User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 12-05-'15 — Assassin's Creed: Syndicate has been revealed!/@comment-24.199.113.201-20150607132445/@comment-1888015-20150608005534

Adding onto Sima's comment, what would removing the modern day story contribute to the game series as a whole? It would add nothing, and subtract a far lot more.

There might be some potential quality tweaks here and there since they'll have an extra team for polish, but it'd be just like taking the player, shoving them into a time period and saying "Play it." No context, and no context = no reason why playing the historical parts matter. You'll see an Assassin go through their life as they did, and then once it ends, there'd be no reward in doing that.

The only downfall to the modern day storyline is that by making it a first-person perspective, not only does it clash with the third-person layout in the historical parts, having "you" as the modern day protagonist means there's no character development, and also shows that Ubisoft don't want to put the effort in. It's like instead of trying to immerse you in the story, they're trying to tell a story at you, so by putting you as the player into the story, it has had the opposite effect.