Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China Critic Reviews

Chronicles: China is short—I completed it in only a few hours—but with a cheap price and a handy new game plus mode, there’s certainly a lot of stabby-runny-climby value to be found.

This $10 standalone game is far longer than most $60 games, and I still have the New Game Plus mode to try and unlock the rest of Shao Jun’s abilities.

Climax Studios has done well: Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China is a fresh and enjoyable experience, both for fans and newcomers of the Creed.

AC Chronicles: China is a funny and smart game that capitalizes on what made Assassin's Creed so successful.

A joy to play for any fan of stealth and secret stabbing, Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China is nuanced and immersive in a gorgeous setting. If you loved Mark of the Ninja, you really shouldn't miss out on this one.

The first Chronicles entry isn’t perfect, but it’s a good starting point.

As someone who has admittedly grown a bit tired with the Assassin’s Creed series, I found Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China to be an invigorating breath of fresh air.

Get past the rubbish revenge tale and you'll find a brilliant new take on a series that needed it.

AC Chronicles China its a new point of view for the franchise. Preserves the essence of the brand, but fails in the structural design of the scenarios. The AI of the enemies also hurts the experience.

Ubisoft reinvents Assassin's Creed franchise with Chronicles. This first part, that takes place in China, is an interesting breath of fresh air that revives the stealth, without burdening the mechanics provided through the 2D. The plot, of course, isn't as good as this interesting experiment.

A decent change of pace for the franchise. The goals are more focused and deliver some great stealth gameplay across the approximately five hours it takes to complete. With all the open world distractions stripped away I felt like I was playing a proper assassin-based title, with the only focus being to take out the target.

With its 2,5D environments, Chronicles: China is a nice new horizon for the Assassin’s Creed series.

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China turned out to be a really decent product. There's something here for the fans of Mark of the Ninja, as well as the lovers of classic, platform-jumping Princes of Persia. This cycle will be expanded the same way the big AC games are - and judging from what I have seen, it should turn out not bad at all.

An interesting break from the traditional Assassin's Creed formula. Not without its shortcomings, but engaging enough.

It doesn't offer anything particularly surprising, but delivers a side-scrolling stealth-based adventure worth checking out for fans of the franchise.

A sidescrolling Assassin's Creed works fine, but Ubisoft starts working in a genre that is way more developed than Ubisoft is on that department. The graphic style is beautiful and if you'd like to have a more stealthy approach to Assassin's Creed, this is definitely a game for you.

This has not become the game people were hoping for. The choice to make it a 2.5D sidescroller is a good one, as many of the issues with 3D-games are now a force behind this one. In a way ACC: China is a very entertaining platform game, but the voice-overs are odd and the game asks a lot of patience of you.

An interesting change in Assassin's Creed's gameplay and a charismatic main character don't hide its flaws in the technical aspect. It's a bit monotonous, too.

Chronicles: China is a decent and correct game, it adapts the mechanics of the popular Ubisoft franchise to 2.5D perspective in a positive way with interesting contributions. Its history is not brilliant but it has a decent presentation and some fun mechanics.

Visually beautiful and interesting in the gameplay department, the spin-off series Assassin's Creed Chronicles is off to a good start. It's a shame the developers kind of force you to use stealth though, whereas action was always a viable option in previous games. It doesn't help that the controls feel a bit clunky either.