fun, where you feel great because you take out a whole group of mobs if you play well. It's frustrating, often unfair and totally un-assassin-like IMO. You level p and earn skills, yet you never feel stronger or more powerful. I am not talking about god-mode or something, I just loved how in older AC games, you'd get more skills and get stronger, while here, it stays frustrating.
    b) The horrible characters and story. Jacob is a cliche goofy jerk, and I find him MUCH less interesting than even the more critizised characters such as Arno or Connor.

    It's good they are taking a break with the franchise, and hope they bring it back with something fresh and imaginative. This is just phoned in repetive junk, sorry    … Expand
  41. CTZ69
    May 24, 2016
    3
    A completely frustrating experience. I've played every AC game and this is the worst edition of them all. The game constantly freezes and plays like crap compared to every other game I play on my system. The game is totally unoptimized for the PC. Add to that the lame, disjointed story and the ridiculously repetitive side missions and you would be wise to skip this embarrassment of a game.
  42. Jesburger
    May 2, 2016
    8
    Just finished the game at around 70% completion. Overall a good quality game in the AC series with amazing enviroment, good graphics, likable characters and solid gameplay. Some of the classic down-sides of AC series are still there, but overall the game left a really positive impression.

    + Graphics and animations are top quality (on GTX 970 never dropped below 60fps on very high/FXAA)    Just finished the game at around 70% completion. Overall a good quality game in the AC series with amazing enviroment, good graphics, likable characters and solid gameplay. Some of the classic down-sides of AC series are still there, but overall the game left a really positive impression.

    + Graphics and animations are top quality (on GTX 970 never dropped below 60fps on very high/FXAA)
    + Enviroment detail, London looks beatiful and feels alive
    + Characters are well-written and feel more alive than ever (I especially liked the characters based on their real-life counterparts)
    + New mission types and especially racing with the horse carriages is surprisingly fun

    - Overall lack of polish in many areas. Dead NPCs twitching on the floor or floating around, animations or movement bugging or out of place and once HUD disappearead and I ended up having to reboot the game. These kind of break immersion, but nothing game-breaking
    - System requirements are high because of the new game engine, and there is still some texture-popping and some silly things such as cloth physics being locked to 30fps, witch you can fix by editing the .ini file)
    - There are some improvements to the parkour-system, but you still sometimes get frustrated when trying to simply get through a window and you end out launching yourself on top of a tower with the grappling hook

    If you are a fan of Assassin's Creed games you wont be disappointed, the gameplay is still the same (wether you think it's good or bad) and the story and characters are well-written. London is tons of fun to explore and the main characters are one ofthe best in the series. If only they had polished it properly and got rid of the few bugs, it would be a great game.    … Expand
  43. doktorbees
    Apr 24, 2016
    9
    Assassin's Creed is back to what it does best - beautiful environments and plenty of historical background. A solid 9/10. No technical issues whatsoever throughout 40+ hours spent playing the game. In addition to the mentioned upsides, one gets two beautifully crafted protagonist characters with slightly different skillsets to use and an ability to extensively customize their looks andAssassin's Creed is back to what it does best - beautiful environments and plenty of historical background. A solid 9/10. No technical issues whatsoever throughout 40+ hours spent playing the game. In addition to the mentioned upsides, one gets two beautifully crafted protagonist characters with slightly different skillsets to use and an ability to extensively customize their looks and weapons of choice (besides the standard hidden blade). The only downside was a few cheesy side quest characters. Other than that, warm up your hands for some freeruning and enjoy every aspect of Industrial London!… Expand
  44. Kamsy
    Apr 12, 2016
    1
    (Esto es una opinión personal, recuerda)
    He jugado hasta la secuencia 4 o 5 creo, y no he podido seguir jugando.
    El AC Unity a mi parecer, se ve mejor que el Syndicate. El Syndicate es aburrido hasta decir basta. Las peleas son con un mando de Microsoft así: X X X (veo barra amarilla) B B B (hago un contraataque) X X X y ya. Así todo el rato, parece un Hack&Slash. La historia no me    (Esto es una opinión personal, recuerda)
    He jugado hasta la secuencia 4 o 5 creo, y no he podido seguir jugando.

    El AC Unity a mi parecer, se ve mejor que el Syndicate. El Syndicate es aburrido hasta decir basta. Las peleas son con un mando de Microsoft así: X X X (veo barra amarilla) B B B (hago un contraataque) X X X y ya. Así todo el rato, parece un Hack&Slash.
    La historia no me llama nada, y han elegido una época muy ..... para hacer un Assassin's Creed.
    En este Assassin's Creed no existe ninguna necesidad de escalar por los edificios para ir a ninguna parte, ya que si te quieres desplazar puedes ir en el tren o en un maravilloso carruaje que, además, no puedes conducir por la derecha porque estás en Londres jejj. Además que el juego no está hecho para ir entre edificios, ya que hay una distancia de 46 millas entre edificio y edificio.
    Además no entiendo que tiene que ver el credo con peleas callejeras entre bandas. Esto es un Assassin's Creed, no es The Warriors.
    En fin, repetitivo, más aburrido que irte a una casa de campo donde no hay internet y apenas tienes señal, y además muy simple.
    Si quieres jugar a un Assassin's Creed recomiendo el 2 y la Hermandad, que son muy buenos y MIS favoritos. (El 1 también me gustó más que nada por la ubicación y la época aunque era bastante repetitivo) Un saludo.    … Expand
  45. Mahdiar
    Apr 1, 2016
    8
    Gameplay : 8
    Graphics : 9
    Story : 7
    Sound : 8
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    Overall : 8
  46. gamer288
    Mar 19, 2016
    1
    The baddest Assassin's Creed ever played.
    Performance is nice, but its full of bugs.
    Examples: i captured a Templar and wanted to bring him to the destination -> i can only move 10 meters no more. I was captured in a 10m area. I wanted to kill a scout or a master. i was focused on them, but the stupid game prefers to kill someone else where i lost the side quests. I just want to    The baddest Assassin's Creed ever played.
    Performance is nice, but its full of bugs.

    Examples:
    i captured a Templar and wanted to bring him to the destination -> i can only move 10 meters no more. I was captured in a 10m area.
    I wanted to kill a scout or a master. i was focused on them, but the stupid game prefers to kill someone else where i lost the side quests.
    I just want to jump down, cant do it. it prefers to climb slowly down.
    I want to jump to an other house (always worked in previous ac), doesn't work. you need to use the rope, where you can press 100 times the same key to come to your destination. before you could only jump.
    There is also no possibility to switch the side, where you are hanging. if you climb to left or right, if there is a obstacle in your way, you could easily skip it, going further left. Now there is no possibility to do that. you need to climb up on the obstacle, then climb down on other side down. I made 500 times wrong jumps, before i hadn't any problem. in no game i had such problems with wrong jumps.

