Assassin's Creed In Review - Every Assassin's Creed Reviewed and Ranked
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- After playing the 12 mainline Assassin's Creed games over the past year, Barrett sits down to review and rank the Assassin's Creed franchise.
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Assassin's Creed 1, 2, Brotherhood, Revelations, 3, Black Flag, Rogue, Unity, and Syndicate Footage played by Spazbo4
Timecodes:
00:00:00 - Start
00:02:27 - Assassin’s Creed
00:06:22 - Assassin’s Creed II
00:11:26 - Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
00:17:21 - Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
00:24:34 - Assassin’s Creed III
00:32:43 - Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
00:42:23 - Assassin’s Creed: Rogue
00:51:04 - Assassin’s Creed: Unity
01:00:11 - Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate
01:09:39 - Assassin’s Creed: Origins
01:23:44 - Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
01:39:18 - Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla
01:51:51 - Valhalla Spoilers! Don’t Skip Ahead!
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Can we all just agree the Ezio Family’s theme from AC2 is masterful
So masterful it became the theme of the franchise
Yes, yes we can
Yes, and similarly all franchise has masterful music
Everyone liked that
Jesper Kyd's entire AC2 score is one of the best soundtracks of all time.
Who else wants Barrett to do this once a year with different game franchise’s?
Yea seriously, game releases are usually light around this time so to have these videos potentially make me dive into a game from a franchise once a year or so would be pretty cool. This made me get Odyssey and last year made me finally play Links awakening
Who else wants Barrett to do this once a month with different game franchises? I'm joking and I know videos like this are tons of work but I eat this stuff up, great work from Barrett
100% his deep dives like this are great
Far cry would be a good one
Please do Metal Gear. Barrett. Why? Because it’s (in a David Hayter Snake voice) METAL GEAR!
This video was 14 hours long but I used Helix credits to trim it down.
Hahaha, underrated comment
"Who is Desmond..." = Goosebumps every time.
I also wanna give a shout out to the Multiplayer in AC: Brotherhood. Me and my friends had a LOT of fun with that game
Barrett still the most under appreciated member of KF. You're killing it bro.
Think that’s Joey but I getcha.
I totally agree! Wish they'd give him their own show!
Honestly Arno has my favorite designed AC protagonist the cloak just looks so good
He did have the drip
I feel like Arno is over looked because of peoples perception of how “bad” unity is. He had a sort of Ezio swagger He’s definitely top three of my fav AC characters
Right
I think Arnos master outfit is leagues better than his original but he is pretty dope
This took a lot of dedication. That’s a lot of dang hours.
Playing like 600 hours of games for a single video feature is impressive dedication. Major kudos to Barrett.
Black Flag is one of my all time favorite videogames. The world is very open yet explorable, Edward's arc is wonderful, and this game gave the world one of the greatest gifts ever: renewed interest in sea shanties
Sea shanties were good if you just play the main memories the story is decent but not a good Assassins Creed game. The side content is repetitive after the first four hours. Same thing over and over again relying on the ship combat which in my opinion is too easy and pretty dull to be relied on as the main draw of a game. The places you explore are literally copy paste sand Islands making the at first seemingly interesting setting dull. You're doing the same thing over and over again a dull gameplay loop . The only Assassins Creed I have trouble getting through on a repeat playthrough. I do not see the hype for this game. One of the most overrated games of all time never mind an overrated Assassins Creed game. X
I’ve only played Black Flag and Odyssey and the ending scene in Black Flag is still one of the most emotional I’ve experienced to date. The nostalgia is a straight nut punch to the feels.
If you liked Odyssey, play Origins. I know reviews generally prefer Odyssey, but the gameplay, music, and story of Origins was flat out incredible. I consider it to be directly behind Black Flag in #2.
This is one of the best videos I've seen on RUclips. Such a great journey. I jumped from unity to Valhalla and now I want to go back and play the rest.
Wow Barrett! You did such an incredible job with this! Truly so much hard work paid off with such a compressive In Review for the series. Thank you so much!
Finished Valhalla after about 88 hours and man.... the ending was so underwhelming... the fact that there literally aren’t end credits also had me wondering aimlessly for a few hours wondering where it ends
The whole game was underwhelming for me. Suuuuper disappointing. Boring repetitive gameplay and dull lame story. 2 years off to come up with this is not a good glimpse into the future
@@iLLBiLLsRoastBeats bruh this is the best AC story in YEARS. it's long as hell, but the ending is fantastic if you're a longtime AC fans
@Frans Delt yeah, good overall. Felt like Civ 6 or something where the main focus is to gain alliances and very little emphasis on a narrative arc.
