Assassin's Creed Unity

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  1. Shoki
    Oct 3, 2015
    4
    I'm not a big fan of the changes. Compared to the combat in Shadows of Mordor or some of the better Assassin Creed games this is a huge let down.

    That said the city of Paris is amazingly detailed. I've never been but playing this game makes me want to visit. It would be fun to walk around the building with an Oculus Rift.
  2. harmattan
    Nov 12, 2014
    4
    Seems like reasonably good entry into the AC series... if it actually ran on PC. Working with an i7-4770, 16GB RAM, SSD, and nicely-OC'ed 290x, I get sub-30 FPS a good amount of time at 1080p at very high with many graphical glitches. This is a pretty game, but it's not that pretty -- it should by no rights be this demanding to run. There were definitely some inexcusable corners cut inSeems like reasonably good entry into the AC series... if it actually ran on PC. Working with an i7-4770, 16GB RAM, SSD, and nicely-OC'ed 290x, I get sub-30 FPS a good amount of time at 1080p at very high with many graphical glitches. This is a pretty game, but it's not that pretty -- it should by no rights be this demanding to run. There were definitely some inexcusable corners cut in optimization (no wonder Ubisoft refused to give early copies for review). Audio also has some very strange specialization, much like the PC port of Thief.

    I feel like I'm trying to run a PS2 emulator on a 7-yr old computer with this game.    … Expand
  3. RyanAbes
    Jan 30, 2015
    4
    Sadly, four or more months after release, this game is still a hot mess of bugs. I waited, knowing the game was buggy at launch, purchasing it over a week ago. Between the graphical glitches, getting stuck on walls, random freezes, random controller drop outs… I just.

    I want to like this game. Hell, I want to PLAY this game. But this game is doing everything in it's power to stop me.
  4. Avadon
    Nov 11, 2014
    4
    Pros: It is well written so far. Voice acting is great. Nice character models.
    Cons: An absolute train wreck of glitches, horrendous frame rates and technical failure.
    Quick early warning: Wait for patches and read/watch reviews before buying.
  5. fat_funny_freak
    Jan 2, 2015
    4
    READ FOR AN HONEST REVIEW OF THE GAME!
    This review will be split into 2 reviews.
    1. The game itself without all the technical bullsh!t put aside. (I.E Framerate, stuttering) 2. The game with all the technicals. 1: If I was to just review the game itself discarding all the technical issues I would say the game is f*cking amazing. Ubi has significantly improved upon the existing    READ FOR AN HONEST REVIEW OF THE GAME!
    This review will be split into 2 reviews.

    1. The game itself without all the technical bullsh!t put aside. (I.E Framerate, stuttering)
    2. The game with all the technicals.

    1:
    If I was to just review the game itself discarding all the technical issues I would say the game is f*cking amazing. Ubi has significantly improved upon the existing game and has brought the game back to the vision of AC2. A stealth focused game. Heaps to do, love the new parkour system, makes running through areas with chest high walls not a problem. I hate the new combat system, the only reason I hate it is because its really hard, which is a good thing. This time around you actually need to try. Lots of new animations to the game. Your character feels like he as weight and mass. The crowds are massive but don't serve any purpose other then to fill the streets. So there pretty much useless. The story seems average. I have not completed it but its hard to keep up. Co-Op seems like a good idea but is heavily broken (Will discus in second part of review) and theres character customization. Heaps of gear and weapons to buy. So that sums up the experience and I would give it and 8/10

    2:
    Now, this part will explain everything I stated above but with the FPS/Stuttering/Freezing/Random Audio Loss included. I'll cut right to the chase. This is bullsh!t, the game is unplayable. Constant stuttering, FPS drops. ABSOLUTELY UNPLAYABLE. You walk down the street and your character starts teleporting around and the game freezes and all of a sudden your some where else. I can handle the minor issues like A.I f*cking up, texture popping, A.I randomly appearing. BUT I CANNOT HANDLE THE STUTTERING AND FPS DROPS. 4/10

