Assassin's Creed Syndicate

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Assassin's Creed Syndicate
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Developer(s)Ubisoft Quebec
Publisher(s)Ubisoft
Director(s)
  • Marc-Alexis Côté
  • Scott Phillips
  • Wesley Pincombe
Producer(s)François Pelland
Designer(s)Frédéric St-Laurent B
Programmer(s)Pierre-Luc Coté
Artist(s)Thierry Dansereau
Writer(s)
Composer(s)Austin Wintory
SeriesAssassin's Creed
EngineAnvilNext 2.0
Platform(s)
  • PlayStation 4
  • Xbox One
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Stadia
Release
October 23, 2015
Genre(s)Action-adventure, stealth
Mode(s)Single-player

Assassin's Creed Syndicate is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Quebec and published by Ubisoft. It was released on October 23, 2015, for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and on November 19, 2015, for Microsoft Windows. It is the ninth major installment in the Assassin's Creed series, and the successor to 2014's Assassin's Creed Unity.

The plot is set in a fictional history of real-world events and follows the centuries-old struggle between the Assassins, who fight for peace with liberty, and the Templars, who desire peace through order. The framing story is set in the 21st century and follows the same unnamed and unseen protagonist from Assassin's Creed Unity, who helps the Assassins locate an artifact hidden in London. The main story is set in Victorian era London and follows twin Assassins Jacob and Evie Frye as they navigate the corridors of organised crime, and take back the city from Templar control.

The game is played from a third-person perspective and its open world is navigated on foot or by carriage. The game introduces new travelling systems and refined combat and stealth mechanics. Players control the two lead protagonists throughout the game's story, switching between them both during and outside of missions.

Assassin's Creed Syndicate received positive reviews, with praise for its visuals, characters, narrative, and level design. However, the combat, open-world design and vehicle gameplay were met with some criticism. Assassin's Creed Syndicate was nominated for multiple awards, including Best Action/Adventure at The Game Awards 2015. It was followed in October 2017 by Assassin's Creed Origins, which introduces a new storyline in the modern day and has its main plot set in Ptolemaic era Ancient Egypt.

Gameplay[]

The player character riding a horse and carriage on a road, with NPCs around. Big Ben can be seen in the background.
Players may travel around the game's open world of London on carriages, which can be piloted or occupied

Assassin's Creed Syndicate is an action-adventure, stealth game played from a third-person perspective, that features similar gameplay elements to the previous games in the series. Players complete quests—linear scenarios with set objectives—to progress through the story. Outside of quests, the player can freely roam the open world. Composed of the greater area of Victorian London, consisting of seven boroughs,[a] the world of Assassin's Creed Syndicate is much larger than previous entries in the series.[b] The player can also perform side missions, which were designed to reflect the fight for power in London, and are cohesive to the game's main story.[3] In keeping with a historical context that more closely resembles the modern-day, the city guard of previous iterations is replaced by a Victorian-era police force, who will rarely attack the player unless a crime is committed in their presence; the player's main enemy is instead a Templar-controlled street gang called the "Blighters."

The game lets the player control two characters: twins Jacob and Evie Frye.[4] Jacob is a hot-headed brawler, specialising in close-ranged combat,[5] while Evie is strong in stealth and relies on her intelligence and wit.[5][6] Additionally, Evie is the first playable female protagonist of the main series.[6][c] The main weapons of Syndicate include brass knuckles, a compact revolver, a cane-sword, and the traditional Nepalese curved kukri knife.[7] The game also introduces new systems to navigate the world: a rope launcher, which allows the player to rappel up structures, or create a zip-line between buildings;[8] carriages, which can be piloted or simply occupied by the player, and can be the setting of fights and parkour chases;[5][9] and a train, which serves as the main base for the player throughout the game.[10] Unlike its predecessor, the game has no multiplayer mode,[11] and does not feature a companion app, which was introduced in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.[12]

Plot[]

Setting[]

