Assassin's Creed Unity

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  1. r03vg
    Apr 15, 2020
    9
    Последний хороший Assassin's Creed. Жаль, игра вышла недоработанной, с глюками и кучей вырезанного контента.
  2. weissfahne
    Mar 29, 2020
    8
    i think, this game deserves 8.5, cuz we cant see like this any game that shows french revolution, and revolution civil war. (civil soliders against royalty soliders) and environment shows us the in-revolution Paris well . Even if game contains some(a bit) (very) bugs.
  3. Woolf2000
    Mar 7, 2020
    0
    Is this a joke? Ubisoft bugfest, story ridiculous, combat doesnt function at all. Repetitive until the end. Cant be worse than this
  4. nutsu_br
    Feb 25, 2020
    8
    This game has beautiful grafics, but he has so much bugs and the story is very raw........................................................
  5. Shimmeywill
    Feb 20, 2020
    5
    It's fun to wander around the city and collect cosmetics and gear. That's about it, the rest of the gameplay is forgettable.
  6. Nameless2131
    Feb 6, 2020
    8
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  7. AlinuxOP
    Jan 2, 2020
    6
    Assassin's Creed Unity might be one of the worst titles of the series! I don't have any idea why this game had so much problems... First, I want to say something about the storyline, which is not complicated at all, it's simple, linear, with not so much plot-twists, almost none. The second I think I want to talk about is the level of the optimization of the game, and this is very low. IAssassin's Creed Unity might be one of the worst titles of the series! I don't have any idea why this game had so much problems... First, I want to say something about the storyline, which is not complicated at all, it's simple, linear, with not so much plot-twists, almost none. The second I think I want to talk about is the level of the optimization of the game, and this is very low. I managed to play the game on maximum graphics, with FPS being stable between 60 and 70 and I think this is a little strange, because this game is from 6 years ago and my video card it's good enough. Other things I would like to consider while I write this review is the graphic, which is good, and maybe a little crispy and the fact that the gameplay overall is boring, nothing special through the game... I just can say that would be a struggle to complete the game if you are a completionist, especially because of the high rate of spawning random events on the streets. There are not many things to praise in this game, it's just mediocre, maybe not even that... Assassin's Creed should only be played if it is the last game of the franchise which you didn't finish yet.… Expand
  8. MichaelViet
    Nov 24, 2019
    8
    Interesting setting, beautiful open world. Yeah, not a good story. All the plots in Assassin are very similar, but this does not make the game worse.
  9. Genek13
    Nov 18, 2019
    8
    I played this game after all patches was released.
    Fun to play with great story and new parkour and fighting mechanics.
  10. Ketis_12
    Nov 16, 2019
    7
    The game is not as bad as the reviews show. The story was pretty good and graphics not bad at all for a 5 year old game. No performance issues playing with RX Vega 56. The gameplay just doesn't feel responsive and the game is buggy as hell. Overall a decent assassin's creed game nonetheless.
  11. Jach
    Nov 12, 2019
    5
    The optimisation made by Ubisoft is bad. Unisoft didn't optimized the game. Too bad, it seemed like a good game. I can run it at 20 FPS and with too much freezes which render the game unplayable

    Edit : with my new PC, it runs rather good so I'm changing the review a bit
  12. MazrimTaim14
    Oct 7, 2019
    0
    Took me weeks just to launch this game and then just to discover its a broken mess. Lags and bugs.

    It might have a great gameplay mechanic or story but if you can't run it smoothly and the experience takes the fun out of it then it should have not been released in the first place.
  13. BudMeister
    Oct 4, 2019
    7
    "A short leap"

    Technical analysis summary Graphics: 8.5 Sound: 6.5 Playability: 8.0 Longevity: 7.5 Impact: 8.0 Pro + A splendid digital Paris and beautiful character models + Solid parkour mechanics and animations + Improved combat system + A lot of content and side missions... Cons - ...but not really enthralling - Bugs and Freezes - Sound effects are good, music is    "A short leap"

    Technical analysis summary

    Graphics: 8.5
    Sound: 6.5
    Playability: 8.0
    Longevity: 7.5
    Impact: 8.0

    Pro
    + A splendid digital Paris and beautiful character models
    + Solid parkour mechanics and animations
    + Improved combat system
    + A lot of content and side missions...

    Cons
    - ...but not really enthralling
    - Bugs and Freezes
    - Sound effects are good, music is acceptable but... british voice actors for French characters?!
    - Poor story despite the interesting protagonists

    Overall Verdict

    7.5: AC Unity is a shy step forward in the AC series, full of interesting ideas but also with none of them fully realized. Half single player and half multiplayer, doesn't convince in any of them. Most of the players won't even try all of the aspects of the character customization nor the side activities of a big ,and we have to admit beautiful, computerized Paris.
    Fans will miss the atmosphere of the old AC games but is admirable that Ubisoft actually tried to add something new to the formula, and true AC lovers will absolutely appreciate some new concepts. With a more engaging story it could have been a better game. All in all, an enjoyable game.

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    PC Optimization as of 19/09/2016

    At the time of the release, the game was full of game-crashing bugs. After a year of updates the game is more than playable but still needs some tuning to avoid certain unsolved bugs. The multiplayer never really worked properly (cutting what could have been a huge positive aspect of the game). Not a well optimized game.    … Expand
  14. yokerclown
    Sep 29, 2019
    5
    With this "horrible optimization", it is killing mainly that, what is so good on other side!

    Shame on you developers! And next time, don't forget to ruin the rest...
  15. SilverOrlov
    Sep 27, 2019
    7
    If this game was on its own, I would not criticize it very much, since in general I liked the main story. But as part of an entire series that once had an amazing story and atmosphere - this is absolutely not the way the series was supposed to go. When I played this game in 2018, I did not encounter any bugs, so they probably already fixed them... but on the other hand I met a veryIf this game was on its own, I would not criticize it very much, since in general I liked the main story. But as part of an entire series that once had an amazing story and atmosphere - this is absolutely not the way the series was supposed to go. When I played this game in 2018, I did not encounter any bugs, so they probably already fixed them... but on the other hand I met a very uncomfortable battle system in which everything "dances and flickers". Too much casual design. Too many smooth, more than enough pretty decorations. I didn’t really like the whole French surroundings ... or more correctly, how it was implemented in this game.… Expand
  16. Aldinth
    Sep 16, 2019
    5
    I'm a completionist and a fan of AC series, yet in this game i was unable to do anything but main story. Despite playing it 5 years after it was released, the number of bugs is astonishing and systems lack the polish AC: Syndicate provided. It makes the game with otherwise nice story and idea unpleasant to play.
  17. kindle
    Sep 5, 2019
    8
    Игра очень хорошая и революционная в серии в индустрии,очень красивый открытый мир,ето потрясающая робота,браво,но игра была закопана тупыми придурками которые не понимают что столь красивая и революционная игра не могла идти на пк за 200$,оказывается должна,и естесвенно пришлось пожертвовать производительностю и оптимизацией,вы должны понимать сколько роботы было проделано,и ето междуИгра очень хорошая и революционная в серии в индустрии,очень красивый открытый мир,ето потрясающая робота,браво,но игра была закопана тупыми придурками которые не понимают что столь красивая и революционная игра не могла идти на пк за 200$,оказывается должна,и естесвенно пришлось пожертвовать производительностю и оптимизацией,вы должны понимать сколько роботы было проделано,и ето между прочем за менше чем за 2 года,я хочу услышать критику игры от того кто в нее поиграл понимая сколько роботы было проделано в кротчайшие сроки,тогда пишите что хотите + потом все исправили и игратся стало нормально.… Expand
  18. MercenaryofHate
    Aug 28, 2019
    7
    This might sound strange but I actually like Assassin's Creed Unity sure the story is forgettable and leaves you feeling confused sometimes but that is not the prime aspect of AC Unity. What about the music? No that isn't it either. Here is what is good about the game thought for start the graphics for this game is phenomenal the busy streets and rooftops of 18th century France is a joy toThis might sound strange but I actually like Assassin's Creed Unity sure the story is forgettable and leaves you feeling confused sometimes but that is not the prime aspect of AC Unity. What about the music? No that isn't it either. Here is what is good about the game thought for start the graphics for this game is phenomenal the busy streets and rooftops of 18th century France is a joy to explore and fight in which brings me to my next point combat is..enjoyable but the use of overpowered guns from npcs can end you fun qucikly. Still the kills are fun to preform. What about the character Arno himself? Well he is charming but aside from his own hidden motives to pursue he really doesn't have much development he is a good assassin and I guess that is what matters the most for members of the Assassin Order. Compared to Shay or Edward he's a step down. The customization really improved and this is a big plus for the game as it feels worth it to compete in challenges to earn reward clothing and weapons. Bottom line the game is still fun to free roam in and do parkour.… Expand
  19. CarloCriscuolo
    Jul 11, 2019
    7
    ITA
    Assassin’s Creed Unity è stato per molti il peggior capitolo della saga, soprattutto per via del lancio fortemente problematico a causa dei numerosissimi bug.
    L’inizio del gioco è assai fastidioso per quanto riguarda il gameplay, spesso infatti ci si troverà ad affrontare nemici più forti e più numerosi del giocatore. Non sarebbe nulla di insormontabile, se non fosse per il fatto che    ITA
    Assassin’s Creed Unity è stato per molti il peggior capitolo della saga, soprattutto per via del lancio fortemente problematico a causa dei numerosissimi bug.
    L’inizio del gioco è assai fastidioso per quanto riguarda il gameplay, spesso infatti ci si troverà ad affrontare nemici più forti e più numerosi del giocatore. Non sarebbe nulla di insormontabile, se non fosse per il fatto che in alcune occasioni il personaggio non recepisca il comando della parata, e ciò rende il gameplay agli esordi lievemente frustrante. Con migliore equipaggiamento ed abilità, che si sbloccheranno man mano nella storia, sarà molto più facile eliminare i nemici anche grazie ai potenziamenti alla furtività che apporteranno alcune armature.
    La storia è gradevole e in più occasioni sembra voler sfoggiare l’elemento che contraddistingue questo capitolo, il parkour. Ora è infatti possibile eseguire la corsa verso il basso, per scendere, quella verso l’alto, per salire, e quella tradizionale per correre in linea retta. In molte missioni il gioco sembra voler favorire l’elemento stealth, dando molte occasioni e strumenti per intrufolarsi silenziosamente nell’obiettivo e assassinare la preda. Caratteristico del capitolo è anche il comparto multiplayer, che permette di giocare alcune missioni con altri giocatori, nonché di trovarsi nella stessa mappa di gioco fino in 4 amici.
    Fantastica la personalizzazione di Arno, protagonista del capitolo, che può indossare diversissime armature, scegliendo tra una vasta gamma di combinazioni di colori, e “skin” (chiamate abiti), che permettono di acquisire ed indossare il vestiario di altri assassini celebri della saga, come Altair e Ezio.
    Interessante anche il DLC Dead Kings, che porta Arno in una città ormai dominata dal crimine e dai banditi, e dove potrà sbloccare una nuova arma, il mortaio a ghigliottina, che farà sia da arma corpo a corpo che a distanza, sparando colpi di mortaio sui nemici.

