Heavily divided on this one, the system driven level design is excellent, the apex of the franchise, everything is polished and works as you would expect, enemies react as it should and you interact with the world appropriately. The problem is that Ubisoft knew this, so the rest of the game is poorly done, being the grindiest as well as having the worst story in the franchise. Besides that, the whole Assasin's Creed identity is lost, as the story ignores the Creed completely in favour of building a gang (?).
It's a shame, especially after Unity returned to the roots of Ezio's Era, with the Assassin's more present and a urban setting so immersive, something Syndicate does extremely well with London and it's mechanics of building an Creed (gang in this case).
I had fun while playing, stealth is super satisfying and the game mechanics integrate well with the missions, but they only scratch the surface of what they build and is depressing seeing the wasted potential.

I remember sitting in class with a buddy of mine and talking about how AC Syndicate looked like the lamest entry in the mainline franchise to date. The grungy London setting just did not look appealing and it looked like the franchise had gotten incredibly stale. I still ended up playing through this one and somehow it really pulled me in. It's the only Assassin's Creed game I've 100%-ed to date. It turns out that the storytelling is pretty good, the gameplay loop works, and the time period and locale are well utilized. I never would've expected this to be as fun as it was. It's not perfect since it definitely gets extremely repetitive and the modern day storyline is utter nonsense that should just be removed entirely, but Syndicate gets more right than I expected.

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate is the most fun I’ve had with an Assassin’s game since Black Flag. In fact, I liked it more. Apart from its ill-fitting conclusion, it never takes itself too seriously and delights in the rich possibilities of its Victorian setting and great new grapple gun. As you explore its contrasting boroughs, you glean some sense of what powered this great city in the 19th century. The story missions capitalise on this by exploring different spheres of influence, which when combined with elements like mass transit, heavy industry, and law enforcement, make this feel like a different type of city than has been featured in the series to date. Best of all, Syndicate asks you to take London back in a way puts the last few games to shame.

I didn't really care for Assassin's Creed Syndicate when it first came out; it felt like a step down from Unity in a lot of ways, though I would say it does have the better story of the two. The side quests with Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, and Charles Dickens were probably my most enjoyed moments of the game.

The DLCs, Jack the Ripper and The Last Maharaja, were very fun, though I found the former to be very buggy (vehicle physics bugging out, a problem that also plagued me in the late game of the main story)

The problem with Syndicate isn't that it doesn't do anything right but rather that the things it fucks up are deal breakers.

Not being able to jump and the parkour being reduced to its shallowest form, combat being one button for attack, one for dodge and one to break guard and the enemies taking forever to die. A lighthearted story with a whole lot of cringey jokes doesn't work too well with a setting this grim and depressing. They scaled down on the side content but that doesnt mean quality over quantity but rather the same 4 copy pasted missions in every district, sometimes more than once, the average collectables and the fight club thingy that's fine but not memorable.

But oh well it does some things right, for starters it gets the stealth right. Being able to crouch is thankfully back though having 2 equippable items isnt back so your options are once again more limited. You can use the rope launcher to get yourself from point to point and it makes stealth more dynamic even if otherwise the rope launcher amounts to nothing but press R to skip the parkour.

And it has a few decent missions ig? The blackbox missions are cool yet very easy and feel like a downgrade from Unity since the parkour and combat aren’t as good even if the unique kills and the opportunities are arguably more consistently useful. Besides those there’s the carriage chases which are silly fun and...that’s it tbh.

I want to like Syndicate, I really do, it was one of the first AC games I ever played and the 2nd I finished, I loved it back in early 2017 when I first finished it but going back, it doesn’t hold up to me.

I get why it’s fun to some but idk I found most of it rather boring.

bom já adianto que sim eu me diverti com o jogo, não tanto pelo jogo e toda a sua construção mas sim pelo fato de que eu tava com saudade de um assassin's creed na "fórmula antiga" mesmo esse daqui não sendo tanto e tendo uns elementos meio rpg com nivel e etc que diga-se de passagem é bem ruim, o jogo tem muitos mas muitos erros tanto em gameplay e principalmente em história e personagens.
A história em nenhum momento te instiga a querer saber mais por que muita coisa nela é jogada de qualquer jeito, o primeiro exemplo que veio na minha cabeça é o lance das gangues que o personagem cita nas missões iniciais que vai criar uma gangue e uma missão do nada a gangue inteira já é instaurada, tipo "???", uma das mecânicas mais importantes do jogo é simplesmente jogada assim de qualquer jeito, já uma mecânica que me dividiu bastante foi o gancho, acho que ele é simplesmente muito bom para subir lugares em grandes escalas mas tem horas que fazer parkour não faz muito sentido e você só fica spammando gancho por que é mais facil.
Agora falando dos personagens, nenhum personagem nesse jogo tem o minimo de carisma, até mesmo os principais como os protagonistas e o vilão que são muito qualquer coisa e nada marcantes, até mesmo tentam forçar um romance da Evie com o Green mas sinceramente fica uma bosta kk.
Em compensação o jogo tem pontos bem positivos como a ambientação de Londres que é incrivel e o fato da Base ser um trem eu achei um ponto bem criativo e interessante.
Minha experiência foi divertida apesar de todos os erros e falhas constantes no jogo, na minha jogada eu presenciei infinitos bugs e problemas bizarros de performance pra um jogo de 8 anos atrás, teve momentos que eu cheguei a 15fps, em resumo é um jogo bem qualquer coisa, pra quem gosta da franquia acho que vale o teste.

Alright, kinda took a long time to beat this one and dropped I'd for a while, but, this game is good, not anything exceptional, a solid 7 I would put, the stealth is te best part and the missions are engaging, and the city is just beautiful to explore, the combat straight up sucks, just the worst of the whole franchise, Batman Arkham knockoff, but, the stealth makes up for it in many ways, the story, though not the best, is good enough, better than unity in my opinion, but that's about it, I recommend playing