User blog comment:TheFacelessAssassin/Assassin's Creed: Syndicate/@comment-112.198.64.48-20150513110738

For me personally, AC Syndicate looks great but not as interesting as the rest of the series. Don't get me wrong, Victorian London is an awesome setting, but why a gang war? And the worst part is that it's not the most significant event of Victorian London itself.

Try looking at the games in a history buff's perspective. Every one of them have interesting periods as well as significat or violent settings that gives fits Assassin-Templar feud very well. AC 1 has the bloody third crusade, AC 2 (as well as Brotherhood and Revelations) has the bloody Renaissance battles and crisis (don't forget the bloody political feuds of the rising Ottoman Empire), there's also AC 3's bloody American Revolution, AC 4's bloody Golden Age of piracy, Rogue's well-remembered French-Indian War, and Unity's French Revolution.

Sorry for using the word "bloody" too many times, but that's what I'm looking in an AC setting. All the periods in previous games all takes place either in a war or a violent crisis. Victorian England wasn't that bloody nor is remembered for its violence (not counting the international wars off course which did not take place in Britain), and a Victorian gang war is kind of tame compared to what I've mentioned, as such the Assassin-Templar feud just doesn't fit well in it.

If Ubisoft was going to make a game in Victorian london, might as well put it in the late 19th century, with all the Ripper cases and political upheavels of its time. If 19th century is concerned there are other more significant and violent periods where the Assassin-Templar feud can fit in like the American Civil War, Boshin War, Boxer rebellion, Boer wars, or even in the Old West and Australia. Just my opinion, what about you guys?