Pick One: Which Is Your Favourite Assassin's Creed Game?

Ya Ac odyssey was just really done well I sank 90 hours into it just doing the main quest and a few parts of the dlc. I am enjoying being a vikiing but I have a few quibbles about the power structure and locking equipment behind quests I also really enjoyed the mercenaries in AC O.

ACII was my favourite for a long time - until Origins. Odyssey was too bloated and I struggled to really get into the story. By comparison, I 100% completed Origins including 100% completing the DLC's too. This alone is reason enough for me to vote for Origins.

I am loving Valhalla right now, I am only 10-12hrs in having fully completed everything (All mysteries, wealth and artefacts) in the 'first' area of Norway, I have only just left so its far too early to determine if its better than Origins. I have the Season Pass too so it will be some time before I can fairly assess Valhalla, but early impressions are that it could well end up topping the list of my favourite AC games...

Really tough call between black flag and Origins but I went with Origins as I loved the Egyptian setting. That world was magical imo.

AC4, because I have an affinity for sailing and sea shanties. Obviously a pirate in a previous life.

My answer should be pretty obvious.

Black Flag is one of my favorite games of the xbox one/ps4 generation.

I haven't played rogue so I can't speak to that one.

I also like two of the less popular games Unity and Syndicate. I tried playing Unity when it first launched and it was terribly broken and not very fun. When I went back and played in on PS4 Pro much later it actually turned out to be a pretty good game.

I started Valhalla but it is way too soon for me to give it any kind of review.

Revelations for me was the second video game in my entire life to make me cry. The music and overall story just blew my mind. If I could choose more than one game it would be the entire Desmond saga even if the ending of ACIII was disappointing.

I've only played 2, AC 2 and BlackFlag both great games but if i had to pick one i would go with Assassin's Creed 2..

AC2 had such good missions and set pieces it’s still my favourite though mechanics and the fighting has been improved since...

I've played all the AC games except for the Chronicles titles, Origins (played about 20 hours before I lost my save file though) and Valhalla since it just came out. Out of all of those, I enjoyed Odyssey the most. It had naval battles like in Black Flag, a giant open world to explore like in Origins, and a captivating storyline like in AC2. I honestly feel like it brought the best of all those games together in one package and that's why I like it the most. I've spent over 100 hours playing the game and I still have plenty of content left to enjoy in the Fate of Atlantis expansion that I'm currently playing.

But in terms of my top three, it's definitely 1) Odyssey, 2) Black Flag and 3) AC2.

I think it's great though to see that the open world RPG titles stand for 40% of the poll. Really goes to show that Ubisoft is making consistently great AC games these days compared to before where they would make one great AC game and then a bunch of "decent" ones in between.

I’m binging them at the minute, beat Black Flag two nights ago. I think my two favourite games are 2 and 3, but specifically the remaster of 3. I really liked what I’ve played of Origins though so I expect my opinion to change as I go through the series! Playing Freedom Cry at the minute then onto Rogue.

I just bought blag flag on the switch (sale), havent played that yet, heard lots of good stuff about it.

Voted AC2, while it's a better game than AC1, Altair is such a better character than Ezio. I quit the series during Brotherhood though, so there's that too.

The first one hands down. The story was coherent, the assassin was not intrusive and there wasn’t the obsession with gear/customization/ken’s dreamhouse that bloated the series later. Also combat/stealth was fun. If Altair could swim it would have been perfect (granted I am not sure how well a man could swim with all that hardware so I let it slide).

After that I would say brotherhood as I liked the assassin brotherhood mechanic and then liberation but that was more for the game it could have been than the game it was.

I finally gave up when valhalla was announced. I can’t do this anymore.

Tough question. I haven't tried Valhalla. My top 3 are probably Black Flag, Odyssey, and Origins.

I wish Ubisoft would abandon the Assassins/Templars sci-fi story arc altogether and just focus on making historical playgrounds.

