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Syndicate’s city is less of a faithful re-creation of history, and more of a video game world.

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PS4 Pro Screenshot taken by Alex Rowe.įor the follow-up, more focus was put into making the game actually work, and they also sought to amp up the gameplay. Syndicate’s environment doesn’t look quite as majestic as Unity’s still-amazing Paris, but it comes close at times. Unity is fairly functional right now, but on launch it was a famous disaster, notable for a bug that rendered character faces inside-out. 2014’s Assassin’s Creed Unity marked the debut of the still-in-use AnvilNext 2.0 Engine, and although it brought amazing graphics to the table, it stumbled in terms of game design and polish. Syndicate had a tough act to follow, and not in a good way. Instead of the upgradeable village of other installments (and the upcoming Valhalla), the Frye twins ride around on their own fancy train, working together to take down the many different criminals and gangs that have overrun the city. The game is infused with a Steampunk industrial vibe. It tells the story of twin rogues Evie and Jacob Frye, as they make their way through a battle between the Templars and Assassins to control Victorian-era London.

The last game to use these older design tropes was Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, released in 2015. Like any good video game character, Evie wears several belts.

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Your skills mattered just as much as what gear you were carrying, and a full stealth playthrough was just as viable as an action-oriented approach. The older games did all of this while still packing in plenty of open world thrills, side missions, and sometimes even fun adventures on the high seas.

It had a more linear Rockstar-style storytelling setup, with well-animated side characters whose arcs carried through multiple missions instead of quest givers with exclamation marks who just want their jewels back before they leave the game forever. It had dynamic choreographed combat, making each fight scene feel like it fell out of a big budget action movie. The “classic” design of Assassin’s Creed featured cinematic free-running, allowing you to traverse the environment with the deft skills of an acrobatic expert. However, the older template for the Assassin’s Creed series had so much good to offer…and most of it has been left by the wayside. The grappling line gives Syndicate some of the fastest traversal in the series, and it’s really fun.

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