Grave Gamer News & Views — ubisoft

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Launches October 23rd

UPDATED: Official Debut Trailer and Pre-Alpha Gameplay videos added. Okay, it’s looking rather sick. Redemption for the shit-show that was Unity? Time’ll tell, guv.

Victorian London truly is the next setting for the now long-running Ubisoft blockbuster.

You’ll control the siblings Frye, a brother-sister duo bonded by blood and bloodshed. Navigating the largest open-world in an AC game yet – but, really, they say that every year – players can switch freely between Jacob and Evie to wipe the streets of London clean of Templar influence.

The twins won’t be alone, though, since they’ll make historical bros out of real life figures like writer Charlie Dickens and famed biologist Chuck Darwin (he’d let me call him Chuck if he were alive, trust me).

Syndicate releases worldwide on PS4 and Xbox this October, a PC port follows behind later in the Fall. Voice your opinions, friends. Excited? Dreadfully bored with the series?

Honey Badgers: the velociraptors of Kyrat.

Far Cry 4 Concept Art

Before the programmers ever began coding killer badgers and stampeding elephants, Far Cry 4 began as painstakingly gorgeous renders. If the medium supposedly has no artistic weight compared to other media, why is it developers put so much damn artistry into it?

Anywho, Far Cry 4 won Shooter of the Year at the first annual Game Awards for a very good reason. Killer honey badgers only had a little to do with that.

Everybody Wants to Rule the World in Assassin’s Creed Unity

Four player co-op. Improved mobility. Reworked engine. Eagles.

Creed’s first full next-gen affair seems to have it all. Even a magnificently atmospheric Tears for Fears cover overlaid this stunning (though pre-rendered) trailer.

The masses are quick to lambaste a franchise that rushes out to the Holiday season every year, but I cut Assassin’s Creed some slack because Ubisoft has always experimented with its formula in each major release. The results aren’t always terrific (remember willfully skipping that tower defense mini-game in Revelations?), yet their tenacity has lent to growing and shaping AC into a tightly wound ball of playability and clever ideas.

They had my rapt attention when fellow online players joined lead Arno in hunting down their unknowing prey in yesterday’s gameplay reveal. If you know me, you know competitive multiplayer isn’t always my bag – I’m especially averse to it in third-person games – so a co-op offering is a cup o’ tea I cannot pass up.

Be a buddy and help your friends incite a revolution when Assassin’s Creed Unity releases October 28th, 2014.

Watch_Dogs Goes to Hell: “Madness” Gameplay

You drive a derby conditioned muscle car in the annals of Chicago’s hellish counterpart. Your mission is to drive over the damned denizens flooding the streets. They’re not hard to miss – their fucking skulls are on fire.

I don’t know how this mini-game, one of four Digital Trips, ended up in the final game. But, like the neon-soaked lunacy that was Far...