5. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
Potentially the last Assassin's Creed we'll ever see, depending on how much The Division takes off and whether Watch_Dogs 2 can make a foothold on the mainstream. Syndicate saw the Black Flag team return to the fore for their crack of the whip, actually pulling off a solid experience yet again. If it had been any other year, or if Unity hadn't soured things so much, this would've been regarded as the best yet, but instead it existed merely to bandage over the open wound that was the series' reputation in 2015. Thankfully, the actual feel of gameplay was back to the front of the experience, with a world map positively stuffed full of things to do. Victorian London was finally given the AC treatment, and that meant everything from accurately-rendered Buckingham Palace gates to the fur on the guards' heads being perfectly modelled - an attention to detail that extended across all of The Big Smoke's smoggy streets and cobblestone pathways. The only problem with Syndicate was that it felt too much like it was designed by committee. More exemplary voice acting and crowbarred-in modern day cutaways were very much intended to address everything wrong with Unity, and for as much as that all came together objectively, it was ultimately a soulless, business-minded design choice that limits its appeal in the long run.