Origins did that too
@@parixitchaudhary5823 bRuH
AC: Brotherhood perfecting the AC gameplay is a perfectly bullseye accurate take 👌🏼
I’m so shocked as to why the “L2 to call an assassin to kill an enemy” mechanic was ditched immediately 😫
Definitely my favourite in the series
It was still used in Revelations & AC3. With Black Flag & Rogue it wouldn’t make sense narratively since Edward doesn’t become an Assassin until the end of the game & Shay became a Templar.
I have no excuse for why they didn’t do it for Unity or Syndicate.
@@Phanthief95 In Unity, you didn't become a Master Assassin until the end, so you have no real authority to be calling down Assassins. In Syndicate, Evie, Jacob, and Green were the only Assassins in London at the time. The Rooks were the only ones you could call into combat.
@@EnnuiPilgrim Connor wasn’t a Master Assassin in AC3’s story but he still summoned the Assassins he recruited.
As for Syndicate, I’m still wondering why Jacob & Evie never built up the Brotherhood in their story, having the only Assassins in London be them & Henry.
@@Phanthief95 Ok, but the Assassin Order in North America was virtually obliterated at that point. Normally an Assassin would not be actively recruiting their own cell of initiates unless there was no one else, and there wasn't. So there it makes more sense.
In the case of Syndicate, even though there was an established Brotherhood already, the Frye twins elected to tackle the most fortified Templar infrastructure in Europe virtually cut off from support. Much easier than trying to form and train a competent side-branch of the Brotherhood (which would've taken time AND would've possibly been an affront to the Assassin Brotherhood once they found out) is to simply form a new gang from the existing underworld. They're already trained in their own business and they can take the fight to the Templar infrastructure immediately. Also, the Rooks have FAR more members than any half-way decent Brotherhood the Frye Twins could train.. and they're not exactly Mentor-level in Syndicate like Ezio.
Barrett this was awesome, dude! I listened to the whole thing while doing some drawing and the time just flew by hearing about your journey. Great work, can't wait for the next one.
Barrett, this video is amazing! Thank you for putting all that time in and playing through all these games! As a huge AC fan since the first game, I loved seeing the different thoughts you had compared to mine over the years. Would love to see this series continue!
Wow! Awesome review. Very well done Barrett. I can only imagine how much hard work you have put in to make this great video.
Tim Getty's send this man a plaque and some nuggets.
The amount of work that went into making this is crazy. Well done Barrett! Hope you get more opportunities do to similar projects in the future.
Amazing job Barrett! This was an absolute delight to watch and a great way to reminisce about some great games and memories.
Such a great video!! Thanks for all your hard work, Barrett! I really love how passionate you are. I sent this on to my best friend who loves the AC games but isn't a huge video game fan in general so she isn't familiar with Kinda Funny. I just know this video will resonate with AC fans. Your break downs and reasoning for your ranks are so well communicated, the video essays out of the next gen trio are always something to look forward to.
This was so awesome man! Thanks for the hard work!!
I loved this video and I appreciate all of the editing gameplay clips into it (rather than just a video of you talking the whole time). It was fun watching the graphics progression. Excellent work! Also solid final list.
Extremely well done! Thanks for going through this all so thoroughly!
I dont normally comment on videos but your time care and dedication was phenomenal. Fantastic video this should have way more views and likes
This was honestly one the most interesting rankings I've seen. It's so nice to see different perspectives on this franchise because, like you said at some point, it's all over the place and it has a tone of ups and downs, so it's pretty interesting to see what fans find appealing about it and what takes them away from it.
Personally I don't have a clear ranking but to me my favorite games are those who "makes you feel like an Assassin" (meme aside). I like when the games let you investigate, plan and finally hunt down your target like a shadow, like a blade in the croud. And on the narrative side I like to see the conflict of ideologies and the political struggles between different kinds of people, while at the same time indulging in the batshit insanity that is the lore.
And I think this is why I love AC1 so much.
You my friend, understand what Darby McDevitt envisioned for this brilliant series. Such a shame that Ubisoft got greedy and chose quantity over quality with the last two games.
Man congrats 🎉🍾🎈🎊 this is an awesome video!
The Syndicate love here is fantastic, such a good game
Yeah I loved it too. Was a huge Evie fan. Was hopping Jacob was the Ripper in the dlc.
