And without grumpy Altair, we may never have got Ezio. It was enough, though, that people wanted more. It was our first introduction to Desmond, Abstergo, the Animus and the creepy First Civilisation.īut the gameplay itself was basic, its missions repetitive and it felt like a proof of concept for what was to come. The game that started it all was impressive for its time, with large open levels and the first hints at the Assassin's Creed universe's truly weird wider lore. Have we ever gone back to it since finishing the campaign? Ar, no. :: The 20 best PS4 games you can play right nowĬo-operative multiplayer was a nice idea on paper but completely ruined the idea of stealth, the game's user interface was far too obtrusive, and its map was filled with chests you needed both a malfunctioning online service and separate mobile companion app to access. Everyone remembers the game's poor technical performance at launch, controversy around its lack of female characters and GIFs of broken faces, but Unity was a bit of a mess for a whole load of other reasons, too.

Its version of French Revolution Paris was beautiful, but it was plagued with more problems than the victims of its catacombs. Assassin's Creed Unity (2014 - PC, PS4, Xbox One) It's the best spin-off from the series by quite some margin, although it loses points for its awful fake Ezio voice actor.

Ubisoft liked the tech behind it and asked Climax to retool the concept for Assassin's Creed instead.Ĭhronicles, set across Ancient China, British Empire-era India and Revolutionary Russia, was an admirable effort to map Assassin's Creed into a side-scrolling stealth game. Perhaps the most interesting thing about it is its origin as a failed Prince of Persia pitch. We're including this episodic side-scroller for completionists' sake, although it was made by UK studio Climax rather than Ubisoft itself. Assassin's Creed Chronicles (2015 - PC, PS4, Vita, Xbox One) Oh, and we're throwing in Chronicles as that was a console launch.) Well, except for Liberation as that also released on console. (Well, we're not counting the mobile spin-offs, or we'd be here all day, or anything released for handheld consoles. It's a lot less messy than doing the stabbing in the neck thing ourselves.īelow, find our absolutely official definitive ranking for all of the Assassin's Creed games released to date.

So, for the release of Origins, we thought we'd celebrate by delving into the history of the series. Assassin's Creed is a series all about history - well, that and stabbing people in the neck.

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