    Side note: The game features micro transactions to allow you to unlock equipment faster. W.T.F Ubi, are you trying to be the next EA.    … Expand
  6. mrkuro
    Nov 16, 2014
    4
    Graphics 9/10: it looks great artwork is outstanding when there are not technically issues like flickering lights, pop-in. etc

    Performance: 3/10 on ultra high texture, and FXAA settings the framerate stutters heavy on high with no AA it runs okay on a SLI GTX 780TI setup on one card the game just have trouble getting past 30 fps Gameplay 4/10 running mechanism are improved or is it    Graphics 9/10: it looks great artwork is outstanding when there are not technically issues like flickering lights, pop-in. etc

    Performance: 3/10 on ultra high texture, and FXAA settings the framerate stutters heavy on high with no AA it runs okay on a SLI GTX 780TI setup on one card the game just have trouble getting past 30 fps

    Gameplay 4/10 running mechanism are improved or is it in previously AC games the system has always had incorrect guess of were you wanted to climb in Unity that system is just wrong 9/10 times only the climb down feature is a improvement and getting through a window just dont work at all.
    the AI is the worst i have experienced in a AC game
    combat is not improved its worse it does nor feel like its responding to your commands it looks fluent in the animation department but it does not feel fluent like before

    the lvling system and collectibles what on earth were they thinking it is almost like it could be a free to pay!

    the story has lost its grandeur of previously AC it lacks in Ambitions and Suspense

    overall
    the worst AC since the first one from 2007    … Expand
  7. leviamoth
    Nov 11, 2014
    4
    Optimization bad.

    Massive Lags

    Lot of glitches

    Poor Combat Mechanics

    I highly suggest to skip this one..

    I am also really disappointed, i was expecting a lot from this game...
  8. Llaerrick
    Jan 25, 2015
    4
    so i waited this long to play AC:U hoping the roll-out of patches would fix the bugs and optimization issues. even so, it was far from good which is really a shame because underneath all the bugs and frame-rate issues lies a pretty decent game.

    the new free-running is nice with the exception of windows. you would think that a parkour expert would be able to get into a window with far    so i waited this long to play AC:U hoping the roll-out of patches would fix the bugs and optimization issues. even so, it was far from good which is really a shame because underneath all the bugs and frame-rate issues lies a pretty decent game.

    the new free-running is nice with the exception of windows. you would think that a parkour expert would be able to get into a window with far less hassle.

    the plot/dialogue on the other hand leaves a lot to be desired. it's hard to find any credibility in an opener when some unknown caller with a false name tells you within a minute of talking to you that there is a centuries old conspiracy and battle between good and evil, templars and assassins, and that YOU are suddenly one of the chosen ones. yeah right, pull the other one, it's got bells on ... as believable as the one about the Nigerian president's ex-wife wanting to transfer 1259509 billion into your account, etc... but some people do fall for that so go figure ...

    co-op features are interesting and should be further developed. micro-transactions fail. unity app fail.    … Expand
  9. gamiseta
    Nov 22, 2014
    4
    I'm gonna start this review by saying that I have been a HUGE fan of this series. The story of the elder races and how our past is not what is told to us is a wonderful concept that can be a legendary IP that most players would love and remind merrily even after years. And Ubi was doing a wonderful job twisting the story and surprising players.

    Until Assassin's Creed: Unity. I wanted    I'm gonna start this review by saying that I have been a HUGE fan of this series. The story of the elder races and how our past is not what is told to us is a wonderful concept that can be a legendary IP that most players would love and remind merrily even after years. And Ubi was doing a wonderful job twisting the story and surprising players.

    Until Assassin's Creed: Unity.

    I wanted to love this game, I really did. I played it for a certain amount of time, not dwelling on it's bugs and/or faults. But again, even a fan has his own limits.

    First of all: bugs. Lots and LOTS of bugs. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I fell through the ground, stuck inside a wall or a cabinet or couldn't catch a ledge and fell to an assassin's worst enemy: gravity. I'm used to bugs in open world games: you can't expect a game to be non-linear and bug-free. But combination of a buggy game play with really serious performance issues leaves scars on you.

