I'm sorry but I didn't like Unity. The combat was pretty neat, stealth mechanics was great my issue with it was the story. The story did not make sense at all. There were multiple scenarios where Arno did not make sense in this game. To throw it off we barely got gameplay on the DLC where we finally see Arno's full potential to some degree. Left me wanting more and the end of the game just did not make sense at all not to mention the dreadful modern-day story as well.
@@javierlandaverde4108 Unity had the least intrusive modern day story(out of the ones that have bothered to include it). Though, personally, I find ALL of the AC modern segments to be atrocious. I have never finished a sequence and felt any sort of excitement or interest when the player character is suddenly pulled from the Animus to receive heaps of expository dialogue.
@@javierlandaverde4108 I get u i don't wanna play again for the story, which i don't really remember. I want to play it again for the game play. Ezio story is levels
@@nygeriunprence no the older games aged really well. Played revelations recently and it still looks good for its age. And your comment wasn't dumb. Just kinda obvious. Graphics keep evolving all the time and games are only gonne look better and better as time goes on.
Ikr. Imagine if the people begind Unity were given time to playtest and fix alot of the bugs. I could only imagine what amazing wonders the ac series will continue as
@@waterbakey4330 Both are only difference is Odyssey is not an AC valhalla kinda storywise. Odyssey was fun to play while valhalla is an endless chores half bakef
I recently downloaded unity again and played it with some friends who are also long time AC fans. After playing for a while we just vented for ages, realising how heartbreaking it was that the core of AC had basically been abandoned and how criminally underrated unity really was.
Core of AC has been boring for years, fans were the ones asking the change. I played all games since brotherhood and Odyssey and Origins were the most fun i had with this franchise in years.
@@nenadmilovanovic5271 the core was what kept people around and built the audience in the first place. It was the design and mechanics that became stale, the fact that it devolved into a checklist of icons on a map you had to spend time getting to and getting rid of just for the sake of them. The advantage with origins was it took the side activities and made them actually interesting by making the overall design more like an RPG so they felt meaningful and therefore justified. The core principle though is a lone assassin sent to deliver a single decisive blow in order to affect broad reaching power struggles and conflicts, origins managed to keep just enough of that that it was able to walk the line between the two, odyssey went too far into the RPG elements and now that's all AC is, it's just trying to imitate better RPGs and not even doing a great job at it. It's a series with no through line anymore. It's not to say they're bad necessarily, if you enjoy them, more power to you man, I'm happy you can, they just don't do anything for a lot of people who've been long time fans though and I think that's why.
@@thecriticalgamer8462 new AC games are great RPGs, story is average yes, but exploration, combat, progression and customisation are above industry standard. Look at Witcher 3, the most famous RPG of last generation which I sunk 200h into. Combat is clunky and unresponsive, it relies completely on the abuse of quen and dodge buttons. Movement feels like driving a tank, gear progression is ruined by witcher sets, level progression is ruined by the main storyline which in turn fails to reward exploration, since you never need xp or gear. World is dead since CDPR don't know how to make dynamic AI systems. AC games do each of these things better. Name one thing that Witcher 3 did better than AC aside from story and sidequests?
@@raychii7361 I don't have texture pop-in. Models and characters do pop-in and nothing can be done about it but I wouldn't let that ruin the game in any way for me.
@@kloakovalimonada Well I'm happy you could ignore it. But for me it removed all emersion. I didn't finish the game but I would buy a remastered version of it with the texture fix.
Unity needs a sequel of Unity with Napoleon. They set it up so perfectly during the game and during the Dead Kings DLC and at it's end. Arno sends the apple to Cairo in Egypt and Napoleon would have an Egyptian campaign in which he would capture Cairo. Maybe one day one day.
Could be cool if they did something like that and included discoveries of Bayek's journeys and eventual establishment of the Hidden One's through Egypt... Kind of like the Bureau's in Valhalla
I really enjoyed Unity, although I didn't play it until it was "fixed" I agree it was the last game that felt like an AC game, while I loved Origins it was definitely the start of the shift away. Unless the next game has something remarkable about it I won't be playing. I only ended up playing Valhalla because of the delay to Cyberpunk(sigh) otherwise I wouldn't have even picked up the latest one. I though that the Unity combat was actually moving in the right direction after the criticism of AC3 and AC4, but that nose dived with Syndicate before taking a completely different angle after that. Unity almost had that dueling feeling down that From Software nailed with Sekiro.
If Ubi is ever gonna do a proper remake of any AC games, it should be Unity. To give it the time, to give it the chance. The new ACs are good games, but they aren't AC games
Dude, same. Only picked up Valhalla bc Cyberpunk was delayed and I had nothing I wanted to play/replay. Both games are sitting on my cloud library... probably never to be finished
@eric brown did you have to update it or was it fixed right out of the box? I really wanna play this but have no WiFi to update anything at the moment and the mixed reviews are stressing me out about it.
It's funny: People complained the formula was getting stale and now they want it back. So basically: UBISOFT SHOULD STOP MILKING AC SO FUCKING MUCH. Instead of getting 5 ACs in 15 years, we got 5 ACs in 5 years.
2:49 Ubisoft actually stated that going with English accents was a design choice, as they were more serious sounding than French accents. The real way to play the game is to play in French with English subtitles
@@blindguyplays8436 I replayed unity recently and it didn't seem broken, it was wonderful. If the engine was modified a little to fit ac1's needs, then the result would be stunning in my opinion.
Assassin's Creed Unity will actually always have a special place for me, because of how much I liked Arno and the story within the game. It was just an absolute shame that the catastrophic launch ruined everyone's perception of it.
The ending left me sad as well, it really resonated with me, the way Germain was basically erased by throwing his bones in the cemetery, the sight of his bones next to all the other bones, a sage or not, a Templar grandmaster or not, momento mori.
This was the first game I bought that I said "I am happy I bough it so long after launch" I played it after it was all fix, it was truly the best AC I have played and taught me a valuable lesson, do not buy games on launch day.
Probably my favorite AC game. I played it maybe 2 years after release, in French (with English subs), and I barely had any bugs. I have a soft spot for the Ezio series, Black Flag was fun, Syndicate was really good as well, but Unity... it just made me feel as if I was in revolutionary France.
Best thing is watching this quick-vid while drinking tea from a Les Misérables mug lol. I still love Unity. I played it during a series retrospective long after launch, as I had skipped it due to the poor reception it got, and I felt like an idiot. Having been a Syndicate fanboy, because I'm a student of mid/late 18th century socioeconomic/political dialogues, I was blown away by Unity. Between the two I still have more find memories with Arno and Elise than I do of Jacob and Evie - Starrick is still my favorite Templar though. Untity has an atmosphere, tone, and a design that just screams AC, and the grays that it allowed itself to dip into with also extremely satisfying. I also appreciated it's open ending where Arno doesn't go back to the Assassin's as a member, but still continues the mission in his own way. I agree that the failure of this game became the death-knell of the AC we knew, and with the rise of "open-world" games becoming the norm, the writing was on the wall. And it is such a shame since AC really does work best when it's a tight-knit story with exploration and RPG elements as garnish rather than the focus.
Unity is my fav AC game. It’s a shame too see that the franchise that I loved has become so different that is hard to see the new games and understand that it’s a Assassins Creed game if there wasn’t any mention of the name.
For me unity is just on a completely different series than origins and odessey, a new chapter. Another game with unity core that isn’t glitched to hell at launch would be very well appreciated.
