Ever wondered how crazy bonkers Victorian London really was? Then buckle up because Assassin’s Creed Syndicate literally airs some diabolically crazy trivia that is going to blow every one of your assumptions right out of the water about how this steel-top era functioned. And no, not only talking top hats and cobblestones-this crosses weirdness to another level entirely.
Recently, the company’s official Assassin’s Creed Twitter published a juicy tidbit that caught on to some pretty tragic words about Victorian London, such that there was such a deal that, it turned out, they could drive a double-decker through it. What? The tweet did not reveal it, and the fans are running off to click-click to History Hit’s video for all the details. Classic tease, ain’t it?
For those who do not know, the game Assassin’s Creed Syndicate places the player in the year 1868, whereby two twins Jacob and Evie Frye are supposed to carve their place in the sinister underbelly of London. It holds ground in terms of reality with some things exaggerated, some odd. But now with this newly shipped trivia addition, it seems Ubisoft delved rather deeper into the archives than we knew.
Well, the tweet itself is pretty vague (thanks social media algorithms!), but it indicates that there was something temporally infrastructural or architectural in Victorian London under which a double decker could plausibly have gotten through what wouldn’t happen today. Was it a tunnel? A bridge? Perhaps some secret underground passage designed for horse-drawn buses? The mystery is killing us.
And of course that replies section is crickets. No comments, no theories, just a whole bunch of people probably too dazed to put their fingers to the keyboard. You’d think after all those wild theorizing and fun master-jokes AC fans typically manage to have, this one just floored everyone. Maybe they’re all just busy on the video and have nothing to share in terms of comment.
If one were to be a history nut or has just a tendency for the random weird fact, this would be the hard-core detail which turns games like Assassin’s Creed from being just average gameplay to almost indescribable. These games really mesh history with their own mythos, but often truth is stranger than fiction. Who would have known after all this time that London had even more surprises from the nineteenth century?
So if you have a moment (and let’s be honest, you probably do), go watch that video. Because if there’s any better thing than stabbing Templars in a top hat, it would be learning the past was way weirder than your high school textbooks let on.
And maybe it will prompt a replay of Syndicate. True, the game has been around for years, but look at all the secrets it still seems to be holding. Time to dust off those little hidden blades and try to ride through history on a different run horse-no double-decker required.