    Why do this game requires a great hardware anyway? Shadow of Mordor has better graphics yet my hardware was more than enough to play it. I mean I can agree that it doesn't have crowds, superb animations or a lot of water and/or reflections but it was way better in terms of both optimization and hardware/beauty ratio.

    Another thing about this game is controls. Those damned controls. I've played all other assassin's creed games and while they didn't feel as fluid as this game (in terms of both animations and climbing mechanics) but they let me do what I want to do or how I want to kill my helpless targets. But this game always blocks my progress by not letting me out of cover, stepping on a board that is literally only centimeters higher than the ground I'm on, jump on the platform I want and air assassinate the target I want to air assassinate. Seriously, when you take controls out from a game that requires you to be fluid and synchronized is like eating rice without a spoon or a fork: you are randomly using tools, hoping to do what you want to do.

    Storyline of the era (which is the era of French revolution) is really nice, even though I've no idea how French revolution went in real life. But the story line that I fell in love with (that is the previous race and how humans are created) feels like it's gone to toilet. We don't have a main character, we are just this anonymous player who plays Abstergo product but that's it. No more "let's go outside of the simulation and discover truth about whereabouts, missions and state of today's assassins and templars".

    Conclusion: This game had the potential to be something big yet it failed to deliver what it was supposed to be, both as story and game mechanics.    … Expand
  10. jesse250
    Nov 11, 2014
    4
    Ok, Let's get things straight. I want to like this game. SO BADLY. I meant believe it or not they put a lot of work in this game (they aren't made annually, guys. They are put in actually around 4-5 years of developement, so they start work on them as the last game releases). The voice actings pretty good, the characters seem somewhat interesting (not spectacular, but good), and the storyOk, Let's get things straight. I want to like this game. SO BADLY. I meant believe it or not they put a lot of work in this game (they aren't made annually, guys. They are put in actually around 4-5 years of developement, so they start work on them as the last game releases). The voice actings pretty good, the characters seem somewhat interesting (not spectacular, but good), and the story is pretty awesome (the french revolution is my favorite part of history). What keeps this game from being absolutely obliteratingly amazing is its absolute HORRIBLE optimization. AND IT'S NOT EVEN JUST ON PC. PS4 players as well as some Xbox One players are having trouble as well. Also, the MINIMUM requirements are a 680. That tells you what kind of graphics you're getting into. The RECOMMENDED specs, probably what was used to play it, uses an i7 3770 with 8 gigs of RAM as well as a freaking 780! Jesus, no wonder everyone is having trouble. As for the port to PC, there are plenty of glitches, and I expected that, but that many were unacceptable. And honestly, even with a freaking 980 (watching the gameplay from my friend with an awesome PC) it stutters and lags and freaking annoys the hell out of us. So, Ubisoft, Fix the game. Make it more optimized for PC and consoles, and maybe then, MAYBE THEN, I'll consider giving it the 8 I was going to give. Thank you for your time.… Expand
  11. robbie_333
    Nov 16, 2014
    4
    A medicre game at best, a beautiful setting marred by poor gameplay and microtransactions - the swordplay is often broken with the controller either not responding or not moving as directed as the camera fights you at every turn. In one instance I attempted to move down into cellar to "rescue" an individual, where stealth was key I tried to avoid all enemies as much as possible, movingA medicre game at best, a beautiful setting marred by poor gameplay and microtransactions - the swordplay is often broken with the controller either not responding or not moving as directed as the camera fights you at every turn. In one instance I attempted to move down into cellar to "rescue" an individual, where stealth was key I tried to avoid all enemies as much as possible, moving stealthily into position in the dead of night unfortunately Arno decided to hop from side to side alerting every character within eye view to my exact location drawing enemies from all areas. Ubisoft have tackled the moving down elements of scaling a building only to fail at the basic of moving down when at ground level. On a performance level it struggles along on an i7 3770K with GTX 970 FTW in tow, often dropping to the mid 20s, to be fair I am running at max, but why shouldn't I when I paid a lot of money to be able to max games out. The final nail in the coffin of this already emaciated, rotting corpse is Ubisoft's decision to include microtransactions in a £50 game. Pure unadulterated greed is all it can be described as. I really hope Ubisoft press the restart button on their next outing or this really should be in the end for them. My sympathies to the designers because it can look beautiful, unfortunately a lamborghini with no exhaust will blow itself out pretty quickly and this game has done so with so much style. A cobbled together mess that really needs updates, tout de suite.… Expand
  12. Futureops
    Nov 12, 2014
    4
    "Milked yearly installment"
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    Assassin's Creed: Unity could have been a solid game if it worked the way the developers intended. The game does an amazing job showing you the French Revolution but still feels lackluster and does is filled with technical and gamebreaking issues along with microtransactions.    "Milked yearly installment"
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    Assassin's Creed: Unity could have been a solid game if it worked the way the developers intended. The game does an amazing job showing you the French Revolution but still feels lackluster and does is filled with technical and gamebreaking issues along with microtransactions.