    Nel complesso, tenendo conto dei problemi al lancio e di altri bug sporadici durante il gioco, ancora presenti, talvolta fastidiosi, il gioco rimane comunque discreto e secondo me da provare, soprattutto se in compagnia.    … Expand
  20. dominojachas
    Jun 6, 2019
    3
    So I tried it today in 2019. Recreation of France is really nice even for few years old game. But that's it about positives and the only reason I'm giving any points in the score.
    Control of the player especially during parkour is horrible. It's even hard to call it a 'control' when the character is actually out of control. Want to jump forward? Ok but the character will decide to jump    So I tried it today in 2019. Recreation of France is really nice even for few years old game. But that's it about positives and the only reason I'm giving any points in the score.
    Control of the player especially during parkour is horrible. It's even hard to call it a 'control' when the character is actually out of control. Want to jump forward? Ok but the character will decide to jump backward because why not? Not to mention that it's not even possible to predict where player can jump and where he can't, very useful feature when you want to run away and you stuck and got shot because you can't jump.
    Another thing is that progress level demand playing side missions or playing main missions with lower level than recommended for the next mission. Do I should maybe buy some microt...
    I'm so disappointed. I love story driven adventure games and it's another after Assassins Creed Odyssey that I decided to uninstall to not bother with such bad games (Odyssey for other reasons). It seems that AC series is not for me. I prefer games where I have full control over my character and progression level is done the right way based on my progress not on playing boring side missions or paying bribe to get boost it.    … Expand
  21. bskierys
    Jun 4, 2019
    7
    It still amazes me how poorly this game is perceived. While this is not a revolution that it was told to be, but I had a great time playing it.
    What shines the most in Unity are the main assassinations. Honestly, I think they are one of the best in the series. Each one of them is unique. in each one, we have multiple ways to attack. We can free the prisoners to create a diversion, we can    It still amazes me how poorly this game is perceived. While this is not a revolution that it was told to be, but I had a great time playing it.
    What shines the most in Unity are the main assassinations. Honestly, I think they are one of the best in the series. Each one of them is unique. in each one, we have multiple ways to attack. We can free the prisoners to create a diversion, we can rob a monk to grab a key to the secret entrance to the building and so on. And for the first time in the series, I feel that Altair's word are true: "I am the blade in the crowd". The crowds in this game are amazing. There are a lot of people on the screen. Of course, they are mindless copies with no purpose, but this is still enough for you to feel like a real assassin.
    When speaking of crowds is hard not to mention the setting. The game takes place during the French revolution in the 18th century. And I have to admit, I have a mixed feeling about that. As usual, the city is done with perfection. Walking on the streets of Paris, now full of barricades and flames, climbing on a Notre Dame Cathedral - just amazing. But I feel like the story potential of the Revolution was just wasted. The Revolution is just a background. We don't take part, we are just passing by.
    The story is ok. That is all I can say. The protagonist has its moments. For the first time in the series, I felt like we have someone who questions what other people is saying to him. But for the most part of the game, he is just flat and boring.
    The gameplay was rebuild. The combat is better and a little more difficult. The introduction of descending action during parkour was a great choice. And for the first time in the series, we have a dedicated stealth mode. I also really liked the open-world activities in the city. Especially detective quests and city object-finding puzzles called "Nostradamus' riddles".
    Don't get me wrong. The game has its problems. Technical issues, Poorly designed user interface, forgettable story and an open world filled with just a little too generic quests. But It is a good game. I recommend you give it a try.    … Expand
  22. jeffcloudy
    May 29, 2019
    0
    I am giving this game a zero due to the fact that it has horrendous controls. I don't know what the devs were thinking! Who said, "yeah, this game is clunky af, character gets stuck on everything every other second, stealth is cukky, etc...yep it's perfect, lets release". I am never buying a ubisoft game, they are the worst at triple A game development. BTW, if you designed the gameplay,I am giving this game a zero due to the fact that it has horrendous controls. I don't know what the devs were thinking! Who said, "yeah, this game is clunky af, character gets stuck on everything every other second, stealth is cukky, etc...yep it's perfect, lets release". I am never buying a ubisoft game, they are the worst at triple A game development. BTW, if you designed the gameplay, and you are reading this. please, just jump off a high place will you.… Expand
  23. RetroMatero
    May 19, 2019
    0
    Hace poco adquirí el juego para mi PC (AMD Ryzen 5, GTX 1080 ti, 16 GB Ram, 1 TB HDD), y pese un par de errores de texturas, el juego me ha funcionado bien. La verdad me gusta el trasfondo de la saga de Assassin's Creed, con los Templarios, y que toquen temas históricos. Pero, por qué le pongo un cero?
    - Porque lo conseguí pirata, dado que en su época lo compré con un amigo que tiene un    Hace poco adquirí el juego para mi PC (AMD Ryzen 5, GTX 1080 ti, 16 GB Ram, 1 TB HDD), y pese un par de errores de texturas, el juego me ha funcionado bien. La verdad me gusta el trasfondo de la saga de Assassin's Creed, con los Templarios, y que toquen temas históricos. Pero, por qué le pongo un cero?
    - Porque lo conseguí pirata, dado que en su época lo compré con un amigo que tiene un PC (que tenía un FX 8370, GTX 980 ti, 12 GB Ram), y la verdad que fueron los 70 dólares peor invertidos.
    - Por la cantidad enfermiza de bugs que tuvo esa versión (la original), son tantos que si los enumero, me da para escribir 4 hojas enteras.
    - Porque al momento de devolver el juego, la querida Ubi nos negó la devolución, y nos dio a cambio Watch Dogs (otra porquería de juego más buggeada que AC Unity)
    - Sobre todo, por el maldito DENUVO (el sistema antipiratería), que es lo que hace que los juegos de Ubi estén así de jodidos.

    Claro que no le voy a echar la culpa a la developer (Ubisoft Montreal), sino a la publisher, que es la misma sede en Francia de Ubisoft, porque son quienes dan las órdenes de sacar juegos apresurados, mostrar trailers impresionantes, poner microtransacciones en juegos de 70 dólares, para sacar más dinero...

    Ubisoft, qué te ha pasado? Yo que disfrutaba con sagas como Rayman, Farcry, Tom Clancy... ahora tengo que piratear tus juegos... por favor, quitá ese DENUVO de una vez porque ya no cuela...

    Pero creo que la culpa la tienen los usuarios, que se compran el juego de forma masiva, seducidos por los tráilers, y luego se terminan comiendo un juego muy mal optimizado, pero que defienden porque su youtuber de culto lo andaba promocionando (y que le han regalado la copia de prensa y encima, le han dado sus maletines por ello). De verdad tenemos que esperar 2 o 3 años para que arreglen sus juegos terriblemente optimizados? Nos han visto la cara de tontos?

    SI NO ESTÁS SEGURO DE LO QUE ES EL JUEGO, O NO TE CONVENCE, NO LO COMPRES! NO VALE LA PENA TIRAR 70 DÓLARES PARA LUEGO COMERTE UN JUEGO QUE SABE A UN BUEN TRABAJO PERO ARRUINADO POR PARTE DE SU PUBLISHER.

    I recently acquired the game for my PC (AMD Ryzen 5, GTX 1080 ti, 16 GB Ram, 1 TB HDD), and despite a couple of textural errors, the game worked well for me. I really like the background of the saga of Assassin's Creed, with the Templars, and touch historical issues. But why do I put a zero?
    - Because I got it pirated, since in his time I bought it with a friend who has a PC (he had an FX 8370, GTX 980 ti, 12 GB Ram), and the truth is that it was the 70 dollars worse invested.
    - For the unhealthy amount of bugs that version had (the original), there are so many that if I list them, I get to write 4 whole sheets.
    - Because at the time of returning the game, the beloved Ubi denied us the return, and gave us in return Watch Dogs (another game crap more bugged than AC Unity)
    - Above all, by the damn DENUVO (the anti-piracy system), which is what makes Ubi games so screwed up.

    Of course I will not blame the developer (Ubisoft Montreal), but the publisher, which is the same headquarters in France of Ubisoft, because they are the ones who give the orders to take out rushed games, show impressive trailers, put microtransactions in $ 70 games, to get more money ...

    Ubisoft, what happened to you? I enjoyed with sagas like Rayman, Farcry, Tom Clancy ... now I have to pirate your games ... please, remove that DENUVO at once because it does not strain ...

    But I think it's the users' fault, that they buy the game in a massive way, seduced by the trailers, and then they end up eating a very poorly optimized game, but they defend because their cult youtuber was promoting it (and that they have given the press copy and they have given him their briefcases for it). Do we really have to wait 2 or 3 years for them to fix their terribly optimized games? They have seen us the face of fools?