Dat cane tho. 👍🏾
Fucking booooooo
@@wkadalie It wouldn’t really make sense if they did that, & that’s because of the World War I stuff where we play as Jacob’s granddaughter.
@@Phanthief95 it could make sense. If he was programmed by the templers and evie found him and deprogrammed him.
Ezio, don’t you recognize me? It’s a-me, your Uncle Mario!!
I finally had the time to watch this. I truly hope Barrett continues these franchise reviews. These are awesome to watch.
Amazing video man, really smooth.
Great work man! Crushed the review!
Brilliant video, my list would look quite different but I appreciate how much work went into making this video. Brilliant job x
These massive in review specials are incredible barrett. Keep up the great work.
Really really great work Barrett. AC is one of my favorite franchises, so hearing your thoughts on all of them was a nice trip down memory lane. Keep up the great work! And shoutout to KF for this kind of programming!
Wtf Barrett!? Fantastic content in general, not just for KF. I was entertained through the entire 2 hrs dude!
Barrett, this was incredible. Thank you for all your time and hard work! ❤️❤️
FINALLY! I cheered when you placed Syndicate above all else, it is SOO underrated, and more players need to try it out. I loved that WW1 mission, and I would love it so badly if there is actually a "modern Assassins Creed" that is not just a "Watch Dog moniker"
Because of this video I'm going to try Syndicate for the first time. I'm excited!
@@littleleafers I actually bought syndicate a few days before this video and beat it yesterday, its actually pretty good, story was decent not the best but the gameplay is really really good.
@@brandonzamora43 Sweet! I bought it last night. I'm gonna play it this weekend
Does Syndicate play completely differently on the consoles or something? I tried it on the PC and the gameplay and menuing felt SO clunky and awful that I couldn't stand it and put it down.
@@werdfeefs7027 Well TBH, "most" console ports have pretty bad UI/UX for PC users, since they developed with controller in mind and not KB+M. But I still find it acceptable. This is also a 2015 game, which is still relatively early in the PS4/XOne console cycle, UI/UX has definitely improved since Origins onwards. Compared to what came before like AC1/2/3, I think its pretty alright.
So cool to see all the next gen of KF teams putting out this awesome video essay type content and streaming content and diversifying what KF is as a company and channel. I’m so proud of you BossBaby!
My ranking.
1) Brotherhood
2) AC 2
3) AC Black Flag
4) AC revelations
5) AC Valhalla
6) AC 1
7) AC Unity
8) AC Origins
9) AC 3
10) AC Rogue
11) AC Syndicate
12) AC Odyssey
This is the only ranking list in the comments sections that is similar to how I ranked it lol. Just goes to show how divided the AC fanbase is.
@@suchithmadhukar8508 Brotherhood and AC2 really are the best entries.
This is awesome, looking forward to the journey sir!
Loved the video AMAZING quality subbed!
Appreciate the dedication Barrett! I know this took awhile to make. Awesome video 👍
Syndicate was so under-rated and had good dlc with the jack the reaper
You killed it again with this InReview Barrett! Looking forward to next years Persona InReview!!!
Metal gear seems fitting for this series one day
Would love to see Greg do that
@@BarrettCourtney This is Greg's calling.
Barret this is an amazing video! Please keep up the great work and can't wait for your next franchise in review. After watching you convinced me to go back and try AC again.
Incredible amount of love and effort put into this one Barrett! Well done my dude
This was really well done! Great job Barrett.
Ghost of Tsushima is the best Assassins Creed game...
Good work on this one Barrett!
I mean it takes that type of game that people have been hungry for because ubisoft refuse to take the series in a good direction. If you ask me it's the fans and ubisoft's fault. But nah, it gives a different feeling when playing that vs a good ac game.
Pleasantly surprised how high you have AC: Syndicate, and AC: Valhalla, because these two were my absolute favorites in the AC series, and I'm glad I didn't let all the negative reviews Valhalla had, deter me from trying it. Also, great to see how much enthusiasm and love you have for the series as a whole.
Barrett if you see this, hell of a review vid. looking forward to what you decide to tackle next
Great job Barret! Loved the video, keep it up!
"Pirate stories are rad as hell,
the first 2 Pirates of the Caribean movies are the most underrated trilogy of all time
and Treasure Planet did not get the love it deserved"
...
Will you marry me, Barrett?!
I’m already spoken for
Even the third Pirates, while bloated and goofy and a bit much, it had a lot of fun ideas and great characters.
Great work, Barrett. I mainlined the end of Valhalla before watching this so I could see your rankings. Bravo!