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    PROS-
    + Recreation Of French Revolution
    + More Stealth Focused
    + No In-game Loadsceens
    + Acrobatic Parkour System
    + Paris Feels Alive
    + Many Things To Do
    + More Character Customization Options
    + Colorful Textures
    + Co-op Works Well

    CONS-
    - Often Suffers From Poor Lighting
    - Frequent Frame Drops
    - Poor Pacing
    - Stupid App Tied In
    - Nonsense Crowd AI
    - Exploration Often Gets Interrupted
    - Tons Of Gamebreaking Glitches
    - Filled With Microtransactions
    - French Characters Has British Accent
    - Lackluster Story
    - Arno's Interactions With Other NPCs
    - Unfinished Broken Game

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    CONCLUSION
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    WORLD - 8
    STORY - 5
    GAMEPLAY - 5
    GRAPHICS - 5
    TECHNICAL - 2
    COOP - 5
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    GAMESCORE - 4.8 "MILKED"
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  13. AhmedShehab95
    Nov 13, 2014
    4
    First of all i played on PS4 and it was bad then my friend got it on PC and it was bad.
    i have to tell you one thing.
    That's what we get from the XBONE as Ubisoft did make the game on XBONE (The sh!ttest console) then they ported it to PS4 and PC. and yes this is what the XBONE is capable of 900p/unstable30fps maximum. Shame on you Ubisoft for ruining the game on many players    First of all i played on PS4 and it was bad then my friend got it on PC and it was bad.
    i have to tell you one thing.

    That's what we get from the XBONE as Ubisoft did make the game on XBONE (The sh!ttest console) then they ported it to PS4 and PC.

    and yes this is what the XBONE is capable of 900p/unstable30fps maximum.
    Shame on you Ubisoft for ruining the game on many players because of Microsoft and their XBONE.    … Expand
  14. Mamoulian
    Nov 12, 2014
    4
    This just has to be some kind of a joke! First Far Cry games a decade ago had better graphics and optimalization than this FAIL! I own a very high end PC so I put everything on max graphic wise as I always do and I was astonished - is this the promised revolution? What is this?? Everything looks pixelated, outdated and ugly. Characters faces, speech, textures, ugly wide black rectangles atThis just has to be some kind of a joke! First Far Cry games a decade ago had better graphics and optimalization than this FAIL! I own a very high end PC so I put everything on max graphic wise as I always do and I was astonished - is this the promised revolution? What is this?? Everything looks pixelated, outdated and ugly. Characters faces, speech, textures, ugly wide black rectangles at the bottom and the top of the screen, strange glitches, missing textures and other unbelievable stuff.. is this a joke?? Who will give me my money back!!… Expand
  15. mweagle
    Nov 11, 2014
    4
    First the good:
    1) It looks kinda nice on high - 1080p.
    2) (Most) Clothes, buildings and cutscenes have a lot of details. 3) Voice acting is good. 4) ..... Yeah... that's about it. Now the bad: A lot of the same stuff as the previous AC games. This game is just a copy of the other AC games in a new coat. That is litterally it. Combat is very slow and sluggish, it has nothing of the    First the good:
    1) It looks kinda nice on high - 1080p.
    2) (Most) Clothes, buildings and cutscenes have a lot of details.
    3) Voice acting is good.
    4) ..... Yeah... that's about it.

