Summary
- Assassin's Creed series has evolved combat from scripted counters to hitbox system since Origins.
- Each game offers unique combat mechanics; from methodical sword fights to fast-paced brutality.
- Valhalla combines elements from Origins and Odyssey for a balanced combat experience.
It’s almost difficult to believe that has been around for thirteen years. With the recent entry Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla knocking Call of Duty from the top spot in the UK charts, it's obvious the ser𓆉ies isn’t going to disappear anytime soon.
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Up until the ninth major entry in the series – Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate – the combat system mostly relied on a variation of a “paired animation system” which uses scripted counters, finishers, and combinations. While each title differed in the same way, after nearly a decade the series needed a revamp, which began with Assassin’s Creed: Origins' new action-based system. There will always be fans of both mechanics but let’ꦬs see whi⭕ch ranks as the best in the series.
Updates on March 20, 2025 by Tom Hopkins: Players have complained that the likes of Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla are overly complicated. To change that, Ubisoft has scaled back the number of mechanics for Shadows. Since fans have wanted Assassin's Creed to go to Japan for a long time, they needed to get it right for the long-delayed latest entry in the series.
11 💛 Assassin’s Creed 𝐆
Assassin's Creed
- Released
- November 14, 2007 𝐆
- ESRB
- M For Mature 17+ Due To Blo♌od, Strong Language, Violence
- Developer(s)
- �🌌� Ubisoft Montreal
- Publisher(s)
- Ubisoft
- Engine
- 𒆙 anvilnext, havok, scimitar
- Sequel(s)
- Assassin's Creed 2
- Number of Players
- Single Plꦉayer ಌ
- How Long To Beat
- 🍷 𓃲 14.5 Hours
- How Long To Beat (Completionist Runs)
- 32 Hours
Even though it’s a bit clunky and slow by today’s modern standards, the combat in the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:original Assassin’s Creed still does a great job capturin๊g the methodical pace of a medieval sword fight. Counters are satisfying to pull off because the fights can be so challenging and the weaponry feels like it has a real sense of weight to it.
There is a decent range of weapons that captures the brutality of a medieval battle really well. Betteꦡr still, the fights against the Templars are almost always entertaining back a😼nd forth affairs that require thought and strategy.
10 Assassin&rs🎃quo;s Cr🍃eed II
Assassin's Creed 2
- Released
- 🐻November 7, 2009
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood, Intense Violence, ไSexual Content, Strong Language
- Developer(s)
- Ubisoft
- Publisher(s)
- Ubisoft
- Engine
- 🌌 havok, anvil
- Platform(s)
- macOS, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch, PC, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 3, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- How Long To Beat
- 19 Hours
- Metascore
- 91
- PS Plus Availability
- ꧂ Extr♉a & Premium
With a brand new setting based during the Italian Renaissance comes a more refined combat sy🔥stem that combined elements of both fencing and brutal swor💦dplay. It’s also more complex than the first game in that it brought in a more responsive counter system and the ability to disarm one’s opponents.
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Furthermore, the game’s protagonist Ezio can now wield two Hidden ꦇBlades at once and wield axes, maces, and poison blades. It was the first game in the series to really make the player feel empowered even when surrounded by a gang of enemies.
9 Assassin’s Creed: Re👍velations
Assassin's Creed Revelations
- Released
- Nove꧟mber 15, 2011
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood, Languag꧙e, Mild Sexual Themes, Violence 🧸
- Developer(s)
- 𒈔 Ubisoft Montreal
- Publisher(s)
- Ubisoft
- Engine
- havok
- Multiplayer
- O꧂nline Multiplayer
- How Long To Beat
- 13 Hours
- Metascore
- 80
- PS Plus Availability
- ♕ Extra & Premium
The third entry in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Ezio trilogy, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations shows off a more refin🐻ed and improved combat system that feels like an evolution of what began with the second mainline 𝔉title in the series.
Chaining strikes together is now more fluid than it was in the pꩵredecessors and landing counter strikes is more responsive. In addition, 🍸players can also land execution strikes in quick succession when surrounded by a group of enemies.
