Unity has a lot of great features that have helped it age well: -Black box missions -Dead Kings DLC -Customization -Paris both for detail and parkour -Large crowds for blending -Lots of side missions
Having only played Assassin's Creed 3 my whole life, When I bought Assassin's Creed: Unity a couple months ago I was blown away from what I played. The fact that the game was made in 2014 and I was playing it almost a decade later while it was incredibly enjoyable was crazy. The game has definitely stood the test of time, especially when compared to the more RPG like games from today's Ubisoft. This game is like AC1 to me, it's like what it feels to be an Assassin, With the parkour, combat, and stealth.
I disagree with this: "The game has definitely stood the test of time, especially when compared to the more RPG like games from today's Ubisoft." like, come on - the story and combat really aren't great. I think Origins will be just as highly regarded in the future. there's just a large portion of the fanbase (myself included) that have a special place for Unity because it was the last non-RPG game until Mirage and because it got shat on for a long time because it simplly wasn't finished when it came out.
@@ianism3 I was referring to the graphical contents and the finished project that was supported by older hardware. It was surprising to see a game this old as stunning as newer games. I agree that the whole Origins will be put in high regard in the future. Underrated titles really never seem to get the recognition they truly deserve. I felt the flaws of the game but it never held me back from enjoying the game. Any game will always have a problem, that's unavoidable. The story was a less memorable one of course but it was playable and expanding with the whole Dead Kings DLC and all. It was definitely a different ride compared to AC3's story which I love. The combat from Unity was a huge leap from AC3 of course. I wasn't expecting to struggle that much but I found the combat to be fine for a game like Unity. I usually didn't focus on combat and more on the stealth which I view as the best part of Unity.
This game have a soul. There are a lot of aspects that made Unity so good, such as: pretty cool atmospheric graphics and city environment design, remorable soundtrack, good story, good time period, nice looking and feeling parkour. The game still looks so good so it don't even needed for a remaster, just maybe higher fps for consoles. It's hard to find all the reasons, but I love this game much more than others and replay it again and again.
Every big gaming franchise that's pretty good overall has that one game that refuses to die no matter what. Unity was lucky enough after the updates to be that one for Assassin's Creed.
Also my favorite AC game to date, and I am replaying all the games now before RED, I do love Ezio , just whatched an amazing video about the Ezio Trilogy from Founded Scarab, but every day I play there is one thought in my mind, can't wait to get to Unity! By far my favourite setting, revolutionary Paris, my favorite city, the best parkour engine done in all of the AC games, the trhrill of stealth, blade in the crowd experience, and sometimes I come out of the shadows just to flex on my swordplay skills... Love the game through and through! Thanks for making this vid! now I am even more impatient to get to Arno's chapter in my playthrough! Stay hidden fellow Assassins!
@@wesseljacobs2201 and I love how they buttered us up sooooo much to think we were getting something similar and when I downloaded it and played I wanted to throw my controller
@@KozyxKhi exactly. I already had that with oddesy, I never baught it either. And then valhalla takes the cake. And me with my stupid face still baught valhalla a few years after. Then mirage was anounced, and i got a little bit of hope. But thats also down the drain. You see, ever since syndicate i dont buy ac games anyomre until i get some full reviews and actual player gameplay.
I think I would rather have an AC Unit remaster/remake for the new generation of consoles over any potential new AC game. If they took Unity and fixed all of its issues, polished everything, and even add on new game mechanics as well as a graphical fidelity upgrade, it would be more loved than any new game that Ubisoft makes
I'm currently writing a paper on Assassin's Creed Unity in which I evaluate the historicity of the game and it's so exciting to see what things the developers have incorporated or changed for the benefit of the suspense. But also the simple stroll around in the game is always a pleasure, you never tire of exploring the lively streets of Paris
I love Assassin’s Creed Unity so much!!! I got it on Christmas Day 2014, I was 10 or 11 years old. It’s still one of my favorite games after all these years!! Great video! 🤩🤩🤩😎😎😎💯💯💯❤️❤️❤️✨✨✨
I’ll never stop hating Ubisoft for abandoning the Unity and Syndicate gameplay direction for the soulless RPG slop we now have. And Ill never forgive the AC fanbase who tore the games down simply because they couldn’t see past the rough edges and see the seriously innovative leaps made by Ubisoft
After I finished Mirage I went back to Unity after years in order to finish platinuming it. Boy did it make me miss the old games, Unity was so ahead of its time. I do wish Ubisoft had built off of that gameplay style. The combat and parkour was so much better back then.