    IF YOU ARE NOT SURE OF WHAT THE GAME IS, OR DO NOT CONVINCE, DO NOT BUY IT! NOT WORTH THE PENALTY TO DROP 70 DOLLARS THEN COME A GAME THAT KNOWS A GOOD JOB BUT RUINED BY THEIR PUBLISHER.    … Expand
  24. Fedochek
    May 14, 2019
    10
    Good game. The best game in the series. There are some problems with optimization and bugs, but it's fine.
  25. darthcooper
    May 10, 2019
    10
    One of the best AC games were Ubisoft actually got it right. It's fun and doesn't take 84 years to finish. The only downside is the microtransactions.
  26. TheGatsbyDude
    Apr 28, 2019
    2
    I really wanted to like this game. Unfortunately, Ubisoft does a fantastic job at ruining any positive aspect of this game.
    The scenery is beautiful
    When it renders properly and doesn't suffer from major pop ins The Level design is as infuriating as it confusing After 5 years the game remains a technical mess. Textures don't load properly, animations in cutscenes are bugged or outright    I really wanted to like this game. Unfortunately, Ubisoft does a fantastic job at ruining any positive aspect of this game.
    The scenery is beautiful
    When it renders properly and doesn't suffer from major pop ins
    The Level design is as infuriating as it confusing
    After 5 years the game remains a technical mess. Textures don't load properly, animations in cutscenes are bugged or outright broken.
    I see many people saying you need a "powerful rig" to run this game
    That is simply not true. The game will run the same on a med-high performance computer: that is to say it will run like **** because the game is not capable of running smoothly at all.

    I gave this game a good college try. After many sessions ending with me hitting alt+f4 out of rage, I simply had no choice but to warn people away from this gorgeous trainwreck of a game

    2/10
    I got it for free and still payed too much.    … Expand
  27. LiraAE
    Mar 26, 2019
    9
    The game is simply amazing, everyone complains about optimization, everything was fine, the world is huge, but in this part you cannot go beyond, alas (Just the enemies here are someone who hits, someone shoots. The game has one drawback , very short, it takes 10-15 hours. I would recommend it, definitely, but only if you have a good PC, but rather play consoles.
  28. hypernewbie
    Feb 12, 2019
    0
    lol I think they got too carried away with the new engine that they forgot to make the actual game. Calm down guys.
  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. EricPhan
    Dec 6, 2018
    1
    This game control is horrendously bad, with at least 1 second delay, making climbing a nightmare, on top of that are repetitive missions that require a lot of climbing and A TIME LIMIT??? Which make this the most frustrated experience I've ever have in ANY Assassin's Creed games.

    The story is dull, very predictable. The main character is an idiot, a douche, the one you would say "well,    This game control is horrendously bad, with at least 1 second delay, making climbing a nightmare, on top of that are repetitive missions that require a lot of climbing and A TIME LIMIT??? Which make this the most frustrated experience I've ever have in ANY Assassin's Creed games.

    The story is dull, very predictable. The main character is an idiot, a douche, the one you would say "well, it sucks to be that guy". Main story is short, side-quests are repetitive.    … Expand
  31. Ernest_Figueroa
    Nov 23, 2018
    1
    No puedo creer que puedan hacer un juego tan roto, mal optimizado, como fan de la saga me ah dolido en el alma este juego. La ambientación si te quedas quieto es lo único bueno de este juego.
  32. Chaython
    Nov 15, 2018
    1
    Still very broken, filled with micro-transactions, terrible UI.
    The only thing that was ever good about the game was it's graphics.
    I bought this when it had just launched, it came with a Nvidia gpu; at the time, you'd play it and there was no micro-transactions yet but you'd have chase missions where the guy would freeze in place and then teleport out of zone and you would fail, so    Still very broken, filled with micro-transactions, terrible UI.
    The only thing that was ever good about the game was it's graphics.
    I bought this when it had just launched, it came with a Nvidia gpu; at the time, you'd play it and there was no micro-transactions yet but you'd have chase missions where the guy would freeze in place and then teleport out of zone and you would fail, so you'd have to start predicting where he would teleport to; or you would have that same failure...    … Expand
  33. duckhost
    Oct 24, 2018
    8
    After 4 years most of the otimization problems have been fixed, this game has a interesting story to tell and there is meat in it's bones to sastify the player troughout the hole game.
  34. NikeSh
    Oct 6, 2018
    5
    Игра получилась крайне спорная.
    Сюжет слабый, частенько скучный и имеет дыры.
    Игра сильно поломана, во время боёв не всегда срабатывают кнопки, местами после удара ГГ встаёт в ступор и ничего не может делать, стелс... даже стелс работает криво, местами ползёшь по крыше, включаешь орлиное зрение и наблюдаешь как 5 человек стреляет в потолок пытаясь попасть в тебя... Саундтрек... Он есть,    Игра получилась крайне спорная.
    Сюжет слабый, частенько скучный и имеет дыры.
    Игра сильно поломана, во время боёв не всегда срабатывают кнопки, местами после удара ГГ встаёт в ступор и ничего не может делать, стелс... даже стелс работает криво, местами ползёшь по крыше, включаешь орлиное зрение и наблюдаешь как 5 человек стреляет в потолок пытаясь попасть в тебя...
    Саундтрек... Он есть, вроде неплох, но за игру мало когда в обще его замечал.
    Визуал, выглядит всё очень красиво, сочно.
    С картой просто ужас, открываю и по несколько минут ищу сюжетную миссию, т.к. вся карта в отметках, каждый сантиметр с каким-нибудь значком, думаю даже каждые пару миллиметров.
    Понравилось возможность подбора разных одежд, одевая перчаткикапюшон и прочее - такое какое ты сам захочешь.
    Кооп получился неплохим, но в нём также баги, история из коопа с другом: Заходим мы в одну комнату и он перебегает через коридор в соседнюю комнату, я смотрю а в коридоре враг умирает с анимацией убийства скрытого клинка, я его спрашиваю как он это сделал, а он говорит что он стоит в комнате с ним и в данный момент его убил. После убийства он снова телепортировался в коридор к телу врага. В общем с сетевым кодом явно проблемы.
    Оптимизация хромает немного, но разницу заметил от релизной версии.
    В общем с момента выхода всё изменилось в лучшую сторону, но всё равно осталась уйма багов.
    Какое-то удовольствие от игры всё равно получил, так что отрицательную оценку не буду ставить.    … Expand
  35. Gelaos
    Sep 18, 2018
    5
    The graphics is beautiful, the combat is finally a bit challenging (for the first time since AC:B) and revolutionary Paris has a strong atmosphere. But characters and plot is totally, horribly uninteresting. But my biggest problem with Unity? No, it's not the bugs. It is the French Revolution. This revolution is widely considered to be one of the most important revolutions for entireThe graphics is beautiful, the combat is finally a bit challenging (for the first time since AC:B) and revolutionary Paris has a strong atmosphere. But characters and plot is totally, horribly uninteresting. But my biggest problem with Unity? No, it's not the bugs. It is the French Revolution. This revolution is widely considered to be one of the most important revolutions for entire mankind (Western world especially), thousands of volumes were written about it. Fall of monarchy, rise of Napoleon, Roberspierre, left and right, crumbling of entire state, Reign of Terror, fall of Bastille, political intrigues, civil unrests, chaos... And what does Unity focus on? On a totally cliche, dull, boring lovestory between some French assassin (the protagonist) and some Templar girl. Really, Ubisoft? Is this the best you can do?… Expand
  36. SanteriAT
    Sep 11, 2018
    9
    The story is great if you really get into it, but can be kinda easy to miss if you're not interested in a somewhat romantic adventure through Versailles and Paris during the French Revolution. To me, personally, there could be nothing better and the story really hits home and I really got into it. Otherwise I'd say the gameplay is easily the best in the franchise and the visuals areThe story is great if you really get into it, but can be kinda easy to miss if you're not interested in a somewhat romantic adventure through Versailles and Paris during the French Revolution. To me, personally, there could be nothing better and the story really hits home and I really got into it. Otherwise I'd say the gameplay is easily the best in the franchise and the visuals are stunning. After all patches and maintenance the game even runs smoothly and without problems on any platform.… Expand
  37. genji22
    Aug 18, 2018
    0
    Nearly no better graphics than the last 2 AC games,and it demands 10xbetter hardware.Whats the logic in it?I have GTX580 GPU / i7 2600K CPU / 8 GB Ram...those should be more than enough to run this graphically average game...I'll ask a refund for this game,if they wont fix the fps issue.

    edit:Purchased a GTX970 and this game is still lack of solid fps...
  38. ItsGosho
    Aug 3, 2018
    10
    +Graphics 10/10
    +Story 10/10
    +Optimization 7/10 (And for this graphics what do you expect ,to use the integrated videocard or budget one :D)
    +World 10/10 (Big and beautiful)
    +Combats (Not that easy ,not that hard ,they are perfect balanced)
    +Weapons & Armour 11/10 ,big scope of them to fit your style
  39. EljeroTV
    Jul 31, 2018
    9
    Heavily underrated game that improved upon the traditional formula of AC games in so many ways without losing its identity. Because this is at its core what an Assassin's Creed game should look like:

    No pirates, no Indian tribe story, no Grand Theft Horse Carriages - just grounded urban assassinations and infiltrations. In addition to that we have the best parcour system of the series    Heavily underrated game that improved upon the traditional formula of AC games in so many ways without losing its identity. Because this is at its core what an Assassin's Creed game should look like:

    No pirates, no Indian tribe story, no Grand Theft Horse Carriages - just grounded urban assassinations and infiltrations. In addition to that we have the best parcour system of the series with great fluidity and animations, a challenging combat system with a huge variety of weapons and great character customization through equipment.
    Now, they did go too far at some points, for example the skill tree, who is just absolutely unnecessarily restricting your gameplay options, but that's okay. The biggest problem however remains the lack of polish. The game did so much new stuff and improved upon so much on such a large scale, as a result controls can become inaccurate and clumsy (best seen when trying to enter through a window or trapdoor) and bugs still frequently occur.
    Gladly these are no longer game-breaking as they were on release, who as it seems still unjustifiably taint the user score of this brilliant game here on Metacritic. Performance and framerate are also good, considering the beautiful graphics and scale of ingame Paris.