8 Assassin’sꦦ Creed I💞V: Black Flag
Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag (2013)
- Released
- October 29,𓂃 2013
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood, Sඣexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol, Violence
- Developer(s)
- ꦉ Ubisoft Montreal
- Publisher(s)
- Ubisoft
- Engine
- AnvilNext
- Multiplayer
- Local𓄧 Multiplayer
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty
It doesn’t get more swashbuckling than Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. The combat, while simplistic, is incredibly satisfying and enjoyable to play. Like its predecessors, Black Flag is all about figuring out the best stra🧸tegies in a fight from taking down brutes to dueling with captains.
It’s probably fair to say that Black Flag is quite easy especially compared to the original Assassin’s Creed and the Ezio Collection but it’s much more fluid and is always entertaining especially when boarding enemy ships after a naval battle. Considering it was a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 4 launch title it still holds up very well on a visual level.
7 Assassin’s Creed: Rogue ꦗ
Assassin's Creed Rogue
- Released
- November 11, 2014 ꦆ
- ESRB
- M For M꧟ature 17+ due to Blood, Strong Lan🐓guage, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Ubisoft
- Publisher(s)
- Ubisoft
- Engine
- AnvilNext
- Platform(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 3, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Stadia
- How Long To Beat
- 11 Hours
- PS Plus Availability
- 💃 Extra & Premium 🏅
- OpenCritic Rating
- Fair
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin’s Creed: Rogue plays and looks like a follow up to Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag with its visuals slightly scaled back for last-gen systems. However, it’s sti꧟ll a great looking titleꦍ that holds up very well in its PS4 and Xbox One remaster that released in 2018.
Rogue was quite overlooked at the time of its release because all of the focus was on the more advanced looking Assassin’s Creed: Unity, but many would argue that it’s the better game of the two. The combat system is almost identical to Black Flag but the protagonist Shay Cormac feels more powerful and brutal to control. In addition, the fighting and stealth combat systems have more quality of life improvements and the combat is more timing-based with counters taking inspiration from the Batman Arkham Knight series.
6 💝 Assassin’s Creed III
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Assassin's Creed III
- Released
- October 30, 2012
- ESRB
- ಌ M for Mature: Blood, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Strong Laꦍnguage
- Developer(s)
- ♛ Ubisoft Montreal
- Publisher(s)
- Ubisoft
- Engine
- anvilnext, havok
- Multiplayer
- Onl🦋ine Multiplayer
- Franchise
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin's Creed
- Platform(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Wii U, PC, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 3, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Stadia
- How Long To Beat
- 17 Hours
- PS Plus Availability
- 🌄 Extra & Premium
- How Long To Beat (Completionist Runs)
- 55 Hours
Taking inspiration from films like The Last of the Mohicans and The Patriot, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin’s Creed III has one of th𝔍e most interesting and fun combat systems in the series. The lead protagonist Conn💙or plays every bit like the warrior he’s supposed to be and provides players with an amazing sense of power.
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The only downside of that power, however, is that it can be accused of being a little bit too easy, but when it’s as enjoyable as Assassin’s Creed III it really doesn’t matter. Connor feels like he was designed to wipe out waves of enemies in large ♒scales battles and the game perfectly captures that.
5 Assassin's Creed Shadows
Assassin's Creed Shadows
- Released
- March 20, 2025🌼 📖
- ESRB
- Ma🍒ture 17+ // Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language
- Developer(s)
- 🍸 Ubisoft Quebec ෴
- Publisher(s)
- Ubisoft
- Engine
- AnvilNext
- Number of Players
- 1
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- Unknown
- PC Release Date
- March 20, 20🏅25 💎
- Xbox Series X|S Release Date
- 🐠 March 🔯20, 2025
- PS5 Release Date
- 🃏 🃏March 20, 2025
- X|S Optimized
- Yes
- OpenCritic Rating
- Strong
For the long-awaited debut of Assassin's Creed's Japan adventures, Ubisoft has simplified the combat a little. While there are plenty of weapons to use across the two main characters' inventorie𝐆s, you don't have to think about much when taking on most enemies.
