Before the Assassin’s Creed franchise reinvented itself as an RPG in 2017’s Origins and turned the clock back to Ptolemaic Egypt, it seemed each entry was barreling toward the modern day at high speed. As a franchise defined by its distant historical settings, the idea of a more industrialized Assassin’s Creed seemed antithetical to the point. This came to a head in 2015’s Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, which literally revolutionized the series by taking place in industrialized 19th-century London. But eight years later, the most modern Assassins’ Creed holds up thanks to the incredible design of London and the new tools with which to traverse it.