This game is unironically one of the best examples of a game that was ahead of its time. Even nowadays it is better than many AAA games. People trashed it because of the bugs too much and imo it was unfair and exaggerated. Even in 2014 I did not encounter many bugs and for sure none was experience-breaking.
For some reason I remember not liking it when it first came out so I just assumed it was bad. For some reason I decided to finally give it a try and beat it and it was INCREDIBLE! Only regret is not playing it while everyone else was and missing the online experience.
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If only we could replay all side quests without starting a new character... (or there was a newgame+) Oh, and permadeath! I love just wandering around the map. Not doing anything in particular, just exploring, climbing stuff, doing satisfying parkour moves, finding nice details. It's truly a work of art
I remember arguing with my friend between who is better as a character between Shay Patrick Cormac from Rogue and Arno Victor Dorian from Unity. It got quite heated sometime, looking back I know saying Shay was better could be considered a hot take and a half, but this was coming from someone who had Connor Kenway at the top alongside Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Edward Kenway as my favorite Assassin's. Most my favorite often strayed from the popular, still remember people walking passed a statue of Haytham at a gaming convention without batting an eye, to look at other games - crazy times. Bought this game again for PC, hoping to enjoy it again, thanks for this video!
If we changed the skill system, a few additional tasks to the mission, the climbing ability (Arno's famous sticking to the edge) and the detection system, it would be perfect.
I bought this game about 2,5 weeks ago, and the other ac games 2 months ago, and i had never experienced that much fun ever before with a game and still do.
This masterpiece was my entry point to the series, and it was free due to Notre Dame burning down. I hesitated to start to play at the time but oh boy that was the best move I ever done.
AC: Unity remains my favorite Assassin’s Creed game for so many reasons and I have it hope even when it had a rocky/buggy release. And Arno Dorian remains my favorite Assassin since then too, with only Jacob Frye coming close to toping that. I’m sad Assasssin’s Creed hasn’t had the amazing co-op this game offers since Unity’s release but I am beyond super happy to see it has a dedicated fan base and is still alive and kicking to this day! “Viva Revolution!”
Im on the 2nd chapter for a few months but i get too distracted exploring the city of Paris i dont even do missions. It makes me want to visit France, im from Ireland. I was playing it last night and it looks and plays like a 2024 game.
People love AC Unity because it's one of the fewer games in the franchise that was able to fulfill the Assassin fantasy, something that newer entries lack so massively, everything from the atmosphere and the level design to the parkour and the art style, it just plays and feels like an Assassin's Creed game.
Just bought unity today. Going to play it after work. I'm looking forward to this! But oddesy is my favorite ac RPG while this might be my favorite AC assassin game.
4 reasons unity is timeless to me. 1 : The fantasy of creating my own assassin outfit, allowing me to imprint some of my personality into the character 2 : Multiplayer, being a team of assassins with a goal cooperating is goated (when it works lol) 3 : Animations and parkour 4 : Visuals and setting
i agree with all those points the armour in this game looks the best in the series in my opinion especially the legendary armours and I've enjoyed unitys online more than any other game I've played ever the only weak point would be the story some missions were good but some were pretty boring
You said it, “this is the pinnacle of the assassin experience”. I, for one, think that if Ubisoft was not discouraged by the hate this game got and actually gave us an AC Unity 2 and 3 each time improving on the formula a bit more be it mechanics, visuals, story etc… We could have had a game like no other (a Witcher 3 level occurrence). Arno was not the most charismatic of characters, but his story had a lot of potential, especially considering all the suffering he goes through. A second game where he earns redemption and is welcomed back into the brotherhood after paying his dues, followed by a third game where he becomes the seasoned teacher and master. And maybe by the end, even the Mentor of the Brotherhood would've been a perfect full circle story for the character. He could have gone after Shay for killing his father along the way, met up with Connor (to tie the story together). Besides, he got to live in the most eventful era of French and European history, so many missed opportunities in terms of what can be done with historical figures and battles. Honestly even today if Ubisoft had vision they would go back to him, revive his story, I don't think ANYONE would mind. His redemption arc could be paralleled with Ubisoft's redemption arc in terms of popularity considering how much it's lost over the last decade.
started the game for the first time yesterday, other than getting only ok fps on my high ish end pc i can see what the hype is about. this game is tight
Unity from the get-go was one of my favorite games at that time. Miraculously, I ran into 0 glitches even in co-op. But even with them, I'd probably still enjoy it simply because the parkour mechanics were goated. It felt like we hit the pinnacle of what an AC game should play/feel like. Lately I've been replaying the older creeds but I continuously find myself wondering about the "what ifs" for Unity especially if it were received more positively. We MAY have gotten a trilogy similar to Ezio because it only felt like we scratched the surface of Arno's world and timeline (I mean, come on, it was the French Revolution AND you had Napoleon). One of the few things that I do wish had changed (or maybe even retconned) is the ending. It felt like Elise's demise was vestigial writing; it served no purpose and IMO wasn't a character building moment for Arno. To me, that type of writing is magnitudes worse than cliché writing and I wish they just had let them be together in the end. Gimme that stupid OP lineage. 😂 EDIT: Also, Arno was imo the best assassin after Ezio. Just imagine if the 2 were living in the same time period. The Templars would be no more.
