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Assassin's Creed: Syndicate is Single Player Only, 30% Larger Than Unity's Map and More

OnlySP: Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate has been officially announced and will be set in Victorian London as Kotaku originally reported a while ago.

SCW19823279d ago

30% more useless bloated padding.

FunkMacNasty3279d ago

And probably only 10% less broken than Unity.

pyramidshead3279d ago

Long live single player more like.

May just support this game purely on that fake. No more cheap gimmickery shoe horned in drop in drop out co-op.

Get gaming back into making solid experiences before trying any fancy stuff.

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Wingsfan243279d ago

Glad it's single player only again. I actually really enjoyed Unity's story for what it was. Hoping for even better with Syndicate.

vongruetz3279d ago

Agreed. I don't see why every game insists on shoe-horning a multiplayer mode into it just to check off a box. AC4 was a great game for me and would have been perfect if it didn't have the MP stuff required if I wanted to get the platinum trophy. I want more single player only games.

-Foxtrot3279d ago

Finally, they've learnt their lesson. These games are single player experiences, doing online will just waste resources.

I mean whats the point in online when you'll have a new AC out the next year.

MasterCornholio3279d ago

Well Black Flag had multiplayer but it was still a great game.

The way I see it if there is multiplayer in an AC game it should be a separate part of the game and not integrated into the single player. Also the game should only have multiplayer if they are able to deliver a great quality lengthy single player experience

bixxel3279d ago

Syndicte is Black Flag to Unity what Black Flag was to AC3. Minus some awesome innovative mechanic.

BecauseImBatman3279d ago

I concur, let's get back to the good old AC2 days. If AC Unity was our AC1 of this generation, perhaps Syndicate could be the AC2 of this generation. Here's hoping.

Baka-akaB3279d ago (Edited 3279d ago )

Not really , AC had a great mp in a few of its titles . But it's just better to drop it , when they clearly are having a rough time making a good game with either sp or mp .

TekKing3279d ago

"Finally, they've learnt their lesson."

lol, you certainly haven't.

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zsquaresoff3279d ago (Edited 3279d ago )

Great, more annoying loot chests to open and much longer stalking mission.

Visualift3279d ago

Like a dog returns to it's own vomit... stop playing these games if you hate it so much.

Conzul3279d ago

Yes, because progress is made not by criticizing things we don't like, but by ignoring them.

Someone give this man a medal -_-

bixxel3279d ago

Worse is that it's basically Unity with the addition of:
-A whistle option
-Fluid-er combat
-Carriages
-A better excuse for British accent
-Batman-like grappling hook
-GTA V-like 2 protagonists
-A downgraded london (compare to screenshots of January before throwing me a dislike)

GreetingsfromCanada3279d ago

Those "screenshots" were from a pre-rendered video from most likely 2013.

krazykombatant3279d ago

The British is also pretty shit, for some guy that was from the dirty ghetto he sounds pretty damn posh.

Christopher3279d ago

I feel like this means they'll just be announcing a multiplayer only AC game to be released alongside this game soon.

Wingsfan243279d ago

Seems a bit right for a F2P microtransaction ripe game.

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Ubisoft is Giving Away Its Most Underrated Assassin's Creed Game Right Now

Assassin's Creed Syndicate is free on PC when you have a Ubisoft Connect account until December 6th, 2023.

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Profchaos158d ago

Underrated that's debatable.

chicken_in_the_corn158d ago

One of the most overrated imo. A big step backwards from Unity.

Relientk77157d ago

I loved Syndicate! I played this game mostly as Evie because of her stealth abilities and loved using a cane sword.

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Is Assassin's Creed Syndicate worth playing in 2023?

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?"

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shinoff2183428d ago

I would say more maybe when you burned through your backlog.

cbuc1125428d ago

I thought it was great back in the day. Evie was a master at stealth, while Jacob was the fighter. Good 💩!

glennhkboy427d ago

I didn't find them that different in terms of stealth vs power.

cbuc1125426d ago

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.

Chocoburger427d ago (Edited 427d ago )

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.

robtion427d ago

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.

robtion427d ago

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.

P_Bomb427d ago

Yeah the patch was most appreciated. That graphic breakup/flicker was awful.

MadLad427d ago

Still consider it the best since Brotherhood.

DarXyde427d ago

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.

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Assassin's Creed Syndicate Patch Will Finally Fix PS5 Flickering Issue Tomorrow

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.

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banger88436d ago

I just wish they'd patch Black Flag on consoles to enable 60 fps. Of all the earlier AC titles that was my favourite.

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Relientk77435d ago

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.

anast435d ago

Sweet. This is one of my favorite ACs. I'll fire it up when I get the chance.

Pedrof435d ago

It's cool. It's just a bummer they didn't take the opportunity to also unlock the framerate.

chicken_in_the_corn435d ago

Awesome news. This is the main reason for pushing back my replay.