I would say the story's pretty good, but it's definitly not the best in the franchise. I think the reason people don't like is because of the smaller stakes and because it came right after Black Flag, which is arguably the best AC game.
Well it’s certainly not a tragedy today. This game is freaking amazing today and is the funnest in the franchise that made you feel like you’re an assassin.
@@alejo5267 Well Ubisoft released a buggy mess and instead of doing better, they just thought hmm why dont we copy Witcher 3 and name it Assassin's creed. I love Origins, odyssey and Valhalla but they're not AC games. They're just "Assassin's creed We have no idea anymore"
this is soo true. When i was watching the marketing for ac syndicate, the main focus was literally showing how there are no bugs or glitches in that game. they removed alot of the "floaty" parkour animations and i think the rope launcher reallly killed the necessity of parkour in that game. That game was great but its clear Ubisoft was craving a workaround the parkour element in assasins creed.
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Thank you, I think Unity was peak for gameplay possibilities crouch, dense crowds, amount of useful tools(one not as useful but if they took they’re time it would’ve been better for cherry bombs), best parkour animations, beautiful world. I played on launch that everything was some beautiful and so exciting for the franchise I didn’t even care about game breaking glitches because it was even so beautiful before their was seemingly a slight graphical downgrade I found more disappointing then the glitches themselves. Most of the time just laughed because I couldn’t hate the game no matter what because they added som much amazing ways to go about missions, amazing city, they even have you a cool way to define your playing type by tracking the way you play the game and being able to go to the link in game to see your Assassin type along with my favorite AC multiplayer. Then they abandon it for the RPG stuff completely, I mean there was already elements that were heading that way I don’t get why they had to abandon the great gameplay mechanics they just created, especially the detecting multiple ways of completing your mission influencing events and creating a distraction to make your way in, and social stealth great idea in Syndicate of being able to kidnap for social stealth. It’s all just such a shame that they abandoned it for something that just feels more basic gameplay and get rid of the looting animations where it get rid of certain amounts of realism for basic rpg ways of doing things in a game that it suppose to be how things really happen I like that Assassins creed used to not wave their hands above enemies to loot and actually loot and have a risk to looting if their was any guards around.
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Companies do this all the time and it's so infuriating... Everytime a game or a movie does poorly they always take the wrong lesson from it.
@@blindguyplays8436 Don't be. This is by far my favorite Assassin's Creed. I absolutely adore this game. Granted, I picked it up for free. But I seriously love this game. Yea, the story could be a bit tighter but the opening hours are phenomenal and I love the parkour. On top of all that Paris is breathtaking. I really do wish Ubisoft continued to build on this game's foundation.
the story? Don't get me wrong, the gameplay and graphics are spectacular, and the immersion is amazing. But Arno is really the only interesting character in the story, and it took the Dead Kings DLC for me to really like him. As is, I just think most of the narrative and story are super bland.
@@mattyice9535 i liked the love interest and their constant cat-and-mouse throughout the story, thats the main thing that kept me playing. also, the way each chapter was a sequence towards your target and the game didnt pull you in too many different directions until you lost interest. everything just fed the world well....your ability to buy and customize property, the random battles in the street, the tension in certain areas that really gave the game a turf war kinda vibe.....the combat and how almost Realistic and challenging it was..... its a whole package experience for me and the only AC game i cared enough to finish. the new ones Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla i LOVEEEE but im never gonna finish any of em lol.
I honestly wish they reboot unity. I was hyped for the French Revolution. But what we got was -A slither of of French Revolution -Speaking English English and not English French. - entertaining co op missions but I wanted co op to be a part of the story.
I've recently jumped back into the classic Assassin's Creed games and am replaying 1-3, and bought Unity (which I'd never played) as a bit of a switch-up if I just needed a bit of a change of pace, and since I've started it, it's easily been the game I've put the most hours into this last month. I absolutely love this game, warts and all.
Syndicate is completely worse than unity in my opinion, from the settings to the mechanics to the story, I have always said it makes me sad the backlash it got although just because of bugs at launch but will likely mean we would never get a game like it ever again. Unity and black flag are the two AC games that always make me exited when they come in my mind and make me wanna go back and play them again, there stories just are phenomenal and gameplay wise are so fun. I have to say I have not yet completely played the first few games before AC 3 a couple of times halfway only maybe if I get to finishing them things will not stay the same based on reviews I heard. Also I dont hate the new games but think they could have been a seperate IP or potentially some other workaround maybe in rotation year after year that we could still get games like unity because they were just beginning to perfect every aspect of that style of game and it was just magnificent.
Feeling this video is going to get some reviews ahead of Mirage's reveals if the rumours are accurate as based on what's been said/confirmed, that game seems to be from that timeline where Unity didn't fail/Ubisoft kept with the OG AC Formula.
My biggest gripe with Unity (apart from all of the freaking locked doors and chests...🙄) was that the co-op missions, extra missions, and even some of the crime scenes weren't chronological to the storyline. I spent a ton of time researching the events of the French Revolution just to play all of the side events and extra content in proper order alongside the main quest. It would have made so much more sense if they had locked certain events behind pivotal moments in the storyline before you could access them, rather than just offering you all of these historical events to play with no care of what order in which they were done in. What made it especially frustrating was the fact that some early events were made extremely difficult and next to impossible to complete if you hadn't progressed far enough in the storyline to level up Arno.
Does anyone remember the prologue to AC unity where you play as a Templar? Was anyone else completely floored by the graphics and movement of the characters? I remember being so impressed and excited for what was to come from AC. I thought “man if it looks this amazing now imagine what it will look like on next gen” That was the last time an AC game gave me that feeling.
I had decent luck with this game as I had very little glitches. And it was a very enjoyable and memorable gaming experience. Even now this game is still near and dear to my heart
I recently finished AC Unity a second time, just a week ago. And this time I took proper advantage of all the tips the TH-camrs had to offer for the gameplay. And oh my god, this game is so amazing, I cannot put into words how many details this game has. The side ejects, the wall ejects, the crowd behaviour, all amazing stuff. I wish Ubisoft understood that people did not hate the gameplay (there are still new Unity parkour videos in 2021) but instead the bugs and fps issues. But ofcourse, Ubisoft.
Having beat Syndicate recently, Unity is a gem. I've encountered more bugs on Syndicate in 2021 than Unity on 2019. The game was really patched up, and honestly, no other entry on the franchise felt as good to parkour and assassinate. Top notch gameplay
Ive played it recently and its one of my most loved AC titles. I still have not uninstalled it months after finishing it and like to go through the story and explore paris from time to time.
Great take Luke! Management did read the writing wrong and also at that time they were spamming out the entries too quickly. If they released polished versions of AC every 2-3 years instead of yearly, the series wouldn't have needed such a change to stay interesting. I loved AC Odyssey but always felt bad for the true AC fans
People don't know, but Ubisoft expected the PS4 and Xbox One to be more powerful, that's why you see so much people in the city it was amazing the world felt so alive. But the fans could only bitch about the glitches (btw I didn't even have one glitch in my play through) and I bet most people who were complaining didn't even play the game they just saw it on TH-cam.
Unity is such a good AC game, I remember playing it at launch and loving it. Completed again only a few months ago and I still love it. I wish we could get a patch for 60fps and better draw distance for the ps5.
Excellent game. Started playing it again yesterday after replaying the ezio trilogy and unity is amazing! Now all of the glitches have been sorted it's a pleasure to play, I'm putting it at the top of my ac list.. I wish they kept this style of parkour and gameplay.