    Now the bad:
    A lot of the same stuff as the previous AC games. This game is just a copy of the other AC games in a new coat. That is litterally it. Combat is very slow and sluggish, it has nothing of the good old, fast gadget using Ezio. Arnoud is slow, sluggish and does not feel liek a real acrobate. Which is not that bad, since it gives the game a more realistic feeling, but....

    THE PERFORMANCE!1! OMG!
    I have played consoleports and I have played consoleports, but never have I played something like this. My rig can play BF4 med on 1080p on 120fps stable, Watch_Dogs on 60 stable on high, yet AC:U cannot get over 40 with 720p and everything low/off. And it doesn't even look decent on low. The entire game is painful for the eyes and all the enjoyable fluent gameplay is killed due to the performance issues. Compared to this, they even did a good job with Watch_Dogs.
    AI is bad and guards sometimes just disappear when they lost track of you, as if they magically re-enter their original guard-duty-path. Plus, I was stuck on multiple occasions, and had to reload entire memories to play on.

    Untill the performance issues are fixed, this game is not worth getting.    … Expand
  16. AverageReviews
    Nov 16, 2014
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'll start by saying that I've played every single AC game ubisoft has released.
    That being stated, and clear, I really tried to like this game, I mean I've been waiting for it for a lot of years now, and I got really hyped about it.
    Note: I won't even speak about graphics or optimization, my computer ran if perfectly, thats all.
    Now, lets get straight to the story. We all remember how the stories of the other AC games started really strong into action, sailing, getting born, etc. This game starts with you stealing an apple and then seeing your father die. You never get to that point in the story where you feel like you have enjoyed the game, or achieved something AT ALL.
    Ubisoft focuses on changing combat for every single game, and this time, I have to say it feels clunky. Combat for AC 3 and AC: Blackflag was much better than combat this time. It just feels like if you play alone, you are done.
    Parkour system is broken and unresponsive. That is all I have to say about it because it is frustrating. You can't do simple jumps from a surface to the other, but you CAN jump 10m from rooftop to rooftop.

    Conclusion: I really tried liking this game, I've been expecting it and I've played them all. I mean if you are a real fan you know we've been expecting to see what happened to Desmond, but all the interaction we get with the outer world is a view from what seems to be a screen...

    Oh well, you get a 4 because I loved your past games, but I'd rate this much lower. If you are a real fan, don't destroy your blackflag memories playing this one. Better skip it, it is not involved in the main plot anyways.    … Expand
  17. Magajanes
    Nov 20, 2014
    4
    Well... I'm not happy with the note I'm giving to this game, but I gotta be honest. It has major problems! The story so far is not disappointing, but not spectacular as well. It is a little cliche, but doesn't ruin the game. What is really really bad here: the hardware requirements. Everybody is saying this... EVERYBODY!!! So, it's gotta be true and not just haters cry. It's a mess...Well... I'm not happy with the note I'm giving to this game, but I gotta be honest. It has major problems! The story so far is not disappointing, but not spectacular as well. It is a little cliche, but doesn't ruin the game. What is really really bad here: the hardware requirements. Everybody is saying this... EVERYBODY!!! So, it's gotta be true and not just haters cry. It's a mess... complete mess!!! The controls don't respond properly either. To run this game nice and smooth, you need a monster computer. Something really really expensive, specially here where I live (Brazil). It was very very disappointing. My computer is not that bad... I have a R9 270X and even in medium graphics quality I feel like in the past, trying to run GTA IV in a poor computer. It freezes, the fps is ridiculous... I'm sad.

