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Assassin’s Creed Empire: Ubisoft set to end the cycle on PS4, Xbox One and PC

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UBISOFT are set to end their recent cycle with the launch of Assassin’s Creed: Empire on Xbox One, PS4 and PC.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Assassin's Creed: Empire is going to end the current Ubisoft cycle</td></tr>
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Sources claim that the Assassin’s Creed series is set for a reboot which will take the franchise in a different direction.</div>
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The cycle of yearly Creed releases is set to be broken this year, with Empire skipping 2016 for launch in 2017.</div>
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It will be the first time since 2009 that Ubisoft will miss a core entry in <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/assassins-creed-syndicate-jack-ripper.html" target="_blank">Assassin's Creed</a>, although spinoff title Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India is still set for launch on January 12, 2016 and will be followed by ACC: Russia in February.</div>
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The negative impact created by the release of Unity in 2014 is said to be behind the idea and will give developers more time to polish the final product.</div>
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Empire will reportedly be set in Egypt and could feature the same character over a trilogy of titles, the others covering Rome and Greece.</div>
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Filling the hole left by a major Creed title could be Watch Dogs 2, which is rumoured to be set in San Francisco.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Assassin's Creed: Russia is released in February</td></tr>
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Other sources have cited that the game would take on a more Wither feel and include a character who will be an escaped slave, equipped with a pet Eagle.</div>
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When reached for comment, Ubisoft told <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/there-wont-be-a-big-new-assassins-creed-game-this-/1100-6433500/" target="_blank">Gamespot</a>: "We can't comment on rumor or speculation.</div>
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"We're always happy when players are excited about our games, past, present, and future. In the meantime, we hope that the latest images from the Assassin's Creed movie set will keep fans of the franchise happy and eager to find out more!"</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Assassin's Creed: Syndicate was a return to form for some fans</td></tr>
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Assassin’s Creed Empire: Ubisoft set to end the cycle on PS4, Xbox One and PC

UBISOFT are set to end their recent cycle with the launch of Assassin’s Creed: Empire on Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Assassin's Creed...

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate: Jack the Ripper DLC coming next week

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NEW Assassin’s Creed Syndicate DLC Jack the Ripper will be released on 15 December.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Assassin's Creed Syndicate will get new DLC next week</td></tr>
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The downloadable add-on will be available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, and is set 20 years after the main game.</div>
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Players will take on the role of Evie Frye as she bids to track down London’s most notorious serial killer.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new mission involves notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper</td></tr>
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The DLC can be bought as a one-time purchase or as part of Syndicate’s season pass, and includes the following:</div>
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- The Last Maharaja mission pack</div>
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- A Long Night mission</div>
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- Streets of London gameplay pack</div>
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- Two top-tier sets of gear and weapons</div>
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- Exclusive XP boost</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The DLC is set 20 years after the main game</td></tr>
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An official statement from Ubisoft read: “The streets of London are filled with fear and Evie Frye is on the trail of one of history’s most mysterious killers. The new Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Jack the Ripper campaign puts you in the shoes of Evie once more as she returns to London after being absent for 20 years.</div>
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“Armed with some new skills, she must investigate a series of crimes that draw her deep into the dark underworld of Victorian London’s Whitechapel district.”</div>
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Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate on PS4 review - Is it time for Ubisoft to hang up the cloak?

