Assassin's Creed seems to enjoy operating without limits. The franchise has always dreamed big and attempted to deliver even bigger, and if the series has one blatant weakness, it's that its annual ambitions exceed what consoles are realistically able to produce. Its grand designs have left modern hardware behind, and the series remains shackled - alongside a few lingering design shortcomings that continue to appear. Yet as one of the most compelling modern franchise concepts, it's hard not to be excited by whatever new era Ubisoft's global studios are able to conjure up. The question, then, becomes this: can the Assassin's Creed franchise balance its desire to move into yet another new era with its need to acknowledge its inherent strengths and weaknesses? After five installments, is ambition enough to keep this modern blockbuster relevant as we begin to move into a new generation of technology?
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