Should you play Assassin’s Creed Syndicate in 2024? 

If someone has never played Syndicate before, what’s the one thing they need to know?

Am I the only person that thought this game was incredible the first time I played it? I literally preordered it picked it up on the day of release and spent 2 straight weeks 100% - ing this game

I liked this game when it released, and I still like it now. Although it can be a very repetitive game, but I love hooning around London doing the things I can’t do in real life like climbing Big Ben or meeting Queen Victoria 😋

Honestly, Syndicate is a personal favourite of mine. It may have terrible combat system, but when it comes to stealth it remains unmatched, plus (HOT TAKE) I think Jacob is actually a pretty good protagonist.

The entire WW1 sequence was wild, and one of the most gorgeous areas in the game.

it's the only AC game i ever 100%ed ... somehow the best mixture of quest number and map size and relevance - plus: the optional cinematic kills really surprised me and i've missed them ever since

Looking at the comments shows how the opinions of the ac fan base varies so much

This is one of the most fun assassins creed games at one point when I was younger I didn’t like it now that I’m a lil older I love tf out this game it’s fun as hell wish they made more like this

Oh man this game is pretty sweet. I love the grappling hook. I highly recommend playing with the mini map off and minimal HUD elements. It makes it a little bit more tense, and forces you to rely on your senses a bit more.

i am annoyed with the constant run on the same side quests that are available throughout the map, other than that i am quite attached to the Frye twins and love the stories.

I loved Syndicate I pre ordered it and picked it up at midnight release

It seems to be the case that people who played unity and syndicate after all the bugs were fixed have a better opinion of them. This is why I never really had problems with these games, they were fixed (mostly) by the time I got round to them, so there wasn't much to leave a sour taste. Except one of the collectibles for me has bugged and didn't spawn, so I couldn't 100% the game, and I never felt like restarting a new game due to how grindy it is. Did you find that you could navigate without the map as you knew where places were? Growing up in and around London has that benefit haha. I agree that the villain was a little too comical, and that the combat was basically a button masher like the previous few games had become. The blackbox missions were really the star of this game, and I replayed all of them just so I could do the different routes. I also enjoyed the range of characters you meet in the side missions, it added a lot of flavour to the story. I also think your right on the money with your thoughts on the parkour. The restriction of jumping off ledges and the addition of the grappling hook meant that despite you being able to have really nice running lines on occasion, most of the time you'd skip all of that as it was faster to just zipline or carriage everywhere. I WANT to leap off this ledge so I can grab onto that rope half way down to the ground!

I am planning to play Assassin's Creed Syndicate for the very first time this year been told its the best Assassin's Creed game in the franchise.

Syndicate, Odyssey, and Valhalla are probably the most controversial games in the series. Personally, Syndicate is probably in my top 7 for favorite AC games alongside the Ezio Trilogy, Black Flag, Unity, and Origins.

I still love this game

currently playing and it's pretty fun

Ionly played this game last year, found myself pleasantly surprised by it, it's a fun time on its own. Now groundbreaking but not much of a slog, I've kept a few of its songs in my playlists too Great review