In 1868, at the tail end of the Industrial Revolution, with the Assassin Brotherhood all but eradicated in Victorian London, twins Jacob (Paul Amos) and Evie Frye (Victoria Atkin) leave Crawley for London and arrive to find a city controlled by the Templars, with both the Church and the Monarchy losing their power. Raised as Assassins to follow the Creed, Jacob and Evie aim to take back the city from Templar control by infiltrating and uniting London's criminal underworld,[5][13] aided by notable figures of the era such as novelist Charles Dickens, biologist Charles Darwin, inventor Alexander Graham Bell, political theorist Karl Marx, nurse Florence Nightingale, Maharaja Duleep Singh (the last maharajah of the Sikh Empire), Sergeant Frederick Abberline of the Metropolitan Police Service (known for his investigation of Jack the Ripper), and Queen Victoria.[14][15] Additionally, Jacob's granddaughter, Lydia Frye (Lisa Norton), appears in a separate World War I segment, where she aids Winston Churchill in defending London against a new enemy espionage faction.[16]

Story[]

In the present day, the Helix player, now an Assassin Initiate, is again contacted by Bishop, from the Assassin Brotherhood, and is tasked with reliving the memories of twin Assassins, Jacob and Evie Frye, to find a Piece of Eden hidden in London. Meanwhile, Rebecca Crane and Shaun Hastings have infiltrated an Abstergo facility.

In 1868, Henry Green begs the Assassin Brotherhood for aid. The Brotherhood in London has fallen, and Templar Grand Master Crawford Starrick, a powerful figure in London's industry and criminal underworld, controls the city, and plots to increase the Templars' power in Britain. Elsewhere, Jacob assassinates a corrupt factory boss, Rupert Ferris. Evie infiltrates a lab run by David Brewster and Templar occultist Lucy Thorne. Evie finds Brewster experimenting on a Piece of Eden and assassinates him. Brewster tells Evie that Starrick seeks a more powerful Piece of Eden. The experiment explodes, forcing Evie to flee. The Frye twins decide to head for London. In the present, Rebecca and Shaun spy on a meeting between senior Templars Isabelle Ardant and Álvaro Gramática. They attempt to capture Isabelle, but she had anticipated them, with Sigma Team leader Otso Berg and Violet da Costa ready to intercept them. The two flee with Bishop's help.

In the past, the Frye twins arrive in London and meet Green. Jacob advocates that they fight the Templars directly, while Evie advises they find the Piece of Eden. They liberate the boroughs of London by defeating Templar gangs, sabotaging Templar businesses, assassinating high ranking Templars, and building up their own gang, the Rooks. They enlist allies including Charles Dickens, Frederick Abberline, Alexander Graham Bell, Florence Nightingale, Ned Wynert, Edward Hodson Bayley, and a young Arthur Conan Doyle.

Jacob investigates the addictive "Soothing Syrup" that Starrick has been distributing. He and Charles Darwin destroy the factory producing it and interrogate Richard Owen. Owen informs them that John Elliotson has been manufacturing the syrup. Jacob assassinates Elliotson. Next, Jacob assists Pearl Attaway, Starrick's competitor in the omnibus business. He sabotages Starrick's omnibus company and assassinates its boss, Malcolm Milner, who warns Jacob that Attaway is a Templar. Jacob assassinates Attaway. Jacob then learns of Templar banker Philip Twopenny's plot to steal the Bank of England's gold reserve, and assassinates him. Jacob then prevents a Templar plot to assassinate British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, killing the mastermind, the Earl of Cardigan.

Jacob is contacted by Maxwell Roth, leader of the Blighters, a Templar gang. Roth offers to betray the Templars and ally with the Rooks, which Jacob accepts. Jacob breaks off the alliance when Roth tricks him into bombing a building of child labourers. Jacob infiltrates Roth's headquarters at the Alhambra Theatre and assassinates Roth.

Meanwhile, Evie looks for the Piece of Eden, stealing a journal from Thorne. Evie discovers that the Piece is the Shroud of Eden, which makes the wearer immortal. She follows clues underneath the mansion of Edward Kenway, and finds the locations of Assassin vaults hidden in London. She visits landmarks such as the Monument to the Great Fire of London and St. Paul's Cathedral. She obtains the key needed to access the Shroud's vault, but it is stolen by Thorne. Evie heads to the Tower of London, where the vault is located, and assassinates Thorne. Thorne explains the Shroud is not in the Tower before dying. Green believes the vault is hidden in Buckingham Palace, and enlists the aid of the Maharajah Duleep Singh to find the building's schematics. The Templars seize them first. Evie also corrects consequences of Jacob's assassinations, such as medicine shortages and currency inflation.

