User blog comment:TheFacelessAssassin/Assassin's Creed: Syndicate/@comment-4950493-20150511065633

I have a feeling that Syndicate will be a similar game to Black Flag. Everyone's reaction to Unity was essentially the same to AC3, criticising all the bugs and technical issues, and how convulated the whole game was. But when Black Flag came out it was widely praised as it expanded upon the gameplay systems in AC3 and fixed all of its technical problems, as the game was essentially bug-free (except for some crazy Jackdaw glitches). So if Syndicate is operating on the same game engine and gameplay systems as Unity, it should be right up there with AC2 and Black Flag as the most successful in the franchise.

Unless Ubisoft somehow messes up again and hopefully realises that if they want the series to keep going, they need to extend development cycles to ensure each game is fully functional before shipping. Regardless, even if the game is buggy or not I'll still be getting it because I think the lead writer is Jeffrey Yohalem (I could be wrong, don't quote me on that) so the story will still be top notch.