Is Assassin's Creed Syndicate as bad as people say?

or is it worth a playthrough?

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its a slog

Ur mum's a slog innit bruv

The game is good, not great. Midway through you get a Batman zipline launcher thing that let's you move around more quickly, which is new. The side content, clearing out child labour factories and robbing board and trains is fun. The story, I don't even remember. Alexander Graham Bell shows up and our main female character falls in love with a Pajeet. Rain she was cute though

One of the best. Came after Unity, that's the problem.
It's a really good game.

The game is average in terms of the series. The Templars are laughably evil (Starrick literally just wants the Shroud because he wants to be supreme ruler of LONDON and to be immortal wearing it), their gangs are insane and fleece people on top of ruining their lives horribly, and they act like mustache twirling villains (Especially the one after Evie all the time). They also act like beating kids and generally docking their wages is a good, sound plan. Evie and Jacob are alright, Evie is the standout with Jacob being an absolute idiot and ruining everything while Evie has to fix all his messes (He basically kills first and asks questions later). Greenie is barely there but when he is he's alright, Darwin is an alright guy, and so is Alexander Graham Bell. They also introduce George who is never seen again after his first introduction even after they've basically cleaned out LONDON.
Gameplay-wise there's less options to help you out compared to Unity (No Cherry Bombs is a quick example), carriage racing is a lot of fun, the Ropecaster is needed to traverse quickly but at the same time it makes a lot of stealth missions trivial because you can literally zip away from most encounters once you kill someone, and the actual fighting looks horrible and plays just as horrible because even if you can one-shot your enemies you still have to hit them again to actually kill them. Oh, and the Rooks trivialize virtually every encounter even in endgame while not counting as you being seen so you have to basically never use the feature if you want any challenge (They can clear out Child Liberation missions without a bell ever being rung on their own despite running directly at the enemies).

The Jack the Ripper DLC is how the game should have been really, Fear Bombs and stakes are great, the dreary atmosphere is great, there were actual hookers, and seeing Jack go completely mental and play through those bits is awesome even if Evie looks like a crack whore now.

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The main guy is bisexual and one of the villains is gay for him. Take it as you will.

Stop after black flag, if you actually care about the assassins story. If you just like gameplay, go for it

>if you actually care about the assassins story.
If you care about that then Rogue and the Chronicles games should be played. The former deals with so much Assassin/Templar stuff it's the entire foundation of the game while the latter are more about Ezio's Precursor Box and various Assassin things like Shao Jun getting revenge, Arbaaz hunting the Koh-i-noor and seeing a bunch of Isu temples, and Nikolai helping out a girl posessed by Shao Jun while trying to get to America. You're right about the rest though, Unity's a personal vendetta where both sides are being used by Arno and Elise, Syndicate is the filler episode outside of MD stuff, Origins is a backstory for the Brotherhood but the Templars and Brotherhood don't even really exist, and Odyssey takes place even before Origins as far as I understand. You basically have to care about MD for those to be worth it.

It's mediocre. It's not bad in any way. It's just mediocre.

I got it free with the Xbox subscription. I dropped it probably after 2 hours.