This was a bit ignored because it was directly after AC Unity but hey. This game is hella fun, it felt great traversing through London. Plus you get to play as 2 characters because the protagonists are twins.
After playing almost every other entry in the franchise, this is the final nail in the coffin for me and the reason why I will probably never pick up another AssCreed game.
Criminally underrated...a lot of people slept on this game bc of AC Unity. If you appreciate the old style of AC games you will really enjoy this one.
This review contains spoilers
For some reason one of my favorite entries in the series. I think it's because of the grappling hook.
Also one who tried to be a bit more diverse, with Evie as a co-protag, her being in a relationship wit a man of color, her brother being bisexual and a trans man and a gay man being part of the plot.
All of this comes with a "BUT", though.
Evie is great BUT a lot of story missions have to be done with her brother. She also does a lot of cleaning up after the missions that her brother kind of botched and that is taking time away from a plot that could revolve around her and not him.
She has a relationship with a MoC, but that only starts at the end of the game and only when you do a sidequest that is rather annoying.
Jacob is bi but that is only something that we know because people outright asked and not really something that is really shown. Apparently, he knew about it after Roth's death but there is never a consequence to that.
He's a bit sad but that's it. Him coming to terms with who he is and who he thought he was could have been a good bonding moment with his sister but they only bicker at each other.
That he is happy to ruin shit with Roth by his side is nice and dandy and yes they kissed but that was not exactly a romantic kiss. Just because Jacob found someone to kill with, doesn't mean he sleeps with them. At least I hope it doesn't mean that...
The trans character gives the player side quests and...that's it. That's on one hand nice - no "OMG A WOMAN! IN MEN'S CLOTHING!!!" bs but also has no impact. Said character never tells us anything about him except his name and what to do next. You spend more time with Orphan Annie than him. And Orphan Annie is a cheap tactic to get me to care, so I did what I could not to.
Still kind of liked the little brat.
Damn.
Our gay antagonist feels to me like an embodiment of gay stereotypes. He's theatrical - of course he is, he is an actor and owns a theater! He got the hots for Jacob who is 19/20 during the game while roth is what? 40? 50? so yeah, gay man preying on young men is a klischee I can live without.
Before he dies he forces a kiss on Jacob because of course he does. It was creepy gay old guys do! Or something like that. I don't know.
So the gay one got buried again - because OF COURSE this is what happens! He the antagonist...!
Anyway, the Jack the Ripper DLC was nice, too not only because of the timeskip but also because you play as Evie. Would have loved to know more about what had happened between the main game and the DLC though. Also - personally, I am sick of Jack the Ripper stories :/ But that's probably just me.
The WWI part was also nice to play. Got itself in a mutt pit by presenting me Churchill as a character I can talk to though.
Queen Victorias imperialism got at least called out (only once but...oh well.). Not doing the same for Churchill feels weird.
But then again: didn't they say that Columbus was an Assassin...? Yeeaaah....at least we got to fight the pope once (and only once, but...well.)! :D
Also one who tried to be a bit more diverse, with Evie as a co-protag, her being in a relationship wit a man of color, her brother being bisexual and a trans man and a gay man being part of the plot.
All of this comes with a "BUT", though.
Evie is great BUT a lot of story missions have to be done with her brother. She also does a lot of cleaning up after the missions that her brother kind of botched and that is taking time away from a plot that could revolve around her and not him.
She has a relationship with a MoC, but that only starts at the end of the game and only when you do a sidequest that is rather annoying.
Jacob is bi but that is only something that we know because people outright asked and not really something that is really shown. Apparently, he knew about it after Roth's death but there is never a consequence to that.
He's a bit sad but that's it. Him coming to terms with who he is and who he thought he was could have been a good bonding moment with his sister but they only bicker at each other.
That he is happy to ruin shit with Roth by his side is nice and dandy and yes they kissed but that was not exactly a romantic kiss. Just because Jacob found someone to kill with, doesn't mean he sleeps with them. At least I hope it doesn't mean that...
The trans character gives the player side quests and...that's it. That's on one hand nice - no "OMG A WOMAN! IN MEN'S CLOTHING!!!" bs but also has no impact. Said character never tells us anything about him except his name and what to do next. You spend more time with Orphan Annie than him. And Orphan Annie is a cheap tactic to get me to care, so I did what I could not to.
Still kind of liked the little brat.
Damn.
Our gay antagonist feels to me like an embodiment of gay stereotypes. He's theatrical - of course he is, he is an actor and owns a theater! He got the hots for Jacob who is 19/20 during the game while roth is what? 40? 50? so yeah, gay man preying on young men is a klischee I can live without.
