In my youth I wasn't too much into third person games like Assassin's Creed but more into strategical games like Command and Conquer, Star Craft, Warcraft or Age of Empires.
So while hearing about Assassin's Creed, I never had the motivation to try it out myself. This changed, when I saw the "Assassin's Creed" movie in 2016; a lot of people - especially players of the series - hated it, for its lack of certain elements. But I was so intrigued by the premises of the world, and the idea to relive history, that I was then and there considering to try out the game. So after watching the movie, I looked up the current game of Assassin's Creed and it was Syndicate. I looked up it if was a good starting point to the series and what it was about, and was even more intrigued as it played in Victorian London - and I both, love London (one of my most favorite European cities), as well as the Victorian era.
I got a cheap PC version of the "Rooks Edition" and started playing the game, but soon run into a couple of obstacles:
1. For someone who hasn't played this kind of games in a long while, this game was really hard to get into. I especially remember a tailing and chasing mission, where you are on the rooftops jumping from point to point, executing any shooters on the way, while having to stay in reach with your target, that got me frustrated for a long time.
2. While marketed for PCs (and therefore should be able to being played with mouse and keyboard), I had to do incredible finger acrobatics on the keyboard. This let me to actually buy a XBox controller, which made the rest of the game a much smoother and more enjoyable experience
3. While the immediate story was generally fun to play and follow, I especially had a problem to understand the overall story. Who exactly are those Templars, what are they trying to achieve; and what the hell where all those "modern-day" scenes in-between? There was this weird drone - and these two people, and someone attacking them, but why? What's this all about?
This is, when I decided mid-game (and in parts because I felt it was getting more and more repetitive), to stop this game and shelf it. I was so much intrigued in all of this that I wanted to understand the entire world and mechanics of the game, and only return to it, once I catched up with the lore. I was considering reading everything on Wikipedia or watching the entire story on YouTube, but in the end I didn't, and instead went the hard way: Catching up with the games, starting with the original Assassin's Creed.
So while hearing about Assassin's Creed, I never had the motivation to try it out myself. This changed, when I saw the "Assassin's Creed" movie in 2016; a lot of people - especially players of the series - hated it, for its lack of certain elements. But I was so intrigued by the premises of the world, and the idea to relive history, that I was then and there considering to try out the game. So after watching the movie, I looked up the current game of Assassin's Creed and it was Syndicate. I looked up it if was a good starting point to the series and what it was about, and was even more intrigued as it played in Victorian London - and I both, love London (one of my most favorite European cities), as well as the Victorian era.
I got a cheap PC version of the "Rooks Edition" and started playing the game, but soon run into a couple of obstacles:
1. For someone who hasn't played this kind of games in a long while, this game was really hard to get into. I especially remember a tailing and chasing mission, where you are on the rooftops jumping from point to point, executing any shooters on the way, while having to stay in reach with your target, that got me frustrated for a long time.
2. While marketed for PCs (and therefore should be able to being played with mouse and keyboard), I had to do incredible finger acrobatics on the keyboard. This let me to actually buy a XBox controller, which made the rest of the game a much smoother and more enjoyable experience
3. While the immediate story was generally fun to play and follow, I especially had a problem to understand the overall story. Who exactly are those Templars, what are they trying to achieve; and what the hell where all those "modern-day" scenes in-between? There was this weird drone - and these two people, and someone attacking them, but why? What's this all about?
This is, when I decided mid-game (and in parts because I felt it was getting more and more repetitive), to stop this game and shelf it. I was so much intrigued in all of this that I wanted to understand the entire world and mechanics of the game, and only return to it, once I catched up with the lore. I was considering reading everything on Wikipedia or watching the entire story on YouTube, but in the end I didn't, and instead went the hard way: Catching up with the games, starting with the original Assassin's Creed.