Please read the entire comment as I really care about this game and want to share info and some of my views. Much info in this video is not correct, but i can see why you feel it is, with an example being that syndicate wasnt actually made by those who made odyssey. It was developed via Quebec, yes, but created by people normally on Montreal team. Similar thing went on with AC 3. The lead writer being a notable example, as he not only wrote syndicate (only jacobs part of syndicate and the general concept was written by him) but he also worked on AC1 and 2 amd brotherhood and more. Now, I love AC Syndicate and Jacob is the perfect main protagonist for the game and it's setting, despite what some will say, evie is lacking in character depth and development, and she didn't suit the game. I'd add that Jacob is actually in most of the stealth levels, and evie is mostly combat levels, because the twins are supposed to naturally be the opposite to what they want to be. Jacob is a good assassin but he doesn't want to be. Evie is a poor assassin but she wants to be a great one. I would love for anyone who sees this, to read what I've got to say. I always try to share the development info for this game, as it is a very important game to me. Originally, Jacob was indeed the only playable protagonist in the game, and evie didn't even exist as she is today. The game looked much darker and Jacob had the same outfit as George. This bit is important context. A woman called Kim belair and her friends got involved in the games development, fairly late, and they are somewhat famous for changing games to be more "inclusive" but that really just translates to more female and less white. Jacob was actually always supposed to be bisexual, and the games lead writer is in fact a gay man himself. The deep hypocrisy of Kim belair is that she doesn't care about that being inclusive, because she only values inclusion for people like her. And so she essentially blackmailed the syndicate team into creating evie as a playable twin protagonist. During an interview she can be heard complaining that her fellow devs told her Jacob is the main character, and she responded by saying she could manipulate people into thinking evie was the protagonist, by misrepresenting the twins online. You see, Kim belair was originally hired because she is a marketing expert, and so she knows how to manipulate what people think of a product. You can find this interview on a AC sisterhood RU-vid video, titled after the woman who I am referring to here. Anyway, the games development ended up going through hell, and the team had to work backwards and cut a lot out, in order to add evie on time for launch. Kim belair went on to be the founder of the company called "sweet baby inc" who are currently in a lot of controversial conversation for similar reasons as we are discussing now. Kim belair since said "if they (they meaning the development team she is working with) don't see the value in what I want for a game, then I'll scare them with what might happen if they don't do as I ask." She actually said that. You can find her saying this in a variety of articles and videos about her. Just look her up and see for yourself, however take note, many journalists are her allies and lie for her. Jacob is the character shown in every single bit of leaked gameplay, screenshots, videos, development notes, artworks showing story moments are almost always shown with Jacob, and Jacob has 3 times as many concept arts that are all dated sometimes years older than the artworks for evie. Jacob also has artworks of the exact character shown in thr AC victory leaks, and this character is described as "Jacob frye." We can see on a website (if I use its name the comment will he removed for some reason) that is used for game devs to share their work together, and network, and this website has a variety of AC victory stuff. From menus screens to gameplay render screenshots, and even a display of the room people would sit in, when the team would reveal the game. It all shows Jacob frye as the protagonist, both in description, and visibly the "victory protagonist" has Jacob's face, exactly the same as it is in syndicate. The only reason the victory outfit isn't used for Jacob now, is because the art team wanted something that reflects Jacob's gang underworld story better, for his main look. Hence the victory outfit was given to George instead. If your interested, you can also find some cool black flag development stuff on that website as well. Originally, Pearl wasn't a character in syndicate/victory. Roth was, but he had a very different look and narrative role. The character that eventually got split to creat Roth as he is now, nd pearl, was Jacob's mentor. An older lady with grey hair, a black and red version of Lydia's outfit, and a silver mask to hide a badly injured face. She was the late games plot twist main villain. And the idea behind her character was later recycled into watch dogs legion's Sabine. Legion launched on the first big anniversary for Syndicate, and so many of it's ideas were actually restorations of cut syndicate narrative ideas. Evie eventually replaced thus mysterious mentor/villain to Jacob, but the narrative role of this mentor character was given to Roth and pearl, while evie would be instead, a good guy in the story. You can even spot the necklace thus mysterious mentor character had, on both Lydia, and evie but only on the box art, as evie didn't have it in the actual game. I hope you see for yourself, as I have put a lot of effort into trying to share this, but it isn't easy, as journalists rarely talk about it honestly, and those who support belair, tell lies about reduced female characters, despite the reality being opposite. Note also that the "AC victory project" mod, is a mod to restore that original version of the game. The mod team have seen all the files in game, and researched the games development extensively. They also say Jacob was the only protagonist in AC Victory, and it was indeed Jacob. Evie wasn't a playable character at all. You can check on their nexus page. I feel that if you look at the side activities, story missions, and side missions, you can clearly see the game was designed with only Jacob in mind as a soul protagonist. Evie isn't even canon in side levels, as Roth stated Jacob was seen taking down the gang leaders and conquering the city. This and so much more, add to my point. If you read all of this, then thank you for your time!

