Syndicate will be the same story as all the others. Become an assassin, learn to climb buildings, kill a bunch of underlings to learn the grandmaster has a piece of Eden and can enslave the world. You learn this when it's almost too late and you must kill him in a hasty and very un assassin like battle. Don't get me wrong the game looks like it has some improvements. The fact you have a cane sword and normally where a top hat makes you way less obvious when on street level, so that's better.