With his lieutenants dead, Starrick moves to retrieve the Shroud. Jacob and Evie argue over Jacob's recklessness and Evie's inaction. Henry warns the Frye twins that Starrick plans to break into Buckingham Palace, steal the Shroud, and kill Britain's heads of church and state. The twins agree to work together to stop Starrick. They infiltrate a ball held at the palace, where they meet Queen Victoria and Starrick. Starrick beats them to the vault and obtains the Shroud, which grants him superhuman strength and regeneration. Working together, the Frye twins and Green defeat and kill Starrick. Afterwards, Jacob and Evie return the Shroud to the vault, and reconcile. For their deeds, Queen Victoria knights the Frye twins and Green.

In the present, with the location of the Shroud, Shaun, Rebecca, and Russian Assassin Galina Voronina head to the vault. Unfortunately, Otso Berg, da Costa, and Ardant beat them there and a fight ensues. Berg is knocked unconscious, Rebecca is shot, and Ardant is killed by Shaun while da Costa escapes with the Shroud. Hacking Isabelle's computer, the Assassins find out the Templars plan to use the Shroud to construct a living Precursor. The recording also shows that Juno is manipulating employees within Abstergo to sabotage the company, and has plans for the Shroud. Juno also contacts the Initiate through the simulation, leading them into a memory segment of Lydia Frye, where she tracks down and kills a Sage in a war-torn London during World War I.

The Dreadful Crimes[]

The Frye twins are approached by Henry Raymond, a penny dreadful writer, and his follower, a young Arthur Conan Doyle. They team up to investigate a series of murders across London, visiting crime scenes, gathering evidence, interviewing witnesses and suspects, and solving the crimes by accusing the perpetrators.

The twins are eventually summoned to Buckingham Palace by Queen Victoria, to solve the murder of one of her guards. The perpetrator is revealed to be Raymond, who plots to steal the Queen's Sceptre of the Dove. He has also left false clues suggesting a bomb threat in the palace to cover his escape. However, Doyle has already uncovered his plan and set out to stop him, but is held hostage on the palace roof in the process. One of the Fryes manages to distract Raymond while the other sneaks up and kills him, saving Doyle and recovering the Sceptre. In the aftermath, the Fryes encourage Doyle to try writing detective fiction himself.

The Last Maharaja[]

After an unpleasant conversation with Duleep Singh regarding his lack of commitment to the people of India, Henry Green decides to enlist the help of the Frye twins so the Maharaja could be persuaded to reclaim his birthright. The twins manage to recover Singh's letters to his mother, which were previously intercepted by the British Indies Company (B.I.C) in order to stop any correspondence. This finally convinces Singh that he should take action.

Singh orders the twins to locate and recover Punjabi gold, before arranging for transports to ship the gold back to India. He then proposes to recover the Koh-i-Noor, a large Indian diamond currently kept in the Tower of London. The twins accomplish the goal by infiltrating a gala held at that location; however Henry shows that the diamond they recover is a replica, and the true Koh-i-Noor is in fact in the safe hands of the British Assassins, thanks to Jayadeep's father Arbaaz Mir handing over the diamond to Jacob and Evie's father Ethan Frye.

The twins head to a B.I.C. factory and put an end to the company's production of chemical weapons. In the process, they also discover that Brinley Ellsworth, a close friend of Singh's, is in fact behind the plots against the Maharaja. Singh arranges for a meeting where he confronts Ellsworth. With Evie's help, Ellsworth is subdued. However, as Evie prepares to execute Ellsworth, she is stopped by Singh, who chooses to exercise mercy. Singh thanks the twins for their contribution before parting ways with them, vowing to continue reclaiming his birthright.

