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• ASSASSINS CREED CYNDICATE SERIES

But there was nothing on the level of the nonstop problems that Unity had.Īlso absent from Syndicate: the dozens of chests and bonus features that could only be unlocked via a second-screen app or joining the Assassin's Creed Initiates group. I ran into a couple of crashes and enemies spawning into weird places. In addition to a higher quality of design, Syndicate suffers much less from the bugs and glitches that plagued last year's Assassin's Creed. While some might miss the company of other assassins, it seems clear that the game has benefited from a focus on developing and polishing the single-player experience.

ASSASSINS CREED CYNDICATE SERIES

What about multiplayer and all that other junk?įor the first time in a main release in the series since 2010's Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Syndicate features no multiplayer at all - neither the unique spin on competitive multiplayer nor the cooperative play that was added in Unity. But Syndicate strikes a perfect balance in making those segments add meaningful progress to the overarching plot of the series without overstaying their welcome - much needed for a story that's barely moved an inch since 2012's Assassin's Creed 3. Twin assassins Jacob and Evie Frye have come to the city looking to interrupt the reign of Crawford Starrick, an evil Templar industrialist who gives out marching orders to the gangs running the city's streets.Īs in previous Assassin's Creed games, there's a metafictional frame to this narrative: You take on the role of a character recruited by the Assassins of modern time to play through the memories of Jacob and Evie. Assassin's Creed Syndicate feels like a long-needed course correctionĪssassin's Creed Syndicate sees the history-jumping series moving to Industrial Revolution-era London. Meanwhile the core world design has improved as well, shifting away from the focus on realism in its virtual London and focusing instead on playability. The open-world bloat that Assassin's Creed has been known for is trimmed considerably here, leading to a more streamlined experience. But that low point wasn't an anomaly it was an inevitability on the downhill slope the series has been on since 2010's excellent Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.Īs the franchise has layered on new complexities and an increasingly baffling plot, it's failed to compensate in the other direction, to clean up issues that have been lingering as far back as the first game. Last year's Assassin's Creed Unity was by most accounts the lowest point in the franchise thus far, at least as far as the main-line games are concerned. More than anything, Assassin's Creed Syndicate feels like a long-needed course correction.