Assassin Creed: Unity doesn’t attempt to address the ongoing revolution or situations behind it. Ubisoft is a French company with French employees who probably know quite a bit about the Revolution and felt like namedropping a few major members of it would be sufficient.
I think Unity’s story’s biggest flaw comes from the company that made it. But rather than intertwining the story with the Revolution, or using Unity as a chance to educate or play with the French Revolution as a set-piece, Unity appears to just treat the French Revolution as a drapery. Yet even that could have worked if the rest of the story could tell an interesting tale involving the French Revolution and the Assassins and Templars fighting throughout it. Assassin’s good, Templars bad, the main character is an assassin because he always will be. At this point, neither character had been outed as belonging to either group and it just set an attempted dichotomy between them as if their factions were already decided and both were defined.Īfter the opening of Assassin’s Creed 3, fans had wanted a deeper look at the Templar faction, but while Rogue attempted and failed to deliver on that, Assassin’s Creed Unity falls back into old patterns so hard that it forgets to establish those patterns, and just treats them as foregone conclusions. There was one point where she said “I’m a templar you’re an assassin” as if they were different races. This last point is just told to the player, rather than being part of the narrative. And then you suddenly find out the Templar’s daughter is also a Templar. Our main character is named Arno, he was born to an Assassin who is killed in the first scene of the prologue, then taken in by a Templar, who is also killed early on to send Arno on a quest for vengeance.
The problem is Unity’s story seems to drop the ball. Visually France looks good, and there are large scenes, set pieces, and moments in the game. The setting, themes, and characters will always be important, and this time around, based on a new generation of hardware, Ubisoft thought the larger crowd technology would allow them to use the French Revolution as a backdrop. The most unique feature of any Assassin’s Creed game will remain its story.
AC UNITY METACRITIC FULL
When it came out Unity was considered unplayable, but now it seems Unity has been refined into a flawed but full experience.
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It added multiplayer and attempted to expand the map to a massive city, and all this while trying to return the series from the pIrate adventure of Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, to the original core experience of crowded city streets.Īssassin’s Creed Unity has problems, but what struck me as I’ve finally played it in 2021 is that there are so many different and distinct parts of the experience, nothing was like what I heard anyone describe. It was the first game on a new series of consoles. However, Assassin’s Creed Unity also was a massive undertaking. Coming out after the superb Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, which took the series to the high seas, and Assassin’s Creed 2, which many fans still consider the best, it may never have been possible to reach the top. Assassin’s Creed: Unity has always had the reputation of being the black sheep of the franchise, and it had big shoes to fill.
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