Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India Critic Reviews

While the core mechanics remain functionally the same, that (even more) exotic setting and (lesser known) time period, brilliant environment design and brief, but effective, narrative all combine to make something that offers just that little bit more.

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India improves almost everything from the first chapter, expanding the gameplay and making the experience more compelling.

Assassin's Creed: Chronicles - India is a product that's better than China. The developers are experimenting with their game and as a result Arbaaz's adventures are more interesting that Shao Jun's story. It's not as good as the almost perfect Mark of the Ninja but you can clearly see a step in the right direction. If you liked the previous game you'll be happy with the new Chronicles.

It's basically Chronicles: China with a new skin. A solid sequel to a solid 2D platformer.

Assassin's Creed Chronicles India is a 2.5D platformer adventure game in a league of its own. You can't compare it with its larger brother, but the low price guarantees good value for money, with challenging sections and replayability.

For the most part, I enjoyed my time with AC: India and look forward to the final entry in the Chronicles Trilogy, AC: Russia.

It's a step further from its predecessor, as it adds a bit of replay value to the formula. On the other hand, the main gameplay issues are still there.

It steals elements from the classic Prince of Persia games. AC India requires some patience and its focus on stealth and platforming gives it an old school charm that diminishes its technical flaws.

A simple and effective game, but missing some new features and variety.

The lands of the Taj Mahal have charm. It's great to climb this complex of palaces, busy streets, gardens and bazaars.

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India is a good experience, but is everything rather than perfect. It's cheap, and it's fun, but the control system is not reactive and the gameplay should be more fluid.

India is a new entry in the platformer and stealth themed Chronicles series, and as its first iteration it mixes a lot of nice gameplay elements with interesting results.

Gameplay-wise it's better than Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India, but it's also very similar. If you like stealth-based games, this could be an interesting option.

I enjoyed Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India, but it wasn't different enough from China to suggest that playing both is a necessity. If Russia is similarly indistinct, I'd have to recommend players simply pick the country that interests them the most.

Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India is a good 2.5D stealth game that reminds us the classic Prince of Persia, unfortunately its bad combat system and linear levels result on a experience far from perfection. This spin-off will be enjoyed by the fans of the series but for the rest of players maybe will be a little boring and repetitive.

Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India makes some vast improvements over its predecessor in terms of style and gameplay while providing challenging 2D puzzles, but still lacks an engaging narrative.

It's a decent way to spend some time in-between the bigger releases, though Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India is ultimately too superficial to make a lasting impression. A promising setting ultimately isn't enough to keep this 2D platformer interesting.

The absolute beauty of the painting-like art style also helped.

Despite being a side-show from the annual attractions, it’s still business as usual. Standard stealth with a null story amidst an interesting and unventured historical period. Like me, that last part may be enough to entice. Just don’t expect the former to feel as novel.

Instead of building on ACC: China’s formula, Climax Studios delivered more of the same, just more annoying.