    I'm really sad because the game in general is awesome! It's not just more of the same. It is in some way, but AC fans are used to it... and LOVE IT! We want more AC, new stories, new mysteries, new characters and Unity gives us all this! But in a way that is too much expensive to feel happy about it...    … Expand
  18. StermiV
    Dec 6, 2014
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So much for expecting, and so much disappointment! Everybody around me know for this game bcs of me. Now I give up for this game.....they lost their path since the Assassin's Creed III.....sooo much disappointment...… Expand
  19. thearcher
    Dec 17, 2014
    4
    Pros;
    -Customization
    -Co-op

    Cons;
    -Framerate issues with decent pc
    -Gamebreaking bugs (alot of bugs)
    -Uplay
    -Bad optimization (30 fps cut-scenes ftw.. not really)
    -Poor combat system

    I was hoping for a patch fix some of the problems but its ubisoft so..
    I feel like 4 is too much for this game but I feel generous today
    I'm going to skip this one
  20. icels
    Dec 27, 2014
    4
    I was willing to forgive the glitches since I didn't get nearly as many (Waited a week and a half to play it since I played Rogue first), but the cliche ending was horribly written and completely ruined an otherwise 7/10 game. Ubisoft's hired a bunch of 15 year old boys to write this one, it's worse than Mass Effect 3.
  21. PTZBurn
    Jan 10, 2015
    4
    Very bad optimization and game story. i7 4770 with R9 270x and comfortable game on low settings? But Paris... Paris is beautiful city! Ubisoft made cool city, bit a very bad game!
  22. hongkong97
    Sep 26, 2015
    4
    assassin creed unity on pc sucks. its has bugs and lots of glitchs. assassin creed is dead now. assassins creed 4 was better than this crap. but the graphics are good. but still boring. i ould get ac4 or ac2. because those were great ac games.
  23. Tgc
    Nov 9, 2015
    4
    I've played version 1.5 and it is still bugged. Most annoying part - I've got constant crashes just in the end in sequence 12. Beside that game is one of the most boring AC ever. Repetitive gameplay and story. I appreciate refreshed game engine and fact that creators wanted to make assassination more stealth like, however i was still able to kill all enemies using brute-force.
  24. Pedobear987
    Apr 16, 2016
    4
    Me arrepiento mucho de comprar este juego... Si se le puede llamar juego a un festival de BUGS graciosos pero molestos demasiado que le pongo un 4. No lo penséis no lo compréis no vale la pena pero descargadlo pirata si lo seguís queriendo.
  25. AbeMC
    Apr 4, 2017
    4
    Assassin’s Creed Unity is the massively bloated sibling of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. One big city, run around, do stuff, occasionally travel to out-lying areas. Stunning graphics (and facial animations) can’t hide the huge amount filler missions / collectibles and awful implementation of the traditional Assassin’s Creed parkour / free-running system. Unity is easily one of the moreAssassin’s Creed Unity is the massively bloated sibling of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. One big city, run around, do stuff, occasionally travel to out-lying areas. Stunning graphics (and facial animations) can’t hide the huge amount filler missions / collectibles and awful implementation of the traditional Assassin’s Creed parkour / free-running system. Unity is easily one of the more frustrating entries in the franchise. Oh, and there are co-op missions. Not that anyone is playing.
    Total size on my hard drive: 49.4 GB

    + Great graphics. The level of detail is superb. Facial animations are generally great too.
    + Loved the massive crowds. Blending into a crowd feels completely natural.
    + Co-op works well, though good luck randomly finding anyone to play with.
    + Well-optimized on PC in 2017.
    + Great soundtrack.
    + Ubisoft was clearly trying for Ezio 2.0 with Arno Dorian; he is charming one instant and grittily determined the next. A good character, even if his arc is something we’ve seen before from Ubisoft.

    +/- The story is… odd. Someone brings a blindfolded Templar into the Assassin headquarters (seriously?!). Another has a traitor taking extreme action because – he wasn’t good at arguing, wasn’t able to convince someone of his point of view? Things frequently happen because the plot needs them to happen, not because they make any particular sense.