Jack the Ripper[]

In 1888, Jacob Frye meets Mr. Weaversbrook and warns him not to publish Jack's letters, as he wants to spread fear in London. He receives word of another murder and goes to investigate. Jacob goes after the Ripper, who follows him before attacking. As the Ripper pursues Jacob, it is revealed that he knows Jacob personally. After escaping, Jacob reaches his lodgings, but the Ripper arrives and attacks again, with Jacob seemingly being killed.

Following the incident, Evie arrives from India, having been summoned by Jacob. She meets police inspector Frederick Abberline, who informs her that Jacob is missing and presumed dead. After finding Jacob's lodgings, Evie deduces that the Ripper is one of Jacob's Assassin Initiates. Afterward, she kills the Ripper's lieutenants, and frees prisoners he had been holding. Meanwhile, the Ripper stalks Evie.

With more murders occurring, Evie is pressured to find the Ripper quickly; after the Ripper's final murder, Abberline claims that unless she delivers the Ripper, she will be arrested. She re-examines old crime scenes and learns that the women he murdered were Assassins. She finds a message left by the Ripper, which reveals that he never forgave Jacob for failing to protect his mother from being killed by Starrick's men. Evie deduces that the Ripper is waiting for her at Lambeth Asylum, where he was imprisoned before Jacob recruited him. Meanwhile, the Ripper returns to the Asylum, murders his former tormentors and destroys records of his identity. Evie arrives and kills the Ripper in battle. Afterward, she finds an imprisoned Jacob. With the Ripper dead, Abberline agrees to cover up the Ripper's identity as an Assassin to protect the Brotherhood.

Time Anomaly[]

Following the game's events, Jacob has at least one child, who was inducted into the Brotherhood. Jacob's child marries and has a daughter named Lydia Frye, born in 1893. She was inducted into the Brotherhood and trained under both Jacob and Evie. She later marries an Assassin named Sam Crowder.

At the outbreak of World War I, by 1914, Jacob and Evie were removed to the countryside, while Lydia remained in London to fight off German spies and Templar terrorists.

In 1916, at the behest of Winston Churchill, Lydia infiltrated and eliminated a German Templar spy facility in Tower Bridge. She later sought out, on his request, the rest of the group and their Sage leader. In exchange for her services, Churchill promised Lydia that he would do what he could for the enfranchisement of women when he had returned to parliament after the War.

Lydia conquers every Templar-infested area, killing German spies and Templar captains, flushing the Sage out of his hiding place and killing him.

For every target killed and objective completed, Juno appeared and told of her past and rise. Juno learns of the mentioned Sage's fate, and thanks the Initiate for discovering it, before suggesting that she and the Assassins can work together in the future.

Development[]

Assassin's Creed Syndicate is the second major entry in the series not to be developed by Ubisoft Montreal, following 2014's Assassin's Creed Rogue. Instead, on July 2, 2014, Ubisoft announced that Ubisoft Quebec would handle lead development as part of "a major investment" in the studio, who had assisted in the making of the six prior games as well as The Tyranny of King Washington and Freedom Cry, downloadable content for Assassin's Creed III and Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag respectively.[17] Marc-Alexis Côté serves as the creative director for the game after working in various positions on Brotherhood, Revelations, Assassin's Creed III, and Freedom Cry[18][19] while François Pelland returns as a senior producer after Assassin's Creed III, has also been an executive director on all three in-between entries.[5][20] Lydia Andrew is the game's audio director, returning from Assassin's Creed III, Black Flag, and Unity.[5][21] Historian Jean-Vincent Roy served as a consultant on the game, having previously consulted on Assassin's Creed III, and held various other positions at Ubisoft.[22] The game is also first in the series to feature a non-playable transgender character.[23]

Information on the game, then titled Assassin's Creed Victory, first leaked on December 2, 2014, through the website Kotaku, which published details and screenshots from a seven-minute "target gameplay footage" video the site had acquired. Kotaku received a large amount of backlash for this article due to the article being placed up with very little information whilst proclaiming several facts that were proven false. Ubisoft confirmed the news later that same day in a statement where the company expressed disappointment that "internal assets, not intended for public consumption" had been leaked but said that they were "excited to officially unveil what the studio has been working on at a later date".[24] The game was officially revealed on May 12, 2015,[25][26] and was released worldwide on October 23, 2015, for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and on November 19, 2015, for Microsoft Windows.[27][28]