    Conclusion:
    It's so bad and it so frustrating. i got no more nerve for this stupid game.    … Expand
  47. mrzero676
    Mar 9, 2016
    10
    Game looks amazing on gtx970 cranked up....best game play and characters since AC2. London is extremely well done with lots of water effects and it currently runs buttery smooth on my PC. I am really enjoying actually running around in the world not just powering through the story mode.
  48. DeadSec
    Mar 4, 2016
    6
    Better than Unity But not as good as origins
    the worst thing about the game is that doesn't encourage me to continue the game or play it again
    it makes no sense
  49. fallouts
    Feb 27, 2016
    8
    Updated review: My last review was rather overly negative because I made the mistake of submitting my opinion too early in the game. Now that I've completed the game, I can honestly say that this is the best AC so far in my opinion for number of reasons. Firstly, devs now finally realize that sandbox levels are the way to go with AC, and they have made the stealth mechanics fast paced andUpdated review: My last review was rather overly negative because I made the mistake of submitting my opinion too early in the game. Now that I've completed the game, I can honestly say that this is the best AC so far in my opinion for number of reasons. Firstly, devs now finally realize that sandbox levels are the way to go with AC, and they have made the stealth mechanics fast paced and less frustrating from the previous games. You have number of methods to dispatch your enemy and all of the mechanics are cool. The setting is very immersive and possibly my favorite one in the series. The characters are all memorable and show wide range of emotions from the emotionally disturbed past protagonists. Finally, the game is just a blast - there are plenty of side missions and all are fun, and the story missions are all varied and offer player freedom. I think this game is the biggest surprise of 2015 for me.… Expand
  50. joem282
    Jan 31, 2016
    7
    While technically refined and superior compared to AC Unity, this game does little to innovate over previous AC titles. You've played all the missions before and the story is still a convoluted mess. Imagine AC IV with an even less interesting story and no naval combat and you have AC Syndicate. Despite the repetitive and often times bland gameplay, the game world is probably the best thatWhile technically refined and superior compared to AC Unity, this game does little to innovate over previous AC titles. You've played all the missions before and the story is still a convoluted mess. Imagine AC IV with an even less interesting story and no naval combat and you have AC Syndicate. Despite the repetitive and often times bland gameplay, the game world is probably the best that Ubi has designed and it performed well maxed out on my GTX 970. Overall, I would consider purchasing this game if it's deeply discounted.… Expand
  51. mevsthevoices
    Jan 22, 2016
    1
    I had someone once tell me that Assassins Creed was their favorite running game series, and I still have no idea what the hell they're thinking. It's crap, utter crap. Lemme just break this down. Ever played the Saboteur? It's a horrid game that tries to stay entertaining by having you capture certain segments of the map, districts, or whatever they're being called this time. This is that!I had someone once tell me that Assassins Creed was their favorite running game series, and I still have no idea what the hell they're thinking. It's crap, utter crap. Lemme just break this down. Ever played the Saboteur? It's a horrid game that tries to stay entertaining by having you capture certain segments of the map, districts, or whatever they're being called this time. This is that! Some **** cutscene's that try to make you care, a story about stopping such and such from doing such and such. It's a joke. The entire Assassins creed series has been about taking money off suckers, not making good games, something I realized about after my millionth bloody hour of climbing walls and stabbing people.
    Who's doing what this time? Who cares? It's like ad-libs, change the names, the places, the time period, and feed us back the exact same game they've given us what, nearly a dozen times already.
    To boot, this game lacks even the tantalizing qualities that made me even somewhat interested in Black Flag, it looks like crap, it runs like crap, it's crap
    As a person who plays every released title, this deserves to be singled out for one of the worst in 2015.
    Crap, crap, crap    … Expand
  52. Cinetyk
    Jan 17, 2016
    6
    In short, Syndicate is mostly a poorer version of Unity in all respects: gameplay, story, characters (historical or otherwise), quality and personality of the open-world and its side activities all feel less well done and/or memorable than in Unity. Gameplay is repetitive and not very engaging. The only advantage is that it runs better than Unity and with fewer bugs.

    Detail: You play    In short, Syndicate is mostly a poorer version of Unity in all respects: gameplay, story, characters (historical or otherwise), quality and personality of the open-world and its side activities all feel less well done and/or memorable than in Unity. Gameplay is repetitive and not very engaging. The only advantage is that it runs better than Unity and with fewer bugs.

    Detail:
    You play as Jacob and Evie Frye, twin brothers in the Assassin Order that decide to go to Victorian London in 1868 - Jacob simply wants to kill every Templar and clear the city of the Blighters while Evie is more interested in finding the Piece of Eden and prevent the Templars from having it it. Supposedly Jacob is more combat thirsty and Evie more stealth oriented, but there's actually only 3 unique perks to each of them, and only Evie's camouflage perk (go invisible while standing for about 2 secs) is really noticeable. While you can do side activities with either of them, main story missions are locked to either Jacob or Evie. Also, I found it baffling that some Jacob missions' optional objectives involved stealth, while Evie could kill everyone with no penalty - so what's the point of making a character supposedly more combat focused, and another more stealth focus?

    There's an overall feeling of "quantity over quality", superficiality, shallowness to the open-world and its characters, events and missions. There's a million collectibles lying about, London is huge, but it feels populated rather than "alive". Supposedly there's background to the Conquest Activities that involve minor characters with a description in the database, but their description is so short and doing said activities them feels so inconsequential that you don't really care. Also, you do one the Conquest Activities, you've seen them all, really, and there's dozens of them. The grapling hook looks cool, but you'll realize the real reason you use it is that you want to get about and get things done as fast as possible, since there's little story and value to be had from them, except money and XP. There's hardly any crossing between the missions and historical events and the cameo appearances of Darwin, Dickens, Marx, etc. are little more than that, their missions boil down to the same elements.

    Gameplay is the same of Unity, except for the addition of the grappling hook and the removal of the ability to distract guards with objects you can pick up. In the combat department, I feel like it's even easier, even with the fact you have weaker melee weapons (no swords, just canes, knuckles, knives) and with the addition of enemies' ability to block, which you can simply use the "stun" button to counter it. I never felt like it was actually really helpful and "cool" to go stealth or non-lethal, mostly it was less hassle just to go in, kill everyone in combat and get to my objective. I hardly get the feeling I am an assassin, rather I felt like being a murderer. There's only a few instances that you'll want to kill a few enemies stealthily, in particular when you need to kidnap one enemy alive. Unless you don't care, since that is optional... Other than that you can pretty much just wreck and murder about it London with wild abandon without consequences other than alerting police and enemies nearby, that you can promptly kill. Civilians' reaction is mostly to scatter, if even that, but don't call the police. You can go on roofs and kill dozens of enemies on the ground with throwing knives right in front of each other, but they'll just look to the dead bodies wondering what happened... Oh, and the introduction of carriages and riding them is hilarious, they take little damage, horses don't mind collisions at all, you can drift around corners and pretty much lay untold wreckage in London like it's an everyday commonplace thing. The main story missions are just a minor step-up in mechanics and settings than the optional ones. Murder mysteries are PS4 time-exclusives, and co-op and heist missions are missing from Unity, and those were some of the best actual missions in Unity.

    The story is not very rich, there's not a lot of characters or character development. Who are the Assassins, 3 guys in London? The main antagonist mostly sits about the whole game, philosophizing, until you fight him in the last mission. The story dances around conflict between Evie's and Jacob's different methods on how to accomplish Assassins' goals, but there's little actual development of that, you just keep on playing. There's hardly any memorable moments, like in Unity's Versailles Ball, Notre Dame assassination, hot air balloon... Historical themes introduced like child labor, votes for women, working class vs high society are just superficially addressed, with little more than mentioning them here and there while you play the same mission types over and over.

    I suppose I should mention that the game looks and sounds impressive, but that's it.    … Expand
  53. pmorales50
    Jan 16, 2016
    8
    First I have to say that I love this game. I dont usually play my games as soon as I get them because there are always updates coming etc etc. I have dont this with all the newest AC games. Well after I heard there was a big update for Syn I went in to check it out and I have to say the game is beautiful looking and it pulled me right in before I knew it I was at level 3 ready to playFirst I have to say that I love this game. I dont usually play my games as soon as I get them because there are always updates coming etc etc. I have dont this with all the newest AC games. Well after I heard there was a big update for Syn I went in to check it out and I have to say the game is beautiful looking and it pulled me right in before I knew it I was at level 3 ready to play memory 4 so I had to stop myself. I came here to leave my 2cents and after reading these reviews about how ugly the game is and how it looks bad all i have to say is if you have a cheap PC you will have a cheap looking game. I have gtx 980ti, 32gb memory, Sandisk 980gb SSD drive, on a Asrock Z98 MB with i7-4790k, with Benq 120hz monitor and this runs beautifully. I will admit it is demanding I can not max out the graphics and keep good game play but its almost there. It is at a point where it looks beautiful and plays well. Everyone is so stuck on FPS? during my game my FPS is around 50FPS and I play with no stuttering or anything bad graphically. Stop watching the FPS and look at the game and how it is playing folks. Lower FPS does not necessarily mean bad gaming. In the end the game is working and playing beautifully. Like everything else in life you get what you pay for.… Expand
  54. AlexBoss21
    Jan 15, 2016
    10
    The game is much better then its predecessors ...but what i like at all is to kill some templars !
    There are little problems with the controls until you get used to them bu it is awesome!
  55. Unslanderable
    Jan 15, 2016
    9
    After 41 hours of delightfulness with this game including beating the main story, all the side missions and collecting all the collectables, I think it’s time to share my spoiler free opinion of this game
    DISCLAIMER: This is my first AC game ever. Keep that in mind while reading this review
    Story: AC: Syndicate throws you right in the middle of the industrial revolution. It covers the    After 41 hours of delightfulness with this game including beating the main story, all the side missions and collecting all the collectables, I think it’s time to share my spoiler free opinion of this game
    DISCLAIMER: This is my first AC game ever. Keep that in mind while reading this review

    Story:
    AC: Syndicate throws you right in the middle of the industrial revolution. It covers the story of Jacob and Evie Frye, two sibling assassins that work together yet they have different methods, ideologies and goals. The both have interesting personalities (especially Jacob) making it the average story more enjoyable. Evie leans towards stealth and planning every move while Jacob is more of an anarchist that relies on brutal force to get his way. The story isn’t the highlight of this game, it’s not bad at all, but it’s also nothing to brag about so I won’t dwell on it at all.

