AC Unity, the game that is surprising me a lot on so many aspects, for a 10 years old game.
AC Unity, the game that is surprising me a lot on so many aspects, for a 10 years old game.
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The most underrated AC in my opinion.
The story was so so, but it was fun and detailed!
I felt that game was a bit of bait-and-switch.
They demoed that mission where there’s a special kill, in a confessional, with a unique animation. So I bought that game on the premise that all missions would have these unique kills. And almost none of them did, and those that did, did not have special animations. So the one mission they showcased the game with was very well done, but the rest was significantly worse. Same thing CDPR did with Cyberpunk – they showed off that one mission with a lot of choices and decision forks pre-release, but then you buy the game and learn that 95% of other missions are linear, with, at best, a single binary choice that doesn’t actually go anywhere long-term.
Also the pop-in was absolutely horrendous. Even on a really good PC, using an SSD, NPCs were visibly popping in a block ahead out you out of thin air.
Overall, it was pretty good. They came really close with some things, like the ability to enter buildings and such. But it didn’t quite clear the bar. Almost, but not quite.
To date, I think Odyssey is still my favourite. Idyllic setting, fantastic voice acting (for Kassandra, Alexios sounded annoying as hell), good mix of mechanics. Unity was definitely memorable, but not even in my top 3.
my second favorite AC game
I don’t remember this game having a night cycle.
Loved the parkour system in this game, insane that the newer games regressed to the shitty parkour of the older games. Being able to parkour down was a game changer and it flowed so well once you got the hang of it, not to mention the animations were so clean
Functionally as a game it was a great followup to the pirate plots. At release and even for several years after it was very broken on the back end of things, this game wasnt fixed until Syndicate was launching its first DLC.
its a PS5 game made during the PS4 debut
PC?
AC Unity was in production before the specs for the Xbox One and PS4 were revealed. Ubisoft expected the consoles to be a lot more powerful than they actually were, and ended up having to scale back the game after the specs were released. That’s partly why the game was super buggy at launch, and why the render distance on some stuff is incredibly low. I’m honestly very interested to see how the next Assassin’s Creed game is going to look on their newer engine.
When that game came out, it was really ahead of its time, but sadly was bogged down due to all the excessive bugs and issues issues, now that the game is decently patched up. I have to agree. The game is absolutely stunning to this day.
Unity was insanely beautiful, I bought a new PC for it and felt like I jumped into a new era of production. Details, environment, faces…
The best AC game in terms on stealth.
The pinnacle of Assassin’s Creed. Way ahead of its time, it has yet to be surpassed.
Bellec did nothing wrong!
The whole “10 year old game” thing is funny to me. We hit a very real wall in terms of graphical fidelity by early 2010s. There’s not much more we can do with the physical hardware of computers until something world-shaking happens on the science side of things.
That and games have hit near-photo-realism already. We’ve arguably been able to since about 2007.
So, idk, games that push for high fidelity will look roughly equally impressive for the foreseeable future and have done so for over a decade now!
If only Ubisoft managers weren’t hurrying the devs… The game was supposed to cone out in 2016, not 2014 which would have given more than enough time to fix the game and release the best AC ever.
it’s easily the best AC from a graphical and mechanical standpoint. it STILL looks good, even by today’s standards. I really wish it had been more stable at launch and combat would have kept like it was. it was challenging but rewarding, and not overly difficult. it was fine like that in Syndicate until you got the skill to chain kills, then it was AC2 all over again.
It will forever be a game that got permanently damaged by its launch. Definitely not perfect (though the trailers were, dayum), but a game that is much better than the rep it has imo. But, that just goes to show what a positive/negative launch can do for you. I mean, fallout 76 is a pretty fun title imo and has come a long way, but its rep will never ever fully escape its launch.
Probably one of the last good AC games.
Didn’t people despise this game when it came out, or am I misremembering.
Games had better art direction back in the day, now its just boring realism.
The trailer that had “toilet brushes” by Nils Frahm had me sold. Must’ve watched it a thousand times
Best parkour in the entire series and I *will* die on this hill
I wasn’t planning to uninstall it, but a bug made me to do it
Who would’ve thought that video games were good in the past lol.
Picked it up on a sale with all the dlc for 10 bucks. I hate Ubisoft, but I felt bad I got it for that cheap. Was a very impressive game once they fixed it.
It definitely has aspects of a great game, but in classic Ubisoft fashion, they couldn’t get it together.
The multiplayer barely works, which was a huge selling point for the game. The story is entirely unremarkable. If you ask people who played the game, 8/10 probably couldn’t tell you what happened outside of the major deaths. It’s a shame because it genuinely could have been an incredible game. The bones of a contender for GOAT assassin’s creed are there, they just biffed the execution.
It was really beautiful, but it felt like the story was stitched out of scraps and there was almost no actual music apart from like 10 second tunes.
It was one of the better designed and feeling games outside of black flag for me. The movement and fighting felt so smooth
I just loved the thick crowds in AC Unity. No other Assassins Creed game had that many densely populated NPC’s all clumped up and spread evenly across the whole map such as the people around the Notre Dame Cathedral among other places..