Assassins Creed Chronicles on Xbox One – The DVDfever Review

Graphics:

The graphics are attractive and the stylisation is kept to the overall theme of each individual game. The one which stood out to me most was Russia due to its contrast of Red and Grey and its grainy screen filter. It appealed to me more than either the China or India games’ style as they both seemed plain in comparison; it feels that more effort was focused on Russia’s atmosphere than those two.

Background characters and enemies look good with decent textures and colours. Each protagonist has their typical hooded garb seen in AC games again and again but with features and colours suiting to the style of their location. Single shot drawn cut-scenes with voice overs play their part between missions to keep the flow of the narrative, and all of these look good for what is needed but a little more effort with full motion cut-scenes would have been appreciated.

All in all, the graphics do as they should – no wow factors, pretty well-rounded but are let down in that the graphics look like they could have been on previous generation consoles.

Sound:

The music, just like graphics style, is in keeping with the themes of each game’s title and, again, if I were to pick one that stood out more to me it would be Russia.

Voiceover is done well along with the correct use of accents; music keeps to their settings; animals, weapons, footsteps, environments all sound spot on, with nothing outstanding.

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Assassin’s Creed Chronicles China Full Game Walkthrough – RabidRetrospectGames

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Final Notes:

The gameplay kept me going for an hour or two before I wanted to turn the games off and rest for a bit or play another game. This most likely impacted me because I’m not the biggest fan of the Assassins Creed franchise after not enjoying the first title in the series. I did, however, get some nostalgic enjoyment from the games due to their similarities to old favourites of mine.

I think these games should appeal to fans of the Assassins Creed franchise but are unlikely to drastically alter the opinions of those who did not enjoy the series previously or whet the appetite of any newcomers. I say this because the games seem to have been made to fill in some of the lore between the previous titles which will make it harder to pull new fans into the franchise.

If you are a fan of 2.5D games, and enjoyed titles like Prince of Persia from the 8/16-bit era, I’d say to try them out as you may enjoy the format but otherwise I would hold out unless you are an Assassins Creed fan as you may not enjoy them as much as you would hope.

You can buy the trilogy in one package or separately as downloads, but they are cheap all together. Your stance on what to buy would likely depend on if you are already a fan of the series or wish to just pick up to try it out as a casual newcomer to the series. As I’ve said as much throughout it will come as no great surprise that I’d recommend Russia, if buying individually for newcomers or curious parties, but if you are a fan pick up the Trilogy set as a whole as you may enjoy the extra lore to the stories you already experienced.

Overall Scores:
Graphics: 7/10 – Not up to the standards of the newest generation, the graphics would be just as good on an X-Box 360 or PS3.
Sound: 7/10 – Not spectacular and more enjoyable in Russia’s game setting than the others in my own opinion.
Gameplay: 8/10 – Typical gameplay mechanics seen in 2.5D platform or Stealth games, fun but played safe, gameplay in the games surroundings again is fun but nothing special.
Enjoyment/Story: 6/10 – The stories did not grab me as much as I would have liked, the diverse trio of characters have their own motivations for what they do but I found it difficult to get invested.

Thanks to the RabidRetrospectGames and Assassin’s Creed channels for their embedded footage.

All gaming footage featured is from the MKIceAndFire Youtube channel.

Assassins Creed Chronicles is out now on on Xbox One, PS4 and PS Vita.

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Assassin’s Creed Chronicles Trailer – Trilogy: China, India & Russia – Assassin’s Creed

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Important info:

• Publisher: Ubisoft
• Players: single player

GRAPHICS SOUND GAMEPLAY ENJOYMENT/STORY	7 7 8 6
OVERALL	7

Music: Aaron Miller

Voice Cast:
Arbaaz Mir: Johnny Neal
Ezio Auditore: Giovanni Noto
Alexander Burke: Kenny Blyth
Qiu Ju/Zhang Yong: Robert Vernon
Shao Jun: Annabelle Galea
Templar Officer: Howy Bratherton
Russian Guard: Andrei Lenart
Other voices: Andrew Futaishi
Other voices: Jack Goddard
Other voices: Guy Slocombe