Before he dies he forces a kiss on Jacob because of course he does. It was creepy gay old guys do! Or something like that. I don't know.
So the gay one got buried again - because OF COURSE this is what happens! He the antagonist...!
Anyway, the Jack the Ripper DLC was nice, too not only because of the timeskip but also because you play as Evie. Would have loved to know more about what had happened between the main game and the DLC though. Also - personally, I am sick of Jack the Ripper stories :/ But that's probably just me.
The WWI part was also nice to play. Got itself in a mutt pit by presenting me Churchill as a character I can talk to though.
Queen Victorias imperialism got at least called out (only once but...oh well.). Not doing the same for Churchill feels weird.
But then again: didn't they say that Columbus was an Assassin...? Yeeaaah....at least we got to fight the pope once (and only once, but...well.)! :D
This game interested me back when I had fallen out with this series, and I finally got around to playing it and was disappointed by how stealth had fallen to the way side of this really barebones rpg system and how the game is mindless busy work if you want to complete it 100%. Do not play this one.
I do not know what it is about this game that just...pushed me away. I got it pre-owned, crazy cheap. I thought it could be at least worth a little bit of fun. I think i got as far in as unlocking the grappling hook thing, ran up the side of a building, and (not saying that was the direct reason but it was the last thing i remeber) put the controller down and haven't played it since
Utterly boring.
Utterly boring.
brabo?
Probably my favorite AC standalone game. I don't look back on it as fondly as I do the Ezio trilogy, but I really do dig the Victorian setting and the Assassins in this game.
fun + charming
Not as broken and laggy as Unity, but still not as good as anything the AC franchise did before and after it. Pretty shitty and unlikable characters all around with boring ass parkour which you'd expect more from a game of this caliber
Ubisoft Quebec needs to stay away from Assassin's Creed.
batman arkham ripoff lel
A really fun game! London is beautiful and the Victorian setting is really fun. Jacob and Evie have such a good dynamic and I love that you can play as both characters. the story was also really fun.
I actually really enjoyed the story/combat of this one. The different abilities for Jacob and Evie was a nice touch. I myself prefer Evie's stealth capabilities because I don't need any help with combat. My only real issues are how the window for countering certain attacks is way too small, and I've gotten into a lot of trouble because they're hitting me before I even recognize the yellow bar. One last thing is just the number of collectibles. It has more than all the riddler trophies in all the Arkham games combined, and it's not even as fun to collect/find as in the Arkham games
story and cutscenes could have been way better.
so can the things u can do in the world.
but yeah, it is quite a fun game. very very repetitive tho.
so can the things u can do in the world.
but yeah, it is quite a fun game. very very repetitive tho.
a silly and fun story with a likeable set of player characters alongside a lot of quality of life improvements (that zipline!) let down by it still being too finicky and a liberal as all hell worldview. what did they do to my boy marx? and why is churchill so epic?
you get to meet marx lol
fale oq quiser, eu gostei desse jogo, n sei dizer exatamente o pq, mas eu gostei, só o combate q é meio quadradão, eu gostei mt pelo fato q me deu vibes bem steampunk
Lo realmente guay de este juego es la ambientación londinense, no nos engañemos.
Ubisoft were trying literally anything to reinvigorate the series. I think it's pretty clear that Evie should have been the sole protag, but it's whatever.
Combat is fun, story is quite stupid, and I LOVED the Victorian London setting. One of my favorites in AC. Marx makes an appearance too lol. I got maybe 80% of the way through the game before shelving it, but I will be coming back to finish.
Combat is fun, story is quite stupid, and I LOVED the Victorian London setting. One of my favorites in AC. Marx makes an appearance too lol. I got maybe 80% of the way through the game before shelving it, but I will be coming back to finish.
evie frye i will pick up this game again for you
It's better than Unity.
Really loved this at the time. who knows how it holds up but at the time this was phenomenal
Hard-cuts to the future storyline are less intrusive and skippable, but the gameplay is mid at best.
7.5
Earlier this year, I set out to beat every single Assassins Creed game (besides number 1, just because I forgot to buy it and haven't felt like going back.) As of today, I may have failed that. This game's setting is so miserable to look at that every time I pick it up, I quit 15 minutes later. There are good, maybe even great, elements to this game, but I just don't feel like suffering through it. 4 sequences in, I'm fucking done. Onto Origins!
First game cleared on a next-gen console! Downloaded this onto my Series S after waxing nostalgic for pre-reboot Assassin's Creed games. And you know what? My nostalgia was wrong!
I am happy I played this game, because it helped me perfectly encapsulate everything I hate about AAA video games from the last ten years. An open world littered with meaningless collectables which just require you to go to a spot, press B, and get XP. The same jank-ass controls that have plagued this series since goddamn Altair.