The majority of fights are focused on dodging red attacks, parrying white ones, and blocked a series of blue ones. When💝 you parry at the right time, you can attack. The attacks are very smooth and the combat is fun, it's just not the deepest in the series.
4 𝕴 ꦯ Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
- Released
- O🐓ctober 15, 2018
- ESRB
- 🌜 M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Strong Language ꧒
- Developer(s)
- 🥀 Ubisoft Quebec ♕
- Publisher(s)
- Ubisoft
- Engine
- anvilnext
- How Long To Beat
- 45 Hours
- X|S Optimized
- Yes
- File Size Xbox Series
- 75 G꧙B (November 2023) ꦅ
- Metascore
- 87
- PS Plus Availability
- 🍷Extra & Premium ൲
- How Long To Beat (Completionist Runs)
- 143 Hours
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty
Set in Ancient Greece, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is the second game in the rebooted series that features a new modern-day protagonist Layla Hassan and a new hitbox combat system. The combat system in Odyssey is faster than Origins but does lack the weight and impact of thatᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ game.
However, for players that prefer speed and using counters and dodge mechanics instead of a shield to fight off enemies, Odyssey nails a sense of ferocity. The only downside compared to its predecessor is the time it takes to beat certain enemies as some fights can feel drawn too out. However, it’s still a good fighting system that’s almost comparable to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:FromSoft’s Bloodborne.
3 Assassin’s Creed Oriꦛgins
- Released
- October 27, 2017 ༺ ꧅
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood and Gore, ꦇDrug Reference, Intense Violence, Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol
- Developer(s)
- Ubisoft
- Publisher(s)
- Ubisoft
- Engine
- AnvilNext 2.0 🤪
- PC Release Date
- ꦜ 🐬 October 27, 2017
- Platform(s)
- Xbox One, PC, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 4, Stadia
- How Long To Beat
- 30 Hours
- X|S Optimized
- Yes
- File Size Xbox Series
- 49 GB (November ܫ2023) ꦍ
- PS Plus Availability
- 𝄹 Extra & Premi༺um
- How Long To Beat (Completionist Runs)
- 88 Hours
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin’s Creed: Origins serves as both a prequel and reboot for the series by featuring a larger more open world that’s set in Ancient Egypt, a new modern-day protagonist, and a combat system that does away with the scripted countermoves and finishing moves of its predecessor in favor of a hitbox fighting system that’s similar to the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Demon's/Dark Souls series.
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The combat in Origins is both fast and weighty and is arguably better balanced than the more aggressively paced Odyssey. There feels like there’s more freedom to approach combat with stealth or in all-out brawls. There are lots of weapons and weapon classes that can offer different appr🐼oaches to gameplay.
2 Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla 💃
- Released
- Novemꦍber 10, 2020
- ESRB
- ꦯ M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs and Alcohol
- Developer(s)
- Ubisoft
- Publisher(s)
- Ubisoft
- Engine
- ❀💮 Ubisoft Anvil
- Cross-Platform Play
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla supports cross-pr😼ogression between all platforms!
- Cross Save
- yes
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- yes
- Platform(s)
- Stadia, PC, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 4, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 5, Xbox One, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series X, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series S
- How Long To Beat
- 61 Hours
- X|S Optimized
- yes
- Metascore
- 84
- PS Plus Availability
- 🦹 Extra & Premium 🌞
- How Long To Beat (Completionist Runs)
- 144 Hours
- OpenCritic Rating
- Strong
Released in 2020, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla is the third entry in the Layla Hassan trilogy and it takes place during the Viking Invasion of Britain. The combat in Valhalla feels like the perfect balance between the mechanics in Origins and Odyssey.
Furthermore, Valhalla manages to reintroduce many of the stealth mechanics made popular by the Creed titles that preceded Origins while also encouraging the kind of vi🥂olent brutality that’s expected of a Viking warrior.
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