I recently bought the game and played it on PC and didn't have any glitches. I'm guessing all of it has been patched. The graphics on the game was so beautiful. I just kept exploring, simply because I loved how it captured the French Revolution and how the game was full of NPCs, crowds of them and they all looked different. It was amazing, I still turn it on and just roam the streets. The world they created was so beautiful. The story was majorly lacking, but the game is/was truly beautiful.
I feel this way about Watch Dogs as well. Ubisoft overreacts and feel the need to go back to the drawing board when faced with criticism. The only criticism I had was having to pay extra money in these games when it was never required in past games. It took me awhile, but I ended up enjoying the new games as well. It's a strange scenario. We lost the dish we enjoyed, but Ubisoft was able to deliver a new kind. It just sucks that it's no longer on the menu.
the only glitches i ever experienced playing was falling off a house into a bush and getting stuck in the bush and couldn't get out. i honestly think its the best assassin's creed game ever the combat just flows so does the parkour and it actually had a story it doesn't take much to get into
I got my PS4 in 2014 and this was my first game, and boy did it blow 12 year old me away. I honestly don't remember having too many bugs and graphics issues. I really enjoyed it and I still think it looks amazing to this day. I went on to play Origins and Black Flag but Unity is still my favourite so far. Thinking of buying the Ezio Collection as it's on offer rn.
From AC Revelations to AC 2 then Origins and now Unity, I've got a taste of most of the good stuff that AC had to offer. 3 eras, 4 games, and different gameplay mechanics YET I enjoyed every bit of these 4 games. Idk whether I should play Valhalla and disappoint myself and then play Black Flag to make up for the disappointment or wait for Mirage for a fresh experience. I will still wander the streets of Paris till I make a decision
Replaying it still to this day! It’s got 60fps mode unpatched on ps5 (disc version) and still looking like a next gen game, Unity is getting it’s deserved love these days and that’s what matters! Here’s hope Ubisoft might take notice but I guess it’s to late...
I hope we get a unity remastered or remade for next gen consoles. With some bug patches and enhanced graphic maybe we can actually experience a multiplayer AC
I picked up this game recently for like 10 bucks to try it out. The NPC texture pop-in was so distracting and immersion-breaking that I stopped playing after like 20 minutes... NPCs literally pop in and out of existence right before your eyes, as seen @ 6:48 ... The technical issues-for me-are such a barrier to entry for this game.
And let's not forget that the team at Ubisoft offered their raw capture data to France when the Notre Dame Cathedral roof caught fire a couple years back. The poured so much love into the representation of the Cathedral in Unity. That being said, I did buy Unity for PC after the first couple of major patches came out and still found it unplayable. Syndicate even more so, I couldn't get past the first hour without my rig crashing, and it's still a pretty decent rig even now. At this point, I don't think I'll repurchase either game for the PS4. I never bought Origins, but I did buy Odyssey, and currently playing Valhalla. I'm enjoying the pre-Crusade timeline we've been exploring in these games. I know that rumours have started to fly about the next game, but the new direction of the games certainly lack the charm of what the Ezio Trilogy and Black Flag held. I enjoy the quality of the current trilogy, much more than of games past. I just wish that game companies would stop rushing out unfinished products that get a response of, "Meh", and let their IP's get killed off by poor sales. I believe that the world of the Assassin's Creed series still holds merit in today's gaming industry. Ubisoft just needs to Kojima themselves, say screw the haters, and do it anyways. And do it right. No matter how long that takes.
This game honestly was very overhated, I loved the game back when it came out and love it to this day. It's in my top 3 ac games of all time. The story is great, the gameplay looks plays and feels amazing and the graphics without a shadow of a doubt in my mind have never been better. It's so good to see people finally realising that. So many people played the game but then just hopped on the hate train because it was cool to do so. I remember being mocked for liking the game. Now everyone realises just how priceless this game was especially considering this was the last True ac game to come out
The story isn't that great, but it has a potential. They haven't reach that potential yet, and sadly never will. It feels like just a prologue of Arno's story.
And let's be honest... Among the latest 3, Origins is the one that feels more ac-ish. Odyssey was okay in isolation but it shat on the AC trademark by ripping off GOW and The Witcher so blatantly. Valhalla made me happy by taking some of those steps back and giving us a compelling story once again. However. I still think what should've happened after Syndicate was a game completely in the present day.
I got the game for free when the Notre Dame went up in flame and until I finished the game and started looking for some content about it, I didn't understand why it ranked low with everyone I knew who played the game. I very much enjoyed it (especially coming off endless pirating in Black Flag) :D
It's a pretty decent game and I feel like the parkour of this game was the best with realistic combat and environment was also great and so many different npcs...the dlc was not to bad either.
I played this game for the first time in 2020 (ps4). I barely ran into any bugs and I loved the gameplay. Framerate drops happened, but not too often to annoy me.
Agreed on this, a real shame that a great game is remembered mostly for its disastrous launch than being a very good game. I wanted them to do an AC set during the French Revolution for ages as I love that period of history. Granted I ended up playing it about a year after launch and didn't encounter any of the bugs etc. Put it in French with English subs to make it more authentic. Really loved it and probably my favourite AC story. They could have done more with the revolution as it seems more background for a personal story than the major focus of it, so some wasted potential but Arno was a great lead and I enjoyed his story. Looking forward to a replay on PS5 at some point.
I honestly felt so disappointed in this game when it released that I sold it and gave up on Assassins Creed all together, but nowadays I hear so many people praising it that I’m tempted to give it a second chance.
@@HallowedKhaos91 to be fair, this game was absolutely unplayable at launch. The story and setting were so promising, which made the glitches all the more frustrating
@@HallowedKhaos91 Yes. I get the rare glitch or bug here or there but even when I do it's definetly not gamebreaking or anything. The Initiates stuff though is completely shut down though to my knowledge, so if you were planning on doing a lot of Multiplayer and Co-Op then you'll only be able to do the main missions
Unity has what I think is one of the most interesting depiction of the Assassins and Templars because of how many different types of people are shown on both sides. Some think extermination of the other side is the right thing, some are willing to kill their own, some want peace and some are too caught up in proper procedure to be effective. Arno and Elise show that allegiance in the war doesn’t mean automatic enemies, as both work together across the game despite knowing they should be at odds. It’s very Romeo and Juliet like that. Both the French Assassins and Templars are victims of infighting, with Arno and Elise at risk because of this, and both side suffer losses to the more extreme individuals among them. Unity is also the first AC game where the love interest is a main part of the plot. Yes, Sophia is present in a lot of Revelations and contributes to the quest for the Masyaf keys, but Arno’s journey is driven entirely by Elise. He unwittingly lets Francois de la Serre die because he’s impatient to see Elise at the party and when he escapes the Bastille his first move is to find her. He repeatedly defends her against the other Assassins even when she’s framed for murdering one of them, and Arno’s arc in the Dead Kings DLC is recovering from losing her. Syndicate does have a love story as a byproduct of Evie’s character arc, and even a proposal scene if you get all the pressed flowers, but it’s nowhere near as prominent as the tragic romance of Arno and Elise (his pessimistic final monologue is in part influenced because Elise died in the final confrontation with St Germain, as well as the disunity he’s witnessed in the game in different groups).
Yeah, that make Arno a worthless and a spineless POS because everything he does revolves around Elise. Imagine thinking that this is a good well written narrative LOL.