The night time in this game is beautiful

No mean to make a fuss with you, but you sound sorta like Sam Smith, and I love it lol. Well, you sound like him, but your voice sounds a lot better to me :) thanks for all the good vids mate

Syndicate is really fire 🔥🔥🔥

Syndicate is one of my favourite AC games. If you haven’t already, give it a try and make your own mind up. Fantastic game.

I just finished my first play through. Before it, Black Flag was the last AC I played and enjoyed. Everything afterwards for a while just didn’t feel right. However, after now playing Syndicate I’ve grown to really enjoy it. Gameplay setting, and characters (aside from Ned) were all pretty great. It definitely has me going back to select titles like possibly Unity and Odyssey

I really love Syndicate including Evie and Jacob as a duo as well as the humor. I wouldn`t want every Ac to be this lighthearted but I really enjoyed it here. Overall one of my favourite games

I finished it today. It was fun. Grappling hook was best.

If you see this comment, ignore anything anyone has ever said. It’s amazing, one of the best, buy it, trust me

AC syndicae was my second AC and it's honestly a great game people just don't know how to experience a game , to test it's limit

For anyone actually thinking about buying it,i was so against syndicate until it was on sale for 10 euros,i bought it,launched it and bro,i was HOOKED, probably the best game of the series,the only thing missing from it was the manual jump button, anything else is just PERFECT

Definitely a good game! But i agree when it came out i was a little disappointed! Great review ❤

I think Syndicate is... Ok. The gang war stuff is fun, the assassinations are great Evie is perfect and must be protected at all costs, but the story suffers from being far too timid. The assassins, who murder for freedom and liberty, are at the heart of the British Empire and finally come face to face with Queen Victoria. What do they do to the living embodiment of all they stand against? They ask her politely to stop and meekly take no for an answer.

Replaying it right now to 100% it while I wait for games that dont disappoint me

Syndicate's my favourite so far.

This is my fave AC game just cuz im a sucker to steampunk themes lol

i gave it a go since AC Unity is a hated game by alot but its my favourite so i decided on playing it not based on peoples review and more on how it looks and it didnt dissapoint

Just played this for the first time. Got really immersed in the first few sequences, and overall the main story missions are generally pretty fun, if perhaps a bit easy. The main let down was if you spend much time exploring at all, once you get past the main landmarks, it's a very cookie cutter world. I also understood it, but the grappling hook made everything so simple it took away the charm a little bit

Honestly, Syndicate is my favourite AC game. Sure there's minor nitpicks but what AC game doesn't have those?

This is and still my favourite AC ever

I finished this game recently, the game was good. The open world, the weapon seleccion and combat was great

Us gamers are spoiled.. this looks good

Mfer hope they actually do it proper for AC Hexe Witch Trial game

I love this game and the fact u get 2 protagonists and they blend well tho I love evie think about it didn't they take this soundtrack for odyssey lol very similar but damn evie is wifey

Is it just me who loved syndicate 😢

Yes. It's recommend it. Valhalla and mirage may still play for a timed challenge.

I prefer this than valhalla tbh it felt more assassin's creedish

This is why I love Assassins Creed. Its identity crisis allows me to play different titles with different experiences. I love Syndicate. I love that the characters don't take themselves too seriously. I find them fun. Having access to tools, weapons, stealth, fun enough combat (multikills are sick), stylish parkour, and being able to feel like a Victorian Batman/Batgirl with the graplling gauntlet is fantastic. The gang system is grand too. Sometimes you just want to make like an autobot and roll out for a bit. My one wish is it had a photo mode like later titles, because man can i find some vistas. I wish more Assassin's creed "fans" would take a moment to quit bitching, pissing, moaning, whining, crying, and throwing tantrums and rather load in a title, take it for what it is, and when it starts to feel repetitive, stale, and boring, to just load up another title and enjoy that for a while.