    Sadly, many of the improvements made by Unity were reverted for the succeeding entries instead of polishing their rough edges. Because in Unity we have: Co-op missions, great character customization, freely approachable assassination missions, a challenging and interesting combat system, the best parcour system, detective missions and much, much more including minor improvements like not having missions fail instantaneously but instead offering new objectives to make up for failed attempts and more.

    So, if you like Assassin's Creed, history, or 3rd person action games in general: Buy this game!    … Expand
  40. Dohbear
    Jun 17, 2018
    5
    Not fitting of the assassins creed name, a pretty generic story worsened by poor performance which didn't keep me interested
  41. 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
  42. Josue_online
    Apr 24, 2018
    8
    (played with i7 6800k, 32gb ram and gtx 1080Ti)

    PRO- Visualmente es PRODIGIOSO. Solo por la belleza visual ya vale la pena. (4k una gozada)
    -Buena historia y jugabilidad.

    CONTRA- MUY exigente en requisitos. Una 1080Ti con TODO ultra, puede moverlo a 30 fps bien, pero con bajones puntuales. ¿60 fps y 4k? imposible con todo a tope.
  43. Meta1234
    Apr 16, 2018
    7
    First, apologies to the players who got the game on launch day 1 and experienced the intense buggyness of it.

    I tend as a player to have some restraint (perhaps comes with the player's age) and usually get the game a bit later than the launch, not only to benefit from a more balanced price, but also to make sure that the game runs as smoothly as possible. The long-lasting taste that    First, apologies to the players who got the game on launch day 1 and experienced the intense buggyness of it.

    I tend as a player to have some restraint (perhaps comes with the player's age) and usually get the game a bit later than the launch, not only to benefit from a more balanced price, but also to make sure that the game runs as smoothly as possible.

    The long-lasting taste that this game left me with, is slightly higher than the AC III game. It is a 7.

    It was a major effort to upgrade the graphics but on the other hand the story was dull and could not come near the Ezio trilogy.

    The difficulty of the game was frustrating, in particular the combat balance. Once again just like in the AC III game the environment felt very dense in a suffocation way.

    Had I taken the buggyness into account it would have been a 5, but I tend not to.    … Expand
  44. Voodoo123
    Apr 6, 2018
    9
    +Exceptional digital art
    +Fantastic soundtrack
    +Great voice cast +Immersive virtual paris -Same old creed new skin -A little 'clunky' feeling compared to other creed titles Playing this on modern gaming hardware is a treat at 1440p. Absolutely blown away by the visuals at times playing this. Story is engaging, of decent length and high quality. It's dirt cheap these days so if    +Exceptional digital art
    +Fantastic soundtrack
    +Great voice cast
    +Immersive virtual paris
    -Same old creed new skin
    -A little 'clunky' feeling compared to other creed titles

    Playing this on modern gaming hardware is a treat at 1440p. Absolutely blown away by the visuals at times playing this. Story is engaging, of decent length and high quality. It's dirt cheap these days so if you're a creed fan who happens to own a high/mid range rig you owe it to yourself to try this.    … Expand
  45. ERDEM2468
    Mar 12, 2018
    0
    **** action gameplay, **** story, **** characters (includes Arno), **** mission designs, **** upgrade system, **** npcs, **** side missions, **** optimizasion (i played on 1070 with 45 fps), **** bugs, **** mission stealth design, not a bad stealth mechanics. Shortly this game is a ****
  46. AstiX
    Nov 26, 2017
    6
    The game looks absolutely beautiful. The graphics are amazing and incredibly detailed and vivid. Paris looks so alive in the golden sunlight which makes running around and climbing very satisfying. I loved the attention to detail on textures, especially on clothing.

    All this, however, is completely ruined by the horrible optimization. The game runs horribly slow for a 3 year old game,    The game looks absolutely beautiful. The graphics are amazing and incredibly detailed and vivid. Paris looks so alive in the golden sunlight which makes running around and climbing very satisfying. I loved the attention to detail on textures, especially on clothing.

    All this, however, is completely ruined by the horrible optimization. The game runs horribly slow for a 3 year old game, and the mouse movement is laggy and sluggish which translates to "NO PROPER MOUSE SUPPORT".

    You're encouraged to use stealth tactics because fighting enemies head on is next to impossible 90% of the time, and yet, the poor stealth controls combined with input lag make it next to impossible to kill enemies unnoticed as well. This made for some extremely frustrating missions.

    The story is ok, but it's riddled with countless boring and dreadfully repetitive missions. And these are the MAIN STORY MISSIONS. I don't even want to talk about the dullness of millions of side-missions which I couldn't care less about. This is the only Assassin's Creed I haven't tried to complete 100%.    … Expand
  47. Nexon213
    Nov 23, 2017
    8
    Assassin's Creed Unity принесла много нового в серию, но вот только подкачала с оптимизацией, ну очень много технических проблем... Сюжет игры довольно неплохой, хотя и короткий, графика просто шикарна, геймплей улучшился.
    Игра не двинулась вперёд в плане сюжета в серии, так же раздражают вещи для сбора...    Assassin's Creed Unity принесла много нового в серию, но вот только подкачала с оптимизацией, ну очень много технических проблем... Сюжет игры довольно неплохой, хотя и короткий, графика просто шикарна, геймплей улучшился.
    Игра не двинулась вперёд в плане сюжета в серии, так же раздражают вещи для сбора...
  48. fireyose
    Nov 2, 2017
    8
    What a pleasant surprise. After all the negativity about this game I expected to hate it. I went in with the mind state that it was broken and unplayable. That, I know now, is simply not true, at least with my experience with it in 2017. Had a great time with this, at least until the later sequences, where the bugs seem to increase exponentially. Here it is...

    The GOOD: A beautiful    What a pleasant surprise. After all the negativity about this game I expected to hate it. I went in with the mind state that it was broken and unplayable. That, I know now, is simply not true, at least with my experience with it in 2017. Had a great time with this, at least until the later sequences, where the bugs seem to increase exponentially. Here it is...

    The GOOD:
    A beautiful game with gorgeous graphics and skins. The world is simply surreal at times with visuals that blew me away. France 1790s has never looked better leading up to a world changing revolution. The Story is fun to follow, kept me jumping back session and session to see where Arno will end up at the end of all this. Patches must have fixed many of the screen tearing issues and face pop ins/outs.

    The BAD:
    Horrific gaming engine. The amount of times I wanted to pull my hair out because of a malfunction with either jumping or unpredictable behavior surpasses any other game. CRITICAL moments ruined by a glitch in jumping, moving or the null of either. This for me broke the game to the point of no return at sequence 10. Over and over I died after far progression is assassinations and side objectives for support. This would be fine if we had a tolerable checkpoint system... BUT WE DO NOT. You must start all over in redundant fashion each time you are killed or glitched into oblivion. AI is also laughably idiotic.

    Overall:
    I had a blast with this game the first half. Each story mission felt fleshed out and massive. Options seemed fair and the pace kept up the fun factor. I enjoyed this more than any other assassins creed game to be honest. Still haven't tried syndicate though. That's next. Do I recommend? Yes. Will i ever play this again? No. It has been good Unity, you have been enjoyable for the hours you gave me without the logical idiocy.    … Expand
  49. jelikey
    Oct 16, 2017
    7
    The "plague" of needing an extremely upgraded PC to play this game will haunt Unity for a long time. It is unfortunate, because in the end, I think the Ubisoft folks wanted to make this much more enjoyable with the co-op and team aspects of the game. But that didn't work so well at first either. And to achieve that, most players need to have a really good gaming system, and that's just
  50. euphoria4949
    Sep 10, 2017
    0
    Ubi$oft games in a nutshell!
    i7 3770k @4.9GHz, 16GB RAM, 2x GTX 780 (2-way SLI), ACU installed on a high-end Samsung SSD.
    ----------------------------------------------- Ultra preset settings: 1920x1080p Average fps = 36 Min fps = 11 ----------------------------------------------- Ultra preset settings: 1440p Average fps = 24 Min fps = 6 Sub 30fps on an i7 running a huge    Ubi$oft games in a nutshell!
    i7 3770k @4.9GHz, 16GB RAM, 2x GTX 780 (2-way SLI), ACU installed on a high-end Samsung SSD.
    -----------------------------------------------
    Ultra preset settings: 1920x1080p
    Average fps = 36
    Min fps = 11
    -----------------------------------------------
    Ultra preset settings: 1440p
    Average fps = 24
    Min fps = 6

    Sub 30fps on an i7 running a huge overclock and 2 780's in SLI - This is why Ubi$oft games are pirated more than any other games from any other companies! Because Ubi$oft keeps on releasing AAA games in such a poor unplayable state that consumers think, why the hell should I pay $£€60 for a broken, unfinished piece of rubbish, but yet, they take no notice and keep releasing broken games.
    DayZ Standalone is in early access alpha... *ALPHA* and it has fewer bugs, glitches and crashing issues with better FPS than ACU.

    Assassin's Creed Unity sealed it for me - I will never buy another Ubi$oft game, not until they stop this BS and start releasing games in a playable finished state, only then will I even consider giving them my money.
    (The sad and worrying thing is though, hundreds of thousands of people still pre-order their games every year even when they keep getting burned every time. People need to wake up and start voting with their money, that the only way a company like this will listen and change.)