This game almost completely dodges saying or even showing anything interesting about the period, a time rife with classism and industry and colonialism. The one hilarious exception is that the game goes balls to the wall on the issue of child labor, which it depicts by making you sneak into factories, violently murder people in front of children, then just say "hey, you're good now" to all the kids, to get a big banner that says "CHILDREN LIBERATED". Then, when you go back to the factory after it's in your control, the kids are STILL THERE.
The writing is also garbage. Almost 24 hours of playtime later, I still have no idea why the villain is the villain other than "he is a Templar and Templars are bad". He has a scheme in literally the last mission to kill a bunch of English heads of state, which would maybe be compelling if I didn't spend all game assassinating heads of state. The game attempts conflict between the leads and a romance subplot, both of which are terrible. No characters have any personality or motivation for doing what they do, other than "they are a character in a video game and they have to do this for the video game to happen".
God I really wish I didn't hate this game.
I am happy I played this game, because it helped me perfectly encapsulate everything I hate about AAA video games from the last ten years. An open world littered with meaningless collectables which just require you to go to a spot, press B, and get XP. The same jank-ass controls that have plagued this series since goddamn Altair.
This game almost completely dodges saying or even showing anything interesting about the period, a time rife with classism and industry and colonialism. The one hilarious exception is that the game goes balls to the wall on the issue of child labor, which it depicts by making you sneak into factories, violently murder people in front of children, then just say "hey, you're good now" to all the kids, to get a big banner that says "CHILDREN LIBERATED". Then, when you go back to the factory after it's in your control, the kids are STILL THERE.
The writing is also garbage. Almost 24 hours of playtime later, I still have no idea why the villain is the villain other than "he is a Templar and Templars are bad". He has a scheme in literally the last mission to kill a bunch of English heads of state, which would maybe be compelling if I didn't spend all game assassinating heads of state. The game attempts conflict between the leads and a romance subplot, both of which are terrible. No characters have any personality or motivation for doing what they do, other than "they are a character in a video game and they have to do this for the video game to happen".
God I really wish I didn't hate this game.
So Jacob is a dumb boy with a hat. And Evie is really cool. But like, 75% of the Main Story Quests are Jacob only missions. I compensated by playing with Evie with eveything else. The Main Story was fun, but the side activities are good in this one. There's a ton of things to do, and does some interesting stuff with its sci-fi aspect. The music by Austin Wintory is fantastic.
Some bits can be fun but it's mostly just a slog filled with incredibly lazy story telling. It seems like the game has an identity crisis as the game (and protagonists) wants to be both a silent assassin and a gang leader. Seeing as I bought a stealth game I was disappointed to have to play as anyone other than Evie. Assassins Creed doesn't know what it wants to be anymore and it shows.
the first pre-Origins AC game I've played in four years (sorry black flag) and the first I've finished in eight (that being iii).
after 250 (or 400 according to sony) hours of odyssey and valalla in the last eight months, this was a bit scary to go return to because i'd sort of put the old school assassin's creed gameplay out of my mind and in a mental compartment under the filename 'dated'.
but i was pleasantly surprised with this. lighting was good. some nice crowds. good feeling to be back in a big city again. they really knocked old london out of the park. tons of women in big dresses, dudes in suits with hats and mutton chops, tons of child labourers working the factories and begging for change, smoke stacks as far as the eye can see. carriages in lieu of horses (or cars). a simulated city from 2015 that feels as alive and bustling as anything made since (something so spectacular about all the boats on the thames going up and down and having to manoeuvre yourself across the river by leaping from one in motion to another).
i've come to accept assassin's creed games as a tourist trap. i had long since given up on the series but now that it has its hooks back in me i remember the joy of wondering what beautifully recreated piece of history i'll get to stab dudes in next.
after 250 (or 400 according to sony) hours of odyssey and valalla in the last eight months, this was a bit scary to go return to because i'd sort of put the old school assassin's creed gameplay out of my mind and in a mental compartment under the filename 'dated'.
but i was pleasantly surprised with this. lighting was good. some nice crowds. good feeling to be back in a big city again. they really knocked old london out of the park. tons of women in big dresses, dudes in suits with hats and mutton chops, tons of child labourers working the factories and begging for change, smoke stacks as far as the eye can see. carriages in lieu of horses (or cars). a simulated city from 2015 that feels as alive and bustling as anything made since (something so spectacular about all the boats on the thames going up and down and having to manoeuvre yourself across the river by leaping from one in motion to another).
i've come to accept assassin's creed games as a tourist trap. i had long since given up on the series but now that it has its hooks back in me i remember the joy of wondering what beautifully recreated piece of history i'll get to stab dudes in next.