Black flag as who does not love being a Pirate 😁 Rogue also good as similar to Black flag worth a go as well

I would say Assassins Creed II, that is when the series hit it's peak, after that it's been a slow decline of games that couldn't maintain my interest.

I will never understand the Black Flag hype or most of these awful takes 😂😅 each to their own I guess

There's something seriously wrong with the people of this website if you all are picking black flag! . Eww, that's the worst assassin's creed game short of 3. It's a fine pirate game, but a lousy assassin's creed. It would have been so much better as it's own IP rather than shoe horning assassin's stuff in there half baked.

Clearly there's only one answer: ac1. It's the only one where assassinations were really big deals, and the whole environment was built on that. I like the series overall, but nothing has quite matched what the first one tried to do, end it's always been clear to me that Jade Raymond was the real designer if what AC was meant to be. Once she left it's been all over the place.

Origins was the only other one that came close to getting similar in design intent. I loved 2 but it was a different direction just the same. I've heard unity may have that classic feel, but i haven't played that one yet, because it wouldn't run at all without a patch on ps4 at a time i had terrible internet.

But the good news is x1x and Series should play with all the pc assets for 1. Anyone that hasn't played it, you owe yourself!

@jacko11 at least somebody here has taste!

For me it is Black Flag. Was my first go in AC and gave a lasting impression. Valhalla has been a fun go so far tho! I been late to the series and they are actually the only 2 I played. Looking forward to jumping into more.

This is a tough one... Almost every entry got things I love. I might have to finish my replay of Syndicate, Black Flag and Rogue, to make up my mind, and that won't happen until I finish Vallhala.

I can say this much: Unity and Liberation HD are at the bottom of the barrel.

@graysoncharles The repetitiveness is true, but it was the BIG assassinations, the concept of blending in and striking boldly in the open... The setup of the big kill that's been missing in every game since other than, to some extent, origins.

But if repetitiveness is a key complaint, I honestly found black flag the most repetitive of all. Even more then the first one.

Still though, black flags main problem isn't that it's not good. It's that it says assassin's creed on the cover but anything assassin related was shoehorned in to make what's clearly a spin-off at best sell better. I'm not saying it's not a game worth paying, I'm saying it's a terrible representation if assassin's creed as a franchise. So is 3, especially before the remaster, with it's lack of elevations and brawler protagonist. Id accuse syndicate's Jacob of the same, but it's clear Evie is the real assassin there and they were doing an FE Fates thing of trying to reach a split market with 3 having created fans of brawlers creed.

(But 1 is clearly the best . And derived from prince of persia which doesn't hurt.)

@Ryu_Niiyama I agree with the nod to brotherhood. I think i recall liking it more than 2 itself. Definitely the most memorable beyond the first. And high five for recognizing the best one.

Liberation... I'm not sure if it was more let down by being a gimped vita game is by being attached to the trainwreck that was 3.... It did do stealth though.... Making it automatically better. And the character was relatable and likable instead of whatshisname.

@NEStalgia I will 100% admit I miss the setup and execution of assassinations as seen in the first game. It was the aspect that sold me on the experience.

But, if that's the only criteria to measure an assassin's creed game, then we're basically arguing that AC1 is the only AC game, and everything else just uses the name.

Considering that game came out 13 years ago, and there has been even more games, it seems unreasonable to define an entire franchise by a feature that hasn't been seen for so long, has only been in one game, and is missing in the last 12 entries.

Like trying to define the entire Halo franchise by a 3 shot pistol. It's a feature that defines the first game, not the entire franchise.

On that note, Halo 4 and 5 aren't real Halo games and there's something wrong with people who say they are the best entries.

I chose Odyssey. I loved the HUGE open world, which I must have spent well over 100 hours in. I also loved the main character - I played as Kassandra. Next would be either Origins (slightly boring main character though) or Black Flag, which had great naval combat but the on land stuff was of the “old style” of AC. Far too early to even mention Valhalla as I’ve only played an hour or so so far.