    - Many story elements feel half-baked. A sword of Eden? Where did it come from? Who made it? How did wind up in France in the 14th century? What is its significance to the sage? No clue.
    - Arno’s Eagle vision doesn’t function like Ezio’s or even Edward’s. It only serves to highlight enemies and objects of interest – it can’t trace the steps of patrol patterns.
    - An attempt to introduce boss battles mostly fails. The final boss starts well, but ends as a joke as the exact same pattern can be repeated multiple times to win – the boss never adjusts to a particular tactic.
    - Poorly designed assassination missions. Either too easy or too hard. I breezed through almost every 5-star difficulty mission, but died repeatedly on several 3-star missions.
    - Edge-detection, so important in a parkour / free-running game, is some of the worst in the Assassin’s Creed franchise. There are some classic gifs of Ezio, Altair, and others randomly leaping to their deaths, getting stuck on merchant stalls, and the like. But this kind of thing happens so often in Unity it’s not funny. Worse, it creates issues when trying to stealth. Sometimes Arno will slip through a window when asked, other times he perches on edge of the roof like an idiot, twitching but not going through the window. Sometimes he’ll go in the direction the camera is facing; more often, though, he’ll go across the camera. I understand that optimizing a world of the size of Unity’s would require a titanic amount of work, but it doesn’t feel like Ubisoft even optimized their algorithm, formula, parameter, or what ever it is they used for the edge-detection.
    - The delay before standing up from a chest, or taking off running, or getting back on your feet after being knocked down is programmed into the animation. I though it was input lag at first, but it’s not. I wonder who the idiot was who thought that was a good idea. Combine this with the issues with edge-detection, and AC Unity is easily one of the most frustrating games I’ve ever played.
    - Combat is heavy-footed and clumsy. No more kill-chains. Or counter kills. You can dodge-roll, though...
    - Too many collectibles. Most provide nothing except the satisfaction that comes from seeing a completely clean map.
    - Many meaningless side-missions, if they can even be called that. Go to the Assassin icon on the map, get the briefing, walk around a corner, stab someone, voila! Mission completed.
    - Meaningless street missions. Catch a thief, prevent a citizen from being killed, kill the criminals. It will all happen dozens of times.
    - Accumulate money fast. Makes the collectibles even more meaningless.
    - Paris looks flat and boring from the roof-tops. Few landmarks means you’ll be constantly referring to your map just to find your way around.