    [Edit - Spelling, grammar and more info added.]    … Expand
  51. Krzych
    Aug 28, 2017
    7
    Very uneven game. From one side, visual fidelity, texture quality, lighting, character models and especially complexity and density of the world are very impressive. Even now, 3 years later, the game is still among the very best in this regard. The setting is done beautifully. Requirements as of today with all the initial issues sorted out are adequate to what game represents and it isVery uneven game. From one side, visual fidelity, texture quality, lighting, character models and especially complexity and density of the world are very impressive. Even now, 3 years later, the game is still among the very best in this regard. The setting is done beautifully. Requirements as of today with all the initial issues sorted out are adequate to what game represents and it is performing in a way typical for more advanced AAA games, unless you really have no clue what you are doing and you are choosing settings inadequate to your hardware. Some glitches still remain though and they may occasionally happen. As for game mechanics, they are significantly improved from previous parts. The range of movements is much bigger and Arno moves and performs much better and more naturally than predecessors. Stealth game is finally taken care of too. Combat is more realistic, slower paced and much more challenging than before, as well as stealth, there are also a lot of narrow interiors filled with enemies, so difficulty level has grown significantly from previous games. Character and equipment customization is also significantly better. So those are all good things. Unfortunately the story and how it is presented is the worst in the series. The story is not flowing, characters on both sides are insignificant, especially Assassins are the most boring and colorless in the series, complete lack of spirit, enemies are also not well shown and do not bring any emotions, you just don't feel any significance and threat from them, the game completely lacks the buildup for enemies, they are dead 1 minute after you discover them. The entire story lacks the definition. Even usually powerful things like death of people close to main character or his internal struggle do not make much impression, even on someone sensitive for such aspects. The entire revolution is also completely missing in the story, if not the chaos and disorder on the streets you would have hard time noticing any revolution at all. This is not what I expected from the game with such a great setting, potential was great but it was completely wasted. Still worth playing, because like I said in terms of visual fidelity and especially world's complexity and density this is the best of the best, mechanics are also good and challenging, character and equipment customization is there, this is all good and in this regard it has a lot of feel from previous games and even improves on that, but there is nothing behind it, the game is just not functionating as a whole.… Expand
  52. rBose
    Aug 21, 2017
    1
    From massive performance issues that will only be fixed through numerous patches like X - Rebirth to problems with animations, crashes and unjustifiable system requirements, this year's Assassin's Creed is nothing but a waste of time and money. Carry on.
  53. Tomle1202
    Jul 8, 2017
    6
    Assassin's Creed Unity is a place ruled by repetitive missions, frustrating gameplay design and technical problems that ruin almost every remaining aspect.
  54. Zahargamer233
    Jun 7, 2017
    1
    I like Assasin's Creed but not this sh*t Unity. 20 FPS. My PC can launch GTA V on Medium graphic! Why ubisoft can't make new Assasin's Creed for old PC with 40-50 FPS?
  55. Cech
    May 16, 2017
    6
    ACU самая спорная часть франшизы и сразу оговорюсь, что я считаю её худшей

    Мир Я бы даже сказал великолепно.. Город, то, что они сделали с городом - 10/10 Эти дома, эти ТОЛПЫ людей! Просто ужас, я столько народу на улице даже в день города не вижу! А насколько живой мир, сколько событий. Количество входябельных домиков тоже на высоком уровне Оптимизация Ужасна, это бесспорно. На    ACU самая спорная часть франшизы и сразу оговорюсь, что я считаю её худшей

    Мир
    Я бы даже сказал великолепно.. Город, то, что они сделали с городом - 10/10
    Эти дома, эти ТОЛПЫ людей! Просто ужас, я столько народу на улице даже в день города не вижу! А насколько живой мир, сколько событий. Количество входябельных домиков тоже на высоком уровне

    Оптимизация
    Ужасна, это бесспорно. На моей неплохой для момента выхода игры пеке 35 фпс на минимальных настройках с сглаживанием на 1, в помещениях 50.

    Сюжет
    В AC всегда была особая ситуация с ним, т.к. серия содержала в себе 2 сюжета в одной игре: один сюжет всей истории, другой сюжет "памяти", который всегда разный и в разных эпохах. Основному сюжету они уделили в сценарии 1 маленький абзац, показали пару вещей предтечей и настала глушь - откровенно говоря, печально.

    Геймплей
    Я не помню убрали ли до этой части штрафы за обнаружение в миссиях, но эта превратилась для меня в мясорубку после первого обнаружения, что не есть здорово

    Новенькое
    Впервые введен режим расследований и кооператив.
    Расследования с интересными историями, в каждом расследовании есть много мест и бегать между ними порой очень далеко.
    Кооператив просто то, о чём просили все мы и это сбылось, формат полноценного совместного прохождения явно не для этой серии игр

    Ах, да.. теперь нельзя баловаться скрытым клинком и пафосно бегать, вытащив его наголо    … Expand
  56. Unitaire
    May 11, 2017
    10
    The Best Game I've ever Played. From Music to it's Graphics. It is a truly gorgeous game. To my mind - the best looking game of 2017. Story is really breathtaking.
  57. muzmuz
    May 10, 2017
    5
    A bad idea playing Unity as your first AC game. For a triple A title, Assassin's Creed Unity fall too short from being engaging, in spite of its stunning visuals.
  58. memechan
    May 7, 2017
    0
    thought the worst thing of this game was optimisation but i found out it was the useless and flat story, this game is the symbol of the uninspired and dull trash of modern video game sequels.
  59. LifeHistory
    Apr 20, 2017
    10
    I don't care about the haters saying that they are using british accent in the game and what not. I did not even focus on such a stupid thing while playing.
    The voice acting was really good I done care about the accent. The game was graphically incredible it was so alive like nothing I've seen before. The story was really nice and the characters were fine. France were good design and    I don't care about the haters saying that they are using british accent in the game and what not. I did not even focus on such a stupid thing while playing.
    The voice acting was really good I done care about the accent. The game was graphically incredible it was so alive like nothing I've seen before. The story was really nice and the characters were fine. France were good design and beautiful.
    And that moment when I met my favorite hero my man Napoleon Bonaparte the joy I had I almost cried. The game has also some really good DLCs that are hard and nice.
    Totally my second favorit AC game in the series and I've played em all.    … Expand
  60. 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
  61. 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
  62. marcelus
    Mar 17, 2017
    6
    Weak technically during launch. Now that's maybe playable and patched a not so good AC game. Go for Black Flag instead ;) But anyways the game was interesting in terms of changes in the weight and pace of sword fighting. Maybe you're curious. BTW Paris doesn't look bad if you like to explore but don't expect a deep story etc etc etc...
  63. Nyakuya
    Dec 20, 2016
    0
    Una mierda de juego por donde se lo mire. Optimizado HORRIBLEMENTE MAL, o deberia decir, DESoptimizado HORRIBLEMENTE BIEN.
    Es un juego lleno de bugs con mal rendimiento y mala jugabilidad. Nada más que decir.
  64. akarnokd
    Dec 10, 2016
    7
    Waited nearly 2 years to have a decent GPU to run this. It is somewhat more of the same with small improvements such as auto-descent. The menus and the map work well with mouse and keyboard. I'm glad the co-op missions were solo-able. Generally, it feels a bit tedious and grindy, but at least the progress on collectibles is clear. The story is okay, there's barely any "tail" missions butWaited nearly 2 years to have a decent GPU to run this. It is somewhat more of the same with small improvements such as auto-descent. The menus and the map work well with mouse and keyboard. I'm glad the co-op missions were solo-able. Generally, it feels a bit tedious and grindy, but at least the progress on collectibles is clear. The story is okay, there's barely any "tail" missions but sometimes the quests are difficult. The parkour-AI is somewhat better but often had its own mind, jumping on each nearby desks or refusing to climb/descent at times.… Expand
  65. tiho
    Oct 10, 2016
    9
    I heard this game was a technical mess at launch. It's probably true, but my personal experience playing it almost two years later (after several patches by Ubisoft) is that it looks beautiful, runs smoothly on my GTX 970, and there aren't that many bugs (nothing game-breaking at least, though the AI definitely has some quirks). Overall I really enjoyed Unity, it was a nice change fromI heard this game was a technical mess at launch. It's probably true, but my personal experience playing it almost two years later (after several patches by Ubisoft) is that it looks beautiful, runs smoothly on my GTX 970, and there aren't that many bugs (nothing game-breaking at least, though the AI definitely has some quirks). Overall I really enjoyed Unity, it was a nice change from Black Flag and Rogue which I played just before. My only real complaint preventing me from giving a 10 is the story, which I found to lack clarity and purpose. But the gameplay is tons of fun, with more tools and freedom than ever to assassinate your targets the way you plan it.… Expand
  66. Shadow1
    Jul 24, 2016
    9
    Best Assassin's Game in latest six years, in this game one minus - this is optimization, but graphics is very awesome for 2014, good storyline in Assassin's Creed was in Assassin's Creed and second Assassin's Creed and Brotherhood, in Unity is too, this game very good, gameplay and open world very awesome and Unity much better than Syndicate, in Syndicate main character - gay . Unity oneBest Assassin's Game in latest six years, in this game one minus - this is optimization, but graphics is very awesome for 2014, good storyline in Assassin's Creed was in Assassin's Creed and second Assassin's Creed and Brotherhood, in Unity is too, this game very good, gameplay and open world very awesome and Unity much better than Syndicate, in Syndicate main character - gay . Unity one of the best game of 2014, but Watch Dogs is better and 2014 very good year for Ubisoft .… Expand
  67. danstew
    Jun 27, 2016
    8
    I know, you will probably disagree with me. After all, Unity is considered almost a catastrophy, even by those who only go by hearsay and never even tried it.
    Yes, it did have horrible problems at launch, and no, that should never happen, and any critique on that is totally deserved.
    However, when I started playing this, Oct 2015, none of these problems occured. Indeed, the game ran fine    I know, you will probably disagree with me. After all, Unity is considered almost a catastrophy, even by those who only go by hearsay and never even tried it.
    Yes, it did have horrible problems at launch, and no, that should never happen, and any critique on that is totally deserved.
    However, when I started playing this, Oct 2015, none of these problems occured. Indeed, the game ran fine for me on my system (i7 4790, GTX 960 with 4 gigs, 16 gigs of Ram, Windows 7). No big framerate issues, no loading probs, no disfigured NPCs with non-loading facial textures etc.

