User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 12-05-'15 — Assassin's Creed: Syndicate has been revealed!/@comment-13471981-20150710215042/@comment-13471981-20150711115337

It's certainly not something that happens on accident. I'm sure Ubisoft is doing this on purpose, but their reasons could be anyone's guess. They did say they would show off Evie more at Gamescom, so we'll see.

Yeah, Unity really under-emphasized the history aspect, which is a shame. I hope there'll be at least slightly more history in Syndicate - Black Flag, Rogue and Liberation all managed to balance it pretty well, so I would hope they can repeat those successes.