I’ve played 1,3,4, unity and origins but only completed 3. I just get bored of them 🤷🏻‍♂️ Origins is my favourite setting.

@Richnj "AC1 is the only AC game, and everything else just uses the name"

Is actually agree with that statement. It was a central core feature of what the franchise was... And then they abandoned it after one game when the lead designer left (and went to EA. ..eeww). They really have just been using the name after that without a real franchise identity. But at least most of them try to feature assassin's as a meme theme. Black flag was a cool pirate game that didn't want to be an ac game and clearly bolted that on for marketing potential rather than risk a new ip.

@graysoncharles No, that gameplay mechanic isn't what makes other entries poor representations, it's just what makes the first one the best one (followed by origins that intentionally tried to do a LITTLE more of that.)

3 is a poor representations specifically because it was primarily a brawler, not a stealth assassination game, and featured next to no verticality, a key necessity for any ac gameplay functionality. Black flag was a poor representation because it was not in any way an ac game, and where they tried to make it one it felt clearly awkward in a way that kind of interrupted and clashed with the otherwise good pirate game.

Maybe this is why series with annual release schedules come across poorly though. It's about having a game bearing the name no matter what game you make than having a clearly defined game world and gameplay direction to define the series.

Top be clear, i like the whole series and own them them all... Haven't played though odyssey yet, haven't played unity yet due to the bugs at launch and never got back to it, though I've heard it was the last of the ones that stuck more to the original ideas. Technically i didn't fully beat origins but i know that's my second favorite anyway.

Haven't bought valhalla yet either.. Planned to, was put off by some of the association with xsx hardware failures while playing the game and figured I'd hold of for not news it patch. I haven't heard anything more on it, so it sounds safe, but now I'm hooked on Yakuza 7.... That game is so good!

@NEStalgia Sigh Amazon still hasn’t shipped Yakuza. I preordered it when they started taking orders!! Even worse the buy two get one sale is only for the ps4 version.

@Ryu_Niiyama ouch! That's so Amazon..... I went digital on xsx so I'm not sure if there were inventory issues at large or if you're just the lucky one on that. (Then again luck is running thin these days... My ps5 may or may not have "vanished" at the local ups terminal..........)

Yakuza is great though. Unexpected. What mostly strikes me if how much bigger the game is than the older games. I've been playing for half a week and only just got to Yokohama, the main area, tonight. Haven't even opened up a lot of the combat stuff. It's huge. Assassin's creed huge. I wasn't sure how the whole JRPG angle was going to work but somehow it really does. It blends gta, yakuza, and Tokyo mirage in a beautiful way. Can't help but wonder if the persona/tms team got involved. It's a legit jrpg fused with yakuza.

I never in a million years expected my launch title for a new xbox would be a Sega JRPG that directly references an Enix RPG with Sony phone billboards and a triangle, square, circle, x Easter egg......

As someone who has never played an Assasins Creed game, what are the best games to get in to the series? I primarily play on Switch so if the entries on there are worth playing I'll get on them but I also have an Xbox aswell so don't mind playing them on that if the better entries aren't available on Switch.

@Scottwood101 I would recommend starting at the beginning. Sure, it may seem clunky by modern standards, but as @NEStalgia points out, it's the introduction to the series and defines the Assassin's Creed, and the objectives had a stealthy assassination focus that has apparently drifted since.

I don't normally play games for their stories, but I got really into the game towards the end because the story/concept behind the Creed struck a unique chord with me that I never expected from a video game. A phrase from that game has been in my online signature ever since.

Fwiw, I'm only halfway through the Ezio Collection, so haven't played any of Revelations, III, IV, Rogue, Unity, Syndicate, Origins, Odyssey or Valhalla yet, but my vote went with the original AC, because it has such an impact. The games after it have only iterated on that so far as I can see. But I do own a copy of all of them up to and including Origins so far, so I'll play them all some day...