If only it had a clean launch, it could have saved the series. I revisited it for the first after the horrible launch in I think 2018 and it became my favorite AC game ever
I still play this game I've reached the rank of advanced master which takes a very long time to do and I've never got bored of the game its like actual gold bro!
I've been playing this game for over 4 years and it still doesn't get old even in if I don't have the mods that fix some of the games flaws but it's still a pretty fun game
The animations for the assassinations are so fluid and fast. In Mirage by comparison, they spend too much time on making the moves really showy by slowing down the process of the kill. But in the meantime, an approaching enemy has a big window of time to detect you before you can finish the kill and then go into hiding.
I missed out on unity back then cause I was too busy playing battlefield or something else lol but I just started playing it last week and I have to say, it is hands down one of the best ac games out there. The customization is insane, and I absolutely love the murder mysteries! However, the icing on the cake has to go to the parkour. I can’t get enough of the animations and it makes me so sad that they refused to implement this style of parkour into future games 😭
The two things that stood out to me when I first played it in 2023 were 1: the graphics, they really do look so clean. 2: the city, I think the reconstruction of Paris offers the best and most diverse traversal of a cramped city-space in all of the AC games.
Hey Master Assassin, how are you? anyway, this video was very well done. I would absolutely love to see you continue a playthrough of Nexus. No pressure though. Have a good day!
To me, Arno is up there with Shao Jun, Edward, Shay and Bayek. As in, they'll never get a sequel even though they absolutely deserve it. Might even say Altaïr also counts here, given that he had to share Revelations with Ezio, and the other two games he's been in is either really hard to find, or an utter fever dream.
Back then, I didn't buy new games. I always waited until they got cheaper, so I never played the buggy version. Unity is phenomenal to me! I felt Syndicate was a step back. The story could have been better, Arno wasn't really an Assassin, he was just worried about Elise and her dad. The combat, parkour and customization was the best in the series!
Omg! I love AC Unity the most! The assassin fantasy in this game is amazing! An assassin should be very good at parkour and fast, deadly and with a lot of tools! Not to mention Paris, with all the CRAZY interiors and the city design! Too bad they never finished the game..
I think the biggest reason they didn't build on it was the general reception of syndicate. Unity and AC2 are still some of my favorite entries into the series, 2 for its amazing story and Unity mostly for it's gameplay and vibes.
I loved the game when it came out. Never had any game breaking bugs, played the campaign the whole way through at least 3 times, and spent hours with the online mode.
It feels like the last true AC game. Syndicate featured the grappling hook which skipped the climbing, a key part of AC experience. By Origins: - Climbing had become a dull press up to climb - Parkour was a shadow of its former self, and the architecture mostly dissuaded climbing - The sparseness made everything feel more distant whereas Unity made you feel in the environments - The sci-fi aspect was dissipating to pure fantasy RPG - Ubisoft shed the player-as-Assassin entirely - The huge crowds made it feel busy, though it was causing issues for hardware of the time. It was scaled back a lot in Syndicate and Origins onwards is really low population
Man this generation of gaming realy peaked more than any in recen times. (Relatively speaking) i know the technology has evolved sunstatialy but at that time 2013-2018 think about the games that came out which revolutionise the mechanics and gameplay of their respective genre AC unity, Batman Arkham Knight ( which to this day i still thinking has the superior hand to hand combat in an action game) the attention to detail wasnt just great but environmental reaction and interaction was so ahead of this time which if im being honest alot of games are missing nowdays. Im just glad it happened. Great memories.
I've played every AC game there is but this one. I put it off forever but finally started playing it last month and I have to admit it's a fun game. Arno reminds me of Ezio in ways.
True, This was genuinely my first Assassin creed game I've played . Glad its been a good introduction to me into AC series. Arno is so stealthy and might be THE deadliest among all the assassins including ezio and conner (he's the strongest) Altair could've beaten arno but Altair doesn't seem to know swimming 😅😂.
