Board Thread:Syndicate general discussion/@comment-3199723-20151009145809

I would like your thoughts about the Modern Day Setting for Syndicate. My speculation is that it would be based in Crawley, UK. I believe that this place will be used as an analogue parallel to Monteggrioni in AC Brotherhood. I came about this idea because I was listening to Loomer's Assassin's Den podcast and it was mentioned by Gabe or Jeffrey Yohalem that robust modern day was in the works and cited AC Brotherhood's MD segment. The important part that struck to me was this sentence, "We were able to Brotherhood's MD like that because we were able to reuse the Monteggrioni town assets." And mention to ensure a robust Modern Day that they would have to use reuse town assets.

Now, I have been reading from several interviews with developers that this game was started back from AC Brotherhood. I have been reading that this game feels like Brotherhood. Marc-Alexis Cote mentioned that he couldn't talk about the modern day but mentioned that his team had a surprise for the player Click Here. And I started thinking when I heard that quote - if there was going to be a surprise for players what better surprise than the ability to parkour again in Modern Day setting. It has been mentioned that the Frye Twins comes from Crawley where British Assassins are based. The developers can reuse Crawley like previous developers did for Monteggrioni to have a home based for the Modern Day assassins.

And the reason why the MD Assassins are going to Crawley and out of the Netherlands is because of the incident that occurred in Rogue. I speculate that when Ostoberg had "Numbskull" upload that propaganda about Shay that he was tracing the assassin's location. The team had to move to a new safe house since they could've been compromise. The last evidence was the database that was shown in the preview gameplay - there is a section that says locations - in there is a tab that read "PRESENT DAY". This could mean that the protagonist is able to move around in the Present Day and see locations for those Present Day. Click Here 