Recent reviews by divinney

Graphics

AMAZING! I like traverse across the world on foot or run rather than on a mount, while enjoying the beauty of the scenery.

Gameplay

This is polished version of "Far Cry". Bows and arrows are your friend. I rarely use my spear for combat. You don't need grinding, just do all the main & side quests, errands, hunting grounds, bandit camps, tallnecks, cauldrons, & tutorials. The game doesn't feel repetitive because each quest provide you different perspective and story about each characters and the world itself. All machines are easy to be killed as long as you know how to do it right. For crafting, it's not hard to find all the ingredients, just loot all items you find. Usually, I'm lazy to collect collectibles, but in this game I found all of them (except datapoints) because you get rewards as exchange (especially the Shield-weaver armor and bluegleam weapons). Some skills are useless, maybe because I rarely use stealth here.

Story

The story is EPIC. The story is very very well-written with strong and unique personalities that attach to each characters in the game. Read all conversations, do all quests, errands, read all datapoints, all this let you know the backstory of the game, who you are, and what problems you're facing now. Don't forget to play the DLC, because the story is still related to the main story.

Price

In my country this game cost less than USD15. With over 50 hours of gameplay and free DLC, definitely worth it.

System requirements

Needs more optimization, sometimes stuttering and crashes a few times. But still playable on my PC. I'm running i5-8400 and RX 580, 54 FPS average with custom setting at 1080p. You can lower your clouds and reflection setting to gain more FPS.

Others

Like a well-written story game? Open-world game? With no repetitive quests? Easy to master the mechanics? Get this game. One of the great games I've played.

Graphics

Quite impressive for 2015 games. I love the beauty of London.

Gameplay

It's still stealth and parkour (and now you can drive a wagon/carriage/cart but I hate tapping spacebar just to increase speed). But from this series you"ll see that Assassin's Creed becomes more RPG than the predecessors (just like Far Cry franchise, seriously Ubisoft?). They implement SKILL TREE and EXPERIENCE POINT. For every 1000 Exp you will get 1 skill tree point and you will be leveled up based on how many skill tree points you've spent. You also need to collect various materials to craft weapons or armors. You can conquer boroughs and do some side missions. Not only skill tree, you also can upgrade your gang. Do you need grinding? Yes. Will it take you much time? I think no, just a little bit. If you conquer London before completing the main mission, I bet you will unlock all skills, gang upgrades and most of the weapons, armors, & outfits. Yes, they give you many choices of weapons, armors, and outfits that you can upgrade once too. Uniquely, you can play as 2 character with different specialties : The Frye Twins, Evie and Jacob. Evie favored for stealth and Jacob for straight fighting. But after you unlock all the skills, I feel that both of them can do both stealth and straight fighting (h2h combat). But for some of main missions require you to play with the selected character (they have different logos on map). Another part that I like is Rope Launcher (or Grappling Hook) which will make traversing and killing much more efficient. IMO, the downside is there is no sleeping dart. But overall, fresh gameplay, not very RPG, you still can use hidden blade, going stealth, and kill templars. After playing AC Black Flag, AC Rogue, and AC Unity, I ranked AC Syndicate as 2nd after Black Flag. Rogue imitates Black Flag and Unity a little bland but still enjoyable.

Story

Set in the Victorian Era in London. So you"ll see coal mining, child labor, driving machinery, steam trains, steam ships. The main story is good, not very "Assassination" thing like in the AC : Unity but also included some political agendas. But I think the best villain here is Maxwell Roth, not Crawford Starrick. I love the main characters especially Evie because she is woman and mature. Jacob is funny. Both have different personalities, and having siblings can sometimes make you fight.

Price

Average, get the BUNDLE. 4 titles in order.

System requirements

Run Highest setting with RX 580 averaging 51FPS, sometimes I hit 30ish FPS. Yeah, time for me to buy a new card.

Bugs

Stucked once and desynchronized automatically. But I didn't find any bugs that affect gameplay.

Patch updates

No more updates.

Others

I played 80% with Evie, not because I love stealth, but this is the first time I could play as woman in this franchise. She is the best character so far. LOVE IT