Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - 10 Ways It Already Made The Series Great Again

10. A Large, Open, Historically-Accurate Map

Assassin's Creed: Syndicate has proven that Ubisoft's map-making skills are better than ever. This recreation of Victorian London is absolutely incredible. It's large, it's explorable, and it's accurate.

The City of London, Whitechapel, Southwark, Lambeth, The Strand, Westminster, and the River Thames are all available for the player to explore, and are all done justice. The respective landmarks all throughout the map have been lovingly crafted as well; from Big Ben to St. Paul's Cathedral to Buckingham Palace and everything in between.

The score of the game beautifully captures the mood you'd expect from a game in this setting, too, the many NPCs and their mannerisms being as accurate as you can get.

Not to mention the fact that the map constantly feels alive and breathing due to certain aspects of the world, such as the train stations. As you look around the people, you get the feeling that they really are going about their daily lives. No detail is spared, no AI is wasted, and the somber feel of the Industrial Revolution is captured perfectly, not only in the story, but in the open world itself.

It is a masterfully constructed map.