    What blows me away in this game is the atmosphere. They really DID an amazing job with Paris. Not only the actual vibe (dark,a little bit medieval with all the churches and stuff), but also when it comes to the maps (my gf loves Paris and knows the town well. We went on a sightseeing tour in game, and we found places like a hostel she used to stay at, a hotel she once stayed in etc.).
    Paris is stunningly beautiful here, and there are SO VERY many people out there. You do feel that vibe of a town in trouble, with the revolution going on, and it's amazing to walk through huge crowds of people, even using them in your missions (killing from a crowd).

    It's really special to climb Notre Dame, explore the inside etc.

    Arno is not exactly a deep character, but much more likeable, to me, than Kenway, for example (both of them). He is out for revenge, he is a bit hotheaded, but he also is passionate and serious.
    The story about his love for Elize and the hunt for this games MacGuffin isn't exactly deep, but it's ok.

    There is a metric TON of side content... its overwhelming actually. Its a tendency we have seen in many recent Ubisoft games, and I didn't do all of it... it can get overwhelming and boring. However, if you wanna go for 100%, you'll get a ton of hours out of this.
    The multiplayer is fun too... it's not too challenging, and it's fun to wreak havoc and take out targets with 1-3 other assassins, I enjoyed this a lot.

    Lots of different weapons, outfits, talents, etc, too.

    Some problems:
    - If you accidentially start the DLC (the Dead Kings one), because you wanna fast travel to your mansion but choose the wrong icon on the overcrowded map, you cant leave until you do the first mission. Which will be quite challenging if you are too low regarding level and gear. It happened to me and I died a lot and had to use a YT-walkthrough to unlock the travelpoint that allowed me to return to Paris.

    - Some npcs sometimes get stuck

    - Enemy NPCs come in 4-5 different looks. However, I didn't notice that as much as I did in the horribly Snydicate, because the town looks so much more atmospheric, beautiful and captivating in Unity.

    - Side content is often copy and paste. Yes, murder mysteries etc are fun, and some of the side missions are nice to earn money, but they are not challenging or very interesting. The story side content (Napoleon etc) are quite ok though

    Pros:_
    - The town looks absolutely gorgeous
    - Very atmospheric, streets full of NPCs
    - Fun abilities
    - Big improvement on parcour, so much easier to climb up or down
    - Less tailing and eavesdropping than in BF... thank god
    - Lots of stuff to do
    - Fun to read historic info in the database
    - Nice tutorials
    - MP is fun
    - COmbat feels nice

    Cons:
    - Very demanding on yoru system. Worked fine on mine
    - TOO MUCH side content, and often repetitive
    - NPCs only come in small variieties and sometimes get stuck
    - Story and main character not exactly deep. YMMV

    Bottom line:
    Yeah, the launch sucked. However, it does work now, at least it did perfectly fine on my system. So incredibly beautiful and atmospheric, and much more immersive than Syndicate, which to me is prolly the worst AC. 8/10    … Expand
  68. 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.
  69. Detraxxx
    Mar 23, 2016
    2
    Poor game, worst of the series so far. It does not run well even on high-end PCs. No creativity and absolutely no innovation. Boring story. Last but not least, the game is overcrowded with BUGS. Taking into account insane price this game deserves 0. I will give it some credit for nice graphics, though.
  70. bigboss9191
    Mar 20, 2016
    5
    The goods:
    -Kreygasm Graphics
    -Some welcome changes like parry that needs good timing -You no longer a killing machine that can kill 15 enemies The bads: -While stealth became better, you can't lure enemies towards you, so it's useless -Story is bad, boring and your character is completely a loser -Enemies are too annoying as always they will try to go back while you fight and    The goods:
    -Kreygasm Graphics
    -Some welcome changes like parry that needs good timing
    -You no longer a killing machine that can kill 15 enemies

    The bads:
    -While stealth became better, you can't lure enemies towards you, so it's useless
    -Story is bad, boring and your character is completely a loser
    -Enemies are too annoying as always they will try to go back while you fight and start shooting spaaming you which will result to your death too many times. Every enemy has a gun, and when he has an opportunity to leave the fight and go back and shoot you, he will.    … Expand
  71. LEG
    Feb 25, 2016
    2
    I really hate co-op and locked box in the game if not play through net.

    But I love Notre-Dame figure limited edition.

    That is problem. I just buy this game for collecting.
  72. whatever523
    Feb 13, 2016
    7
    Unity could have been one of the best games in the series, but the technical problems make it a pain in the ass to play. This is the reason I never pay more than 15$ for Ubisoft games. They're simply not worth it.

    + Graphics are outstanding. + Lots of usability and gameplay improvements. + A lot of content. + Coop missions. + AC Initiates is good. + Story is ok. - The graphics    Unity could have been one of the best games in the series, but the technical problems make it a pain in the ass to play. This is the reason I never pay more than 15$ for Ubisoft games. They're simply not worth it.

    + Graphics are outstanding.
    + Lots of usability and gameplay improvements.
    + A lot of content.
    + Coop missions.
    + AC Initiates is good.
    + Story is ok.

    - The graphics performance sucks, even on low settings (I normally play on high). It gets worse as you play, so it's probably a problem with freeing unused memory or something like that. This simply shouldn't happen with a game you pay 50-60$ for.
    - Missions stuck because of bugs.
    - Random bugs (stuck above/below map etc).
    - Ingame purchases.
    - DLC crap.
    - Uplay is offline very often. It hasn't improved much even after a few years. The interface and website are also horrible.

    Ubisoft need to learn to finish their games before they release them. Players don't like being treated like beta testers. I also feel sorry for the people who did a great job developing the game, only for it to be **** up by some idiots (the people who decided to release it like this)...    … Expand
  73. Aladgar
    Jan 19, 2016
    0
    I don't understand this game. I mean what ubi did with this game. AC is a really good game with enjoyable story and with lots of freedom but this game... Story was a big question for me. They just start it somewhere else so it's not AC for me just a game where we can fight like in AC. Graphical changes are nothing. Just the same as AC Black Flag (it's ok but why no improve? I don't needI don't understand this game. I mean what ubi did with this game. AC is a really good game with enjoyable story and with lots of freedom but this game... Story was a big question for me. They just start it somewhere else so it's not AC for me just a game where we can fight like in AC. Graphical changes are nothing. Just the same as AC Black Flag (it's ok but why no improve? I don't need too much just a bit but they did nothing :( ) I can't say anything else. It's just a big big disappointment!… Expand
  74. iCSiMarcelinmBR
    Dec 26, 2015
    5
    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
  75. TheReceptor
    Dec 19, 2015
    8
    This game doesn´t deserve all the beating. It´s technically advanced and gives us one of the most detailed cities in game history. With patches and DLC it runs perfectly smooth on a powerful PC.

    People have to stop putting every graphics option to max. and then complaining about stuttering. If you want technological advances you can´t expect your mid-range PC to handle MAX. settings.    This game doesn´t deserve all the beating. It´s technically advanced and gives us one of the most detailed cities in game history. With patches and DLC it runs perfectly smooth on a powerful PC.

    People have to stop putting every graphics option to max. and then complaining about stuttering. If you want technological advances you can´t expect your mid-range PC to handle MAX. settings.

    AC Syndicate is in no way better, they just reduced the level of detail of the game to make it run smoother. It´s a step back from AC Unity because no one seems to be able to get their settings right. Great work PC gamers! They played it safe with Syndicate and reduced detail, so you can´t mess up your game with exaggerted settings.

    I played the game in 4K totally smooth and was blown away by the atmosphere, graphics and level of detail it delivered.

    Paris in the midst of the revolution is a totally different thing compared to all the other cities we got in games so far! Something happens around every corner actually and it feels natural, because of the revolution. Animations and little happenings on the street further develop a very thick kind of atmosphere. Never seen that before in any game to this extend (not GTA5 or anything). You really feel like being there and taking part in the french revolution in a somehow historic manner. Pedestrians and city life were fabulous, concerning quantity and quality of the assets.

    After AC Unity I was bored by Los Santos, San Andreas, Chicago, Hong Kong and so on. The cities in other open world games all seem boring and empty compared to Unitys Paris! The city is the star of this game and surpasses every other city seen until today on PC.

    Story and gameplay are far better than the reviews make you think. Gameplay is the expanded AC standard and it´s fun and fits the setting perfectly. Story is good mostly, while the ending was not to my taste. The DLC is great however.

    If you miss out on this I think you miss an important piece of the evolution of games. It has the most detailed, atmospheric and natural feeling city in any game including AC Syndicate. Additionally you get to see the french revolution in a comparable detailed, historical manner. Both of which are unsurpassed to date.

    Simply put: Play it! ... if you know, how to get your settings tuned to your PCs capabilities. It´s not such a big mess. It´s rather quite beautiful!    … Expand
  76. npziethen
    Dec 15, 2015
    7
    Great story and integration with written history, I love revolution immersive feel. Co-op isn't that big in the game but it's still there if you actually have friends on Ubisoft. It is true the optimization isn't that great, but I wouldn't say it's complete crap, just make sure your drivers are up to date and you have at least 6 GB of RAM.
  77. Johnny5530
    Dec 5, 2015
    2
    This could have been a great game, but the developers managed to ruin it again. The environment is amazing, the setting is great, but everything else is either clunky or just plain horses...t. It's really hard to make the character to do, what I want. For example he jumps when I don't want him to or he doesn't jumps when I want him to. Entering through windows is a literal nightmare andThis could have been a great game, but the developers managed to ruin it again. The environment is amazing, the setting is great, but everything else is either clunky or just plain horses...t. It's really hard to make the character to do, what I want. For example he jumps when I don't want him to or he doesn't jumps when I want him to. Entering through windows is a literal nightmare and the cover system is simply broken. He constantly goes into the wrong position thus blowing my cover.

