She’s smart and fierce and kind and whimsical and eager to learn and prove herself. Plus, Evie is easily the best character in the game. And women are just as powerful and prevalent in the street gangs as men. Syndicate also boasts a couple of excellent female villains. I finished my first play through just a couple of days ago and spent 85 percent of my time as Evie. Good news: You can actually play the majority of Syndicate as Evie! Each sequence has a couple of Jacob- and Evie-specific memories you have to play through - Jacob’s trying to disrupt Starrick, while Evie’s trying to track down the Shroud of Eden - but nearly all the open world stuff like bounty hunting Templars or ghost hunting with Charles Darwin or saving lives with Florence Nightingale or ending slave labor with Karl Marx can be done with either character. I skipped Syndicate when it came out last fall because I’d heard that you have to play the majority of the game as Jacob, but when my girlfriend brought it home a couple of weeks ago, I couldn’t help myself.
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So when Ubisoft announced that Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate was finally adding a playable female character to the main AC canon, I was overjoyed - and then I found out she’d be sharing the story with her twin brother.Īssassin’s Creed: Syndicate tells the story of Jacob and Evie Frye, twin Assassin’s working together in Victorian London to free the oppressed working class and to keep Crawford Starrick, a Templar and the main guy who exploits The People, from getting his hands on an arcane artifact that will make him unstoppable and possibly immortal. And I’m not going to inhabit the mind and body of some animated white dude who was created to advance the power fantasies of real world white dudes.
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It’s the same as my character alignment in non-video game RPGs: I’m Chaotic Good in my real life, and no matter how hard I try, I can’t play a character who’s Neutral or Evil. I’m not going to watch a barn full of people burn to death in the hopes one of them will drop a magical weapon.
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