I stepped off a boat on the Thames and stared at the Tower of London looming in the darkness before me. It was the first time I’d gone hands on with Evie, the more strategically minded of the two playable siblings in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. While her brother Jacob is a more confrontation-prone ‘act first, think later’ kind of character as revealed by his trigger-happy antics at this year’s E3, Evie is more reliant on subtlety and her character skill tree reflects her penchant for a more silent style of violence. Thus I was encouraged by the development team member assisting me to use her chameleon skill to effectively hide in plain sight rather than take patrolling Beefeater guards head on, as I attempted to infiltrate the tower and take out British Templar Lucy Thorne.
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