I agree. I have experienced issues with unity, mainly getting it to even START on console. But I am currently playing through on pc, coming from odessey, and this is what assassin's creed is supposed to be.
I played AC1 on release back in 07. It was probably the most anticipated game of all time at that point, along with Halo 3 and GTA4. I played it once, enjoyed it, and never got interested again in the series.
Not only the gameplay, the idea and meaning of the story was pretty well thought tbh, but it eventually got totally wrecked by horrible execution, dumb character and cliche and plothole everywhere
I love this game wholeheartedly. Got 100% including multiplayer a year ago! Taking into consideration every aspect: story, music, gameplay, graphics... its my favourite AC so far.
@Chaitnya Singh Yes you are right. It just hurts me to see that playing the new games doesn't feel like an assassin anymore. And Ubisoft has just forgotten about the prince of Persia. My oldest memories of gaming are when I played Prince of Persia sands of time and assassins creed two for the first time on my old pc. It just pains me to realize that I will never feel that magic again.
According to Ubisoft the missing faces was only the PC version without the day one patch installed. Yet it’s something that still haunts this game as if it was some widespread bug across all versions. Unity’s issues have always been overblown imo, mostly by people who didn’t even play the game yet claimed it was broken and unplayable. There’s been people recently playing the console version without any patches so they can run it at 60fps on XSX/PS5. If it was as broken as people claimed this version should be unplayable, right? Lol Digital Foundry did a good video on the unpatched version running on XSX, I recommend if anyone is interested. I played Unity at release on PS4 (as well as on XB1 a few months later) and always felt the issues it had at release were exaggerated, the biggest problem I had was just the unstable frame rate.
I played them all. Ezio Auditorie is my most favorite. So actually ac unity is my first favorite because I'm able to wear the master assassin Ezio Auditorie outfit. And also the stealth and combat and definitely the most advanced parkour.
How did the management come to this conclusion. Are they not able to read reviews, evaluate surveys, conduct player studies. It seems unbelievable to me that at a company as big as Ubisoft with an IP as important as AC, such a big decision would not be made on hard data.
Dude, great point on why Ubisoft went to the Origins model. I always thought it was derived from the success of the Witcher, but you're right too, it's driven by the failure of Unity and then when they looked at what people wanted, they saw the Witcher and just copied it. Meanwhile, I absolutely loved Origins and the rest. It's a great model. But not original.
I feel it's worth to mention that Origin is just as much an inspiration and trying to take part in the success that was The Witcher 3. Hench it tried to copy the witcher almost 1 to 1, in terms of combat, traversal etc. Just a bit more parkour. Feel like it was less the disaster that was Unity, and more the FOMO, and trying to go into a different market with an established IP. Like Dawn of war or other games have done.
Definitely the best combat and Parkour of the series in my opinion. The finishers were brutal and satisfying. Valhalla does come pretty damn close with satisfaction of combat
I love Origins, I love Bayek. Out of the three last new mythology saga games I love Origins the most. However it’s indeed a large departure from the classic AC games as we knew them. Unity is one of my favourite AC games. Some of the older ones have become… outdated. They’re still fun, but just not as much fun as they were. That’s just normal. Altaïr, Ezio and Edward will always be my favourite Assassins from the classic AC games and that won’t change.
Last summer, I did a replay of the series from AC1 to Syndicate before hopping back on Odyssey to finish the DLC. I came away with the firm belief that Unity was the best the series has ever been (still believe that) and, after loving Odyssey at first, felt it was a disgrace to the series once I returned to it. I know it's unlikely, but I wish Ubisoft could work on a Unity remaster with more time and hardware power on their hands.
Personally for me even tho I love black flag and Edward. I think black flags unique being a pirate for almost entire game but having the option to be an assassins from the start and it’s success became the reason for what we got in origin and Valhalla. They all have us be something else like a protector or a Viking but at the same time give us the option of being an assassins.
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Dude after syndicate the recipe changed
At least it's getting the love now. The stealth, movement etc. Also, StealthgamerBR changed a lot of minds on this game.
The new games have brought fans to the old games and appreciate then even more.
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I'm sorry but I didn't like Unity. The combat was pretty neat, stealth mechanics was great my issue with it was the story. The story did not make sense at all. There were multiple scenarios where Arno did not make sense in this game. To throw it off we barely got gameplay on the DLC where we finally see Arno's full potential to some degree. Left me wanting more and the end of the game just did not make sense at all not to mention the dreadful modern-day story as well.
@@javierlandaverde4108 Unity had the least intrusive modern day story(out of the ones that have bothered to include it). Though, personally, I find ALL of the AC modern segments to be atrocious. I have never finished a sequence and felt any sort of excitement or interest when the player character is suddenly pulled from the Animus to receive heaps of expository dialogue.
@@javierlandaverde4108 I get u i don't wanna play again for the story, which i don't really remember. I want to play it again for the game play. Ezio story is levels
The graphics in this game are still insane.
The textures and lighting are better than Origins and Odyssey in my opinion. They definitely stepped up with Valhalla
What a dumb comment. Of course graphics get better as time goes on. I mean a few years ago we were talking about full HD. Nowdays we have 8k...
@@direct2397 Saying the graphics of a 2014 game still look good in 2021 is a dumb comment? Think you need a new therapist bro.
@@nygeriunprence no the older games aged really well. Played revelations recently and it still looks good for its age. And your comment wasn't dumb. Just kinda obvious. Graphics keep evolving all the time and games are only gonne look better and better as time goes on.
Much better than what they're releasing now.
Ah man. Imagine a world where Ac unity was successful at launch. The stealth in all of the future games would have been amazing
Ikr. Imagine if the people begind Unity were given time to playtest and fix alot of the bugs. I could only imagine what amazing wonders the ac series will continue as
Story and characters still suck.
Back when I was this early, Assasins Creed still had assassins.
Back when I was this early, altair didn't sit in a library.
@@koichiroiketani Back when I was this early, there were still Isu.
Back when I was this early, Assassin's Creed was Prince of Persia
So Basim is not an Assassin?
@@JeovahLovesYou okay, correction: back when we Still played as assassins.
Valhalla and odyssey have more in common with shadow of war than early AC games
Except the Middle Earth games are good.
Don't know valhalla is endless and shallow
@@davso91 Odyssey is the endless and shallow one.
@@waterbakey4330 Both are only difference is Odyssey is not an AC valhalla kinda storywise.
Odyssey was fun to play while valhalla is an endless chores half bakef
Both games are good on their own right, but are absolutely dreadful AC games
I recently downloaded unity again and played it with some friends who are also long time AC fans. After playing for a while we just vented for ages, realising how heartbreaking it was that the core of AC had basically been abandoned and how criminally underrated unity really was.
yes! this !
Core of AC has been boring for years, fans were the ones asking the change. I played all games since brotherhood and Odyssey and Origins were the most fun i had with this franchise in years.
@@nenadmilovanovic5271 the core was what kept people around and built the audience in the first place. It was the design and mechanics that became stale, the fact that it devolved into a checklist of icons on a map you had to spend time getting to and getting rid of just for the sake of them. The advantage with origins was it took the side activities and made them actually interesting by making the overall design more like an RPG so they felt meaningful and therefore justified. The core principle though is a lone assassin sent to deliver a single decisive blow in order to affect broad reaching power struggles and conflicts, origins managed to keep just enough of that that it was able to walk the line between the two, odyssey went too far into the RPG elements and now that's all AC is, it's just trying to imitate better RPGs and not even doing a great job at it. It's a series with no through line anymore. It's not to say they're bad necessarily, if you enjoy them, more power to you man, I'm happy you can, they just don't do anything for a lot of people who've been long time fans though and I think that's why.
