Assassin's Creed: Syndicate Historical Characters Trailer

It's not uncommon these days for video games to feature cameos from the famous. With a game like Assassin's Creed: Syndicate though, a problem is posed. How do you get some recognisable names and faces into a game set in Victorian era London? Ubisoft's solution is to put protagonists Evie and Jacob in amongst some of the glitterati of the time including Karl Marx, Charles Darwin and Queen Victoria herself.

In this latest trailer for the game, Historian Judith Flanders talks through some of the iconic historical figures featured in the game. We see where they fit into the game but also get a brief synopsis as to why they went down in history in the first place. Judith was an advisor to the team creating the game and this trailer serves as a reminder of the level of historical accuracy that Ubisoft are now striving for in the Assassin's Creed series.