User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 12-05-'15 — Assassin's Creed: Syndicate has been revealed!/@comment-5019018-20150523154913/@comment-5174994-20150524023316

"Assassin's Creed wasn't envisioned as a stealth series"

Not exclusively, no, but it was definitely one of the primary focuses of the series. All the demos made that very clear when AC1 was being advertised. Stealth was always the way you approached a situation & combat was the last resort. However, you could argue that AC was never envisioned to be a traditional stealth series, as it was more about the social aspect (which you did note, so I find your above comment a little bit contradictory). But the series has evolved towards the traditional style & I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing.