Syndicate wasn't bad. Better than Unity. Assassin's Creed meets GTA.
This could've been a new IP.
Syndicate was terrible, the missions were dogshit, you rarely needed to parkour and the wide roads meant you were using your web shooters to get across the map. The weapons were terrible and if you got a copy with the pre-order weapons and armour, you ended up with weapons better than the end game ones super early on. the upgrades were rarely needed, they still havent figured out that its extremely easy to just shoot most targets in the head and run in side missions.
Unity had its problems but at least you still did parkour and most buildings had interiors and you could run through to dodge guards like Aladdin. Plus the multiplayer missions were fun as shit. (Im biased though, i was one of the top players in all the AC multiplayer games)
The only fun part of syndicate was going after level 8-10 missions at level 3.
Honestly though they really should have just made this shit its own IP. Like imagine rocksteady getting an IP about the non-assassins that had first civ DNA. They could do winks and nods to the order history but also could have the game not be called AC and have stories set around that conflict, plus you wouldnt have to ensure a happy ending like in cred games because of the bloodline nonsense. so far neither Origins or Odyssey was very Creed like.
Also Ubisoft is close to going bankrupt financially instead of just in ideas. The last Division and Ghost Recon apparently sold so poorly that they decided not to release games this year. They also got 4 different IPs stuck in development hell. (A game about pirates, a game about mythology, Watch Dogs 3, and some other one)
And i don't have high hopes for this either. It just screams "odyssey:winter edition"
Does anyone really think its going to not have the same level cap/sea travel/spare cities/mythology bosses/constant upgrades and useless weapons of that game?
The only other thing i hear they're adding is a clan system like a revamped one from Revelations but outside of that its basically just going to be like the last dozen games they showed off. Where its basically a just barely re-skin of its predecessors a la The Division, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, For Honor, etc.
And again considering how they extremely last minute changed Odyssey so that its canon for the woman instead of the man despite somehow the motion capture for Cassandra is 100x worse because they didnt want the SJWs to slag them off like they did with Unity. You know for a fucking fact that there will be blacks, women, and especially trans Vikings in this.
