5 Surprisingly Good Assassin’s Creed Spin-Off Games

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Assassin’s Creedhas garnered a massive following in millions.

With each year, Ubisoft has worked at releasing a game each year.

While the mainline games offer thrilling historical adventures, there exist Spinoff games that are well worth your time.

Additionally, mainline games tend to focus on popular eras and territories.

Given its early release, the gameplay was impressively good.

The graphics were pretty cool.

As its a DS game, the role-playing open-world adventures of the franchise are pretty limited.

However, it utilizes visuals and touch-screen features well enough for fluidity and platforming exhilaration.

Unfortunately,Assassins Creed Chroniclesgives little to no room for exploring the historical features at the time.

Along with disappointing explorative features, the game had pressing issues with its mechanics.

It felt more like a puzzle-solving game than a combat one for most gamers.

Still, the game features beautiful backdrops and an impressive attempt to employ a completely different gameplay mechanic.

For this reason, India is deserving of a worthwhile mention but falls short of taking the top spot.

Therefore, its the first entry into a platforming adaptation of the stealth Assassins Creed games.

Additionally, the game adopts a unique artistic style with Eastern-inspired gameplay.

So players can focus more on achieving their goals.

It also meant lesser hours to complete each entry.

The game takes place in 16th century Imperial China.

It features Shao Jun, where gamers must tactfully conquer the Templar organization known as the Eight Tigers.

However, spin-offs generally have lesser time and effort put into their build.

So, were giving it a pass.

Generally speaking, the explorative environments are limited.

However, the mechanics are challenging enough to make it well worth the try.

Assassins Creed III: Liberation (2012)

Ubisoft releasedAssassins Creed III: LiberationalongsideAssassins Creed IIIas a spin-off game.

Thus, it featured similar gameplay.

The significant difference is that it explores new frontiers and introduces the franchise to a female protagonist and antagonist.

The protagonist uses her fathers trading connections to free enslaved people throughout the city in the main story.

Furthermore, the protagonist could disguise herself in specific missions by changing into different clothes.

So, Aveline could present herself as an enslaved person or a wealthy lady to access restricted areas.

These unique mechanics makeLiberationone of the best spin-off titles ever made.

Continuing with the side-scrolling 2.5-dimensional gameplay style, Russia features Nikolai Orelov, who must retrieve a Precursor box.

One thing about spin-off games is they offer immense opportunities to explore unaccounted stories and heroes of older titles.

In the end,Assassins Creed Chronicles: Russiabrought the significance and legacy of the box to the light.

Honestly, youve got to love spin-off titles for how gorgeously they push existing boundaries.

Thats it for our top five surprisingly good Assasin’s Creed spin-off games.

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