Ubisoft has officially announced Assassin's Creed Syndicate and boy does it look good. Set in Victorian era London, the game offers up loads of new ways to play, including the ability to lead your own underground gang. The game is due for release this October, the 23rd to be exact on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, with the PC release coming sometime after that.



Developed by Ubisoft Quebec in collaboration with nine other Ubisoft studios, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate is an epic single player experience set in London during the height of the Industrial Revolution, an incredible age of invention that transforms the lives of millions. During this time, the gap between the poor and the rich expands exponentially, making workers’ lives little more than legalised slavery. The lower classes fight for survival by forming a new kind of family – gangs -- and adapting to life in the underworld. Players will embody both Jacob Frye and Evie Frye, twin Assassins raised to follow the Creed. Jacob, a determined, hot-headed and rebellious leader of an underground gang, is vastly different than his sister Evie, a master of stealth and control. Together, Jacob and Evie team up to challenge rivals, plutocrats and Templars alike to free the masses from poverty and corruption, and ultimately wrestle back control of London.



The game offers up a variety of new tools and gadgets to help you get around, the coolest of them is the rope launcher, which will help you get to rooftops so much faster. The game also features horse and carts, so it should be even faster to get around the world now.

You can learn a little more about the game and the decisions that went into things here, in this developer video released alongside the debut trailer.



"The ability to lead an underground gang, commandeer any vehicle on hand and use modern tools to take on an expansive and fast-paced Victorian London sets this game apart,” said Marc-Alexis Côté, creative director, Ubisoft. “Assassin’s Creed Syndicate has been in development for more than two years and this new modern take on the living open world will please Assassin’s Creed fans and newcomers alike.”

But if that was not all, Ubisoft have also released a lengthy gameplay demo, which also looks pretty amazing. This is the same as in the video above, but if you wanted to just catch it on its own, you can.



And finally to wrap things up, here is some amazing screens, which could double as wallpapers on your screen, if you were so inclined.