Promotional marketing deals with this or that side have become rather prevalent in the past few years, especially with the new generation, in which the competition between PS4 and Xbox One has become fiercer, with both Sony and Microsoft scrambling to associate this or that prominent AAA third party game with their main consoles.
At times that kind of deal results in console bundles, in other cases you see exclusive platform-specific content, and most of the time it ends up having the marketing of a game plastered with blue or green.
This time around it seems that Ubisoft switched camp again, moving to the PlayStation one with Assassin's Creed Syndicate.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate is free on PC when you have a Ubisoft Connect account until December 6th, 2023.
I loved Syndicate! I played this game mostly as Evie because of her stealth abilities and loved using a cane sword.
GF365: "Is Assassin's Creed Syndicate worth playing in 2023? Many veteran fans consider this game the last “real” Assassin's Creed game. Did that opinion age well? How does Syndicate compare against the previous game, Unity?"
I thought it was great back in the day. Evie was a master at stealth, while Jacob was the fighter. Good 💩!
Well they were. She could go full invisible and blend into the environment at the highest level. Jacob could shoot a gun mid punch while fighting. You needed to build out the skill tree.
It was the last in the series I actually liked, before they went full-blown grindfest. This game had grindy features too, but at least it had some limits.
My biggest issue was that it didn't move the modern story forward which was a let down. Still a fun game, though.
Definitely, it is a great game with a really detailed setting.
Unfortunately, you can't play it on PS5 though as it has a major flickering glitch with the lighting/shadows which makes it unplayable.
Really? Great, thanks for letting me know. It must have been relatively recent because when I downloaded it to play again on PS5 sometime in the last 12 months it was still really bad.
Good news though, now I can give it another play through. Never did the Jack the Ripper quests previously so want to give them a try.
Brotherhood was the last one I liked, but in fairness, I checked out after Revelations (which I really struggled to maintain interest in long enough to finish it. I eventually did but I couldn't tell you a thing about it though because I really did it out of necessity to finish something I started).
By that time, fatigue really set in and I simply don't care about it anymore.
Wow, it's actually happening: Ubisoft will deploy a patch for Assassin's Creed Syndicate on PS4 tomorrow (that's the 23rd February) which will finally fix the game's flickering visuals when being played on PS5 via backwards compatibility.
I just wish they'd patch Black Flag on consoles to enable 60 fps. Of all the earlier AC titles that was my favourite.
That's really cool that Ubisoft is finally patching this even though its too late for me. I never thought they were going to patch it, so I beat AC Syndicate on PS4 end of last year. That's one game off my backlog.
It's cool. It's just a bummer they didn't take the opportunity to also unlock the framerate.
I wouldn't be surprised if they did. Sony owns half the market with the PS4.
And the other half is WiiU and Xone combined.
Sony always had exclusive advertise rights for assassin creed going back 2 ps3 era.
The last Assassin it was showing PS4 logo -___-
It's likely Sony offered pay at least somewhere around the Microsoft amount and the shear amount of systems sold did the rest.
honestly... I don't think I really care who foots the bill for advertising this game or that. Just make it a good game Ubisoft.
I see no point in buying the advertisement rights since the game is still going to sell more on PS4 even if MS had the rights. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.