    The last drop for me was accidentally clicking the DLC on the mini-map because I just wanted to fast travel to a mission. I tried to go back to Paris, but it was impossible and I wasn't prepared for the Dead Kings. After a couple of hours trying to leave the DLC I just had enough. I simply quit and uninstalled the game. Never touching an AC game again, until they get their sh.t together.

    At least I still have Black Flag, which is fun unlike this piece of crap.

    (oh and I forgot. Optimization is not so great either. The textures are loading slowly thus making the game sometimes look like it's from the PS2 era and occasionally it just stutters. I don't know why, because Witcher 3 runs flawlessly for me, which looks so much better. I have r9 390 and i5-4690)    … Expand
  78. hedning86
    Nov 23, 2015
    0
    Paid 50 EUR for Helix Credits, haven't received them after 11 days. I've been struggling to get attention from support, but when they answered it seems they can't/won't help me and I'm told I can't get a refund. Not sure this is legal, but not sure how to get my 50 EUR back either.
  79. E71
    Nov 17, 2015
    1
    Supremely buggy plus everyone's got British accents... WTF?! It makes the game feel so unauthentic. Was it really that difficult for them to get voice actors speaking English with French accents...

    One for the "recycle bin".
  80. 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.
  81. Antor457
    Nov 5, 2015
    9
    Assassin's Creed Unity is a typical AC game.It has the same formula.Parkour,investigate,kil etc.But that's what made me love Assassin's Creed Unity.Though this game does not have some certain important elements (Pirate Ships anyone?) It has some new things also.And most of the people on Metacritic who give review for the games,didn't even buy the game! This game is fabulous now! If you gotAssassin's Creed Unity is a typical AC game.It has the same formula.Parkour,investigate,kil etc.But that's what made me love Assassin's Creed Unity.Though this game does not have some certain important elements (Pirate Ships anyone?) It has some new things also.And most of the people on Metacritic who give review for the games,didn't even buy the game! This game is fabulous now! If you got the cracked one,then this game will stutter and freeze.I admit that this game was bad at launch.But now with the patches,it's quite good! The multiplayer has story-oriented missions which I enjoyed! I definitely recommend getting this game now,as it has been fixed.There are still some issues.But these can be overlooked.… Expand
  82. Gohenko
    Oct 23, 2015
    6
    Well, Unity is neither my favourite or my least favourite AC game, albeit it's certainly the buggiest. Many of my personal problems with the franchise have been addressed here and at least somewhat improved. You no longer feel like an undying god among men during combat (i.e. you can actually die pretty quickly now if you do a wrong move), which in turn makes you want to avoid combat andWell, Unity is neither my favourite or my least favourite AC game, albeit it's certainly the buggiest. Many of my personal problems with the franchise have been addressed here and at least somewhat improved. You no longer feel like an undying god among men during combat (i.e. you can actually die pretty quickly now if you do a wrong move), which in turn makes you want to avoid combat and use a stealthy approach instead. The gameplay in general feels more similar to AC2 than the pirate adventure game AC4 that really should've been a new IP instead. Movement still feels a bit clunky at times, but the new free-run descend mechanic is a welcome addition, as it helps a lot when trying to get down from rooftops without accidentally committing suicide. I like the amount of character customisation that's on offer, but it's also irritating as Ubisoft is really pushing for microtransactions here and it shows.

    Story is kinda "meh". It's the same old revenge tale that we've already seen in plenty of AC games before, and Élise was the only character I cared about. The protagonist, Arno, is kind of a mix between Ezio and Altaïr, but there's just not really much depth to his character at all. It's a shame that the story did not take better advantage of the French Revolution setting. It's presented very well when you're just exploring around Paris, but the actual missions and side quests don't really have anything interest going on.

    GPU: GTX 970
    CPU: i7-4790k
    Monitor resolution: 1920x1080
    Performance on the PC version is a lot better than I was expecting. Granted, I got the game recently and have only played the 1.5 version, but still. I'm either really lucky or Ubisoft have done a good job fixing a lot of the problems with the game. I'm using highest settings except for shadows and AA and I get a consistent 60fps with vsync on, only dropping below that if there's a huge amount of NPCs on the screen. During cutscenes framerate can sometimes drop as low as 40, but it isn't too noticeable. The game does look gorgeous, especially during cutscenes. The biggest issue I have graphics-wise is that there's quite a lot of pop-in when moving fast.
    As for bugs and glitches, they're definitely worth mentioning. I've played the game for about 30 hours now and I've had the game crash to desktop twice, and once it forced me to restart the whole computer when it froze so badly I couldn't do anything. Opening cutscenes of co-op missions never work properly and sometimes I can't complete missions due to some important NPC just standing around when it should be moving. Other than that you have your usual minor open world game stuff, like NPCs trying to walk through walls, weird physics glitches et cetera.

    As a final note, the sound design in this game is absolutely awful. Some of the combat sounds are especially poor-sounding and the reverb on the sounds is often way off. Ambient sounds are lacking and the game doesn't have a particularly interesting soundtrack. Thankfully, the voice acting is pretty good, at least in French. Dunno about the English ones, since I couldn't stand French characters speaking in a very British accent and I immediately turned the spoken language to French.

    Based on what I've written about the game so far, you'd think I'd give it an even lower score than I did. I really wanted to, but I just couldn't. Even with all its problems, Unity is a good game and I've had lots of fun playing it. It just could've been so much more, and that's why the final word I use to describe Unity is "disappointment".

    Oh, and what the hell is up with Uplay games needing to be on the same partition as the OS to work? Every one of the games I play through Uplay have had the same problem. It's bloody annoying, since each game can take up to 50Gb of space and my main drive only has about 200Gb available overall.    … Expand
  83. andyadrian
    Oct 21, 2015
    9
    As an Assassins Creed fan , i must say this is the second best AC game in the series, following AC 2. The story is very beautifull, and the graphics are amazing. I really dont understand how people can hate such a game. I havent had any problems at all running this game. My RIG is: cpu Amd fx 6300, gpu Club 3d r9 290x, 8gb ram, standard HDD, psu Zalman 700W. The game runs 90% of time at 40As an Assassins Creed fan , i must say this is the second best AC game in the series, following AC 2. The story is very beautifull, and the graphics are amazing. I really dont understand how people can hate such a game. I havent had any problems at all running this game. My RIG is: cpu Amd fx 6300, gpu Club 3d r9 290x, 8gb ram, standard HDD, psu Zalman 700W. The game runs 90% of time at 40 50 Fps , very rarely droping to 30( doesn't make a big difference). I would have given the game a 10 but i am really anoyed about the, PAUSE MENU OVERHEATING THE GPU, ( 73 degrees maximum), wich is clearly a game problem , not the GPU.… Expand
  84. 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.
  85. 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.
  86. Greenwood0
    Aug 23, 2015
    9
    I started playing this game after all of the bugs and problems were fixed, so let's say it's a different experience for me. The controls are far better than the older ones. The graphic details are phenomenal. The story line is great, but the other side quests and collectibles are so nice to do that you end up doing a bunch of them while you're doing the story line, which is probably whatI started playing this game after all of the bugs and problems were fixed, so let's say it's a different experience for me. The controls are far better than the older ones. The graphic details are phenomenal. The story line is great, but the other side quests and collectibles are so nice to do that you end up doing a bunch of them while you're doing the story line, which is probably what the game designers wanted. I really like this game, it's the best since AC 2.… Expand
  87. kaan2ification
    Jun 21, 2015
    9
    First of all I want to say: this game is a masterpiece.
    Amazing graphics, great story, an astonishing action-adventure placed in the middle of the french revolution.
    The surroundings are beautifully represented and crafted to the smallest detail. On my GTX970 it runs flawlessly not dropping below 45 FPS on ultra settings with fxaa at 1080p, unlike Black Flag, even when the scenes are    First of all I want to say: this game is a masterpiece.
    Amazing graphics, great story, an astonishing action-adventure placed in the middle of the french revolution.
    The surroundings are beautifully represented and crafted to the smallest detail.
    On my GTX970 it runs flawlessly not dropping below 45 FPS on ultra settings with fxaa at 1080p, unlike Black Flag, even when the scenes are extremely crowded, so in these circumstance I think a 9 fits the game best.    … Expand
  88. nonchalantgamer
    Jun 20, 2015
    7
    As a big Assassins Creed fan i skipped out on Unity because of poor reviews, and issues with the game, but recently i decided to give it a shot on game-fly, and my overall opinion on it is that it is a good Assassins Creed, but nothing special.

    Visuals/Presentation First off the visuals, which right off the bat you can see the stunning detail that was put into crafting Paris during    As a big Assassins Creed fan i skipped out on Unity because of poor reviews, and issues with the game, but recently i decided to give it a shot on game-fly, and my overall opinion on it is that it is a good Assassins Creed, but nothing special.

    Visuals/Presentation

    First off the visuals, which right off the bat you can see the stunning detail that was put into crafting Paris during the French Revolution. The buildings are highly detailed, and pretty to look at, as well as nice lighting effects. The presentation is also good in Unity, as i experienced no frame rate drops or slow downs through out my playthrough.

    Gameplay

    The Gameplay in Unity is rock solid, as expected from a AC game with minor tweaks to the combat that were made and in my opinion, the best combat to date for the series. It is definitely a more intuitive system then in previous entries. The new "parkour down" system is a welcome addition to the game and adds a lot more maneuverability to the game, and although it has some rough edges to it, I feel it can only get better in future entries.

    Story

    As far as story goes, Unity provides a decent quest and a couple of likable characters but ultimately the whole love aspect between Arno and Elise as the main theme just didn't cut it for me. The story was good enough for me to stay interested, but i wish they did more with the Templar/assassin dynamic, as well as some more modern era involvement. The best parts of the game for me were the time lapse sequences in which you have to travel through different eras in order to reach the end, they were interesting, and above all unique.

