Assassin's Creed Syndicate Gets Free 60 FPS Patch on PS5, Xbox Series S/X: Here's Why You Should Revisit it

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The ninth console generation has been a relatively quiet one. The PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series S/X consoles have seen some major releases — Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Halo Infinite — but the current generation has largely been marked by the conspicuous absence of tentpole exclusive titles. Bigger games are certainly on their way; Sony has announced Ghost of Yotei for 2025, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle launches on Xbox and PC next month. Until then, a string of remakes, remasters and some excellent third-party titles are keeping players busy.

But a lot of older games remain in the limbo of unrealised potential, waiting to utilise the power of current-gen consoles. When the PS5 and Xbox Series S/X launched in 2020, a slew of previous-gen games got free updates that bumped up their performance on new machines to 60fps — the expected standard on the consoles. These patches breathed new life into the games, previously locked to 30fps, bringing new and old players a smoother gameplay experience.

But in the fourth year of the current console generation, these updates to older titles have thinned out, leading to many excellent games stuck in 30fps hell on modern consoles. On Tuesday, Ubisoft rolled out a free 60fps update for Assassin's Creed Syndicate on PS5 and Xbox Series S/X, nine years after the game launched. I booted up the updated version of the game on the PS5, and the patch has had a transformative effect.

Assassin's Creed Syndicate, the last AC title before the series shed its original identity and embraced an RPG-style approach, now runs at 60fps on PS5 and Xbox Series S/X. And on PS5, PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X, the game hits the higher framerate at full 4K resolution. I installed the game on the PS5 after the patch rolled out late Tuesday and dove back into the game's Victorian London setting. At 4K, 60fps, Syndicate feels fresh, even though its core gameplay loop hasn't really stood the test of time. It was repetitive then; it is repetitive now. But