Assassins Creed Syndicate on PS4 – The DVDfever Review

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Visually, Assassins Creed Syndicate looks fantastic on the PS4. Nice, long draw distances and beautiful work on textures. The city itself really captures the feel of the industrial era, much like Unity captured Revolutionary France. It is still awe inspiring when you climb a viewpoint and the game pans out showing the city from up a height, seeing key landmarks like Parliament and Big Ben and the docks with ships running on the river. My stomach still churns when doing a leap of faith from one of these viewpoints to this day (maybe I’m sitting to close to the TV!!).

The city itself is bustling with activity: people on the streets around exteriors to shops (not as many as Unity which I feel is a good thing, as getting round could become a chore at times), horse and carts/carriages on the streets including fire carts, which can be hijacked GTA-style if you so wish but without the guns to get around quicker! The only thing I would really say is that it is very typecast with the characters and the way they are portrayed. If you are not from the UK, I imagine it is how you would perceive Dickens world to be – ragtag kids, cockney-type gangsters that are similar to the workhouse charge hands and so on.

Sound is what you would expect from an era specific game: chatter as you pass through the streets, shout-outs towards you when spotted by rival gang members or Police when being chased, the tapping of horse hooves on cobble stones and so on. The city is thriving and each district is quite distinct. On the river, you hear the running water with boat engines and horns etc. Cutscenes are fully-voiced with the option to enable subtitles from the menu. To name a few of the actors used there is Paul Amos (Murdoch Mysteries & Lost Girl), Kris Holden-Ried (The Tudors & K-19: The Widowmaker) & Victoria Atkin (Hollyoaks), there are quite a few other actors that have contributed voice talent to Assassins Creed Syndicate (see cast list below)


Assassins Creed Syndicate Gameplay Walkthrough Part 3 [1080p HD PS4] – No Commentary
– MKIceAndFire


Conclusion

Assassins Creed Syndicate is a welcome return to the series roots – not quite Ezio Auditore, but both Evie and Jacob are charismatic and likeable, unlike Connor from Assassins Creed III. London provides a great new playground with icons littered across a huge map split into numerous boroughs. If you are like me and love this style of game, you are going to enjoy it for what it is. If this is the first Assassins Creed game you have played, then you may find it a little confusing as to what is going on.

Not once have I encountered a single issue with the game or graphical glitch.

So for players of games like the Batman series and, recently, the excellent Mad Max, you really should jump into this new Assassins Creed game. It is what Assassins Creed is at heart. There is no real need for multiplayer or even co-op in these games. Co-op on Unity, I felt was overly chaotic – there was no reserve or stealth being used whenever I tried it on Unity.

This is Assassins Creed as it should be – a welcome return to the series core mechanics and I for one cannot wait to see what is available in the Season Pass and the next game in this ever evolving series.

I also recommend revisiting Unity after playing through Syndicate, as it has been fixed and it is an excellent game and a great period in history.

All gaming footage featured is from the MKIceAndFire Youtube channel.

Assassins Creed Syndicate is out now on on PS4, Xbox One and PC.


Assassins Creed Syndicate Gameplay Walkthrough Part 4 [1080p HD PS4] – No Commentary
– MKIceAndFire


Important info:

  • Publisher: Ubisoft
  • Players: single player

GRAPHICS
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GAMEPLAY
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OVERALL 8.5

Director: Ramiro Bélanger
Music: Austin Wintory

Cast:
Evie Frye: Victoria Atkin
Jacob Frye: Paul Amos
Crawford Starrick: Kris Holden-Ried
Frederic Abberline: Sam Crane
Henry Green: Jaz Deol
Robert Topping: Gavin Fowler
Charles Darwin: Julian Richings
Charles Dickens: Des McAleer
Karl Marx: Matthew Marsh
Galina Voronina: Patricia Summersett
Alexander Graham Bell: Mark Rowley
Mary Anne Disraeli: Jill Frappier
Catherine Gladstone: Alex Dallas
William Gladstone: Damon Redfern
Dunleep Singh: Avin Shah
Maxwell Roth: John Hopkins
Rupert Ferris: Alan Cooke
Arthur Conan Doyle: Eamon Stocks
Clara O’Dea: Amariah Faulkner
Ned Wynert: Ferelith Young
Jonnie Boiler: David Greig
Florence Nightingale: Helen Johns
Benjamin Disraeli: David Ferry
Dr John Elliotson: Ian D Clark
Philip Twopenny: Clive Walton
Henry Raymond: Andrew Gillies
Howard Roberts: Bruce Beaton
Bishop: Kate Todd
David Brewster: Peter Messaline
George Westhouse: Peter Mikhail
Enzio Capelli: Morgan David Jones
Pearl Attaway: Nathalie Toriel
Winston Churchill: Rick Miller
Edward Hodson Bayley: Shaun Austin-Olson
Lydia Frye: Lisa Norton
Malcolm Millner: Craig Warnock
Dr Wilburn: Stewart Arnott
Miss Cuthbert: Roanna Cochrane
Jude Boyd: Zachary Bennett
Richard Owens: Philip Craig
Shaun Hastings: Danny Wallace
Rebecca Crane: Eliza Schneider
Juhani Otso Berg: Andreas Apergis
Violet da Costa: Lucinda Davis
Dr Alvaro Gramatica: Marcel Jeannin
Additional voices: Laura Aikman, Nicola Stapleton


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