They rushed the game out way too early, was mocked and panned online for it, and Ubisoft took that as a message from people that they didn’t like the game and that they need to go in a different direction. It is absurd how well the game holds up still, and it is my second favorite AC behind black flag for me, and I’ve been playing since AC1 back in 2007. It just FEELS fun to traverse the map, cannot say that about any AC game released after
i love whenever i see a new Unity video because i don't want anyone to forget, dismiss or neglect it. it's what Ubisoft should strive to go back to with any new AC game.
No matter how much I think about it, I always come back to the same conclusion as many others have had, that THE best word to describe Unity is "wasted potential". It has so, SO many great qualities, but at the same time there is an undeniable amount of issues that keeps it away from the pinnacle of what AC formula should be.
It was a game with a lot of potential. To me Unity was meant to be THE assassins creed game. It was a new generation for consoles and this game was going to utilise that technology to its absolute limit. The scope of this game was insane at the time, the graphics, draw distance, the scale of Paris, THE CROWDS that ubisoft couldn't stop raving about. All that and the fact this was right after black flag which the majority of fans seemed to adore and the fact we were getting online co-op was a huge deal. When it came out however it was broken, it still is broken and the narrative wasn't amazing but certainly not horrendous. But what always brings me back to this game is the potential because you can see it, you can see ubisoft were really trying to make something special even if it didn't work out quite as intended
If they could just fix the pop-in (that LOD mod is hit-and-miss), I would be happy. I max it out, but my dream is to wander around those massive crowds and not have them pop in and out. For me, Unity is by far the best AC game, and every time I play another, I always say, "It's good, but it's not Unity good."
Uh? Ubisoft disabled servers for finding friends/family, at least on the Playstation platform. I'm always paired with randoms, now. Is it different on a PC? As to how it aged so well, for me it's all about the parkour. It's so satisfying. I was pissed beyond words when I realized that the Mirage's assassin was slow as a sack of potatoes and stiff both in parkour and combat. 10 years later, Ubi's flagship franchise regressed in the moves sets. On a more personal note, one of the reason I love Unity so much is that I speak French and I can vouch for how well written the dialogues are, down to the differences in French language's quality between different classes of people from that era (from educated nobles, to merchants/artists/military down to gutter thieves and downtrodden civilians). That and the re-creation of a crowded Paris (which I visited twice) are very immersive factors. Because of the failure of consoles & slow PCs to run with such crowded environment, reviewers burned Ubisoft for bugs so badly, that all game studios avoid big crowds now. I'm playing Rise of The Ronin, which depict the Japanese revolution, but it just came out and there's very few people or chaos in it. Edo & Kyoto feel sad and like empty decors, while AC Unity's Paris feels alive with all of the French revolution's chaos.
I am so glad this community is appreciating Unity for what it is. I do believe it was unappreciated and is currently the gold standard in terms of gameplay experience
Fact's I love unity cause of parkour & swords ⚔️ & ranking up your character + different color skins bonus still amazing graphics + stealth. My Top 5 AC Games 1. ACUnity Best Parkour/ Swords ⚔️ + Stealth / Character 2. AC2 Best Story / Character 3. AC3 Best Melee/ Combo's / Character 4. ACBH Best Assistant Assassin's/ Stealth 5. Idk Haven't Played AC4 Or ACO Yet Between Those 2 In My Opinion.
Not gonna lie, I got Unity as my first AC game and the only reason I got it was because of the trailer, I loved it so much as a kid that I would watch it on loop several times a day and eventually memorised the entire thing.
As someone who absolutely loved the game since it came out, i feel so vindicated now that people are no longer shitting on it and everyone who enjoyed it. It truly was the start of hate culture when it comes to video games. Now, any new release made by a large video game publisher just gets obliterated before it can even release which leads to less quality. Sad world.
personally i feel it'd never die because whenever a new AC game turns up, people will always refer to Unity with the best Parkour system, mainly because... well it was the best its simply something that cannot seem to be replicated and they shot their chance down with syndicate its true what they say - Lightning never strikes twice
The best part of AC:Unity is the world. It is the most detailed and alive-like game world ever made. No other game worlds even come close to the streets of Paris. This game was simply ahead of its time when released. Only powerful computers could run it as it should be.
its increditable its alomst ten years old and still is a great game shame that i still have issues with co op like one time me and my brother tried joinining but its really challenging to get it to work on playstation
In my opinion (please correct me if I’m wrong.) Odyssey has great stealth and shows how a creed game can have great combat and great stealth. No it does not feel like a creed game. No stealth is not really ever needed, but stealth not being needed is my point, take Mirage for example it has great stealth but the combat is ass. Also the stealth ability where you throw the spear is 100x better than Assassin’s Focus.