    Assassin’s Creed Unity does feel like a massively expanded Brotherhood. But there is no Volpe, no Machiavelli, no Leonardo, and we’re not fighting the Borgias. The vendetta in Unity is on a personal level, and what made previous assassins (and Ezio in particular) special is that they found a way to rise above the petty grievances to work for a cause greater than themselves. In contrast, Arno joins the assassins in a fit of anger and spends much of the game seeking his personal revenge, only caring about the Creed in the final voice-over. Unity’s beautiful game-world becomes the backdrop to a blah story, a massive amount of collectibles and horrible parkour – all of which scream of a missed opportunity.    … Expand
  26. leinartas
    Apr 9, 2017
    4
    +The story in begining was quite good, haven't finished because of lags and u can't use controller on this game because of input delay...
    -Lags
    -bugs
    -errors
  27. CoreGamer1408
    Dec 1, 2022
    4
    I have played some AC games way back in the day on PS3. This is a free drop from Ubisoft Connect. The fundimental flaw of all AC games is that I am playing a game within a game. Taking a VR trip inside in a characters ancestors memories is kind of immersion breaking. This series would of worked without the sci-fi elements. I would of happily played an line of descendant assassinsI have played some AC games way back in the day on PS3. This is a free drop from Ubisoft Connect. The fundimental flaw of all AC games is that I am playing a game within a game. Taking a VR trip inside in a characters ancestors memories is kind of immersion breaking. This series would of worked without the sci-fi elements. I would of happily played an line of descendant assassins throughout the history.… Expand
  28. quagtine
    Apr 27, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Assassin's Creed Unity launched on PC in such a poor state that it has taken me till 2018 to actually be able to play and run it. Nonetheless, I didn't judge the game and this review won't really be about the PC port though it does factor into my opinions of it somewhat. Assassin's Creed Unity was built in a brand new engine, this is clear and it shows with the amount of bugs that as of 2018 still plague the game. Paris looks washed out and the graphics are muddy, though I suppose this fits the aesthetic of the time. I don't go to an assassin's creed game for graphics though, I go for the story and the history! And does Assassin's Creed Unity nail the French Revolution? Not really, no. Arno's story barely even mentions the revolution and I feel that his fragmented mess of a narrative could literally have been shoehorned into almost any Assassin's Creed game to date if a couple of names and details were switched. The narrative arc for a character which started out as a witty Ezio 2.0 was promising for the first two hours but slowly fell apart, leaving him feeling more like a Farcry character than a real protagonist and his supporting cast aren't much to go on either, other than Pierre Bellec who ***Spoiler*** ends up killing the Grand Master of the assassin's for speaking to Arno's love interest Elise who was a Templar. What a tragic end to the only remotely likeable character in the game and that's only because he called me pisspot. The story arc itself literally cannot make its mind up regarding the direction of the narrative it flicks between Bellec to the Templar Grandmaster at one point so jarringly that I thought I'd accidentally skipped a memory. The game also likes to shoehorn in famous people that we've all heard of like Napoleon despite the fact he didn't really bring much to the game and leaves out anybody solely important to the French Revolution like Maximillien Robespierre (other than a cheeky mention at the beginning as he is admitted into the party.)
    The new detective mode is pretty decent too, but I think Syndicate did it way better. So, why did I give it a 4 instead of a 0 if I thought it was a useless Assassin's Creed game? That would be because of the combat, it's heavy, meaty and satisfying as well as highly customiseable. I loved toting a heavy old great sword and sweeping the floor with patriots and I think the weapon and armour system was a step in the right direction- perfected now by Origins. Mechanically, it's almost beautiful as a game, but as a story narrative game this was sorely lacking.    … Expand
  29. Avrora
    Dec 6, 2018
    4
    And as a person past from 1 Assassin's to Unity, I want to express my opinion:
    The first thing that is terrible in the game is the control: Arno constantly goes there where the mouse is not directed, but in the management, one can see progress in the gaming industry. For this I have an example: From 1 to brotherhood of blood, to climb roofs you need 3 buttons from Assassin's Creed 3 to    And as a person past from 1 Assassin's to Unity, I want to express my opinion:
    The first thing that is terrible in the game is the control: Arno constantly goes there where the mouse is not directed, but in the management, one can see progress in the gaming industry. For this I have an example: From 1 to brotherhood of blood, to climb roofs you need 3 buttons from Assassin's Creed 3 to Unity two buttons, but with Unity, you need to press 4 buttons while reacting to the Down behavior of the character, so progress for 2014 is visible on the face. Then fight is something at all if more than 2 enemies attacked me, I just stay on one place and dying because me easier to die than kill 3 or God forbid 4 enemies when in 1 Assassin's Creed I could kill more than 7 enemies, but Ubisoft doesn't care but they did it with another enemy. And also feeling the Assassin's Creed even the pirate could use the enemy as a human shield, but not Arnaud, although he doesn’t even know how to make a double kill without training. I don’t complain about FPS with GTX 1050Ti at 40 fps on the roofs, it’s normal. The plot is a separate ROFL, but the only reason I don't put 1 it's a plot.    … Expand
  30. ErhanCeylan123
    Jul 17, 2020
    4
    Pros + Good art design and sometimes parkour
    Cons - Boring characters,flat storyline,bad gameplay,bugs,missions The worst Assassin's Creed game ever made.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Hyper Magazine
    Feb 9, 2015
    70
    Well at least it's better than ACIII. [Issue#257, p.66]
  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Dec 24, 2014
    73
    Newfound openness of Assassin’s Creed demonstrates just how inadequate its AI really is for a stealth game: pampered nobility usually simply ignores a bloodied body on the dance floor, and guards don’t care much either. At least they’ve learned how to fight: unless you “cheat” with smoke bombs, it’s highly unlikely you’ll survive a melee against a group. [Jan 2015, p.62]
  3. Riot Pixels
    Nov 27, 2014
    67
    As I write this, Assassin’s Creed: Unity is a bugfest, but technical problems, however annoying, can and probably will be fixed. It is not cracks in textures that it is the most worrying thing about Unity, but the cracks in game design and writing.
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