Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia
Chronicles: Russia will feature the Russian assassin Nikolai Orelov in 1918, during the aftermath of the October Revolution. Orelov wants to leave with his family, but is required to perform one last mission…
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia is an adventure developed by Climax Studios, released 9 February 2016 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia is
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia is an adventure game developed by Climax Studios and released in 2016. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in early twentieth-century Russia in the turbulent aftermath of the 1917 October Revolution, the story follows Nikolai Orelov, a weary member of the Assassin Brotherhood. In 1918, Nikolai dreams of retiring and leaving the country with his family, but first agrees to carry out one final mission: to recover a powerful artifact known as the Precursor box, believed to be in the hands of the Romanov family. He travels to Yekaterinburg and infiltrates the house where the former Tsar Nicholas II and his family are being held, only to witness their execution at the hands of Templar agents hidden within the Red Army, who are also hunting the box. In the aftermath, Nikolai discovers that the…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 17 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Assassin's Creed series
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia is the 104th of 205 entries we hold in the Assassin's Creed series. The next entry was Assassin's Creed Identity in 2016. Its critic score of 56 is 19 points below the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Assassin's Creed III: Deluxe Edition at 96.
How it was received
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia holds a critic score of 56 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 61, across 65 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon II X2 240 @ 2.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM and nVidia GeForce GTS450 or AMD Radeon HD5770 (1024MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia launched on 9 February 2016, within three weeks of Stardew Valley, The Witness, Firewatch and SuperHot. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Stardew Valley, The Witness, Firewatch, SuperHot.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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