    The Positives:
    AC: Syndicate is great stealth game, but it’s also a great action/adventure game as well. Mechanics like the zip line and kidnapping impressed me the most. The skill tree was also very diverse and useful. The game has a great sense of freedom making you able to do whatever you feel like. The open world is simply astonishing; it’s as if the developers used to live in that era. The building look wonderful and so does the scenery. It’s just splendid.
    The stealth aspect revolves around the use of Eagle Vision to spot enemies through walls and mark them on the map before picking them off one by one. Basic stealth mechanics (i.e. whistling to attract enemies) are present in the game. You can hide in haystacks and cloakrooms to prevent detection and best of all kidnap enemies to access to restricted areas without drawing attention. You can perform hanging ledge, death from above, zip line, double and regular assassinations on enemies. You can also use the wide array of gadgets at your disposal like throwing knives smoke bombs and best of all the hallucinogenic darts to be as efficient as possible.
    The action sections are just as fun in the game. The hand to hand combat is very robust and well done, stringing different combos, using gadgets and performing multi takedowns is a blast. The carriage battles with the opposing gang/Templars are a ton of fun. You can recruit some of your own gang members to follow you and provide protection which is extremely enjoyable.

    The Negatives:
    The parkour in this game was a definite let down; I was expecting more from a game that requires so much of it. There is no sense of freedom in it and I my character was constantly jumping to the wrong platform, it was a very tedious issue.
    The AI of the enemies is average at best, often laughable. I expected more of a challenge from the game and was disappointed to find none. I wish there was an option to adjust the difficulty.
    The fact that both Jacob and Evie have the same skill tree with just 3 perks changed is a huge let down. But that’s the penalty of having a one year development cycle for your game.
    The game suffers from some bugs and glitches that affect it negatively but don’t break it, though I did experience the occasional crash it wasn’t a menace. The optimization could have been a lot better. I see no reason why 4Gbs of Vram, 8Gbs of ram, and 3.4 Hz of processing power was quite a ways away from maxing this game out at 1080p 60FPS, but I digress.

    Final Verdict:
    This game is an absolute blast. Despite the technical issues and the subpar story, I had so much fun with it and I can confidently recommend it to anyone who’s interested in this kind of game. If I had to give it a score it would get a nice 9/10. It’s absolutely worth a buy.    … Expand
  56. griffey546
    Jan 10, 2016
    8
    It's seems as if the hate is just because there was a graphics downgrade? I got this game with my GTX 970, and it looks about as good as gta v does on max settings, and I get around 60-140fps maxed out at 1080p. The game is very fun, but like Watch_Dags, the story is just not there, and I don't see why I can't SKIP some cutscenes! But the game still is very enjoyable, and the first AC IIt's seems as if the hate is just because there was a graphics downgrade? I got this game with my GTX 970, and it looks about as good as gta v does on max settings, and I get around 60-140fps maxed out at 1080p. The game is very fun, but like Watch_Dags, the story is just not there, and I don't see why I can't SKIP some cutscenes! But the game still is very enjoyable, and the first AC I can actually play (both entertainment wise, and "is the game playable" wise), and I definitely recommend you get this game when the next big Steam sale hits.… Expand
  57. KendrickTupac
    Jan 9, 2016
    7
    Everyone is talking about graphics and how it runs. Talk about the gameplay and repetitive series. This game improves from ACU, but it still does not change so much in gameplay. Graphics are better and story is obviously decent/good like all AC games are.
  58. LordRaijin
    Jan 8, 2016
    0
    I could not experience what this huge sized game can offer me in form of entertainment because it would not fully load up. It would crash on load. I contacted the technical support about this issue, and all they can do is blame the software's that I allow to start up on my windows operating system (windows 10). They even suggested to me that “disabling any startup applications or servicesI could not experience what this huge sized game can offer me in form of entertainment because it would not fully load up. It would crash on load. I contacted the technical support about this issue, and all they can do is blame the software's that I allow to start up on my windows operating system (windows 10). They even suggested to me that “disabling any startup applications or services that could be causing a conflict with the game itself” when in fact that no other games that I play on my machine has any issues whatsoever. It's only this game that I am having problems with.

    Even know this game was given to me for free... for purchasing a gaming laptop... I still feel ripped off knowing that I wasted precious bandwidth from my ISP data plan to download this massive size game to find out that I can't even play the game due to the crash on load!    … Expand
  59. KyngCasey
    Jan 4, 2016
    5
    The game looks beautiful and runs great on pc but the game play had me bored before getting 15% through the game. The quests are too repetitive and slow, its cool that you can be both boy or girl but who cares when you're doing the exact same thing over and over again
  60. dmz82
    Jan 1, 2016
    1
    The Good: The gameplay in AC:S is significantly improved over its recent predecessor games. The developers have managed to keep the overall feel of the Assassin's Creed series while simultaneously adding enough new gameplay features to keep the game fun. I found combat in this game, for example, to be pretty enjoyable. The voice acting is decent and the graphics were good.

    The Bad:    The Good: The gameplay in AC:S is significantly improved over its recent predecessor games. The developers have managed to keep the overall feel of the Assassin's Creed series while simultaneously adding enough new gameplay features to keep the game fun. I found combat in this game, for example, to be pretty enjoyable. The voice acting is decent and the graphics were good.

    The Bad: Everything else about the game is pretty bad. Although it performs out of the box better than AC:U did, it's still pretty choppy on high settings, even on high end computers. Moreover, the game is buggy (crashes or locks up frequently) and the controls are still garbage. The storyline is mediocre and the characters aren't well developed.

    The Really Bad: What I find most obnoxious about this game and what's probably permanently driven me away from the series is the way the developers push their identity politics in your face at every turn and in the most ham-fisted of ways. For instance, although the previous startup disclaimer was more than adequately inclusive, the game's designers inexplicably modified it to now include "sexual orientations" and "gender identities" while removing the previous acknowledgement of their "various religious faiths." The inclusion of an openly transgender character in Victorian England of all places was equally laughable, and one character's delivery of a snarky line in which she demands the right to vote was cringeworthy. Overall, this comes across as a game that was designed by a bunch of delusional Tumblr users who don't have any idea what the loyal fanbase of the game really wants and honestly doesn't care either way. The whole mess comes across is an obvious attempt to win over the vocal minority of SJWs at the expense of those of us who just want to enjoy our games without getting drawn into annoying political debates.    … Expand
  61. Levin
    Dec 31, 2015
    3
    Lots of effort has gone into creating the environment. The overall graphic result of that effort is spotless, but with a flat palette. Vista shots are rare and the environment quickly becomes repetative and a bit boring with such a narrow color palette. Gameplay can be summed up as a flood of frustration. Gameplay is also really repetative. Previous installations had repeating objectives,Lots of effort has gone into creating the environment. The overall graphic result of that effort is spotless, but with a flat palette. Vista shots are rare and the environment quickly becomes repetative and a bit boring with such a narrow color palette. Gameplay can be summed up as a flood of frustration. Gameplay is also really repetative. Previous installations had repeating objectives, and that is swapped with repeating gameplay and a repearing reminder of the poor controls. With a game that designs its gameplay around fluidity of movement and the controls of your character, its an obvious problem when those two are among the weakest parts of the game and source of frustration. Hard to understand why Ubisoft chose to release the game with such major flaws in gameplay.… Expand
  62. Alpacalypse
    Dec 31, 2015
    0
    Your character moves like a sack of potatoes. If you tell him to move right, it's more than likely he'll spin around for two second and THEN turn. I don't even want to mention how many bugs there are. For example, you press E to get into a carriage, but your dumbass character flies over to a policeman and tackles him. Hell, this doesn't feel like a sandbox because of how restrictive theYour character moves like a sack of potatoes. If you tell him to move right, it's more than likely he'll spin around for two second and THEN turn. I don't even want to mention how many bugs there are. For example, you press E to get into a carriage, but your dumbass character flies over to a policeman and tackles him. Hell, this doesn't feel like a sandbox because of how restrictive the gameplay. is. You can't jump when you want, you can't climb when you want, and the rope launcher (grapple hook) is VERY selective. 0/10 AC4 was better. Get that, it's cheaper anyways.… Expand
  63. Orangeknockout
    Dec 30, 2015
    6
    the game is "worth playing" at best if youre an assassin's creed fan; graphics are incredible, combat is fun, butttttt....that's about it. the story is, "ok", at best. I don't know what is it with western videogames, but western videogames seem to have terrible character development. I didn't really give a **** about any of the characters in the game; Jacob and evie frye were the only onesthe game is "worth playing" at best if youre an assassin's creed fan; graphics are incredible, combat is fun, butttttt....that's about it. the story is, "ok", at best. I don't know what is it with western videogames, but western videogames seem to have terrible character development. I didn't really give a **** about any of the characters in the game; Jacob and evie frye were the only ones I cared about in the game, but the rest goes to **** the main villain in this game didn't seem that really...evil.. he did a couple **** up things in the game, but then again... so was everyone else... the main villain didn't really stand out from the rest and I didn't feel much a of reason to "stop" him when the whole city was pretty much jacked up. you don't really see your actions impact the game. by the end of the game, there are still people starving and dying in the streets, gang fights, child workers, etc. the children I liberated from a factory were still working there a couple missions later! wtf! overall, a fair game at best, with fun combat. I really did wish they gave me the option to use fists as a weapon again...combat styles are limited in this game compared to other assassin's creed games.

