Assassin's Creed: 10 Reasons Why Syndicate Is The Most Underrated Ever

Away from the main story of freeing London from Templar tyranny, Syndicate offers the usual array of side quests. You can go fossil hunting with Darwin or ghost hunting with Dickens. The best of the bunch, though, and the one that pushes furthest beyond the standard fetch quests, escort missions and assassinations, comes from the Dreadful Crimes add-on.

In these missions you assist a pre-pubescent Arthur Conan Doyle in solving a series of murder mysteries straight out of the pages of a penny dreadful.

Once again this is an expansion and improvement on a gameplay mechanic that appeared in Unity. But while there the mysteries were relatively shallow and obvious (history buffs already know that Marat was murdered in a bathtub by Charlotte Corday and, to be honest, relegating one of the most famous historical assassinations to a side quest feels like a wasted opportunity in a game about historical assassins), here the concept comes into its own.

Using your eagle vision, you can turn crime scenes into a Sherlock-style mind palace; following bullet trajectories to work out that the shooter must have been on a passing cart and then tracing the tracks of beer spilling from the cart to its destination and the killer. Examining clues, interviewing suspects and figuring out the culprit is just a wholly different kind of puzzle to what Assassin's Creed players are used to. It's a refreshing change to catch a killer for once instead of being one!

The penny dreadful-inspired macabre murders are also fun little stories in themselves, just don't always assume it's the obvious suspect. In the case where people are being cooked and served in meat pies, you need to look beyond Fleet Street barber Feeney Sodd!