do you have to play as evie ????

[zachariasfrandsen]

??

[Sahugani]

certain missions are evie or jacob specific but other than that you can swap between the two as you please.

[Timmy the Dragonborn]

HELL YEAH, is that even a question? I LOVE playing that girl anywhere in London at anytime.

[Sahugani]

I agree with Golin. Jacob is a dumbass. 30 seconds in and i wanted to punch him in his face.

[Shouvanik]

Some story missions will force you to play as her for storytelling. You can do side missions or free roam as either one of them.

I personally use them 50-50. Gang wars, kidnapping, 50% of side missions as Jacob; Child liberation, Gang strongholds and rest as Evie.

[ejandelange]

Evie is the real Assassin...Jacob is just a crook...

[erialor]

Originally posted by ejandelange:

Evie is the real Assassin...Jacob is just a crook...

+1

[Billcimus]

Both are good.

I like to switch them out every half hour or so.

[NichoZefanya]

Each sequence, got 5 (or less) main missions

which is : 2 Evie and 3 Jacobs (something like that)


Jacob is more powerfull, more loud, so he can shoot and kill everyone

Evie is more stealthy, and she can do "special magic" if you upgrade her skill to the max

That's why people love playing Evie, me too.

Evie is the real Assassin, Jacob just an ASS

[VEGETAL]

eww a grill
am i rite
/s

[Faryn]

With the exception of the Jacob-specific missions, I've played the entire game as Evie. Jacob came off as a thug. Though neither character really gets fleshed out, she's still the more interesting of the two, to my mind.

[Swiffy!~]

Jacob is an ass but I still like to use him a lot.

[DesertBloom]

Evie's much better than Jacob in my opinion. She's more true to the AC gameplay we know and love - that is, stealth. Also, her animations and finishers are MUCH more interesting and brutal than Jacob's - she uses locks to break arms and legs, whereas Jacob mostly punches and stabs.

[Faryn]

I like that there's a choice, and wish they'd had time to make those choices truly interchangeable.

I suspect in the run up to Unity, when Ubisoft took flak for not including female in multiplayer, and then blew the response with "it would have taken too long to add females to the game", they knew they had to fix that little PR problem. So, I think they called up the Syndicate project lead, and said "you've got 18 months until Syndicate launches. Get a women in there!". I really do think that's how Evie came to be.

- There are a lot of Jacob-only missions. I think these were the ones where the cutscenes were already too far along to go back and motion capture Evie.
- The Macfarlane figures, which come out every year, only have Jacob. No Evie. That's because designing, molding, and doing a production run of a figure has to be planned well in advance. I suspect Evie will be six months behind Jacob's figure.

Don't get me wrong, I'm very pleased with Evie's inclusion. I hope they eventually go the Mass Effect route. I like character choice, especially in an open world game.

[camXmile]

Evie

[RandalMcdaniel]

Lol i've hated jacob from the second he said "I've got everything i need right here" and brandished his wristblade while standing on top the train next to evie.. i was just like oh god d0uche alert