And they keep rehashing the same ol´game the Ubisoft fellas. Picked it up for a very low price as i expected this game to be a rehash with a new setting.
I don´t know why i buy Ubisoft games. Honestly..Maybe i ran out of games and since i have no life anyway i just buy them to fill my time.
Again. I don´t have to say what already has been said about about previous games as it is, should we say, the same game all over again. It´s a step down from Black Flag which i enjoyed quite a bit for it´s good written story.
The story in Syndicate is just Meh.. Does not captivate me at all and i ended skipping the cutscenes all together after a while. The two protagonists in the game is mediocre as well. The one more annoying than the other.
So you just trot along the game like before with sluggish controls. They are just as fiddly as before. You want to climb that post but your character just does not want to respond. It´s cumbersome, and pisses you off at times. No improvements there, the controls sucks..
The fighting is the same as well, but pretty predictable. When you have learned to use the counter attack its all super easy from then on. Just wait around until the health bar flashes above your foes and press counter. The rest is super easy. No challenge whatsoever with fights in this game.
The weapons menu and upgrade could be simplified. To cluttered at first but then you get it slowly but surely. There is one tab for what you have, and one for crafting. Both aren´t needed really.
So after a rather dreadfuly abysmal and pretty short boss fight the show is over.. And in true Ubisoft style, the only thing left you can do is go around and take the rest of the side missions. And like before.. Conquer borough after borough with the same old tactics.. Kill someone, kidnap someone or liberate a factory for child labour or pick up all the Glitches or open all the chests rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat.. Bla bla. There is no point doing this after you done all the missions other than harvest some trophies..
Also, from my start to finish i think i had something between 10-13 blue screens of death on my PS4 and one freeze up (those were the powerchord is the only solution). The game is horrid optimised and dies on you from time to time.. ANNOYING, but no surprise there from Ubisoft.
Conclusion: This game just follows the same formula as before. Nothing new apart from a new city and a boring new story. Ezio´s story was way better. So was Black Flag´s. You have a main story and after that is finished it is finished. The rest are just filler rinse-and-repeat enactments.
Another Mediocre game from Ubisoft. Pick it up at the cheapo-bin.