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

The zipline isn't the only way that Syndicate transformed the experience of getting around the city. The streets of London are also bustling with traffic in a way not before seen in this series. You might have occasionally got Brotherhood's Ezio on the back of a horse in Renaissance Rome, but in Syndicate there's a whole array of cabs, coaches and carts making the city feel busy, fast-paced and alive.

None of the other games in the series have anything like the level of transport options that there are here. There are steamboats chugging up and down the Thames and steam trains making their way round the city's different railway lines. You can hitch a ride on a horse-drawn omnibus (plastered with period-appropriate advertising) or peform a GTA-style hijacking to seize control of a passing hansom cab.

There was some criticism at the time of release over the fact that the driving controls were over-sensitive, leaving a coach race frequently involving careering out of control as you smash up gas lamps and red post boxes. But, honestly, should you expect a horse-drawn fire engine with a tank of water sloshing around the back to handle like a McLaren Senna in Forza Horizon 4?

All the different kinds of Victorian transport conspire to give Syndicate a distinct feel from the rest of the franchise. There's simply nothing in any other Assassin's Creed game anything like the joy of kicking a man off the roof of a speeding steam train.