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GameCentral takes this year’s Assassin’s Creed for a test run, but even if it doesn’t have the bugs of Unity does that make it a better game?
The shameful state in which Assassin’s Creed Unity was released last year was a PR disaster for Ubisoft. But the mountain of bugs and glitches did have one benefit, in that they distracted from the game’s more intrinsic failings. Or at least that’s the way we see it. But the truth we have to accept is that most people are relatively happy with Assassin’s Creed as it is, and they don’t really mind that its gameplay is as clumsy and uninspired as it is. Which is just as well, because Syndicate really doesn’t seem like much of an improvement.
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 💩!
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.
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.
That was a good interview, but the entire intro write up was atrocious. It tries to compare AC to Tomb Raider and Batman, two very different games. Moreover, movement isn't an issue, it's frankly incredibly easy after the changes in Unity.
This kind of seems like a biased preview in my opinion. To say the gameplay in AC is bad is a little bit ridiculous IMO. I'm not a fanboy of the series but there have been some great games in the series such as AC II and Black Flag. I think the fact that unity was so broken took away from the fact that it wasn't a bad game at all from a story, graphics, or gameplay standpoint. I do agree that the series got stale but I loved Black Flag. I've yet to go hands on with syndicate, but I doubt it's as bad is this guy says.