Life-size toy replicas of weapons used by Evie and Jacob in the game, the "Cane-sword" and the "Gauntlet with Hidden blade", were available for purchase at launch.[29][30] On May 13, 2015, five different editions of the game were announced for Europe.[31]

The game was supported with multiple downloadable contents, as well as a Season Pass. The Darwin and Dickens Conspiracy downloadable content was available for players who pre-ordered the game and was also later bundled into the Streets of London DLC on January 19, 2016. It adds three missions involving Charles Darwin and Charles Dickens into the game. A DLC called The Dreadful Crimes, which was exclusive for the PlayStation 4 until March 2016, is also available for players to purchase (but was NOT included in the Season Pass for the PC). The DLC expands upon Unity's murder investigation system and tasks players to solve multiple murder cases.[32] A DLC entitled Jack the Ripper, loosely based on the notorious crimes committed by the serial killer in the Whitechapel area of London in 1888, was released on December 15, 2015, for consoles and December 22, 2015, for Microsoft Windows.[33] The Last Maharaja, the final DLC following Duleep Singh's quest to reclaim his heritage, was released on March 1, 2016, for all platforms.[34]

Music[]

The score to Assassin's Creed Syndicate was composed by American composer Austin Wintory.[35] The lyrical songs in the game, murder ballads, were composed by Wintory and Australian musical comedy band, Tripod.[36] The soundtrack was released on Amazon MP3 and iTunes on October 23, 2015. Bear McCreary composed the score for the Jack the Ripper downloadable content, in which a soundtrack album was released on December 1, 2015.[37]

Reception[]

Assassin's Creed Syndicate received "generally favorable" reviews for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions,[39][40] while the PC version of the game received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator Metacritic.[38]

Alexa Corriea from GameSpot praised the fluidity of Syndicate's new combat system, as well as the beauty of the map and the addition of the rope launcher. She hailed the game as "a triumphant return to form for the franchise".[45] Daniel Krupa from IGN gave the game an 8.2/10, citing the design of the city and the lighthearted plot as high points, while criticising the repetitive combat, yet saying it was better than Unity's combat.[48] Brett Makedonski from Destructoid gave the game 7.5/10, praising its characters and assassination missions, but criticised the gameplay. He described combat as unsatisfying and carriage-driving as "a pain".[41] Christopher Livingston from PC Gamer gave the game 66/100. He praised the characters and the main missions but criticised the side missions as being repetitive.[50]

Sales[]

Assassin's Creed Syndicate debuted at number one in the UK according to Chart-Track. However, in its first week, it was the second worst-selling game of the franchise in the UK, only outselling Assassin's Creed Rogue. According to reports from Ubisoft, these lower sales in the first week were due to the release of Assassin's Creed Unity (2014) having a negative impact on the sales due to its notorious number of bugs and glitches at launch. Syndicate's second week sales beat those of Unity's.[53] The game was the ninth best-selling retail game in the UK.[54] By February 2016, the game has sold over 4.12 million units worldwide.[55] As of November 2017, Assassin's Creed Syndicate has sold over 5.5 million copies worldwide.[56]

Accolades[]

In April 2020, Game Informer ranked the game as the second best game in the Assassin's Creed series to date.[57] Assassin's Creed Syndicate appeared on several lists of best video games of 2015, including Games Radar,[58] GameSpot,[59] Complex,[60] Eurogamer,[61] Screen Rant,[62] and Kotaku.[63] In October 2020, Game Informer ranked Assassin's Creed Syndicate among the best games of the generation.[64]

Notes[]

  1. ^ The seven boroughs of London are Westminster, the Strand, the City of London, Whitechapel, the Thames, Southwark and Lambeth.[1]
  2. ^ The development team stated that the map is approximately 30% larger than Paris in Assassin's Creed Unity (2014).[2]
  3. ^ Assassin's Creed III: Liberation featured a female protagonist, but Liberation is not considered a part of the main series.

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