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the press of a few buttons Jacob or Evie can jump on board an enemy’s stagecoach</td></tr>
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I’VE been a fan of the Assassin’s Creed series ever since seeing the first glimpse of it almost ten years ago.</div>
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The footage from the 2006 E3 gaming extravaganza stunned me – showing a mysterious white cloaked hooded figure stalking through a huge crowd and killing his enemy before disappearing.</div>
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And while the eventual game fell well short of that impressive trailer – being filled with linear or dull missions, I was still blown away by the scope and ambition of the game. </div>
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It was like nothing I’d ever seen before – so I could easily look past its flaws and get completely immersed in the whole experience.</div>
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Jump forward to the present day and with the release of the latest iteration in the series, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, it is difficult to give it the same good faith.</div>
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The latest chapter in the battle between the Assassins and Templars (the game’s respective forces of good and evil) is set in the Victorian era of London.</div>
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You take control of twins Jacob and Evie Frye who travel to the capital on a mission to deliver a deadly blow to the Templars’ operations.</div>
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They soon set their sights on Crawford Starwick – the Templar Grand Master who controls large swathes of London and like all good villains has his sights set on world domination.</div>
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The 19th century London is a beautifully realised city for players to explore - a faithful recreation of how the capital looked then which teems with life.</div>
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Streets are packed with people, shoppers, children selling newspapers, pickpockets and stagecoaches.</div>
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The latter is one of the best introductions to the series – not only for the horse races against Templar controlled gangs but also for the fights on top of carriages.</div>
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At the press of a few buttons Jacob or Evie can release the reins of a horse and then jump on board an enemy’s stagecoach and fight them on top of it while travelling through the streets of London.</div>
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It is an exhilarating feeling and is among the game’s highlights along with sections where you fight Templar forces on top of moving train carriages.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After the bug filled release of Assassin’s Creed: Unity last year Ubisoft have righted some wrongs</td></tr>
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The script of the game, which draws on one of the most lauded games in the series – Assassin’s Creed II, recaptures the series’ spirit of fun.</div>
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The central characters, Evie and Jacob, are charismatic and likeable figures whose sharp witted dialogue perfectly fits the backdrop of a cultured city like London.</div>
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Supporting characters draw on the city’s rich history, with players encountering world changing figures such as Charles Dickens, Alexander Graham Bell and Florence Nightingale among others.</div>
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However, where the game falters is in its most important aspect – how it plays.</div>
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There are plenty of missions and side quests for players, but many of them feel drab and repetitive – with objectives such as follow a certain person coming up over and over again. </div>
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Likewise, the ageing stealth mechanics severely let them game down.</div>
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Clunky sneaking controls and the way enemies react mean, much like with previous iterations of the game, it is extremely hard to carry out missions in a stealthy fashion.</div>
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Items such as smoke bombs and darts which make enemies hallucinate help to mask over such inadequacies.</div>
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But if you don’t want to resort to them efforts to be stealthy often just end up with you alerting the enemy and the situation escalating into a straight up fist fight.</div>
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The assassination missions, the centre piece of the game, are where such issues truly come to light.</div>
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Instead of a vast number of ways players can tackle such missions, as is the case with its peers, Syndicate only offers a few approaches.</div>
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One of which is a very linear way that the game clearly pinpoints, funnelling you down a certain path where you achieve very specific objectives to eventually get a very stylistic stealth kill.</div>
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While this approach undoubtedly looks very cinematic and helps to make players feel like the ultimate assassin, it does limit their choices on how to tackle such missions severely.</div>
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After the bug filled release of Assassin’s Creed: Unity last year Ubisoft have righted a number of major wrongs – with a game that on launch only has a handful of glitches.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 19th century London is a beautifully realised city for players to explore</td></tr>
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However, the yearly release pattern is becoming more and more compromising for the series – with many of the early games flaws still in place.</div>
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Despite the advances in technology, poor stealth mechanics, repetitive missions and a one note combat system are issues that have continued throughout the years.</div>
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For all the positives features of Syndicate, it is severely hampered and held back by long-term issues.</div>
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And during a period where gamers are inundated with numerous newly released triple A titles vying for their attention, the latest Assassin’s Creed game needed to do more to stand out.</div>
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But it hasn’t. The series needs to take a break from its yearly release schedule not only to fix issues that have plagued it since the beginning but to refresh and revitalise the franchise.</div>
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Only then will it move forward and recapture the potential it has to be a great game.</div>

Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate on PS4 review - Is it time for Ubisoft to hang up the cloak?

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