Assassin's Creed Unity, the game that changed the Assassin's Creed franchise forever!

Step into the boots of Arno Dorian, an Assassin in Paris whose childhood best friend and later lover is the daughter of the Grand Master of the Parisian Templars in Assassin's Creed's take on Romeo and Juliet. As the French Revolution tears the city apart, engage in the most intense chapter of the Assassin-Templar war yet, with both factions fighting to steer the revolution in their own desired directions.

This game was supposed to be a love letter to everything that makes the Assassin's Creed franchise great. It has the deepest customization options of any Assassin's Creed game. Customize Arno's gear and weaponry to perfectly fit your playstyle. Are you the one to charge in with a heavy ax and bury it in the nearest enemy's skull? Are you the one to swiftly and gracefully assassinate multiple enemies at once in a cloud of smoke? Or are you somewhere in between? Unity allows you to create a perfect build with your favorite color and gear pieces to set yourself apart from the other hooded rogues that populate Paris.

Assassin's Creed's assassination missions are brought to new heights with a system called "black box" assassinations. These are sprinkled throughout the single-player campaign and all allow for multiple different ways to assassinate your target, meaning they never play out the same way. There are opportunities to steal keys to a building for easy access, distract a gala with a firework show, block chimneys to create a smoke screen, and other opportunities to help make each time you play the mission differently. If the right conditions are met, you can perform a unique kill that comes with a cutscene which makes the kill all the more satisfying.

What sets this game apart from the others is it includes multiplayer co-op. With up to three friends you can take on special co-op missions that involve Arno in key events of the French Revolution. These are the most fun for me, as playing with others enhances the experience. Even so long after the game was released you can still find people playing this, don't be picky about which mission you'll be playing and you can still find matches.

The combat system takes getting used to, especially if you've played the games that came before it where you simply blocked an attack and then counter-killed the enemy that just attacked you. Those don't exist in Unity unless you are at a significantly higher level than your adversaries. The parkour system is easy to learn but hard to master, so keep practicing with it and you'll be doing some of the best parkour that the franchise has to offer.

Some things that still kind of irk me about this game is that they've removed some features from previous games that I think would have enhanced this game, such as whistling, being able to move bodies, being able to use enemies as a human shield when you're about to be shot, and being able to hire groups like prostitutes and mercenaries to help achieve your goals.

I'll admit it took a while for me to like this game, and its disastrous launch set Assassin's Creed as a franchise on the path it is currently on that ultimately culminated with what we now see in Assassin's Creed Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla. All the game mechanics are a bit difficult to get the hang of at first but once you do, you'll be seeing some of the best of Assassin's Creed. Almost all of the bugs in the game have been fixed since launch, and it is a much more refined experience. I would even dare to say that in its current state, this is one of the best Assassin's Creed games ever made.

Assassin's Creed Unity, the game that changed the Assassin's Creed franchise forever! Step into the boots of Arno Dorian, an Assassin in Paris whose childhood best friend and later lover is the daughter of the Grand Master of the Parisian Templars in Assassin's Creed's take on Romeo and Juliet. As the French Revolution tears the city apart, engage in the most intense chapter of the Assassin-Templar war yet, with both factions fighting to steer the revolution in their own desired directions. This game was supposed to be a love letter to everything that makes the Assassin's Creed franchise great. It has the deepest customization options of any Assassin's Creed game. Customize Arno's gear and weaponry to perfectly fit your playstyle. Are you the one to charge in with a heavy ax and bury it in the nearest enemy's skull? Are you the one to swiftly and gracefully assassinate multiple enemies at once in a cloud of smoke? Or are you somewhere in between? Unity allows you to create a perfect build with your favorite color and gear pieces to set yourself apart from the other hooded rogues that populate Paris. Assassin's Creed's assassination missions are brought to new heights with a system called "black box" assassinations. These are sprinkled throughout the single-player campaign and all allow for multiple different ways to assassinate your target, meaning they never play out the same way. There are opportunities to steal keys to a building for easy access, distract a gala with a firework show, block chimneys to create a smoke screen, and other opportunities to help make each time you play the mission differently. If the right conditions are met, you can perform a unique kill that comes with a cutscene which makes the kill all the more satisfying. What sets this game apart from the others is it includes multiplayer co-op. With up to three friends you can take on special co-op missions that involve Arno in key events of the French Revolution. These are the most fun for me, as playing with others enhances the experience. Even so long after the game was released you can still find people playing this, don't be picky about which mission you'll be playing and you can still find matches. The combat system takes getting used to, especially if you've played the games that came before it where you simply blocked an attack and then counter-killed the enemy that just attacked you. Those don't exist in Unity unless you are at a significantly higher level than your adversaries. The parkour system is easy to learn but hard to master, so keep practicing with it and you'll be doing some of the best parkour that the franchise has to offer. Some things that still kind of irk me about this game is that they've removed some features from previous games that I think would have enhanced this game, such as whistling, being able to move bodies, being able to use enemies as a human shield when you're about to be shot, and being able to hire groups like prostitutes and mercenaries to help achieve your goals. I'll admit it took a while for me to like this game, and its disastrous launch set Assassin's Creed as a franchise on the path it is currently on that ultimately culminated with what we now see in Assassin's Creed Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla. All the game mechanics are a bit difficult to get the hang of at first but once you do, you'll be seeing some of the best of Assassin's Creed. Almost all of the bugs in the game have been fixed since launch, and it is a much more refined experience. I would even dare to say that in its current state, this is one of the best Assassin's Creed games ever made.