In truth, it’s more like a post-pub scrap than Gangs of New York, but defeat the boss and another borough’s yours. Clear a borough of all gang objectives, and you’ll find yourself in a climactic gang-battle with the local Blighter boss. You can weaken the Blighters’ grip by rescuing poor urchins from enforced hard labour, too. In actual gameplay terms this gives you two sets of missions, with a string following Evie’s search and her battles against high-ranking Templars, while in the background you’re engaged in gang warfare, both through story-based missions and a repeated set of activities.Īs well as clearing strongholds of Blighters, you’ll find yourself kidnapping leading thugs and delivering them to Inspector Abberline of Scotland Yard, or simply murdering others to take them out of the picture. She favours working from the shadows, finding out what the Templars are up to and beating them to the prize. Evie, meanwhile, is chasing the pieces of Eden. Jacob’s intent is to tackle the Templar’s power at street level, building a new gang, the Rooks, to fight the Templar’s chosen gang, the Blighters, taking them out borough by borough, territory by territory. They control industry, run the establishment and even command the London street gangs, all the time searching for the all-powerful pieces of Eden and – worse – for applications for their power. In Syndicate, Victorian London is the centre of the world and it’s dominated by the Templars on every level. The twin protagonists are reflected in a splitting of objectives and game styles. Related: 22 breathtaking London landmarks you have to climb in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate The story stars twin assassins called Jacob and Evie Frye.Įvie is calm, stealthy, intelligent and proactive, and might just be the most likeable lead since Ezio.īut, Jacob is the most instantly dislikeable (apart from perhaps Connor Kenway), he’s bold, a wannabe bad boy, cocky, arrogant and sure of himself to boot. Not only is Syndicate taking Assassin’s Creed to a new location, it’s also the first to have two protagonists. Syndicate is a tale of dark conspiracies, violent gangs, child labour and heavy industry that succeeds in mixing up the well-established Assassin’s Creed formula and introducing a well-needed breath of fresh life. We’d argue that its a Victorian London more reminiscent of Guy Richie’s Sherlock Holmes movies rather than one of Dickens, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. Available on Xbox One, PS4 (reviewed) and PCįor the first time, the roof-scrambling, hidden blade-wielding series is tackling Victorian London with Assassin’s Creed Syndicate.
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