Rooks walk the streets, and can be recruited to follow you as you go about your tasks – though if they see you in trouble they’ll automatically help out. If things do end up in a brawl, you can always call on your gang members to help out. Instead, targets will fight you, but even if they run you have a chance to chase them down. Even better, Syndicate rarely forces you to tackle a mission in a certain style, but even if you botch a stealth attempt, it’s never insta-fail. Missions have quite a variety – with no eavesdropping, thankfully – with plenty of actual assassinations for you to pull off. You actually feel like an assassin, which is a good thing given the targets you have to kill. It means you can cross streets that are wider than before – Victorian London had to accommodate carts after all – but it really allows for some excellent, Batman/Predator style stealth, letting you leap from a roof to air assassinate a guard, grab his mate from behind a crate then launch back to another roof and arrive on the other side of the area in seconds. It works fantastically with Syndicate’s overall flow, able to attach itself onto any surface you want.
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This allows you to shoot to the top of buildings in seconds and zipline across streets when free running. It actually makes sneaking a viable option for the first time in the series. It’s the new stuff that makes things interesting.Ī stealth mode is now mapped to Cross, and it actually works, with enemies much less likely to spot you in this mode – signified by putting up your Assassin’s hood. Combat – although more brutal, with knives, swordsticks and knuckle-dusters at your disposal – still relies on the trio of attack/counter/stun at its heart, and you’ll clamber up buildings and free run across them by holding the right trigger and either Cross or Circle (X or B on Xbox One) to go up/down. At its core it’s the same as it has always been. The actual gameplay itself is massively improved as well. Side-missions tie in incredibly well though, a first for the series, with the building up of The Rooks – the gang lead by the twins – and the supporting cast interesting enough to frequently pull you from the main tale.
– but it’s carried off with aplomb, with the glimpses of the main villain pretty intriguing. The story is ‘classic’ Assassin’s Creed – city controlled by Templars, Assassin Order weak, etc. Alongside this, the two also have almost identical skill trees, with only the later game funnelling them down combat and stealth respectively.Ĭharacterisation across the story is excellent however, with the Fryes coming across Dawkin, Dickens and Florence Nightingale amongst others. Jacob, as his character suggests, prefers a more direct approach, wading into fights and making a scene, while Evie prefers stealth, sneaking in and out, eliminating enemies one at a time although, in truth, both are capable of each type of gameplay, and the majority of missions allow you to choose how you tackle them. In the side missions and the open-world you can mostly choose whom to control, swapping briskly from the menu, but mainline story missions force you to control one or the other. Despite their differences they work wonderfully as a team throughout the story, though it’s their nuances that impress me the little comments and teasing that make up their relationship mirroring those of any real siblings.īrilliantly, their differing characters mean that they actually play slightly differently, reflecting their personalities. Evie is the opposite, more restrained, concerned with the bigger picture – which for me made her the more interesting of the two.
Jacob is blunt and rather rash, a street fighter at heart, rather than a thoroughbred assassin. Dual protagonists, the twins are fantastically characterised. Jacob and Evie Frye are largely responsible for this.
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In fact, it could be the best, full stop. I shouldn’t have been, because Syndicate is the best Assassin’s Creed game since Brotherhood.
With changes for (what looked like) the sake of it and the apparent discarding of Unity’s good points, I was very, very worried. Back in May, when Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate was shown off for the first time, I penned a piece explaining my concerns with what was shown.
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