It's all change for the free running stabathon with Assassin's Creed Syndicate featuring the most modern setting to date in Victorian London, twin criminal Assassins and interactive carriages, trains and boats. In the new issue of Official Xbox Magazine, creative director Marc-Alexis Cote confirms that vehicles are key to evolving the series.
"Any carriage that the player can see, they can interact with. They can hop on top of boats and trains to manipulate them to their advantage," he says. "Vehicles are so intrinsic to the gameplay experience that they will profoundly change the way people play the game."
Cote explains that the vehicles affect all of the traditional Assassin's staples. Navigation has obviously changed but even combat has been updated to allow risky fisticuffs on moving transport. "In terms of fighting, you'll even be able to fight on top of those platforms," he says. "Enemies will hijack a vehicle in the street, give you chase, jump up on your cart, pull you up out of the driver's seat and fight you on top of the carriage." Taxi, anyone?
The new issue of Official Xbox Magazine is out on Friday the 5th of June. You can download it on release here or subscribe to future issues.