@@thecriticalgamer8462 new AC games are great RPGs, story is average yes, but exploration, combat, progression and customisation are above industry standard. Look at Witcher 3, the most famous RPG of last generation which I sunk 200h into. Combat is clunky and unresponsive, it relies completely on the abuse of quen and dodge buttons. Movement feels like driving a tank, gear progression is ruined by witcher sets, level progression is ruined by the main storyline which in turn fails to reward exploration, since you never need xp or gear. World is dead since CDPR don't know how to make dynamic AI systems. AC games do each of these things better. Name one thing that Witcher 3 did better than AC aside from story and sidequests?
Everyone loves Unity now. It deserves so much love.
How did you fix the texture pop in? I have a series X and a PC i5 9400f Rx 580. Cause for me right now is the worst game ever.
@@raychii7361 I don't have texture pop-in. Models and characters do pop-in and nothing can be done about it but I wouldn't let that ruin the game in any way for me.
@@kloakovalimonada Well I'm happy you could ignore it. But for me it removed all emersion. I didn't finish the game but I would buy a remastered version of it with the texture fix.
No
It would've been much better if Arno wasn't such a simp. Just saying
Unity needs a sequel of Unity with Napoleon. They set it up so perfectly during the game and during the Dead Kings DLC and at it's end. Arno sends the apple to Cairo in Egypt and Napoleon would have an Egyptian campaign in which he would capture Cairo. Maybe one day one day.
Could be cool if they did something like that and included discoveries of Bayek's journeys and eventual establishment of the Hidden One's through Egypt... Kind of like the Bureau's in Valhalla
Every time I listen to Unity's main theme, I get really emotional. I really love this game
The soundtrack by Chris Tilton is beautiful. The subtle piano is 👌
"And that departure started after Unity"
Syndicate: Am I a Joke to you?
All: "Yes"
syndicate is terrible
Syndicate was nothing like unity.
@@illydzn true but it's still AC
@@fugtugsughug1020 Yes! I expected Unity in polished but we get something worse in every aspect. Just sad.
I really enjoyed Unity, although I didn't play it until it was "fixed" I agree it was the last game that felt like an AC game, while I loved Origins it was definitely the start of the shift away. Unless the next game has something remarkable about it I won't be playing. I only ended up playing Valhalla because of the delay to Cyberpunk(sigh) otherwise I wouldn't have even picked up the latest one.
I though that the Unity combat was actually moving in the right direction after the criticism of AC3 and AC4, but that nose dived with Syndicate before taking a completely different angle after that.
Unity almost had that dueling feeling down that From Software nailed with Sekiro.
If Ubi is ever gonna do a proper remake of any AC games, it should be Unity. To give it the time, to give it the chance.
The new ACs are good games, but they aren't AC games
Dude, same. Only picked up Valhalla bc Cyberpunk was delayed and I had nothing I wanted to play/replay. Both games are sitting on my cloud library... probably never to be finished
@eric brown did you have to update it or was it fixed right out of the box? I really wanna play this but have no WiFi to update anything at the moment and the mixed reviews are stressing me out about it.
@@jesustyronechrist2330 Terrible story, terrible characters, that's Unity.
I miss the old assassin's creed formula.
Why can't they do both, and rename the new ones to something else
It's funny: People complained the formula was getting stale and now they want it back.
So basically: UBISOFT SHOULD STOP MILKING AC SO FUCKING MUCH.
Instead of getting 5 ACs in 15 years, we got 5 ACs in 5 years.
@@jesustyronechrist2330 What are you talking about? Since 2007 the only year that didn't see an AC release was 2008 and 2019.
@@MAP233224 2016 aswell
@@jesustyronechrist2330 Not people, not gamers but game journos were the ones who complained, AC fans have always loved the formula
I come back to this game every few years. The atmosphere and graphics and the stealth freedom is still unparalleled. If only it got some more time.
2:49 Ubisoft actually stated that going with English accents was a design choice, as they were more serious sounding than French accents. The real way to play the game is to play in French with English subtitles
Except the French audio still has English accent
@@antialiasantialias4958 so they're Brits speaking French? I don't speak French at all, so I probably wouldn't notice, but that's interesting.
That's the only way I play Unity as well!
„Did you ever hear the tragedy of Assassin’s Creed Unity, the broken?“
„No“
„I thought not...“
It is not a story Ubisoft would tell you. It is a fandom legend.
Imagine an assassin’s creed 1 remake in the unity engine. Quick descent, assassin opportunities , crouch button etc
Oof, imagine Acre from ac1 but with the graphics of unity..... It would be an absolute nightmare and I would love it for it.
Imagine it, AC 1 but well shit and broken that’s what unity’s engine would do
@@blindguyplays8436 I replayed unity recently and it didn't seem broken, it was wonderful. If the engine was modified a little to fit ac1's needs, then the result would be stunning in my opinion.
@@bigpotato8 true unity needed a bit of polishing in the engine
@thomas brady ikr these kids just don’t get what good AC is
Assassin's Creed Unity will actually always have a special place for me, because of how much I liked Arno and the story within the game. It was just an absolute shame that the catastrophic launch ruined everyone's perception of it.
The ending left me sad as well, it really resonated with me, the way Germain was basically erased by throwing his bones in the cemetery, the sight of his bones next to all the other bones, a sage or not, a Templar grandmaster or not, momento mori.
This was the first game I bought that I said "I am happy I bough it so long after launch" I played it after it was all fix, it was truly the best AC I have played and taught me a valuable lesson, do not buy games on launch day.
Played this on PS5 unpatched (60fps) recently. Great gameplay, interesting story, only had one minor bug, would really recommend!
Remember when Assassin’s Creed games actually had Assassins?
Probably my favorite AC game. I played it maybe 2 years after release, in French (with English subs), and I barely had any bugs. I have a soft spot for the Ezio series, Black Flag was fun, Syndicate was really good as well, but Unity... it just made me feel as if I was in revolutionary France.
I want more than anything for Ubisoft to bring back unity’s co op into future games, it was so much fun being able to play with my friends
Best thing is watching this quick-vid while drinking tea from a Les Misérables mug lol. I still love Unity. I played it during a series retrospective long after launch, as I had skipped it due to the poor reception it got, and I felt like an idiot. Having been a Syndicate fanboy, because I'm a student of mid/late 18th century socioeconomic/political dialogues, I was blown away by Unity. Between the two I still have more find memories with Arno and Elise than I do of Jacob and Evie - Starrick is still my favorite Templar though.
Untity has an atmosphere, tone, and a design that just screams AC, and the grays that it allowed itself to dip into with also extremely satisfying. I also appreciated it's open ending where Arno doesn't go back to the Assassin's as a member, but still continues the mission in his own way.
I agree that the failure of this game became the death-knell of the AC we knew, and with the rise of "open-world" games becoming the norm, the writing was on the wall. And it is such a shame since AC really does work best when it's a tight-knit story with exploration and RPG elements as garnish rather than the focus.
I love playing unity, but story is a complete mess.
Unity is my fav AC game. It’s a shame too see that the franchise that I loved has become so different that is hard to see the new games and understand that it’s a Assassins Creed game if there wasn’t any mention of the name.
