User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 12-05-'15 — Assassin's Creed: Syndicate has been revealed!/@comment-5019018-20150523154913/@comment-5019018-20150523192621

Assassin's Creed wasn't envisioned as a stealth series though, so crouching was never necessary. The entire point was using the crowd to mask your presence, and planning your approach and escape before doing anything. It's actually a pity to see how this has disappeared almost completely.

If I want to crouch around stealthily and take out my enemies, I'll play Batman (heh, I do that anyway), but as it stands, that's not what I play Assassin's Creed for.