    what killed the game for me was...the missions... the missions are simply just...not fun. tailing people was not fun. kidnapping gang members was not fun. taxi driving people to destinations was not fun. I had to force myself to play through some missions because they were so un-fun. there are a couple varied missions here and there which are fun. most missions are boring, dull, repetitive, unadventurous, unsurprising, missions.

    I had to force myself through the game, just to see the ending. the game's only saving grace is the fun combat, the somewhat decent story, and upgrading your character's gear.    … Expand
  64. stumancuk
    Dec 29, 2015
    10
    played most of assassins creed games and this one is one of my favorites theres loads to do and loads different missions. too all the people that slating the game saying its boring i really dont know what you been playing but what do you really want creed series always has loads to do do you really want a game thta you can complete in one hour. i will agree on the controls are bit messyplayed most of assassins creed games and this one is one of my favorites theres loads to do and loads different missions. too all the people that slating the game saying its boring i really dont know what you been playing but what do you really want creed series always has loads to do do you really want a game thta you can complete in one hour. i will agree on the controls are bit messy sometimes with jumping up and down but apart from that the games great love the fight clubs and loving the new map system well done to developers cant wait for next game… Expand
  65. Dionysus1
    Dec 21, 2015
    3
    I got this game for free with my 970 gtx and I could not be more disappointed, despite not really wanting it in the first place. First off I should say that I have never played an Assassin's Creed game and had never planned to until I got this game for free. Okay, the good: The graphics, art design, and atmosphere are really spectacular and definitely qualify as next-gen or whatever termI got this game for free with my 970 gtx and I could not be more disappointed, despite not really wanting it in the first place. First off I should say that I have never played an Assassin's Creed game and had never planned to until I got this game for free. Okay, the good: The graphics, art design, and atmosphere are really spectacular and definitely qualify as next-gen or whatever term we're using these days. The story is beyond me because I've never played an assassin's Creed game so it feels like watching the latest season of a long running TV show on its last legs and it really is not engaging for me in the slightest. Okay, the bad: The controls in this game are so bad, this may be the first game I uninstall without playing it all the way through. Oh, you want to aim? Too bad! The game does that for you, poorly. Oh, you want to jump? Screw you idiot, I'm going to grapple this wall and not let go until your head explodes in a mist of rage, skull, blood and viscera. Oh, you wanted to jump off this building to escape? Too bad! You're going to dangle helplessly jamming the E button while the idiot AI shoots you and you fall to your death. This game is so bad I think it really reveals how corrupt the gaming review industry has become. Screw those sexist gamergaters, let's go after the reviewers accepting bribes to get the hapless consumer to buy this awful, awful game.… Expand
  66. DanielCorfour
    Dec 17, 2015
    0
    I walk up to a Charles Darwin. He asks me to fetch for him today's paper, even though the newsboy is 10 meters away. Alright... I go there, and suddenly someone steals a (one, single, solitary) newspaper from the guy. So the game tells me to tackle him. Okay, although I could've just picked up one of the 100 other newspapers, but whatever, I oblige in the game's boring and already overusedI walk up to a Charles Darwin. He asks me to fetch for him today's paper, even though the newsboy is 10 meters away. Alright... I go there, and suddenly someone steals a (one, single, solitary) newspaper from the guy. So the game tells me to tackle him. Okay, although I could've just picked up one of the 100 other newspapers, but whatever, I oblige in the game's boring and already overused mechanic of "run after someone and tackle them". So I run after the guy, thinking I could catch him... but oh, no.no.no, tells me the game, you won't catch him until we allow you to catch him at this scripted pre-determined location. You ran ahead of him and cut him off? Really? Then we'll just disable the tackle button for a moment. We told you very clearly, you won't catch him unt..... "Desynchronized: The Target Died". Oops... it appears, dear player, that our game bugged out for a moment, and you'll have to do it all over again, even though, you did kind of catch the guy, if we would've allowed it.

    So I restart 3 times because the mission's scripted sections involved some carriages going off the road and they kept killing the guy I was supposed to follow aroun... I mean catch. Then I finally arrive at the scripted event where I'm supposed to tackle the chap. It turns out that the guy stops on the train tracks for no reason at all, and a train is going to hit him in 10 seconds, and I'm supposed to tackle him out of the way. Even though he ran a goddamn mile perfectly fine before and could've easily walked, at a slow pace, out of the way of train on his own.

    So after I tackle him I find out what this was all about. The guy had in his possession a caricature of Darwin as an ape.

    And then the game crashed.

    F**k this game. Just f**k this game. And f**k Ubisoft. F**k everything and everyone involved in this game. Just.....    … Expand
  67. SuperkenGaming
    Dec 16, 2015
    9
    Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
    A slight return to greatness.
    Assassin’s Creed Syndicate tells the story of twin assassins Jacob and Evie Frye You can freely switch back and forth between the 2 to complete tasks around the city and to free roam, but each is unique in their ability and have their own specific story missions to give you a feel for both. There is a very simple skill tree and    Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
    A slight return to greatness.
    Assassin’s Creed Syndicate tells the story of twin assassins Jacob and Evie Frye
    You can freely switch back and forth between the 2 to complete tasks around the city and to free roam, but each is unique in their ability and have their own specific story missions to give you a feel for both.
    There is a very simple skill tree and leveling system here, but Jacob and Evie only have a few unique skills, such as Evie having the ability to go invisible while in sneak mode, which I found no use for at all in the main campaign considering the majority of the story’s quests belongs to Jacob.
    Jacob specializes in combat compared to evies stealth.
    He wants to rile up a gang and take control of London.
    Gaining control is really where the different character styles can come into play,
    I found myself looking to Evie to free the children in factories., for everything else I just stuck to Jacob.
    There are technically a variety of tasks here such as bounty hunts where you kidnap a target or kill them and take them in for a reward, Templar hunts where you’re tasked with killing a or 2 Templar enemies, and strongholds where you just clear them out.
    I appreciate the child liberation missions because they give a sense of time beyond the themes and skins, but for the most part there’s nothing special about these side activities. It’s the same thing we’ve got year after year since Brotherhood but with new names.
    After you’ve done all activities in a section of the map a gang leader challenges you and then you take on a rival gang to finally claim the section for your own.
    As you progress through the story you’ll also be able to do train robberies and steal cargo, these tasks are important because Syndicate also feature an annoying quote un quote crafting system.
    Its fairly easy to get money in syndicate from main missions and your vault, but its super annoying to have so much and not be able to spend it because you don’t have the needed materials, so your only choice is go do a boring mission or purchase a material pack with real life money.
    You can’t buy weapons or items from a store, you can only craft them.
    This obviously was put into the game to take advantage of people only interested in the fun aspects of assassin’s creed. And escorting cart after cart isn’t it.
    Speaking of carts, there are now horse drawn carriages you can hijack and ride around the city, very fun to play around with and makes traversing the city much faster I only used fast travel 2 or 3 times in my entire time playing, that’s how much I loved riding through London smashing things.
    If you want to stick to feet, there’s another tool introduced, the grappling hook.
    It’s been apparent that assassins creed has been chasing batman with the past 2 entries, no spoilers, but there was clear penguin influence in last year’s game with one villain, and there’s clear joker influence in this year’s game with another,, and here we are with the ability to grapple our way out of a stick situation, or zip line from building to building and create our own air assassination opportunities, however the grappling hook doesn’t work quite as good as one would hope.
    Maybe I’m spoiled by batman, but I’m not a fan of searching for a prompt before I can use my hook, I want to be able to just press the button and go... sometimes this does work that way, but a lot of the time you’re awkwardly waiting for you to zip out of there and nothing happens.
    Sometimes you’ll look up at edges and a prompt just won’t show up... I was skeptical of this tool at first, but came to love and appreciate it... it does need some work though,
    Speaking of needing work the campaign.
    The story in syndicate is decent, but the delivery of this story, not so much…

    Every main Assassin’s Creed Game has a special moment, a special introduction to a character and their development as an assassin.
    Assassins Creed Syndicate dives right in, it treats Jacob and Evie Frye like we’ve gotten other games with them, as if they are developed and well known character, but they aren’t, we know nothing other than they are twins, you get a sense of their sibling rivalry throughout the game, but a prologue into the characters would’ve made me care for these characters.
    Any sort of character development at all to be honest would be greatly appreciated,
    New characters can’t just be automatically established, it would be like starting the ezio trilogy with brotherhood
    It’s like meeting a friend of your friend at a party and told to hang out with them for 20 hours.
    They cry about their problems without giving you a reason to care.
    I didn’t at all.
    Not for a second did I care about these characters, or about London…
    I felt no urgency to do anything.
    This is the first time I’ve ever played an assassins creed game and not care of its outcome.
    However it was nice to see Assassins creed slightly inch its way back to what made it great and such a guilty pleasure to begin with.
    The team at ubisoft seem to actually be listening to fans, modern day is more prevalent this time and they even brought Desmond back! As a dog. But seriously, the modern day story is the best it’s been since Assassins Creed IV, still, nowhere near as good as it was in that game or the 5 games before it.
    There is a really neat section in this game that gives you more context to the modern day stuff but you aren’t even told about, you kind of have to find it for yourself…
    It’s almost like they are embarrassed of their modern day story ties… its like modern day is their girlfriend and they wont accept her relationship request on facebook.
    But news flash ubisoft, the modern day is what gets people talking, it’s what brings us to your forums, it what gets people itching for more.
    If you want preorders, you need to up your game in this department or you risk losing your diehard fans to casuals that may or may not buy because cool 1868 brand theft auto.
    Campaign missions have greatly improved though.
    In terms of variety, this is the best we’ve gotten since assassins creed 3.
    No 2 missions felts the same, but all were lacking power. There were no epic moments in this game... not. Even. 1. Mission variety is important, but even Assassins Creed IVs tail mission after tail mission campaign was more enjoyable due to the pure epic moments that game delivered,
    the camping felt stale…
    Optional objectives are still here, and are getting better and better... but they need to be ditched.
    Someone needs to tell the people at ubisoft that optional objectives aren’t fun.. Oh wait... everyone does... every year... and they don’t listen.
    Why such an emphasis on stealth for a brute?
    For a game about assassinating, there are way too many don’t kill anyone objectives, sure that’s fine since we can knock enemies out, but let the player choose to handle the situation this way if they choose.
    Optional objectives are no better than annoying grading systems.
    I love that if you mess up enemies now run rather than you getting desynced, but seeing a red box flash across your screen nullifies this illusion of freedom.
    If micro transaction filled leveling systems can make sense in this universe, so can a lack of optional objectives. I’m even fine with desyncs for being detected every once in a while and stay your blade from the flesh of an innocent may be an awesome quote, but it doesn’t make for awesome gameplay. I was given awesome tools to stealthfuly take out enemies, and then I’m told not to use them. All in all, Assassins Creed Syndicate is an enjoyable time, but nothing special. Assassins Creed Unity had me excited for the future, but syndicate seemed to take a few steps back. For what it is Action Adventure Stealth 8/10 overall 8.5/10    … Expand
  68. Lambo442
    Dec 14, 2015
    10
    This feels like the best sandbox ever made at the moment. I've never seen a city with such life in it. I'm sure almost every citizen of London is up to something different. They even seem to be having different conversations too, in-depth ones. Movement is more fluid than ever, missions and events occur fluidly along with exploration so it never feels like you're just wandering around. IfThis feels like the best sandbox ever made at the moment. I've never seen a city with such life in it. I'm sure almost every citizen of London is up to something different. They even seem to be having different conversations too, in-depth ones. Movement is more fluid than ever, missions and events occur fluidly along with exploration so it never feels like you're just wandering around. If you just jumped from one boat to another there's a good chance they'll be something to grab on it. The graphics are sublime and Victorian England is vibrant and buzzing. Carriage control is intuitive and smooth and gives a nice new way of getting around quickly. This is the pinnacle of gaming. I got bored of looting stuff in Fallout 4 and needed something more exciting and visceral. Syndicate delivers on that and provides a uniquely thrilling experience… Expand
  69. Wardaddy
    Dec 13, 2015
    8
    Let me just start by saying that i am an avid fan of the franchise . With that aside i really cant understand whats with all the hate towards Syndicate. The game is actually tons of fun , it runs smoothly , fewer bugs and lets not forget the detailed London , witch is simply for me breathtaking. The are of course those cons like , not being able to jump when you want being kinda linearLet me just start by saying that i am an avid fan of the franchise . With that aside i really cant understand whats with all the hate towards Syndicate. The game is actually tons of fun , it runs smoothly , fewer bugs and lets not forget the detailed London , witch is simply for me breathtaking. The are of course those cons like , not being able to jump when you want being kinda linear stuck in something , not to be able sometimes to act like a true assassin but still , those things are minor . The story is not that bad and yea imo thats about all . The game is worth buying and if you are a true fun you are going to enjoy lots of stuff in this game . Worth it… Expand
  70. 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
  71. TeddNii
    Dec 10, 2015
    5
    The game in general is kinda good actually, but you will not get all out of the game if you bought a season pass or are using the powerful gear you get from **** Ubiplay thing, i think **** actually want's you not to experience the whole game, thats why they are trying to ruin it by giving you free OP items and have **** MICROTRANSACTIONS! THIS GAME IS FULL PRICE! And still it has bothThe game in general is kinda good actually, but you will not get all out of the game if you bought a season pass or are using the powerful gear you get from **** Ubiplay thing, i think **** actually want's you not to experience the whole game, thats why they are trying to ruin it by giving you free OP items and have **** MICROTRANSACTIONS! THIS GAME IS FULL PRICE! And still it has both season pass and **** piece of **** microtransactions. With real money you can buy resource and IN-GAME money. I think i know why it is this way, it's because ubisoft has a good game development team, but when the game is done they look at it and think ''Wow we just made a descent game, what should we do now?, Oh right put microtransactions in it and a season pass'' The season pass gives you OVERPOWERED gear too, way too overpowered. You need to be lvl 7 to equip and it's quality is the best ones in the game if you upgrade it.
    THE ACTUAL GAME: 7/10 It is a good game.
    THE BULL**** **** PUT IN THE GAME: 0/10, **** you all!
    The only reason i buy these games is because i love the assassin's creed franchise, so please ubisoft, just please don't kill it with your greedy **** minds!    … Expand
  72. Ozimandeus
    Dec 9, 2015
    8
    A return to form for the franchise. A refreshed combat system and a spectacular setting gives us more of the same in a new locale. Whilst AC2 is still the high water mark of the series, this one comes a close second. If you loved any of them, this is one to get.
  73. Crackfarmer
    Dec 9, 2015
    8
    I've played all AC since Ac 2 till syndicate and this is the first overall good game after brotherhood. Ac3, blackflag, chronicles & unity were pure disasters It runs very well on pc, has some bugs here and there which probably gets fixed soon. I wouldn't buy it but since you can get it for free over torrents its worth to play.
  74. Beka94
    Dec 7, 2015
    10
    I dont think that this review will be helpful to you, but this is one of the best AC games since AC 2 and Brotherhood. It is so charming and warm, that I never skipped any cinematics. Optimized well.
  75. 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
  76. Angerfist
    Dec 7, 2015
    3
    Gameplay is okay, the skill-tree is a nice feature.
    The dealbreaker are the constant crashes without a reason. Often after cutscenes, but also when browsing a menu like the crafting or e-shop. (Running it on a machine that had no problems with Batman: Arkham Knight on PC at release..) So far I had 70+ crashes (yeah I'm persistant like that..)
    After the abysmal called AC Unity and the    Gameplay is okay, the skill-tree is a nice feature.
    The dealbreaker are the constant crashes without a reason. Often after cutscenes, but also when browsing a menu like the crafting or e-shop. (Running it on a machine that had no problems with Batman: Arkham Knight on PC at release..) So far I had 70+ crashes (yeah I'm persistant like that..)
    After the abysmal called AC Unity and the buggy (for me with gamebreaking bug, can't continue w/o patch) Might & Magic VII, Ubisoft delivered another fine piece of software.
    Not sure if they hired some cheap offshore staff to develop their games, but i myself will stay clear of their games from now on, until they're budged briced.    … Expand
  77. Aenok
    Dec 4, 2015
    5
    I'm not going to start bashing on the graphics as I see a lot of reviews here doing - I don't think that games should be based on graphics alone, and for the most part I have had no issues with the graphics.