For me unity is just on a completely different series than origins and odessey, a new chapter. Another game with unity core that isn’t glitched to hell at launch would be very well appreciated.
I played Unity for the first time last year (PC) and now a year later.. I think it's my favorite AC game.
At 6:39 that explains alot why the newer assassin's creed games haven't felt like the older titles
For me Unity still has the best parkour, combat and the most detailed character models in the franchise.
And best stealth.
I would say the story's pretty good, but it's definitly not the best in the franchise. I think the reason people don't like is because of the smaller stakes and because it came right after Black Flag, which is arguably the best AC game.
Totally agree the character models are absolute on par with games these days!
@@jueezzzz story was a let down but even then I think dead kings made up for it. I love that dlc.
@@the_seer_0421 I didn't like the dlc much. All it was is roaming dungeons and solving a couple of puzzles
Well it’s certainly not a tragedy today. This game is freaking amazing today and is the funnest in the franchise that made you feel like you’re an assassin.
The tragedy is that this game broke and changed the AC franchise. Even if it got better post launch, this game was a joke when it came out
@@alejo5267 It wasn't this game. It was Ubisoft.
@@alejo5267 Well Ubisoft released a buggy mess and instead of doing better, they just thought hmm why dont we copy Witcher 3 and name it Assassin's creed. I love Origins, odyssey and Valhalla but they're not AC games. They're just "Assassin's creed We have no idea anymore"
I was waiting for luke to talk about unity
My first ac game was AcII back in 2010. We have come a long way and its painful to see how this series has diverged.
this is soo true. When i was watching the marketing for ac syndicate, the main focus was literally showing how there are no bugs or glitches in that game. they removed alot of the "floaty" parkour animations and i think the rope launcher reallly killed the necessity of parkour in that game. That game was great but its clear Ubisoft was craving a workaround the parkour element in assasins creed.
it's been raining here for the past 3 weeks here in DFW. Memorial day and while it's raining, i'm out here sitting on the back porch watching the rain drops hitting the pool, playing a gamepass game on my galaxy note 20 and have this on my laptop playing on the background and sipping on some good coffee. life is beautful.
Thank you, I think Unity was peak for gameplay possibilities crouch, dense crowds, amount of useful tools(one not as useful but if they took they’re time it would’ve been better for cherry bombs), best parkour animations, beautiful world. I played on launch that everything was some beautiful and so exciting for the franchise I didn’t even care about game breaking glitches because it was even so beautiful before their was seemingly a slight graphical downgrade I found more disappointing then the glitches themselves. Most of the time just laughed because I couldn’t hate the game no matter what because they added som much amazing ways to go about missions, amazing city, they even have you a cool way to define your playing type by tracking the way you play the game and being able to go to the link in game to see your Assassin type along with my favorite AC multiplayer. Then they abandon it for the RPG stuff completely, I mean there was already elements that were heading that way I don’t get why they had to abandon the great gameplay mechanics they just created, especially the detecting multiple ways of completing your mission influencing events and creating a distraction to make your way in, and social stealth great idea in Syndicate of being able to kidnap for social stealth. It’s all just such a shame that they abandoned it for something that just feels more basic gameplay and get rid of the looting animations where it get rid of certain amounts of realism for basic rpg ways of doing things in a game that it suppose to be how things really happen I like that Assassins creed used to not wave their hands above enemies to loot and actually loot and have a risk to looting if their was any guards around.
Companies do this all the time and it's so infuriating... Everytime a game or a movie does poorly they always take the wrong lesson from it.
Reminds me of the recent Star Wars trilogy
Unity: one of the least AAA releases ever...
Cyberpunk: hold my bugs
This is actually the game that got me into AC lol.
I’m sorry
@@blindguyplays8436 Don't be. This is by far my favorite Assassin's Creed. I absolutely adore this game. Granted, I picked it up for free. But I seriously love this game. Yea, the story could be a bit tighter but the opening hours are phenomenal and I love the parkour. On top of all that Paris is breathtaking. I really do wish Ubisoft continued to build on this game's foundation.
*Unity to me is the pinnacle of what the AC series is all about. it does so many things right and i cant think of anything it lacks.*
the story? Don't get me wrong, the gameplay and graphics are spectacular, and the immersion is amazing. But Arno is really the only interesting character in the story, and it took the Dead Kings DLC for me to really like him. As is, I just think most of the narrative and story are super bland.
@@mattyice9535 i liked the love interest and their constant cat-and-mouse throughout the story, thats the main thing that kept me playing. also, the way each chapter was a sequence towards your target and the game didnt pull you in too many different directions until you lost interest. everything just fed the world well....your ability to buy and customize property, the random battles in the street, the tension in certain areas that really gave the game a turf war kinda vibe.....the combat and how almost Realistic and challenging it was..... its a whole package experience for me and the only AC game i cared enough to finish. the new ones Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla i LOVEEEE but im never gonna finish any of em lol.
Man this game is breathtaking I can't Imagine how good ac could be with unity gameplay progressing . Great vid mate
I honestly wish they reboot unity. I was hyped for the French Revolution. But what we got was
-A slither of of French Revolution
-Speaking English English and not English French.
- entertaining co op missions but I wanted co op to be a part of the story.
I've recently jumped back into the classic Assassin's Creed games and am replaying 1-3, and bought Unity (which I'd never played) as a bit of a switch-up if I just needed a bit of a change of pace, and since I've started it, it's easily been the game I've put the most hours into this last month. I absolutely love this game, warts and all.
“Assassin’s Creed Unity was the last game in the series that felt like a true Assassin’s Creed game.” Syndicate would like a word with you, sir.
Without the rpg mechanics
Syndicate is completely worse than unity in my opinion, from the settings to the mechanics to the story, I have always said it makes me sad the backlash it got although just because of bugs at launch but will likely mean we would never get a game like it ever again. Unity and black flag are the two AC games that always make me exited when they come in my mind and make me wanna go back and play them again, there stories just are phenomenal and gameplay wise are so fun. I have to say I have not yet completely played the first few games before AC 3 a couple of times halfway only maybe if I get to finishing them things will not stay the same based on reviews I heard. Also I dont hate the new games but think they could have been a seperate IP or potentially some other workaround maybe in rotation year after year that we could still get games like unity because they were just beginning to perfect every aspect of that style of game and it was just magnificent.
Syndicate is trash
Syndicate isn't that good. I'm replaying the old games and skipping all the games that bore me. Syndicate might get a few hours then skip.
You can't even wear a hood in syndicate. In an assassins creed game, not too much to ask for
Feeling this video is going to get some reviews ahead of Mirage's reveals if the rumours are accurate as based on what's been said/confirmed, that game seems to be from that timeline where Unity didn't fail/Ubisoft kept with the OG AC Formula.
Unity and Syndicate have a special place in my heart. I replay them once a year or so.
My biggest gripe with Unity (apart from all of the freaking locked doors and chests...🙄) was that the co-op missions, extra missions, and even some of the crime scenes weren't chronological to the storyline. I spent a ton of time researching the events of the French Revolution just to play all of the side events and extra content in proper order alongside the main quest.
It would have made so much more sense if they had locked certain events behind pivotal moments in the storyline before you could access them, rather than just offering you all of these historical events to play with no care of what order in which they were done in. What made it especially frustrating was the fact that some early events were made extremely difficult and next to impossible to complete if you hadn't progressed far enough in the storyline to level up Arno.
