Assassins Creed: Syndicate

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 29 expert reviews

Excellent:

11
Good:

9
Average:

6
Bad:

3

Pros:

Wonderful story led by two of the strongest protagonists the series
Dickens side-missions

Cons:

Final boss battle is frustrating and kills the drama
Repetitive combat

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Last revision on June 15, 2019

Reviewers Liked

Wonderful story led by two of the strongest protagonists the series
Dickens side-missions

Reviewers Didn't Like

Final boss battle is frustrating and kills the drama
Repetitive combat
Syndicate suffers from animation oddities, frustrating stops in free-flowing movement and occasionally dumbstruck

Expert reviews and ratings

No videogame franchise can keep its momentum going forever, a truth that is becoming more evident lately when even the mighty Call of Duty is starting to straggle in sales after countless yearly entries. Even the mightiest of critically acclaimed...

By DarkZero on December 08, 2015

Assassin's Creed Syndicate is a "return to form," but maybe a change would do the series some good.

By PCWorld on December 01, 2015

Assassin's Creed Syndicate has been out for nearly a full month on console, and Zoe really enjoyed the antics of twins Jacob and Evie Frye in the new Victorian England setting. Recently though the latest entry into Ubisoft's annual franchise finally...

By CriticalHit on November 27, 2015

New toys and strong characters freshen up the Creed formula, but only for a...

By PC Gamer on November 25, 2015

Assassin's Creed Syndicate's story is one of the best in the series with a complicated and compelling relationship between Jacob and Evie at its heart. The attention paid to make stealth more palatable and the different play styles of the twins make it...

By Gaming Illustrated on November 12, 2015

The combat is a lot of fun, with the addition of several new toys (provided largely by Alexander Graham Bell, who is lovely and Scottish) and also combos and quick-keys to enable you to use your knives, guns, darts and bombs in combat without too much...

By Bit-tech.net on October 28, 2015

UBISOFTThe broken launch of previous entry Unity hit the reputation of this long running franchise and arguably ruined what should have been a triumphant return of the Assassins in their first proper "next-gen" only title.It was a shame because once the...

By dailystar.co.uk on October 27, 2015

Here's the good news – Black Flag wasn't a fluke. At least part of Ubisoft still knows how to make an Assassin's Creed game that is both true to its era and entertaining to play. I knew we were on to something good when I was having fist fights atop a...

By Cheat Code Central on October 26, 2015

The big disappointment with Assassin's Creed Syndicate is not that it isn't a big, beautiful, high-value AAA video game with an interesting central story, refined mechanics and action-packed fighting. It is. The disappointment isn't down to the game...

By Wired UK on October 23, 2015

With every release, the same issues that Ubisoft has been rolling over year over year seem to have compounded themselves to a point where the entire package winds up suffering. Sure, this isn’t the broken mess that Assassin’s Creed Unity was, but in some ways it’s more of a blemish than its predecessor. After all, this is a functional game that simply isn’t all that fun to play, which is far more damning than any technical glitch could ever be.

By HardcoreGamer on October 22, 2015

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