Assassin's Creed Syndicate: The Dreadful Crimes
1868: a series of unexplainable events strike London. Inspired by the famous penny-dreadful stories, this pack includes over nine individual missions that culminate in the final mission, which takes place in…
Assassin's Creed Syndicate: The Dreadful Crimes is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Québec, released 11 April 2016 on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Assassin's Creed Syndicate: The Dreadful Crimes is
Assassin's Creed Syndicate: The Dreadful Crimes is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Québec and released in 2016. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Frye twins are approached by Henry Raymond, a penny dreadful writer, as well as his follower, a young Arthur Conan Doyle. They team up to investigate a series of murders across London, visiting crime scenes, gathering evidence, interviewing witnesses and suspects, and ultimately solving the crimes by accusing the true perpetrators. The twins are eventually summoned to Buckingham Palace by Queen Victoria, in order to solve the murder of one of her guards. It turns out that it is in fact Raymond who has posed as a guard and faked his own death, so he may steal the Queen's Sceptre of the Dove by observing up close the combination to the safe that holds it. He has also left a series of…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Assassin's Creed series
Assassin's Creed Syndicate: The Dreadful Crimes is the 107th of 205 entries we hold in the Assassin's Creed series. The next entry was Assassin's Creed Triple Pack: Black Flag, Unity, Syndicate in 2016.
What it launched against
Assassin's Creed Syndicate: The Dreadful Crimes launched on 11 April 2016, within three weeks of Dark Souls III, Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition, Ratchet & Clank and Don't Starve Together. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Dark Souls III, Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together.
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