Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Optional real-money 'Helix Credits' can be bought to purchase in-game currency, resources and progression boosters.
Cockney gang and street dialogue includes scattered profanity and coarse insults.
Realistic melee and firearm combat against human gang members and enemies, with hidden-blade and kukri assassinations that show blood spatter but no dismemberment or lingering gore.
Alcohol is consumed in pubs and taverns, and the plot centers on a mass-produced medicinal tonic laced with a mind-dulling compound sold to the public.
Story deals with child labor in factories, industrial-era poverty, exploitation and organized-crime violence.
The player builds and leads a street gang, carrying out targeted assassinations, brawls, theft and takeovers of enemy-held territory across the city.
Sex work is referenced as part of the Victorian London backdrop but is not a depicted or playable activity.
Occasional flirtation and mild romantic innuendo in dialogue between characters.
In-game purchases are entirely optional and can be ignored without affecting progress.
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What it is
Assassin's Creed Syndicate is a third-person action-adventure set in 1868 London during the Industrial Revolution, where you control twin siblings Jacob and Evie Frye as they build a street gang to wrest control of the city from a shadowy ruling faction. Gameplay mixes rooftop climbing, grappling-hook traversal, stealth, and brutal hand-to-hand and weapon combat against human enemies, with blood and cinematic assassinations but no gore or dismemberment. The world includes pub brawling and alcohol, a plot about a drugged public tonic, child labor and poverty, and organized-crime violence. It is a single-player experience with optional real-money purchases of in-game currency and boosters.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence and crime as a fight to liberate an exploited working class from corrupt industrialists and a controlling secret order, casting the twin assassins as rebels against injustice; targets are presented as villains and the darker social themes as historical backdrop rather than glorified.
Details
- Developer
- Ubisoft Quebec, in collaboration with Ubisoft Annecy, Bucharest, Kiev, Montreal, Montpellier, Shanghai, Singapore, Sofia, Toronto studios
- Publisher
- Ubisoft
- Released
- Nov 18, 2015
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