This is an excellently in-depth ranking. You did an extremely great job here. Plus, delighted that AC Syndicate was so well ranked by you, it is by far my favourite along with AC: Valhalla and AC2/Brotherhood and Black Flag.
Hey man, thanks for doing this. You put so much effort into it and it really shows. I loved the Zelda one you did very much! I don’t really care about AC much but I love that you do these! Much appreciated man.
Dude Syndicate is the hidden gem, I'm glad you enjoyed it as much as I did and thanks for showing it the love it deserves!
I don't know if I would've placed it at number one, but it's definitely top tier.
Shout out to Barrett, fantastic video. The hours this must’ve taken is mind boggling.
I agree with the list too! Great analysis.
Goodman, great content, love your opinions on things keep it up. I will watch all Barrett movies going forward.
Well done Barrett. Th is some fantastic work and makes me appreciate Assassin's Creed more than I thought I did.
Great vid, very in depth. I fell out of the loop before the change in scene and don’t think I’ll be heading back. Too many other games coming up that I’m interested in
It’s just so refreshing and satisfying to see someone give so much well deserved praise to Syndicate. It’s SUCH a great game and it’s wonderfully to finally see a ranking where everyone isn’t repeating the same bland nothing criticisms that address nothing and quickly moving on. As you said, far more people really need to go back and play Syndicate while giving it a solid chance and they’d love it.
I stopped playing halfway through brotherhood, and havn't touched an AC since, but after this video, i just might jump back in again :-) Fantastic work Barrett, and thanks for the shout out of Treasure Planet ! :D
Such a great video Barret, wish you did more of these!
Thanks! They take really long to make so that’s why there’s only 2
@@BarrettCourtneyvalhalla is a 2 week job alone🤣
Barrett this is amazing, and so much work. Well done!
Personally I'd put Odyssey higher and Black Flag a bit lower but I respect the decisions for sure.
I am very in love with these final rankings.
Could have listened to you talk about Valhalla all day. I feel in love it, might be my personal number one behind or ahead of black flag. Great reviews man!!
This is making me realize that I have played a TON of Assassins Creed games throughout my life lol the earlier games with Ezio and Altair are honestly nostalgic for me at this point. I'm happy I was able to experience every game back in the day one by one as they came out.
Hell yeah Syndicate underrated for sure, I enjoyed Odyssey more just because of Kassandra. Can't wait to play Valhalla when I get my hands on a PS5. Good work Sad Boy, the time flew watching this video.
I thought this was going to be like a 15 minute video.
...My body is ready.
15 minute video from barrett 😂.
I love the themes from the earlier games. Assassin’s Creed 2, 3, and black flag were epic! Man it was a different era for games......
Are you remembering a different ac3 than me? Games have changed for the better in terms of that game
@@GuyOnTheInternet53 I enjoyed the story to that game a lot. The pacing was atrocious in the animus world, but it did feel like a big deal
@@Curton6693 it was definitely a big deal being the end of Desmond's story. But yea the pacing was just so bad and that meant everything to me. I played it at launch and beat it and remember liking it. I recently replayed it and it took 5 hours to get to connor, with the hood. I was like what a fuckin joke lol. The mission designs didn't help either
Love the video will be coming back once I beat Valhalla and the Ezio collection I completely agree with you on your thoughts on Odyssey but I would have ranked Unity way higher but I understand why you ranked it were you did. This video made me want to replay and fill in the gaps of games in the series that I haven’t played hope you do more of these in reviews. Lastly I’m right there with you on black flags and Pirates of the Caribbean hope we get that in review series some day with you on it thanks for a great video.
What you mentioned about Ubisoft thinking that women don't sell is a point that bothers me a lot. Not you mentioning it, but because it's a fact.
They chose to "degrade" Aya as a side character after she was supposed to be the main character in Origins.
Also in Odyssey, Kassandra is Canon, but who's on the cover? Right. Alexios.
Same for Valhalla. Female Eivor is supposed to be Canon and they still put male Eivor on the cover.
This is kinda disappointing to me.
But even before that, when coming to Syndicate. All cinematic trailers of Syndicate heavily feature Jacob as the protagonist. In one of the trailers Evie doesn't even appear. And in the other trailers, she's just a side character. Also on the cover.
Just smh.
More Barrett please! This video is great and much respect for playing so much AC in such a short timeframe, I played Valhalla then Odyssey back to back and can't even think about playing any more
I want them to go back to a version of AC to a more linear narrative ASSASSIN focused game. And spin off the massive open world games as something else.