Does anyone remember the prologue to AC unity where you play as a Templar? Was anyone else completely floored by the graphics and movement of the characters? I remember being so impressed and excited for what was to come from AC. I thought “man if it looks this amazing now imagine what it will look like on next gen”
That was the last time an AC game gave me that feeling.
“This was printed in that black head of his for atleast a week”
“Unityyyy”
- Rick James
I had decent luck with this game as I had very little glitches. And it was a very enjoyable and memorable gaming experience. Even now this game is still near and dear to my heart
I recently finished AC Unity a second time, just a week ago. And this time I took proper advantage of all the tips the TH-camrs had to offer for the gameplay. And oh my god, this game is so amazing, I cannot put into words how many details this game has. The side ejects, the wall ejects, the crowd behaviour, all amazing stuff. I wish Ubisoft understood that people did not hate the gameplay (there are still new Unity parkour videos in 2021) but instead the bugs and fps issues. But ofcourse, Ubisoft.
i absolutely loath Ubisoft for ruining AC like this....
Having beat Syndicate recently, Unity is a gem. I've encountered more bugs on Syndicate in 2021 than Unity on 2019. The game was really patched up, and honestly, no other entry on the franchise felt as good to parkour and assassinate. Top notch gameplay
Ive played it recently and its one of my most loved AC titles. I still have not uninstalled it months after finishing it and like to go through the story and explore paris from time to time.
Great take Luke! Management did read the writing wrong and also at that time they were spamming out the entries too quickly. If they released polished versions of AC every 2-3 years instead of yearly, the series wouldn't have needed such a change to stay interesting. I loved AC Odyssey but always felt bad for the true AC fans
"Nothing is true, Everything is permitted" no real way to make an Assassin's Creed game
People don't know, but Ubisoft expected the PS4 and Xbox One to be more powerful, that's why you see so much people in the city it was amazing the world felt so alive.
But the fans could only bitch about the glitches (btw I didn't even have one glitch in my play through) and I bet most people who were complaining didn't even play the game they just saw it on TH-cam.
Unity is such a good AC game, I remember playing it at launch and loving it. Completed again only a few months ago and I still love it. I wish we could get a patch for 60fps and better draw distance for the ps5.
Excellent game. Started playing it again yesterday after replaying the ezio trilogy and unity is amazing! Now all of the glitches have been sorted it's a pleasure to play, I'm putting it at the top of my ac list.. I wish they kept this style of parkour and gameplay.
I recently bought the game and played it on PC and didn't have any glitches. I'm guessing all of it has been patched.
The graphics on the game was so beautiful. I just kept exploring, simply because I loved how it captured the French Revolution and how the game was full of NPCs, crowds of them and they all looked different. It was amazing, I still turn it on and just roam the streets. The world they created was so beautiful. The story was majorly lacking, but the game is/was truly beautiful.
This was the AC that got me into the series and it's still my favorite to this day
That Lorde's "Everyone wants to rule the World" nod hit pretty close to home XD
I played this at launch and just bought it on sale for $8 for my ps5. Loved it then, love it now.
I feel this way about Watch Dogs as well. Ubisoft overreacts and feel the need to go back to the drawing board when faced with criticism. The only criticism I had was having to pay extra money in these games when it was never required in past games.
It took me awhile, but I ended up enjoying the new games as well. It's a strange scenario. We lost the dish we enjoyed, but Ubisoft was able to deliver a new kind. It just sucks that it's no longer on the menu.
this is unfortunate because the setting is one of the most beautiful AC city
the only glitches i ever experienced playing was falling off a house into a bush and getting stuck in the bush and couldn't get out. i honestly think its the best assassin's creed game ever the combat just flows so does the parkour and it actually had a story it doesn't take much to get into
I got my PS4 in 2014 and this was my first game, and boy did it blow 12 year old me away. I honestly don't remember having too many bugs and graphics issues. I really enjoyed it and I still think it looks amazing to this day. I went on to play Origins and Black Flag but Unity is still my favourite so far. Thinking of buying the Ezio Collection as it's on offer rn.
From AC Revelations to AC 2 then Origins and now Unity, I've got a taste of most of the good stuff that AC had to offer.
3 eras, 4 games, and different gameplay mechanics YET I enjoyed every bit of these 4 games. Idk whether I should play Valhalla and disappoint myself and then play Black Flag to make up for the disappointment or wait for Mirage for a fresh experience.
I will still wander the streets of Paris till I make a decision
Replaying it still to this day! It’s got 60fps mode unpatched on ps5 (disc version) and still looking like a next gen game, Unity is getting it’s deserved love these days and that’s what matters! Here’s hope Ubisoft might take notice but I guess it’s to late...
Got it on sale for $8 today, hyped to play
I hope we get a unity remastered or remade for next gen consoles. With some bug patches and enhanced graphic maybe we can actually experience a multiplayer AC
I picked up this game recently for like 10 bucks to try it out. The NPC texture pop-in was so distracting and immersion-breaking that I stopped playing after like 20 minutes... NPCs literally pop in and out of existence right before your eyes, as seen @ 6:48 ... The technical issues-for me-are such a barrier to entry for this game.
And let's not forget that the team at Ubisoft offered their raw capture data to France when the Notre Dame Cathedral roof caught fire a couple years back. The poured so much love into the representation of the Cathedral in Unity. That being said, I did buy Unity for PC after the first couple of major patches came out and still found it unplayable. Syndicate even more so, I couldn't get past the first hour without my rig crashing, and it's still a pretty decent rig even now. At this point, I don't think I'll repurchase either game for the PS4.
I never bought Origins, but I did buy Odyssey, and currently playing Valhalla. I'm enjoying the pre-Crusade timeline we've been exploring in these games. I know that rumours have started to fly about the next game, but the new direction of the games certainly lack the charm of what the Ezio Trilogy and Black Flag held. I enjoy the quality of the current trilogy, much more than of games past.
I just wish that game companies would stop rushing out unfinished products that get a response of, "Meh", and let their IP's get killed off by poor sales. I believe that the world of the Assassin's Creed series still holds merit in today's gaming industry. Ubisoft just needs to Kojima themselves, say screw the haters, and do it anyways. And do it right. No matter how long that takes.
This game honestly was very overhated, I loved the game back when it came out and love it to this day. It's in my top 3 ac games of all time. The story is great, the gameplay looks plays and feels amazing and the graphics without a shadow of a doubt in my mind have never been better. It's so good to see people finally realising that. So many people played the game but then just hopped on the hate train because it was cool to do so. I remember being mocked for liking the game. Now everyone realises just how priceless this game was especially considering this was the last True ac game to come out
"story is great"
Imma have to stop you right there bucko
The story isn't that great, but it has a potential. They haven't reach that potential yet, and sadly never will. It feels like just a prologue of Arno's story.
@@nenadmilovanovic5271 Yep, the foolishness of Unity stans knows no bounds.
@@thorsal6208 It never had potential in the first place when everything Arno does revolves around his stepsister that became his ex girlfriend
And let's be honest... Among the latest 3, Origins is the one that feels more ac-ish. Odyssey was okay in isolation but it shat on the AC trademark by ripping off GOW and The Witcher so blatantly.
Valhalla made me happy by taking some of those steps back and giving us a compelling story once again.
However. I still think what should've happened after Syndicate was a game completely in the present day.
I got the game for free when the Notre Dame went up in flame and until I finished the game and started looking for some content about it, I didn't understand why it ranked low with everyone I knew who played the game.
