Assassin’s Creed® Chronicles: Russia Reviews

ubisoft balanced this game with their dicks and balls, how the fuck was this even approved

Much like Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India, this final chapter in the trilogy of Assassin's Creed Chronicles improves upon the preceding games, whilst also retaining minor complaints. These games were designed for the PlayStation Vita, and were then ported to PC, so understand that the keybindings are... questionable. While this can be remedied by going into the settings in the main menu, you cannot enter the settings from the pause menu in a level/memory sequence. Keep this context in mind for the remainder of the review. Just as Chronicles: India had introduced new mechanics to the game, while carrying over mechanics from the first, this game adds even more while carrying over the collective mechanics of the preceding games. This, in addition to the overarching narrative regarding a certain Piece of Eden, keeps the trilogy feeling interconnected, whilst also being fulfilling enough on their own to not require experiencing the other two games. If you do not care about which setting you choose, and you only want to play through one game from this trilogy, then Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia is the game that I most recommend! Not only is it the latest we've traveled in an Assassin's Creed game--excluding modern day, of course, and only by two years after the Lydia Frye sequence in Assassin's Creed Syndicate--but we get the parkour/combat and Helix mechanics of the first two games, with the addition of new assassination and stealth techniques thanks to the more modern tools of this game. In addition to the near-modern setting, the art direction is an excellent draw to this game; as well as the two preceding it. The set pieces are monotone, almost like WWI footage, with pathway markers being red, and areas baked in light--many of which either flicker, or can be shut off/destroyed--are filled with color. It is an aesthetically pleasing game, for an Assassin's Creed title set in WWI. Overall, I am very pleased with the game, despite its default keybindings.

Men do not fear death. They welcome it, and the rewards it brings.

In Soviet Russia, they assassinate you. The last game in Assassin Creed Chronicles is a bit of an odd one. You play as Nikolai_Orelov. He is one day until retirement to America with his family, but a friend of his give him one last job. On the job he meets a girl who has both the magical stone and the Soul of the Chinese woman assassin from the 1st Chronicles game. Both this characters play very different. Nikolai uses a rife that has a hook claw, that he can use to get around the game or send a small EMP to electrical devices. The girl on the other hand is pure stealth and can only assassinate people. If she is caught than she can’t fight out of it. One thing they added was a snipping section to this game like an online browsing mini games you see on mini clips or something. It works for the most part but it is glitchy. The coloring of the world is black and white with a hit of red in when outside, but color returns to the world when inside. This game give a pretty fair challenge for the most part. Only unfair thing to me is the final boss fight with the tank. That has to be done perfectly which is hard to gage when the tank speeds up when it wants. Now if you been collecting allll the secrets between all 3 games you do unlock a secret cut scene about the Templar’s getting a hold of the magic stone and activating project phoenix. Which was kinda the whole point of Assassin Creed Unity, but that game was broken and no one played it. So was playing these games and build up pointless. No I had my fair share of fun with them, although I would not go through it again. I wonder if I will meet an assassin one day with how much I talk about them. 6/10