I agree. It’s weird how they were close to mastering stealth mechanics then it just turned into an action RPG
I had no desire to watch this content but it was in my queue and gave it a chance. Best content on the channel.
Well done Barrett! Great video! Two hours and I haven't felt bored not a single moment. It's compact info and interesting. I can't 100% agree with your score, since Odyssey was my top game, but I guess that's because I'm a Greek named Herodotus. Also it was an amazing game!
This video is perfect timing since I played half of the AC series in the past year.
Barrett this is phenomenal. I love assassins creed and would not have ranked it this way at all but this was awesome and well thought out and really special. Reminded me why I loved these games
Great video Barrett. Keeping my fingers crossed for a Persona in Review, even the early PS1 ones are worth it
Never realised how much nostalgia I had for these games until watching this video. Grew up on them, playing every entry up until Unity. Nice walk down memory lane
This deserves way more views! I’ve played every game so many time. And now I’m gonna do it again!
Fantastic video!
Mad props to Barrett, a lot of hard work and hours playing to make this for us, you rock man!
@@thelot9880 I love what I do and the playing video game side of it isn’t hard. Correct. But don’t discredit the amount of hours I put into writing the script, collecting footage, recording my video and VO, and editing this all together. The edit alone took 3 weeks.
Nice work, Barrett! You’re a great video essay writer! Greg and Tim, keep “green lighting” these!
A glorious adventure! I agree with all of your conclusions based on your thoughts, well said, well made. Thankyou.
Been waiting on this for awhile! Zelda in review was awesome, and I’m ready for some hot takes on the assassins creed series!
Barrett, as a huge fan of the AC series this was a great watch. Very glad it was trimmed from four to two hours -- I think it's much more consumable. Excited for the next one!
Loved the vid dude! 10/10, I really disagree with some of your placements (to the point where I screamed 'this dude is high' to my laptop) but I really enjoyed your deep dive into this series
I was literally thinking as he started the Syndicate section that it is the pinnacle of the original Assassin's Creed formula! Such an amazing game.
Love this video. I don't play many console games anymore , but I've still played all of the ac games besides the handheld one(s) and liberation. This was a super enjoyable video. Took me back.
Thanks for all the work put in on this. I love all 3 of the most recent AC games. Love the RP elements, huge open worlds, and weapons with gear score & rarity. But out of all the older more traditional AC games, Syndicate is by far my favorite. Love the steampunk-like era and the 2 lead characters so much. Glad to see it rank so highly. :)
I am so HYPED for this!
“Oh my god it’s happening. Everybody STAY CALM!”
Stay FUC$@$& CALM
Nice job, Barret! I adore this series, so this was cool to see.
Amazing work! It makes me sad how no one ever mentions the part in revelations where you find altairs final resting place, loved that
Literally every AC video on RUclips that covers that game, talks about it.
It’s so satisfying finally seeing someone give syndicate the love it deserves
I appreciate the love for Rogues story. I always thought it was overlooked but really enjoyed the story, and more Black Flag gameplay was a plus for me. I played Rogue before Unity, but I knew a little bit about the opening of Unity from some preview coverage and ended up starting Unity like an hour later so the end of Rogue was not lost on me at the time. And personally my order is pretty similar to Barretts up to that point, but i would put Rogue just below Black Flag.
Edit: I'm also glad that Syndicate got some love because its my favorite of the old style games. And when I played Odyssey, I never had to wait to get up to level for something. I was always way over leveled for every area, and I appreciated that they would level up with me. That was probably because i enjoyed the side content and did pretty much all of it. before i attempted story missions in an area.
Watching this has made me reconsider some of the order of things so my ranking would be
Valhalla
Odyssey
Syndicate
Origins
Black Flag
Rogue
Brotherhood
Revelations
AC2
Unity
AC3
AC1
38:12 It wasn’t really the Templars who killed Blackbeard, just British soldiers.
Also, his last words were awesome: “In a world without gold, we might’ve been heroes!”
I really enjoyed this video.
One of the things I love about Barrett’s content is everything is well thought through and reasoned, but he usually comes out with a different conclusion to the one I have; making the process all the more compelling.
Usually that’s some great hot takes on the Star Wars franchise. I thought I was going to be disappointed with this video, as we had gotten all the way up to Syndicate without any surprises and his initial experience mirrored mine completely; then he goes and puts it at the top?!??!!. 😊
I guess that means I have to go back a play Syndicate to completion. Damn you Mr Courtney.
Seriously mate, great job.