I very much enjoyed it (especially coming off endless pirating in Black Flag) :D
Unity is one of my favorite assassin creed game because of the stealth, combat, and climbing system. I wish this masterpiece had a remastered.
*the tragedy of Ubisoft
I really do think that AC should be renamed.
It's more about appreciating the realistic worlds that Ubi make than it is about assassinating people.
It's a pretty decent game and I feel like the parkour of this game was the best with realistic combat and environment was also great and so many different npcs...the dlc was not to bad either.
I played this game for the first time in 2020 (ps4). I barely ran into any bugs and I loved the gameplay.
Framerate drops happened, but not too often to annoy me.
Agreed on this, a real shame that a great game is remembered mostly for its disastrous launch than being a very good game.
I wanted them to do an AC set during the French Revolution for ages as I love that period of history. Granted I ended up playing it about a year after launch and didn't encounter any of the bugs etc.
Put it in French with English subs to make it more authentic. Really loved it and probably my favourite AC story. They could have done more with the revolution as it seems more background for a personal story than the major focus of it, so some wasted potential but Arno was a great lead and I enjoyed his story.
Looking forward to a replay on PS5 at some point.
This is one of the best games in the series
I've never made it past the opening segments. I need to change that.
I honestly felt so disappointed in this game when it released that I sold it and gave up on Assassins Creed all together, but nowadays I hear so many people praising it that I’m tempted to give it a second chance.
@@HallowedKhaos91 to be fair, this game was absolutely unplayable at launch. The story and setting were so promising, which made the glitches all the more frustrating
@@alejo5267 Has it been fixed?
@@HallowedKhaos91 Yes. I get the rare glitch or bug here or there but even when I do it's definetly not gamebreaking or anything. The Initiates stuff though is completely shut down though to my knowledge, so if you were planning on doing a lot of Multiplayer and Co-Op then you'll only be able to do the main missions
Unity has what I think is one of the most interesting depiction of the Assassins and Templars because of how many different types of people are shown on both sides. Some think extermination of the other side is the right thing, some are willing to kill their own, some want peace and some are too caught up in proper procedure to be effective. Arno and Elise show that allegiance in the war doesn’t mean automatic enemies, as both work together across the game despite knowing they should be at odds. It’s very Romeo and Juliet like that. Both the French Assassins and Templars are victims of infighting, with Arno and Elise at risk because of this, and both side suffer losses to the more extreme individuals among them.
Unity is also the first AC game where the love interest is a main part of the plot. Yes, Sophia is present in a lot of Revelations and contributes to the quest for the Masyaf keys, but Arno’s journey is driven entirely by Elise. He unwittingly lets Francois de la Serre die because he’s impatient to see Elise at the party and when he escapes the Bastille his first move is to find her. He repeatedly defends her against the other Assassins even when she’s framed for murdering one of them, and Arno’s arc in the Dead Kings DLC is recovering from losing her. Syndicate does have a love story as a byproduct of Evie’s character arc, and even a proposal scene if you get all the pressed flowers, but it’s nowhere near as prominent as the tragic romance of Arno and Elise (his pessimistic final monologue is in part influenced because Elise died in the final confrontation with St Germain, as well as the disunity he’s witnessed in the game in different groups).
Yeah, that make Arno a worthless and a spineless POS because everything he does revolves around Elise. Imagine thinking that this is a good well written narrative LOL.
Kinda funny how this ended up my favorite of the series. The parkour peeks here, and the best city.
I agree. I have experienced issues with unity, mainly getting it to even START on console. But I am currently playing through on pc, coming from odessey, and this is what assassin's creed is supposed to be.
I played AC1 on release back in 07. It was probably the most anticipated game of all time at that point, along with Halo 3 and GTA4. I played it once, enjoyed it, and never got interested again in the series.
Not only the gameplay, the idea and meaning of the story was pretty well thought tbh, but it eventually got totally wrecked by horrible execution, dumb character and cliche and plothole everywhere
I love this game wholeheartedly. Got 100% including multiplayer a year ago! Taking into consideration every aspect: story, music, gameplay, graphics... its my favourite AC so far.
more of theses please !
"Assassin's Creed Unity was the last game in the series-" stop right there, enough said
I can never forgive Ubisoft for destroying my two fav franchises, assassins creed and prince of persia.
@Chaitnya Singh Yes you are right. It just hurts me to see that playing the new games doesn't feel like an assassin anymore. And Ubisoft has just forgotten about the prince of Persia. My oldest memories of gaming are when I played Prince of Persia sands of time and assassins creed two for the first time on my old pc. It just pains me to realize that I will never feel that magic again.
According to Ubisoft the missing faces was only the PC version without the day one patch installed. Yet it’s something that still haunts this game as if it was some widespread bug across all versions. Unity’s issues have always been overblown imo, mostly by people who didn’t even play the game yet claimed it was broken and unplayable. There’s been people recently playing the console version without any patches so they can run it at 60fps on XSX/PS5. If it was as broken as people claimed this version should be unplayable, right? Lol Digital Foundry did a good video on the unpatched version running on XSX, I recommend if anyone is interested. I played Unity at release on PS4 (as well as on XB1 a few months later) and always felt the issues it had at release were exaggerated, the biggest problem I had was just the unstable frame rate.
I played them all. Ezio Auditorie is my most favorite. So actually ac unity is my first favorite because I'm able to wear the master assassin Ezio Auditorie outfit. And also the stealth and combat and definitely the most advanced parkour.
How did the management come to this conclusion. Are they not able to read reviews, evaluate surveys, conduct player studies.
It seems unbelievable to me that at a company as big as Ubisoft with an IP as important as AC, such a big decision would not be made on hard data.
Dude, great point on why Ubisoft went to the Origins model. I always thought it was derived from the success of the Witcher, but you're right too, it's driven by the failure of Unity and then when they looked at what people wanted, they saw the Witcher and just copied it. Meanwhile, I absolutely loved Origins and the rest. It's a great model. But not original.
I feel it's worth to mention that Origin is just as much an inspiration and trying to take part in the success that was The Witcher 3. Hench it tried to copy the witcher almost 1 to 1, in terms of combat, traversal etc. Just a bit more parkour. Feel like it was less the disaster that was Unity, and more the FOMO, and trying to go into a different market with an established IP. Like Dawn of war or other games have done.
Definitely the best combat and Parkour of the series in my opinion. The finishers were brutal and satisfying. Valhalla does come pretty damn close with satisfaction of combat
I love Origins, I love Bayek. Out of the three last new mythology saga games I love Origins the most. However it’s indeed a large departure from the classic AC games as we knew them. Unity is one of my favourite AC games. Some of the older ones have become… outdated. They’re still fun, but just not as much fun as they were. That’s just normal. Altaïr, Ezio and Edward will always be my favourite Assassins from the classic AC games and that won’t change.
Last summer, I did a replay of the series from AC1 to Syndicate before hopping back on Odyssey to finish the DLC. I came away with the firm belief that Unity was the best the series has ever been (still believe that) and, after loving Odyssey at first, felt it was a disgrace to the series once I returned to it. I know it's unlikely, but I wish Ubisoft could work on a Unity remaster with more time and hardware power on their hands.
Personally for me even tho I love black flag and Edward. I think black flags unique being a pirate for almost entire game but having the option to be an assassins from the start and it’s success became the reason for what we got in origin and Valhalla. They all have us be something else like a protector or a Viking but at the same time give us the option of being an assassins.