    In the end Unity is a solid entry to the franchise but nothing spectacular, some key things were improved upon such as combat and the new parkour system, but the lackluster story is a bit disappointing and it has me wondering, and wishing that Ubisoft would take a break before returning to Assassins Creed, so we can all breath a little    … Expand
  89. crimescene
    Jun 9, 2015
    1
    Really the worst assassin's creed ever made, crap game.

    Beyond the technical problems the game it's really boring, a really poor combat system, missions all the same,

    No diving
    No hunting
    No dart
    Few weapons, poor equipment, poor personalization,

    One of the worst game i ever made !!!!
  90. thisisevilevil
    Jun 3, 2015
    0
    Bribed reviewers: "10/10!!!!!!! BEST GAME EVER, GO BUY THIS!!!!"

    Actual game: one giant meme 0/10. They should stop making these AC games. They are getting worse with each release. It's an insult to the first 2 games and the expansions for AC2.
  91. idohaker
    Jun 1, 2015
    2
    this game is terrible, i mean it, the graphics are terrible, pop in is terrible, story is terrible, game is buggy and poorly optimized, the main character is boring and so on...... dont buy it!!!
  92. BootsMeta
    May 20, 2015
    10
    I know! I know! A 10/10 review! I obviously must be either dumb, living in the stone age or paid by Ubisoft! But trust me, I'm not!

    I will say that at first, hearing the unbelievable outpouring of hatred towards this game made me very wary of purchasing it. However a whole YEAR has almost passed since this game came out and I can say that many, (if not all) of the review-crushing bugs    I know! I know! A 10/10 review! I obviously must be either dumb, living in the stone age or paid by Ubisoft! But trust me, I'm not!

    I will say that at first, hearing the unbelievable outpouring of hatred towards this game made me very wary of purchasing it. However a whole YEAR has almost passed since this game came out and I can say that many, (if not all) of the review-crushing bugs HAVE BEEN FIXED. I have been playing this game for over 20 hours and have not encountered freezing, framerate or other game-crashing bugs throughout my play experience. Although it does require a powerful computer to run on the Ultra High settings, (My ATI Raedon 5970 can only run it on low) they game still looks AMAZING even on the lower graphics settings.

    The story is what you'd expect for an Assassin's Creed game, but the wealth of side missions, the improved Co-Op experience (That randomizes enemies and objectives each time) and the 1:1 representation of Paris more than make up for any shortcomings in content or story length. In fact, I'm surprised more people didn't react positively to the return of consumables instead of the CoD-esque regenerating health of AC III, as well as the focus of the development team for setting the game in a single city instead of several less thought-out ones.

    I'm not excusing Ubisoft for releasing a buggy product at launch, that is unacceptable. I am however, merely stating that behind the bugs that plagued the game's launch lied a very well-crafted, ambitious, cinematic and memorable Assassin's Creed experience. I actually FELT like I was in Revolutionary France, the random crowd events feel truly organic, and the cinematic missions and character customization easily ratched-up the replayability of the game. In fact, the character customization easily became one of my favorite aspects of the game, and had me actually wanting to complete side missions in order to unlock unique rewards for my character. I actually felt like I was getting stronger as the game progressed, and not overpowered like in previous Creed titles, most likely due to the harder combat and AI. What's even cooler is the return of "renovating" buildings as in AC II and Brotherhood, producing income that would occasionally remind me I had to pick up (Which I always forgot to). "Renovating" my first social club had me remembering my old playtime in Brotherhood, helping the citizens of Roma, this time in Paris. The little cinematic touches also add a certain flair to this games story, considering how in certain missions you're transported to Paris in the 1880's with floating hot air balloons, underground subway systems and the Eiffel Tower filling in the games background. (Perhaps this was a tease at Syndicate?)

    Ultimently, this game has been reviewed more on its day one issues rather than on the game itself, and while many say that the developers didn't care about releasing a buggy product, perhaps the knowledge that they stretched the release of the game back two weeks can show how they wanted to release a FIXED product upon launch, and they actually had the audacity to disappoint their superiors in order to fix many other bugs I'm sure we were spared the expense of encountering.

    The nostalgia, the hidden references to previous Creed titles as well as the respect this game shows to previous systems (Such as health potions and consumables, as well as your own customizable house) helps to show the care the developers took into creating this highly original and refreshing game in the Assassin's Creed universe. This game has everything and more than I expected from it, and I can affirmatively say that I'm pleasantly surprised at its complexity, a good feeling that is lacking in so many AAA games nowadays. For in 5 to 10 years from now, no one is going to care about how buggy the game was at launch, but how fun the game is to play in the future. Besides! By then, everyone will be complaining about Black Ops 16 or Evolve 12. With the Dead King's DLC thrown in for free on top of the game's basic bundle, as well as the games charismatic (And much improved) protagonist from AC III's Connor Kenway, this game is easily one of the best Assassin's Creed games of all times and a must buy for all fans of the Assassin's Creed universe.    … Expand
  93. braindamage
    May 19, 2015
    6
    i5 4690k r9270x 8 gigs of ram I can run this game at high setting and never dip below 40 fps, the character animation and cut scenes and some in game graphics are top notch , beautiful graphics in cut scenes,, dragon age inquisitions runs worse on my machine then this game does for the love of god go hate on that pos game
  94. Yegrof44
    May 14, 2015
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I only thought I was ripped bad for Far Cry 4! I had a choice between this & F C 4! After reading the user reviews for this I see it wasn't the games it was the authors! Ubi soft should try hiring programmers instead of linguists! Far Cry 4 has more bugs than my Grandfathers old Barn!… Expand
  95. grimdar00
    Apr 14, 2015
    0
    This is the worst piece of trash in recent memory. I have a GTX TITAN X now and can't even get past the logos on startup. Crash Crash Crash... and there's no fix whatsoever. A $4,000 can't even run this thing. I used to have two 780ti's in SLI and couldn't even perform.
    Never.. ever purchasing a Ubisoft product again, let alone any Assassins Creed.
  96. TaunT
    Apr 1, 2015
    0
    Ubisoft already made the fifth patch, but the game is still impossible because of terrible lags
    Shame for the company, why could not directly test and correct any errors? Why sell alpha version?
  97. awdrifter
    Mar 28, 2015
    1
    The changes they made in this game is baffling. Why would you break every working mechanics in the previous games to include broken ones (other than to introduce Microtransactions to milk more money out of the players)? The free-run up and down doesn't work as well as the old free run, the weapon equip system is broken. I want to use my freaking hidden blade when I want to, not a damnThe changes they made in this game is baffling. Why would you break every working mechanics in the previous games to include broken ones (other than to introduce Microtransactions to milk more money out of the players)? The free-run up and down doesn't work as well as the old free run, the weapon equip system is broken. I want to use my freaking hidden blade when I want to, not a damn context sensitive action. The sword needs to be mapped to a different button! Fck these guys, I have played every mainline AC game since one, this will be my last. I have played about 10 missions, not one of them is fun. WTF is wrong with letting the players play how they want? But no, they lock the upgrades to your armor to be ridiculously expensive so you either play with their broken stealth system (you no longer have unlimited Eagle Vision) or Pay Real Money to buy the upgrade. Well, I'm not going to do either. Ubisoft should refund every purchase of this game. This is a poorly designed, buggy, and greedy game. 1 star!… Expand
  98. lonewolf972
    Mar 20, 2015
    3
    AC Unity is a turd. I tried to finish the game, but I couldn't because how ******* bored I got. The gameplay is a downgrade compare to AC4 Black Flag, the story is cliché and nothing special, the optimization is terrible, the graphics looks like **** and the game is not cinematic. Please avoid this game.
  99. justwarren132
    Mar 14, 2015
    8
    To everyone **** about the frame rate issue, check the pc requirements before you play it. I'm playing on a gtx 970m and its play's smooth on ultra between 30-40 fps, but I am overclocking it. I enjoy it more than I did on xbox mostly because the fps is about 25 which it barely reached on my xbox one. I enjoy unity mostly for the side missions and I thoroughly enjoy the new sneak mechanicTo everyone **** about the frame rate issue, check the pc requirements before you play it. I'm playing on a gtx 970m and its play's smooth on ultra between 30-40 fps, but I am overclocking it. I enjoy it more than I did on xbox mostly because the fps is about 25 which it barely reached on my xbox one. I enjoy unity mostly for the side missions and I thoroughly enjoy the new sneak mechanic which has been needed for years.… Expand
  100. SuperVeloce
    Mar 11, 2015
    10
    I always was a massive fan of AC series, mistakes or not. But after some weird parkhour in Brotherhood and crazy low boston fps in AC3 (had core2quad@3ghz back then) this is by far the worst. Not only it takes all the bad thigs from those earlier titles, moving dynamics are even worse, sluggish and weird. This was clearly developed for gamepad and no energy was spent for mouse+keyboardI always was a massive fan of AC series, mistakes or not. But after some weird parkhour in Brotherhood and crazy low boston fps in AC3 (had core2quad@3ghz back then) this is by far the worst. Not only it takes all the bad thigs from those earlier titles, moving dynamics are even worse, sluggish and weird. This was clearly developed for gamepad and no energy was spent for mouse+keyboard adoption. You really need 60fps, on locked 30fps (like on consoles) your mouse lags massively! Missions can get on your nerves at times, but the worst thing is you have no checkpoints at some harder stealth missions (read on for this):

    On older titles you tried many times to see what you can do better or where your mistakes cost you the most. And it was fun at least. This? No mistakes or you never finish your mission. Just stupid. This is the first game in more than 20 years to actually fry my nerves and wanting a button to just skip a mission for a later time! Not because it's hard in a good way, but because it sucked the fun out of me. In the end I just finished the main story on easy as quickly as possible and deleted the game.    … Expand
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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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