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Unless you are a diehard AC fan you will probably hate this
Assassins Creed: Chronicles is really 3 Arcade games in one set. China, India and Russia. All of these are 2.5D side scroller/ platformer arcade games. Even though this is a side scroller it works very much like a traditional AC game. It’s mostly stealth based and follows an in animus past only story of 3 different characters in 3 different eras. These games are hard especially Russia and the stories in these games aren't great with Russia having the best story. The gameplay of all 3 of these plays the same way mostly with some improvements and new equipment each game and all 3 stories involve the precursor box from AC Rogue.
Gameplay/ Story:
China: you have minimal equipment like throwing knifes and smoke bombs. The gameplay of this one seems to be the longest with the most sequences and you are definitely encouraged to stealth 90% of this game if not all of it because it gets hard, and you gain reward bonuses for stealth and assassinations. You could go in and just fight but will probably die right away within a few hits if you don't have upgrades. Most of this game you spend it climbing around stealth killing people and getting keys for doors. The story takes place after Assassins Creed Embers and old Ezio does have a small training cameo. The story is about Shoe Jun returning to China after the events of AC Embers in 1596 to take back her country from the templars and retrieve the precursor box that was scene in AC Rogue, aside from this it’s a very boring story.
India: The gameplay is mostly the same, but it improves in some areas with movement and different equipment. I had a few glitches happen with spawning in this game and almost got stuck but the game fixed itself. The story of this game is similar to China and honestly just as forgettable. Arbaaz Mir is the main character of this one who I guess is Henry Greens dad from syndicate or something. Again he's trying to stop an evil templar and get the precursor box back in the year 1841, There are some cool moments in this game where you snipe from a sniper rifle in first person. This game and Russia also felt shorter and definitely had fewer sequences than China, which is probably a good thing.
Russia: The gameplay of this one is probably the most unique having new ways of movement, a sniper rifle grapple gun and an overall much higher level of difficulty here. This game is my favorite of the 3 but also my least favorite at the same time. The way the challenge rewards work in this game is different and was much harder to get so I basically went through this entire game with almost no upgrades which made it even harder to play. One thing I can say about all 3 of these games that sucks is the “run away from something mechanic” that has one part to it that's almost impossible to get past if you are off with timing and die then the game saves in that spot and makes continuing crazy difficult. In China it’s the runaway from fire segments. In India it’s a runaway from oversized elephants’ part which glitched on me and I respawned behind the elephants and got stuck and in Russia it was the runaway from tank segment which was just crazy hard to keep up with and I had to google it to see how someone else did it in order to continue at one part. These segments are crazy frustrating and damn near made me quit on all 3 of these games. Russia at least had the most interesting story to it. So much so, I kinda wished this was a real AC game. Russia takes place in 1918, in this one you play as Nikolaï Orelov who infiltrates the house where the tsar's family is being held by the Bolsheviks and steals the precursor box. He ends up helping Anastasia escape who is like possessed by Shoe Jun (somehow from the precursor box.) This allows for Anastasia segments where you can play as her too. Like I said cool story but broken gameplay that I pretty much had to keep googling every other level to complete the game.
Graphics, Voice Acting and Music for all 3 games: The graphics and Art style of all 3 of these games is fantastic and probably the highlight of these games. China looking very pastel colored, India looking super colorful and bright and Russia looking very black, white and Red to fit in with Russian propaganda posters (very cool stuff). The voice acting is average, not bad but not great either and the music is dull minimal background noise just made to fit the scenes nothing great and nothing terrible either. Also no out of animus modern day story is present here.
Overall China 6/10 India 6/10 Russia 5.5/10
Assassins Creed: Chronicles is really 3 Arcade games in one set. China, India and Russia. All of these are 2.5D side scroller/ platformer arcade games. Even though this is a side scroller it works very much like a traditional AC game. It’s mostly stealth based and follows an in animus past only story of 3 different characters in 3 different eras. These games are hard especially Russia and the stories in these games aren't great with Russia having the best story. The gameplay of all 3 of these plays the same way mostly with some improvements and new equipment each game and all 3 stories involve the precursor box from AC Rogue.
Gameplay/ Story:
China: you have minimal equipment like throwing knifes and smoke bombs. The gameplay of this one seems to be the longest with the most sequences and you are definitely encouraged to stealth 90% of this game if not all of it because it gets hard, and you gain reward bonuses for stealth and assassinations. You could go in and just fight but will probably die right away within a few hits if you don't have upgrades. Most of this game you spend it climbing around stealth killing people and getting keys for doors. The story takes place after Assassins Creed Embers and old Ezio does have a small training cameo. The story is about Shoe Jun returning to China after the events of AC Embers in 1596 to take back her country from the templars and retrieve the precursor box that was scene in AC Rogue, aside from this it’s a very boring story.
India: The gameplay is mostly the same, but it improves in some areas with movement and different equipment. I had a few glitches happen with spawning in this game and almost got stuck but the game fixed itself. The story of this game is similar to China and honestly just as forgettable. Arbaaz Mir is the main character of this one who I guess is Henry Greens dad from syndicate or something. Again he's trying to stop an evil templar and get the precursor box back in the year 1841, There are some cool moments in this game where you snipe from a sniper rifle in first person. This game and Russia also felt shorter and definitely had fewer sequences than China, which is probably a good thing.
Russia: The gameplay of this one is probably the most unique having new ways of movement, a sniper rifle grapple gun and an overall much higher level of difficulty here. This game is my favorite of the 3 but also my least favorite at the same time. The way the challenge rewards work in this game is different and was much harder to get so I basically went through this entire game with almost no upgrades which made it even harder to play. One thing I can say about all 3 of these games that sucks is the “run away from something mechanic” that has one part to it that's almost impossible to get past if you are off with timing and die then the game saves in that spot and makes continuing crazy difficult. In China it’s the runaway from fire segments. In India it’s a runaway from oversized elephants’ part which glitched on me and I respawned behind the elephants and got stuck and in Russia it was the runaway from tank segment which was just crazy hard to keep up with and I had to google it to see how someone else did it in order to continue at one part. These segments are crazy frustrating and damn near made me quit on all 3 of these games. Russia at least had the most interesting story to it. So much so, I kinda wished this was a real AC game. Russia takes place in 1918, in this one you play as Nikolaï Orelov who infiltrates the house where the tsar's family is being held by the Bolsheviks and steals the precursor box. He ends up helping Anastasia escape who is like possessed by Shoe Jun (somehow from the precursor box.) This allows for Anastasia segments where you can play as her too. Like I said cool story but broken gameplay that I pretty much had to keep googling every other level to complete the game.
Graphics, Voice Acting and Music for all 3 games: The graphics and Art style of all 3 of these games is fantastic and probably the highlight of these games. China looking very pastel colored, India looking super colorful and bright and Russia looking very black, white and Red to fit in with Russian propaganda posters (very cool stuff). The voice acting is average, not bad but not great either and the music is dull minimal background noise just made to fit the scenes nothing great and nothing terrible either. Also no out of animus modern day story is present here.
Overall China 6/10 India 6/10 Russia 5.5/10