The Difference In Assassin’s Creed Unity and Assassin’s Creed Syndicate

When Assassin’s Creed Unity first came out I thought “awesome another Assassins game for me to play” as I had already played all of the others and enjoyed them. This is because I like the way you can just sneak up to a templar and stab them in the back without them knowing.

They found another character to bring into the Assassin’s world; as you start the game you see a young boy, Arno Dorian who was waiting for his father to return. He was told by his father to sit where he told him till he returned and his father handed him a pocket watch. While waiting Arno could hear giggling and saw a girl who started to run, making Arno curious and so he followed her. You finally catch up with her and she asks you to steal an apple which you take off a table in the garden, and a guard sees you so you run. Later, you find her and there are people and guards running about where Arno runs and finds his father who had been killed.

Skipping ahead you are running around Paris. Now, when I was running around Paris finding all of the different chests and other things I thought it was a huge place, but then Ubisoft announced Assassin’s Creed Syndicate in London. I heard they were making it so you can play as twins - a man called Jacob Frye and his sister Evie Frye.

Evie was born four minutes before her brother Jacob. Due to their mother Cecily's death after childbirth, they were brought up by their grandmother in Crawley until the age of six, after which they were trained in the ways of the Assassins by their father, Ethan Frye. Evie followed in her father's footsteps and trained to become an assassin, where Jacob on the other hand prefered to explore factories and gambling dens in Crawley.

As I have played all of the Assassin’s Creed games, this raised a few curious questions to what it would be like to play as not only a male assassin but a female assassin in the same game. Well when it came out I started playing and it was very interesting to learn a new story about Jacob who is a British assassin born and raised in London with his sister Evie. At first I thought it was nothing too exciting because of how much I enjoyed playing with Arno in Unity. After a time though, I started taking a liking to Jacob and Evie.

After playing Syndicate for a bit it came to light to how the games were different in how the people acted and how they played. Arno, to me seemed like a newbie trying to fight his way through Paris and climb rooftops and one slight slip and he would fall, but with Jacob and Evie it gave not only one person to see the difference but two. I liked using a cane with Jacob as the way he moved it was like he knew where the enemy was moving, and you also get to use a grapple to get to the rooftops from the ground instead of climbing, which you couldn't in Unity. I did enjoy Syndicate more than Unity, though, as it is based in London and it lets me see what London was like back in the old days and understand the buildings a lot more from what my late father used to talk about.