Assassin’s Creed: Every Game Ranked By Its Storytelling Ability

With 12 total unique Assassin’s Creed games, some managed to impress with their immerse story, while others were considered unsatisfactory.

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Starting from 2007, and still releasing games nowadays, Assassin’s Creed has released a total of 12 unique games, each with its pros and cons. While every game had its ups and downs, the story was always a central aspect in all games, even though some decided to split that focus between story and exploration.

Some games managed to maintain immersion throughout the story while introducing great characters and leaving fans on edge after cutscenes. However, in others, the story felt unnecessarily rushed, with the pacing and storylines not as developed as others. But which one stood out the most?

12 Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate

Considered by most as the worst game in the series, Syndicate was not well-received by the fans. Although it maintains most of the main series assassin elements, it does so in a poor way. The story fully lacks immersion and feels boring to progress at most times. These, combined with it being unnecessarily long, can make playing it can often be a tedious experience. The characters of Jacob and Evie Frye fail to deliver the assassin vibe that fans were hoping for.

11 Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey

Odyssey’s story, despite being one of the few adaptations of the well-known movie to a video game, does not live up to its expectations. The story felt very repetitive, and the cities that all looked similar made it even worse.

On top of that, the supernatural abilities possessed by the main characters made the series really take off from its assassin elements, which disappointed a lot of fans and thus removed any immersion from the storyline. Perhaps if it was named plainly “Odyssey,” it would have been better received.

10 Assassin’s Creed: Unity

Although Unity manages to maintain the assassin-focused storyline, it lacks plot coherence. The story is hard to follow at most times due to it being unnecessarily complicated. On top of that, it moves at a significantly slower pace compared to other games, which makes the game more boring and tedious than immersive and interesting. The story of the main character, Arno Victor Dorian, was narrated poorly and showed no innovation at all.

9 Assassin’s Creed: Rogue

Rogue offers a more unique perspective to the assassins’ and templars’ quarrel by allowing the player to play as a templar and follow their story. However, despite the great idea, it was poorly executed. At most times, templars and assassins behaved similarly, which confused most fans as they seemed more alike than different. Further to that, the story felt a bit rushed and having a few more chapters would have benefited the game greatly.

8 Assassin’s Creed III

Assassin’s Creed III is the first game to move away from the Altair and Ezio storyline, and this has a hard task to achieve in order to live up to the fans’ expectations. Connor, the game’s main character, lacks all the elements that made Ezio and Altair unique. There is no character development throughout the story and, sometimes, he can appear dull and boring, which is why the storyline in Assassin’s Creed III was not well-received by fans.

7 Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla

The latest addition to the series, Valhalla, is considered by most fans a mediocre game. Although it includes a unique storyline with beautiful graphics that can cause immersion, the story can often feel unnecessarily prolonged.

Filled with mandatory quests that could have easily been optional side missions, the story feels extremely long, and sometimes even boring to progress.

6 Assassin’s Creed: Origins

Although Origins is not considered by most as a great game overall, its story was unique in a good way. It is the first time that the series broke off from its main assassin-focused path. The main characters of Bayek and Aya were well-made and managed to maintain immersion throughout the whole story while the stunning environment of ancient Egypt only made things better.

5 Assassin’s Creed

Assassin’s Creed’s original game includes one of the best storylines in the series due to being the introduction to the greatest characters in the games. It sets the foundations for AC 2, Revelations, and Brotherhood by introducing the story of Altair and providing a unique assassin vibe to it.

The only setback is that the story might feel repetitive at times, which slightly takes away from the immersion. Nevertheless, Altair is considered one by most fans one of the best characters in the series, and Assassin’s Creed narrates his story well.

4 Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag

One of the most unique stories to the series, Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag has seen mixed reactions by the fans. However, despite being pirate-focused, the story reveals the progression from a self-centered pirate to a more altruistic assassin. Although its other gameplay elements may be lacking to some extent, the Black Flag story has solely received great praise.

3 Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

Revelations is one of the greatest stories in the Assassin’s Creed series, simply because it follows the story of Ezio and Altair from the previous games. It manages to round up their story in an ideal and immersive way to finish the story. For any fans that enjoyed the previous games, Revelations is a must-play. It captures the connection between Ezio, Altair, and Desmond uniquely through the Animus, despite the characters being from different eras and not having directly met each other.

2 Assassin’s Creed II

Assassin’s Creed II is a direct improvement of the first game regarding the story. It follows the story of Altair (one of the best characters in the whole series to date) while also introducing Ezio Auditore da Firenze (one of the fans’ favorite characters by far). It progresses at a great pace and always keeps the fans on edge, especially with the story regarding the pieces of Eden.

1 Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is considered by most fans as the best game in the series because it maintains all the great aspects of the previous games, while also adding new ones. It maintains immersion, great pacing, and interesting characters, just like the previous games. However, on top of that, it adds and focuses a lot on subtle character progression. Ezio’s character keeps improving throughout the game, and this makes the story unique. Further to that, there are numerous hidden mysteries and secrets to be found that greatly add to the game’s storyline.

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