Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection in Test

The Assassin’s Creed: Ezio Collection offers three great games.


Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection Review: Collector's Remaster


Assassin's Creed is one of the most diverse series of the video game industry. While we were in Assassin's Creed - the first part - in the Holy Land at the time of the Third Crusade, we fought Assassin's Creed 3 at the time of the American Revolution and the Independence War. Between the first and third parts is the Ezio Trilogy, which catapults us into the Renaissance - to Florence, Rome, the whole of Northern Italy and the Ottoman Empire.


Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection in Test - Conclusion


So if you had no contact with Assassin's Creed, the Ezio Collection is the best. All story arcs are excellently explained here. What it has to do with Abstergo, Templars, Assassins and Eden-Shards, everything is explained. Sure, you really should start with the first part, but the Ezio trilogy is so wonderfully finished and conclusive that you can do without the first part. Regarding the story, the games were not included. So we come to the first point of criticism. After all, if you already own the games for the old consoles generation, you do not have to buy them again. It is simply not worth it.


The Ezio Collection contains all three individual game campaigns of the Games and the corresponding single player content packages - the DLC. In addition, the complete short films Assassin's Creed Lineage and Assassin's Creed Embers are at the start. The Games were released between 2009 and 2011 and have already been around for a few years. It is a pity that Ubisoft did little trouble with the new edition. While the Ezio adventures are now full-HD, with much higher-resolution textures, sharper shadows, brighter colors, and a stable image rate, the remastered versions for PS4 and Xbox One are even smaller than the original PC version. Too bad. Nathan Drake (Uncharted series), or even Batman: Return to Arkham, which comes with a new graphics engine, is a good way to show off really technically good remasters.

Nevertheless, the Ezio Collection is a successful collection of games with slight graphic enhancements. Because the games know above all through their gameplay. We learn how Ezio Auditore da Firenze is becoming one of the most feared and most respected Assassins in the time, we rush through the city, run through narrow streets, chase us with enemies, hide in human masses, solve puzzles, enjoy Partly excellent synchronized dialogues, give us the prima Storys and gladly again and again thief about the partly excellently staged bouts.


We also learn how styling and gameplay mechanics came into the series. These include, for example, the Schleicher to be hired, who are still in Assassin's Creed: Syndicate. In Revelations, there was also a tower defense example.


Sure, not everything was and is perfect. The battles or the climbing sometimes seem unassuming, the AI ​​does not always react perfectly. The Games compensate the player with a grandiose staging, which is supported among other things by contemporaries like Leonardo da Vinci. Small note to the end: The multiplayer modes from Brotherhood and Revelations are not included in the collection. Here, Ubisoft has focused on the singleplayer variants.


The Ezio Collection is exactly what it describes: a collection of three excellent games. No, we are not dealing here with lovingly implemented remastered versions, but rather with slightly adapted versions for the current console generation. Therefore, buying is only worthwhile for those who have not yet touched Assassin's Creed.