![]() At moments the game is downright stunning. So in what way is Unity actually good? Well, it’s pretty. Am I actually in cover behind this thing? Am I not? “I don’t know.” Yeah, you can use cover now, but the cover system is about as vague and undefined as when you ask your girlfriend where she wants to go for dinner. A new “stealth button” designed to actually make it so your character can crouch is a nice improvement to the game, but it still only works so well. Sneaking around a fortress becomes a pain in the a** as you attempt to scale a wall, only to go the wrong way and end up in a courtyard full of guards who then proceed to slaughter you. Speaking of brutal, it should come as a slap in the face to Ubisoft that for a game about “assassins” and “hidden blades” they still can’t create a good stealth game. This isn’t Dark Souls where the combat is brutal but it makes sense. Granted, where was the need for stealth in AC 3 when you could win the revolutionary war single-handedly in the streets of Boston? But in an attempt to force stealth on you, Ubisoft thought it was a good idea to make enemies unnecessarily hard because, you know, why not? And there’s no nuance to the combat or its difficulty. Combat has never been Assassin’s Creed‘s strong point, but at least it wasn’t as frustrating in previous installments. It has potential, and Syndicate capitalized on this potential, but in Unity it was in the early stages and thus didn’t look as cool or work as well as we hoped.Īnd then we have the newer and not so improved combat system. It’s an improvement, to be fair, but it’s all relative. It’s still marvelously frustrating as you fumble over buildings with just more grace than a toddler running down a flight of stairs. Granted, descending buildings is no longer easy if there’s only a hay bale to break your neck in, but that’s about as special as the new parkour system is. ![]() Namely a parkour system that still doesn’t quite get you where you want to go, stealth that’s still not really stealthy, and combat that’s just horrible. But lucky for us, it has so much more to offer because Unity represents everything wrong with the Assassin’s Creed franchise. Unity wouldn’t earn a Cream of the Crap title for just graphical errors and poor characters alone. If only they had funneled all that work into the gameplay department. Who knew? And why have so many characters on screen? Because it looks cool and sounds cool when you say so during a conference. As the crowds gather around to watch people get guillotined, you’ll have some citizens spawn from nowhere, because apparently having 500 NPCs on screen takes a toll. And yet, not only do things disappear in the magical world of Assassin’s Creed Unity. I’m expecting softcore pornos from upcoming AC titles. Heaven forbid they show us what they can do with the upcoming Xbox One X. Power so strong you get to see INSIDE the characters. Yes, Ubisoft decided to harness the amazing graphic capabilities of the PS4 and Xbox One so they could show you what next gen is truly capable of. Essentially he’s a millennial in the 18th century who stumbled his way into the Brotherhood after learning how to fight in jail?īut weak story and less than thrilling characters are the least of our worries when this creation of nightmares appeared during random cutscenes. Where Connor at least felt like if Batman was an assassin, Arno just feels like a much more childish and sarcastic version. Let’s start with the fact that Arno is basically sassy and immature Connor Kenway. I was ready for Assassin’s Creed to finally fulfill the potential I knew it had.īut instead of an awesome story of revolution and revelation, we got a watered down Romeo and Juliet story between the assassin Arno and his Templar lover, Elise. ![]() ![]() Not to mention set against a backdrop of violent revolution. An Assassin’s Creed game set in Paris (exciting to me because I have family in France and thus have been to Paris frequently), with a new and promising looking parkour system, a new assassin who they said would be charming, a new combat system, an actual stealth button, and running only on PS4 and Xbox One because of the updated graphics. When Assassin’s Creed Unity was announced, I have to confess, I was excited. ![]()
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