Syndicate is like a beefed up more advanced version of the classic ezio games in a sense of the controls I like the counter attack moves and kills a lot better than how it is in origins and oddysee them are great games to but wish the franchise would of stuck with the original controls

I have played every AC except mirage and syndicate is my favorite.

Idgaf what people say about Syndicate. This fukin' rule!

Form one that played all of the assassin’s Creed I love this game. The syndicate was one of the best assassin that came out, but this is my opinion.

I started playing it last night as part of the "Legendary Collection" and I absolutely hated the controls. Put on Origins and felt much better to play. Though I'll go back and have to get used to them. One thing I hate is having to hold R2 to parkour, where the newer games I can just hold X. I don't like that I can't seem to jump down as easy like the newer games. I have to hold R2 and circle while I'm parkouring. Makes it feel clunky and less streamlined. I do think the world is pretty amazing though.

I am only managing to play 1 mission at a time to kill time during the day when I get bored , after I finish the mission and start with the next 1 I feel there is no story to it and its just another mission. Missions seems to be all over the place and can be done in any order? I would prefer to play a game where the missions are more related to each other and I can feel I am making progress in the game.

Started replaying it last week and managed 6 hours before giving up. I really liked it before, i don't know what changed. My opinions on Syndicate and Unity have flipped after replaying them both after many years.

i really enjoyed syndicate pretty much, i dont understand the hate but yeah.

what you mean combat was ok in unity? was very good

I played it recently, and beat it and found it such a chore to get through. The combat was laughingly ass, not fun at all and took me out of the experience with how quick and cartoony the animations and gameplay were. I also found the garbage character design on NPC and Enemies that are recycled throughout the entire game so annoying and hard to look at. Some of the missions were just not enjoyable, and I was only playing the game to the end to say I beat it. I would chose AC Unity over this game any day.

I always thought that Evie and Jacob were each half a personality that, when put together, made a poorly developed character

I only had 2 issues with the game. 1. The Indian assassin is cringy and Jacob is too immature. 2. Feels like I’m doing the same generic group of missions in each map section. Which I understand that’s how most games are, but when I’m playing the Witcher 3, I don’t feel like I’m doing the same thing continuously even if I am

Ngl i enjoyed the combat in syndicate very much, it was very satisfying for some reason and the cane weapon is a 10/10 for me. I only have 2 problems with this game: 1- The side missions are repetitive 2- Evie was the better Assassin and definitely more enjoyable to play with in terms of BOTH combat and stealth but the devs made her a side protagonist, giving Jacob (who didn't feel nor act like an Assassin) most of the missions. If you're going to play this amazing game, i suggest to always switch to Evie Frye when you're not forced to play with Jacob during his missions.

atleast its better than odyssey

The pollution is real here

Anyone who hates syndicate has either never played mirage and Valhalla or is brain dead. Those 2 games are objectively poorly made, from the story, to progression, to design

Honestly when I saw the trailer I wanted syndicated but my parent didn’t know the difference and got me unity i always wanted syndicate and when I got it it disappointed so much going from pretty much being able to scale any wall with as much freedom in unity to the weird stale kinda robotic movement of syndicate unbiased it not a bad game as long as it ur first ac game and ur going in blind but if u start comparing it to other contemporaries title of the series it really shows just how bad of a game it is compare to the standard all other previous and to an extent subsequent games bring to the table

What a load of bull i play AC syndicate i think it'd great especially the jack the ripper dlc

well it's time for you to shut up, AC syndicate is pretty good.

It still sucks

Dont cear about the story anymore. Ubisoft ruined it with female eivor. If she isnt retconed out and replaced with the male eivor i will never play a new one.

Honestly, Syndicate is better than Unity

My very first ac franchise I got is syndicate and unity (got it for free from epic) and wow it really good for someone who never play ac before I play syndicate first and I fall in love with the stealth system, I love it so much. And now I play unity I love the environment and the parkour. I wish theres a mix of stealth system in syndicate but with environment from unity (I love how many people in the street it makes the game more lively) And right now I'm conaidering to buy the first 3 games thanks to syndicate and unity 🩷