    I started playing this game feeling like Ubisoft was moving in the right direction in the aftermath of Unity. That was until I reached England. While the story is interesting    I'm not going to start bashing on the graphics as I see a lot of reviews here doing - I don't think that games should be based on graphics alone, and for the most part I have had no issues with the graphics.

    I started playing this game feeling like Ubisoft was moving in the right direction in the aftermath of Unity. That was until I reached England.

    While the story is interesting enough for me to play through it, Ubisoft has made it so that you will spend maybe about 20% of your time on the game playing the story, 30% on some arbitrary side missions, and 50% collecting the sheer amount of random collectible scattered about England. But what makes it incredibly annoying is that these collectibles are pointless to the story. Just busy work to ensure that you don't realize the game is incredibly short.

    And while they offer maps to ensure you don't miss the collectibles (which if you're a completionist like myself, you will want those), they made sure that 2 collectibles - i.e the secrets of London and random "helix glitches" - do not have maps, so you need to come across them by chance or spend a torturous amount of time on game guides looking at maps. And the helixes are rather pointless - just in game money or Intel to give you hints as to what the Templars are doing in the present, but I'm sure these hints that will go completely forgotten about after this game. Its kind of like a "don't forget! these 2 factions are still fighting it out in the present - here's info on it!" but then you'll never hear about it again and I know this because they did the same bloody thing in Unity

    The completionist in me is raging and tearing for me to finish every. single. collectible. But I'm so done with it. I just don't want to and its annoying because there's a part of me that DOES want to but I'm sitting here thinking "for me to enjoy doing this i need to put on something to watch". Imagine that. For me to enjoy an aspect of the game, I need a show playing in the background so as to not kill myself from the absolute tediousness of collecting.

    As someone who's played the AC series since the first game, it's actually kind of sad that I've come to this point. I really REALLY wanted to like Syndicate but Ubisoft, it seems, is just offering methods of distraction before they can bleed me of another 80$-90$ next year.    … Expand
  78. Dethica
    Dec 2, 2015
    6
    After the Unity fiasco I had given up hope for the Assassin's Creed series. But somehow I ended up playing Unity for ~30 hrs once it had been 'fixed.' I told myself I was done with the series but here I am with just shy of 16 hours on record. My experience thus far as been mixed.

    Assassin's Creed Syndicate has the best ambient feel of the franchise yet. London is full of people and the    After the Unity fiasco I had given up hope for the Assassin's Creed series. But somehow I ended up playing Unity for ~30 hrs once it had been 'fixed.' I told myself I was done with the series but here I am with just shy of 16 hours on record. My experience thus far as been mixed.

    Assassin's Creed Syndicate has the best ambient feel of the franchise yet. London is full of people and the city feels alive with the hustle and bustle of the time. However, this seems to be the second year straight for poor PC ports. While I do not have the "recommended" hardware specs (have you seen them? Jesus) I easily meet the minimum requirements and come close to hitting the recommended specs as well. I'm not on a super computer; I have a decent machine with a GeForce GTX 760, Intel i5-3570K @ 3.40GHz, with 16 GB RAM, and I struggle to run this.

    While the story has been decent so far I do find myself really loving the Frye twins, in fact I haven't liked the character this much since Ezio. I want to say the gameplay (ie. how you traverse the map, and interact with walls during free-running, etc.) has improved but only marginally. The "hook shot" (because Zelda) is a huge improvement for getting around London and hope to see more of this in future games.

    What constantly baffles me is the terrible ports for PC games. And you would think after Unity they would learn their lesson. Back to the graphics, where do I begin? Forgive my less than technical jargon here as I was not a C.S. major at university. Nothing is smooth, the lines are so jagged. Textures lag on buildings and the ground even as you approach. My graphics card (2gb of dedicated ram) is completely used when I'm running this, which is fine, I get that it's demanding, but come on! Using the recommended settings provided by the NVIDIA GeForce Experience still yields a less than optimal gameplay experience.

    Unless you're a huge fan of the series, or have a serious gaming PC, I cannot recommend this game in the current state nor at the current price. (Why can't PC get a decent port this year?)    … Expand
  79. AssassinPhantom
    Dec 1, 2015
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. (If you read this one twice then that is my fault, I logged into the wrong account, still trying to find out how to delete the other review)
    I'm running this game on 20fps average on my i5-5200u and GT830M and I'm totally find with that. I had to play the game on 1024x768 40Hz, all low except texture quality on medium and anti-aliasing on FXAA. I'm actually surprised that it ran better on launch day than Unity but enough of performance.

    Performance : 9.5/10

    Gameplay was good, I like the return of the whistle and the fact that you can whistle anytime and anywhere. The addition of the rope launcher felt required as the roads were wider and the buildings were further apart. The animations in this was similar to Unity but had some of it's own animations, my favourite animations were the new assassination ones and also the combat finishers. Combat felt fast paced, though a little unrealistic, it was fun. Parkour controls were a little clunky at first, but I got used to it and just 4 hours prior to this review, patch 1.21 was released and downloaded, the controls were better now after the patch. The boss fight was pretty intense if you ask me.

    Gameplay : 9/10

    The story was a little dull in my opinion, it introduced us to Jacob and Evie Frye, twin Assassins which I already liked after the first 2 missions/sequences, I also like the different personalities between the two of them. The story then continues in London where Crawford Starrick and his Blighters has taken over and God damn it is huge. As to character progression, we get to see little progress with bigger impacts. For example, Evie who at first was faithful to Ethan's quotes and teachings began to see them only as quotes which although has meanings but that doesn't mean she has to live by them. A better example for me would be Jacob who became more rational and realize his mistakes. Modern day story continues in this and has more... depth.. than Unity did, I really liked it. Both Modern and Historical endings were different in their own way yet satisfying if you think like me.(Some people disliked the endings for some reason)

    Story : 8.5/10

    Graphics, now this I can't say much due to the fact that I ran on low qualities the entire game but it still looks great to me.

    Graphics : 9/10

    Overall, this is a great game and quite a step up from Unity, now don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Unity(as you can see in my Unity review) but this game was a better one game. There have been some things that I have not mentioned like the side-missions, gang wars, etc. That is mainly because I haven't finished them, I'm more story-driven so I tend to push them aside first. I'm eagerly waiting for the Jack The Ripper DLC, I have a theory of my own for the DLC.

