10 Divisive Video Games That Are Secretly The Best Entry

4. Assassin's Creed Syndicate

Need to make a slight distinction with this one, because having now been going for almost two decades, it feels like we need to talk about Assassin's Creed pre and post-AC Origins.

Now, depending on where you come down on the two newer titles vs. their more identifiable originals will determine whether Syndicate tops those too, but in terms of perfecting what Assassin's Creed used to be, that's where Syndicate soars.

After AC Unity, 2015's Assassin's Creed was the one where everyone threw up the middle fingers and walked away, but the problem with that, is Syndicate's story, array of abilities, graphics, gameplay variety and level of polish, makes it the best-playing AC of them all.

Headed up by twin protagonists Jacob and Evie Frye (an idea later popularised by AC Odyssey), the former is more of a bruiser leading gangs into battle, where the latter gets to play around with cloaking devices and pure stealth.

The pair get access to a grapple gun that was the last necessary evolution of traditional Assassin's Creed traversal, and the whole game world is rammed full of criminals to hunt, warehouses to clean out, and sights to see.