Developer: Ubisoft
Publisher: Ubisoft
Rating: T (Teen)
Price: Free-to-play
The release of Assassin’s Creed Rebellion is not the first time that Ubisoft has made Assassin’s Creed mobile games, but this is the first time that they have done things right on the mobile AC titles. As a long-time AC fan, I greatly enjoy playing Rebellion and I can see that it will stay installed on my phone for a long while.
Content Guide
Violence: You are playing as multiple assassins, who use various abilities to assassinate targets. Characters are all in chibi style, and there is no blood or gore involved in gameplay.
Spiritual Themes: The templars are spiritual leaders who are at high leadership of church hierarchy in the medieval setting.
Positive Themes: Teamwork among different characters and abilities are highly valued and recommended. You won’t be able to achieve full stats if you don’t adjust your team building accordingly.
Review
Who could ever have thought Ubisoft would develop an AC game with cute chibi style? It turned out pretty attractive to the eyes! All the assassins characters are cute and adorable in their own ways with various appearances, abilities, and roles. Let’s dive into the game and see why Rebellion works so well.
In this game, you start with choosing a name for your brotherhood, and then you recruit a couple of assassins for tutorial missions. The mission will gradually ease you into the introduction of roles, combat, interface, and building systems. Everything is very easy to follow and player-friendly.
Aguilar de Nerha is your starting shadow assassin, and he will be the main pick for many missions in the early levels. He can perform free running and assassination with his hidden blade. You will need him to climb through obstacles and eliminate enemies in silence. Tariq al-Nasr is another assassin who you will unlock very early, who fills the a role of DPS. He is good at dealing lots of damage to enemies in 1:1 fighting. Hamid al-Jasur is great for disarming traps and unlocking chests. Do be careful because each assassin has its own strength and weakness, so it is necessary to fully understand are good at before sending them on missions.
The chibi art style is wonderful and they all look very adorable. The music is fitting and easily recognizable as coming from other entries in the Assassin’s Creed franchise. The story involves the typical conflict between the templars and the brotherhood, but it is more attractive due to the chibi storytelling.
You can build and expand your brotherhood from ground up. More room construction options become available when you reach certain levels of your brotherhood, which can be gained by completing missions. Each room has different functions and are not mere decorations. For example, the training room can help your assassins level up faster, the weaponsmith, armosmith, and workshop can create new gear to boost up your assassins’ power stats, the treasury provides extra money, and the intel room is your to-go place for receiving missions.
Just like many other games with missions, you can collect extra rewards by completing daily objectives and achievements. It is a great way to level up or to collect materials for building brotherhood and recruiting new members. When you reach level 8, your brotherhood will unlock a new wing, and you can unlock more building options till level 20. Special events are also available from time to time. Some events require higher power stats and some require certain levels of brotherhood to unlock. The game developer definitely has plenty content to keep you busy for a long while.
The shop is an option for people who want to skip the hard work and to get to the rare items quickly. You can get free rewards every 3 hours, so if you are very diligent you will receive tons of free items in no time. However, if you don’t want to wait every 3 hours, the game constantly reminds you that a special deal is available for you to purchase with real-world money. I personally did not find any needs or urge to buy anything for me to continue playing the game at all. And through my gameplay experience, I can tell you that you can play and enjoy the game well without spending a cent.
You recruit new assassins to your brotherhood by unlocking them through DNA fragments or buying them from the shop. Some missions provide DNA fragments as a part of their rewards. It takes a bit of luck to get a great drop, but that is part of way that the game encourages you to spend real-world money.
Helix credits, rift tokens, intel tickets, and coins are the currencies of Rebellion. You can use them to speed up your training, join special events, attend missions, build rooms, and create gear. I never ran out any of the currencies during my whole playthrough; I had plenty of left over even after finishing all I wanted to do each time. I appreciate the developer being generous on this.
Overall, Assassin’s Creed Rebellion is a very fun game on mobile for both AC fans and casual phone game players. I will definitely recommend you to give it a try and hope you will enjoy the game as much as I have.
The Bottom Line
I’m not generally into these types of freemium games but I love AC and figured I might as well give it a try. That was back when it was first released. I’m pretty sure I’ve played it every day since. Just a bit some days: grab the daily bonus, grab some DNA, etc. I’m not exactly sure why it works so well for me, but the unlocking and leveling of guild members is just right in the amount of grinding needed. I mostly have legendary people left so it’s slowed down a bit. They’ve been increasing the frequency of the “Special” helix missions so that’s helped. Sometimes rushing missions is all I can do and other days I’ll try missions using different people with different abilities.
Good overview of a fun, accessible mobile game. Thanks