Assassin's Creed Syndicate

The 2015 game that sends the Frye twins into Victorian London.

Assassin's Creed Syndicate is a 2015 action-adventure game made by Ubisoft Quebec and released by Ubisoft, the ninth major installment of the series and the follow-up to Assassin's Creed Unity. It reached PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 23, 2015, and Windows on November 19, 2015.

Its main story is set in London in 1868, at the start of the Second Industrial Revolution.

Quick Facts

Developer

Ubisoft Quebec

Publisher

Ubisoft

Director

Marc-Alexis Côté
Scott Phillips
Wesley Pincombe

Producer

François Pelland

Designer

Frédéric St-Laurent B

Programmer

Pierre-Luc Coté

Artist

Thierry Dansereau

Writer

Corey May, Jeffrey Yohalem

Facts from the source article.

Background

Twin Assassins Jacob and Evie Frye work their way through the city's organised crime to take London back from Templar control, and the player switches between the two during and between missions. Extra segments set in 1916, during World War I, follow Jacob's granddaughter, Lydia Frye.

The open world is explored on foot or by carriage, and Syndicate adds new ways of travelling along with refined combat and stealth. Of its downloadable story expansions, the best known is Jack the Ripper, set twenty years after the main campaign.

Reviews praised its visuals, characters, narrative and level design, while its combat, open-world design and vehicles drew some criticism. It sold over 5.5 million units by November 2017, less than earlier entries, and Ubisoft ended the yearly release cycle of the series afterwards.