It looks like an imaginary place, drawn from fiction rather than history, and the entire future-story framing device helps to support the idea that this is a game within a game. In fact, there's an argument to be made that increased visual fidelity makes unconvincing behaviour even more jarring if the city looks so real then unresponsive animatronic NPCs stand out like a sore thumb on an otherwise perfectly manicured hand. That lack of sensible or appropriate response from civilians is a threat to the credibility of the entire world and no matter how impressive that world looks, it's the sort of thing that can shatter the illusion. Unless they're guards, that is, in which case they start to chase and to hunt when you slip out of view. Nobody seems at all startled by the appearance of one of the twin playable assassins suddenly leaping into view, or dropping from a rafter and landing right in their line of sight. It's silly and colourful - packed with smokestacks, stovepipe hats and screaming steam trains – and feels like the right setting for the silliness of the game itself.ĭuring the tutorial missions, I was a little taken aback by the lack of response from bystanders as I hopped, skipped, jumped and clambered through the factories they were working in. The city and the people in it feel like a sort of West World Victorian England, a theme park take on the period rather than an attempt to capture anything real.
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I've found the extremely stylised steampunky London hilarious in some of the pre-release footage and marketing, and not always in a good way, but in-game it's delightful. That's a change of both pace and execution given my experiences with all of the Assassin's Creed 2s and the brief time I spent with Unity.Īnd it looks great. So far, and it is very early days, there are not only plenty of things that I want to do, but I'm actually having fun while doing those things. There's less clutter, and both the sneaking and the combat are much improved. While it's not quite as much of a breath of fresh sea breeze as Black Flag, this is far and away the most I've enjoyed any other Assassin's Creed game. That the slang translations are my favourite thing is not intended as a slur on the rest of the game though, I'm just odd like that. “Don't lose your bottle (nerve), boys (fully grown adult men)”. I think Ubisoft should have taken this further. “Don't lose your bottle (nerve), boys” is printed across the screen.
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The subtitles provide an assist for anyone who might justifiably be confused about these thugs and their attachment to blown glass. “Don't lose your bottle, boys”, a guard yells. My favourite thing about the game so far is the way that the subtitles occasionally provide a translation for a bit of British slang. Details and early thoughts about my trip to the Big Smoke are below. In short, it runs beautifully and looks a treat.
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Review code for the PC version of Assassin's Creed Syndicate activated this evening and I've spent the hours since playing through the opening sections and fiddling with various settings to see how it all holds together.