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Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Special Edition

Assassins Creed Syndicate is set in London, 1868. The Industrial Revolution unleashes an incredible age of invention, transforming the lives of millions with technologies once thought impossible. Opportunities…

23 October 2015

Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Special Edition is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Québec, released 23 October 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Special Edition is

Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Special Edition is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Québec and released in 2015. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Assassins Creed Syndicate is set in London, 1868. The Industrial Revolution unleashes an incredible age of invention, transforming the lives of millions with technologies once thought impossible. Opportunities created during this period have people rushing to London to engage in this new world, a world no longer controlled by kings, emperors, politicians, or religion, but by a new common denominator: money. Not everyone is able to enjoy the benefits of this boom, however. Despite fueling the engine of the British Empire, workers lives are little more than legalized slavery while the top few percent profit from their labor. Living poor and dying young, the lower class unite in protest as a…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Assassin's Creed series

Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Special Edition is the 97th of 205 entries we hold in the Assassin's Creed series. The next entry was Assassin's Creed Syndicate: A Long Night in 2015.

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What it launched against

Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Special Edition launched on 23 October 2015, within three weeks of Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone and Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition.

Official trailer

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When did Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Special Edition come out?
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Special Edition was released on 23 October 2015 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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