    Post Scriptum:(Don't read it if you get butthurt easily)
    However, I would like to address that most people that gave this game a 0 or a 1 out of 10 care more about the graphics and..uhh... well complain about stuff. I remember when at Unity, the cloth physics wasn't capped and there were bugs and glitches and people complained about the bugs and glitches, now when it is capped, people go crazy about it too, I understand that it hurts your eyes when you're running at 60fps and the cape runs at 30fps and that is an acceptable complaint. What isn't acceptable is people calling the game repetitive, I mentioned this in my Unity review where Assassin's Creed is a franchise which tries new things but keeps the main core aspects of the games. There are also people who just want to shame this game/franchise where they just give it a 0/10 even though they like some parts of the game(performance,gameplay,etc), honestly I have no comment for them, but those who at least gave a 1 or 3, I'd like to say thank you for your honesty. Most 0/10 reviews even make me wonder if they have even played the game yet. I do in fact, respect everybody's opinions but sometimes it just doesn't make sense. There were bugs in the game, yes but honestly, they're not game-breaking now are they? Some of them are funny(well to me), I even had bugs and glitches which made me laugh(rarely get bugs though). I like to think that most people who gave a really low rating get influenced by the haters or comparing it with a game that they actually liked. This may sound like a rant and even make me look like i'm butthurt and well, I am, a little. I apologize if I offended you in any way but such is my opinion.    … Expand
  80. Razor66
    Nov 29, 2015
    10
    On these platform there is a bunch of people that are simple LYING about this game. I heard people talking about bad graphics, dated engine, bad performances, low res texture and impossible requirements for very high settings. Those ARE PLAIN LIES: This the most optimized AC ever. Graphics are shining, textures as high res as a texture can be. On my 780ti runs at Very High with just 3 GbOn these platform there is a bunch of people that are simple LYING about this game. I heard people talking about bad graphics, dated engine, bad performances, low res texture and impossible requirements for very high settings. Those ARE PLAIN LIES: This the most optimized AC ever. Graphics are shining, textures as high res as a texture can be. On my 780ti runs at Very High with just 3 Gb of Vram, and it's always smooth as butter. The game is incredibly varied, setting is fascinating, two main characters adds even more diversity to the game.
    So, if you just want to bash a famous game for the sake of it (and I fully understand that Metacritic User Score has been inventend with that specific aim in mind) just choose a more suitable victim.
    This game is great, and it's the best AC ever published.    … Expand
  81. 9419517195218
    Nov 28, 2015
    4
    the gameplay is SOO MUCH BORING , just like the first assassin's creed, same thing happens everytime, do the same thing over and over again to finish the game, and i dont realy like the story at all, im realy miss the old assassin like ezio and connor, still better than this ****
  82. 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
  83. 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
  84. Fori2001
    Nov 26, 2015
    9
    The game has a good story with a great ending, good graphics and absolutely fantastic gameplay. I don't know wether to choose The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt or Assassin's Creed Syndicate as my favorite videogame of 2015. But I think I'll stick to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
    But let's get back to Assassin's Creed Syndicate. It has tons of different missions, so there's no chance it gets boring. I    The game has a good story with a great ending, good graphics and absolutely fantastic gameplay. I don't know wether to choose The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt or Assassin's Creed Syndicate as my favorite videogame of 2015. But I think I'll stick to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
    But let's get back to Assassin's Creed Syndicate. It has tons of different missions, so there's no chance it gets boring. I even think of buying the Season Pass for extra missions.
    All in all it's a great game, which you should definitely buy, if you're into stealth and action games.

    Graphics: 8/10 - Looks worse than Unity, but still great.
    Gameplay: 10/10 - Finally good stealth mechanics. The combat is great, too.
    Story: 9/10 - Simple, but good. But without big plot twists.
    Port 7/10 - Runs with 60 fps without Gameworks on GTX 980. With Gameworks it's about 40 to 50 fps.

    9/10    … Expand
  85. ViDeOGaMeZ
    Nov 26, 2015
    6
    Pretty much another victim of yearly releases. I like the story better here however since it includes a male and female protagonist, but it still falls short of AC3 by a country mile. As for the game on a whole i'd give this a 7, however the poor port forces me to give it a 6. Clearly people have not learnt from most games ported poorly to PC this year.
  86. gyu3437
    Nov 25, 2015
    6
    I'm just looking forward to saying about this game, but it has much problems, such as lots of bugs. I disappoint about the attitude of AMD. I thought you had better idea
  87. ADHGO
    Nov 25, 2015
    8
    1- Graphics and colors are great and nice to look at,

    2- textures is great too, 3- the game well optimized for PC and performance is almost very good, 4- before in AC unity you have indoor places when you run in the city, while here only out doors, 5- AC unity has more complicated polygons forming the city, while syndicate the polygons more simple, 6- character animation    1- Graphics and colors are great and nice to look at,

    2- textures is great too,

    3- the game well optimized for PC and performance is almost very good,

    4- before in AC unity you have indoor places when you run in the city, while here only out doors,

    5- AC unity has more complicated polygons forming the city, while syndicate the polygons more simple,

    6- character animation control is better than unity.

    7- enemies marking is nice, it remind me with metal gear solid V

    8- Grable is nice it reminds you with Batman Arkham, but in Batman is much better

    it is nice to play this game    … Expand
  88. RangerMiG
    Nov 24, 2015
    10
    The game is much better than I expected, it renewed my faith in the AC franchise after being shattered by Unity. Although, I still believe Ubisoft should give the series a couple of years off! The games is demanding you need a very decent hardware to unlock its potential. Runs great on my R9 290x few nods down from maxed out!
  89. robtorbay
    Nov 23, 2015
    9
    After singing a few hours into this game I have to say I am impressed! The story is interesting and covers and era I am interested in, the weapons (although limited) are fun to use and animations are decent for the most part. For a current game, the graphics are fantastic and offer a nice visual effect.

    Please note, that the games graphic requirements are a little strenuous, so if your    After singing a few hours into this game I have to say I am impressed! The story is interesting and covers and era I am interested in, the weapons (although limited) are fun to use and animations are decent for the most part. For a current game, the graphics are fantastic and offer a nice visual effect.

    Please note, that the games graphic requirements are a little strenuous, so if your not running a decently high end Nvidia card than you can expect to run into issues running ACS. In addition, the game is not optimized for AMD cards. When running the game on a 380x the experience was laughable unless played at lower settings. The 390 provided a bit better experience but again still nothing compared to the experience on the 970 gtx.

    Gameplay: 8/10
    Graphics: 10/10
    Story: 10/10    … Expand
  90. Chielsan
    Nov 23, 2015
    8
    I think overall the game is a good game and it is exactly what you expect from an assassins creed game.
    A lot to do but also very repetitive.
    I really do not know why people are so much complaining about the graphics. Indeed, the graphics of Unity looked better but they still look quite nice. I think the industrial settings makes it look a little bit less bright than the previous    I think overall the game is a good game and it is exactly what you expect from an assassins creed game.
    A lot to do but also very repetitive.

    I really do not know why people are so much complaining about the graphics.
    Indeed, the graphics of Unity looked better but they still look quite nice. I think the industrial settings makes it look a little bit less bright than the previous episodes. Frame rates are very good with a I5-6400 and GTX970 card on 1080p. In my opinion, UbiSoft did a good job by downgrading the graphics a bit so the game can run smoothly. And you only have to take a look at Fallout 4 to see that graphics do not make a great game....

    The story so far (after about 10 hours) is ok but not a great one. It is nice to play with two characters.
    I liked Evy a bit more because of the stealthy play type..

    Gameplay is good. Free running is better than in Unity. Fighting is a little bit too much of button bashing. The finish moves are very nice! The side missions are nice with fun and recognizable characters. Looking for chests etc. is still repetitive however...

    If you enjoyed the previous Assassins Creed games, I think you will enjoy this one too if you can look beyond the "dirty look" of the industrial age.    … Expand
  91. EE061003
    Nov 23, 2015
    0
    While i rated this higher on PS4 , originally a pc gamer i find this game is nothing but a mediocre and cheap pc port with no effort being put in the optimization code. Game eats up to whooping 6GB of VRAM of GTX 980Ti on higher settings but still graphics look sub par in comparison to other excellent pc titles like "The Witcher 3" and "Metal Gear Solid 5" both of which are outstandingWhile i rated this higher on PS4 , originally a pc gamer i find this game is nothing but a mediocre and cheap pc port with no effort being put in the optimization code. Game eats up to whooping 6GB of VRAM of GTX 980Ti on higher settings but still graphics look sub par in comparison to other excellent pc titles like "The Witcher 3" and "Metal Gear Solid 5" both of which are outstanding performers in the PC department. It seems like Ubisoft has devised a new strategy to counter piracy by making game available only to the rich crowd owning either a Titan or 980 Ti..What a Shame...I am sorry Ubi i have lost my faith in you… Expand
  92. riyadkmr
    Nov 22, 2015
    1
    Sh*tty game with very bad optimization just like Unity... I have a GeForce GT 635M, 16 GB of Ram, Core i7 2.4 Ghz, and I used to play games like Metal Gear Solid V: TPP on High setting and 1366 x 768 resolution with average 50 fps... Now in this game even on the Lowest setting and lowest resolution 800 x 600, it runs like garbage with stuttering and fps drops...
    Sorry ubisoft... you s*ck    Sh*tty game with very bad optimization just like Unity... I have a GeForce GT 635M, 16 GB of Ram, Core i7 2.4 Ghz, and I used to play games like Metal Gear Solid V: TPP on High setting and 1366 x 768 resolution with average 50 fps... Now in this game even on the Lowest setting and lowest resolution 800 x 600, it runs like garbage with stuttering and fps drops...
    Sorry ubisoft... you s*ck again and it is the last time I will try a game from this developer.    … Expand
  93. steve714
    Nov 22, 2015
    6
    I'm struggling to understand why Ubisoft thought it was a good idea to give you like 100 customization items, when 75% of them are **** and get replaced really fast.
    There is no immersion, no story, no feeling.
    It's trying way too hard to copy Batman's combat and mechanics, and fails miserably. The whole game is way too flashy and doesn't really impress any true gamer. It gets boring    I'm struggling to understand why Ubisoft thought it was a good idea to give you like 100 customization items, when 75% of them are **** and get replaced really fast.
    There is no immersion, no story, no feeling.
    It's trying way too hard to copy Batman's combat and mechanics, and fails miserably.
    The whole game is way too flashy and doesn't really impress any true gamer. It gets boring right from the start.
    It feels like it was purposely made for casuals and kids who are easily impressed by CGI trailers.
    There is a trend nowadays and it goes like this: the bigger the marketing campaign and the more hype it creates, the more the game is gonna suck.
    It has literally become the "Call of Duty" of Ubisoft. I wonder how long are they planning to keep it alive.    … Expand
  94. gyigyo2
    Nov 22, 2015
    1
    Well lets see
    Story 10/5
    Graphics 10/8 Gameplay 10/6 Sound/Music 10/5 The pc version is poorly optimized with r9 290x oc to 390x speed cant reach stable 100% 30fps that's a joke every other game is running 100% stable 30fps with ultra config! I swear one of the worst assassins creed games out there! something better in unity than syndicate Evie Frye is a bad joke in very aspect    Well lets see
    Story 10/5
    Graphics 10/8
    Gameplay 10/6
    Sound/Music 10/5

    The pc version is poorly optimized with r9 290x oc to 390x speed cant reach stable 100% 30fps that's a joke every other game is running 100% stable 30fps with ultra config!

    I swear one of the worst assassins creed games out there! something better in unity than syndicate
    Evie Frye is a bad joke in very aspect and mr henry green one of the worst assassin out there is a bad joke!
    The game don't have any plottwist, story is pretty weak destroy the enemies and hip hip horray happy ending **** Characters is boring,ugly. Musics is ugly dosnt even fit for he game! the last gameost was AC3 what fitted for the game.ohh yeah lot of bug even in MAIN STORY lot of major bugs! the WW1 setting was a joke! music was horrible the setting don't fit for ac game.    … Expand
  95. Scyl
    Nov 22, 2015
    8
    I don't have any performance issues on my 970, didn't check fps, but I didn't see a reason to as it was smooth on recommended settings (HIGH). Story was so so, game play was just like other AC games. While this isn't an amazing game, it still made me very happy as it restore my hope after unity, sure, it not the best, but it's a hell lot better than unity! If story doesn't matter too muchI don't have any performance issues on my 970, didn't check fps, but I didn't see a reason to as it was smooth on recommended settings (HIGH). Story was so so, game play was just like other AC games. While this isn't an amazing game, it still made me very happy as it restore my hope after unity, sure, it not the best, but it's a hell lot better than unity! If story doesn't matter too much for you, and you like the core AC game play, then I recommend this. Otherwise, check out some LP of it and judge for yourself.… Expand
  96. 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
  97. FerrariF50
    Nov 21, 2015
    5
    No mě na tom nejvíc štve, že to je to samý jak Unity ... ale vypadá to hůř, ... Unity a jeho Paříž byla propracována mnohem lépe ... tady jsou jen ulice ... procházení interiéry domů vymizelo ... lidí na ulicích podstatně ubylo ... všechno tak nějak prořídlo ... tudíž bych to nenazval optimalizacemi ... spíš to je tak, že to čím bylo Unity krásný, tady ořezali a tudíž za mě velký krokNo mě na tom nejvíc štve, že to je to samý jak Unity ... ale vypadá to hůř, ... Unity a jeho Paříž byla propracována mnohem lépe ... tady jsou jen ulice ... procházení interiéry domů vymizelo ... lidí na ulicích podstatně ubylo ... všechno tak nějak prořídlo ... tudíž bych to nenazval optimalizacemi ... spíš to je tak, že to čím bylo Unity krásný, tady ořezali a tudíž za mě velký krok dozadu ... Unity ať si každý kdo chce co chce říká, byla lepší, hezčí a propracovanější hrou, kterou jsem si (hrál jsem až napatchovanou od patche 1.4) užil od začátku do konce ... tohle je jen špatná kopie :/… Expand
  98. Zenarchist
    Nov 21, 2015
    0
    RIP Assassin's Creed. You were fun while you lasted.

    Graphics = crap.
    Gameplay = crap.
    Story = crap.
    Price = crap.

    Don't buy. In fact, don't buy ANY AC games until Ubisoft get their act together.
  99. nima1990
    Nov 21, 2015
    1
    Play AC Syndicate at low settings and you will get some fps. But the game looks awful. London looks dull and textures have terribly low resolutions. When you tune up the settings even to medium or high then you need a beast to run the game. AC Syndicate is another ambitious project. At ultra settings the game looks great but it takes a lot of VRAM. It's really ridiculous. Unity looked wayPlay AC Syndicate at low settings and you will get some fps. But the game looks awful. London looks dull and textures have terribly low resolutions. When you tune up the settings even to medium or high then you need a beast to run the game. AC Syndicate is another ambitious project. At ultra settings the game looks great but it takes a lot of VRAM. It's really ridiculous. Unity looked way better and more alive but it didn't need more than 2 or 3GB of VRAM and I played it at medium to high.. I don't call this a good port. The Witcher 3 is a good port. MGSV: Phantom Pain is a good port. They look great and you don't need a beastly rig to run them. I played The Witcher 3 at medium to high but Syndicate is unplayable even at the lowest settings. Why make great graphics when not many people can afford to play the game and enjoy those graphics?! Make games that are fun and have great stories and gameplay. You don't need graphics for that. Graphics don't make a game. Story and gameplay do. MGSV and Fallout4 prove this point.… Expand
  100. Zidcal
    Nov 21, 2015
    10
    This game is an incredible comeback for the series, referring to last years release of Unity. The game runs smoothly, whith minor bugs here and there, which is essential for any game release. I am running the game on max settings (except PCSS Ultra and HBAO+ Ultra) on a desktop with an Intel i7 CPU, NVIDIA 980 GPU (4GB), and 16GB RAM, with pretty stable 60FPS.

    The main characters in    This game is an incredible comeback for the series, referring to last years release of Unity. The game runs smoothly, whith minor bugs here and there, which is essential for any game release. I am running the game on max settings (except PCSS Ultra and HBAO+ Ultra) on a desktop with an Intel i7 CPU, NVIDIA 980 GPU (4GB), and 16GB RAM, with pretty stable 60FPS.

    The main characters in Assassin's Creed Syndicate are fantastic! I absolutely love their personalities, and they are defiantly competitors to the character we all know and love, Ezio Auditore Da Firenze. Jacob and Evie Frye have a houmoristic and great relationship, which makes it fun to watch every cut-scene.

    The gameplay is something different from the other Assassin's Creed games, but I like it. It is nice too see that Ubisoft take chances by changing the gameplay of the series, which makes it more fun for us to play the new game. Ubisoft has taken a step away from the usage of swords in combat, which makes the combat in this game feel fresh and new. They have also added the new "hookshot", which gives the game an even more fresh feeling, bcs it gives you a new way of traveling around.

    I could write about this game the whole day, but I think you guys get the point by now. I completely love this game! 10/10    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  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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