Assassins Creed Unity was done dirty… 

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I’m to this day still impressed by the sheer amount of NPCs on screen at once, even if it is a little buggy. This game definitely deserved better, and more time in the oven.

I honestly think that if it weren’t for all the bugs this game had at launch it would be regarded as the absolute best AC game

The fluidity of parkour made this my fav and the crowd densities in Paris made it extremely enjoyable and I love how open the assassination missions were and not having a set structure but it’s stealth is quite clunky at times and the free running is amazing the dlc is bloody amazing and free And it’s a shame the co op content doesn’t have any solo missions in the same style Online doesn’t work on console pain

I played Unity a few years after release, on PC. I experienced next to zero bugs and was very surprised by how good the game was, after hearing so much criticism. One thing I was always flabbergasted was the quantity and quality of explorable building interiors. It was huge even for today standards. And the look of the interior of rich homes, WOW!!! It's really incredible!

Imagine an alternate universe where after this game failed, they actually listened to fans and improved on these mechanics through future games, instead of dropping everything that made the franchise great.

A higher frame rate really changed how this game played for me.

I was 12 or so when unity came out and I still remember booting it up at 2 am and thinking it was remarkable. I wasn’t too phased by slight glitches since I had quite good control over the game for whatever reason. I always thought they made decisions based on reasons that had nothing to do with its failure. No one was sick of assassins, they were sick of Ubisoft.

Something I didn't know about at first, but the option in the settings to change the voices to French was a game changer for me. The perfect answer to any gripes about the British voices.

To this day, as unpopular as this is, both Unity and Syndicate are still my personal favourite Assassin's Creed games to date. It's just a shame that both games weren't as polished as they should've been, Unity especially. Here's hoping that both games receive the remaster/remake treatment in the future so that the bugs get ironed out

Something about the lightning in Unity makes the game look so beautiful and colorful compared to any other Assassin's Creed title. Really incredible for a 2014 game.

Unity is my favorite AC game. I had a bug less play through some how on contrary to most other people. Hands-down, it has the best parkour in the series and also the best stealth.

Unity is incredibly impressive. I think it's the best looking assassin's creed and even though it's just short of a decade old, it at times rivals some next gen games I've played.

I serious loved the parkour system in this one. It’s such a shame they didn’t keep it for future games

I still remember the Arno monologue at the end. Has really stuck with me. Really enjoyed this game

I still come back to Unity from time to time and am always enthralled by the scope and vision of this game. I could take or leave the story, but the bones here are absolutely what this series should have been for the next decade. If refined and written with a more compelling story, this would have hands down been the best AC of the series. Arno is underrated, but the story just feels choppy and unorganized. Still, incredible gameplay imo. Your closing thought is spot on. Between Unity's disaster and Syndicate's mediocre performance, it's heartbreaking to imagine what could have been.

I played this on my ps5 for the first time about a month ago and it ran so smooth. I did notice the occasional npcs that would disappear then reappear but it did not affect my experience. It sucks I can’t play syndicate on ps5 because of the bugs. Ubisoft needs to fix that but they never will

Even looking at Unity now, 8 years later, it looks impressive. A fully realized open world 18th century Paris, fluid moveset/ animations and graphics that rival current games. Ahead of it's time imo.

Still visit unity every now and then, genuinely had fun with the game it's a beautiful buggy mess and I love it

I like this combat as well. Slow, but realistic, enemies are not damage sponges, but is not too much easy

I've been watching all tour videos lately, and this is like a gift, thanks! Lol

Unity had my favorite climbing, favorite combat, favorite stealth, 2nd favorite aesthetics behind AC2, 3rd favorite economy system (Brotherhood/Revelations slightly better IMO) and to this day I feel like something magical was taken from us. This game with some polish would literally be the AC game I dream of, but I know we can never return to now.

@11:20 I think it’s more likely that the executives Properly identify the issue than misidentified the issue. I think it’s more likely the Executives asked “why was our game so rushed and unpolished“ and the Developers said “because we built this robust climbing mechanic with lots of detail, and didn’t have time for the rest” And so the executives Decided to cut production times in the climbing mechanic.

What a great video Luke. I have the itch of playing this game again, for the sake of old times remembering myself on a Sunday morning wondering in 1700 Paris and solving mysteries or slicing goons. I do remember it took me a while to get used to the movement, maybe due to lack of practice. I picked up this game when it came out but I wasn't playing any AC at the time. What I would do like to see in the future for this franchise, regardless of what Ubisoft builds, is a full on stealth game like unity in terms of controls and mobility (and gadgetry), with the combat of AC: Origins, somehow I find those combat mechanics simple and straight forward, and still keep the compelling story telling that have been so powerful (just like origins). (I know is a strange combination per se). All of this, situated in Edo time period in Japan or The original AC 1 locations (Jerusalem, Acre and Damascus). (and yes, Sucker Punch beat Ubisoft by a long shot in terms of location and historical assets of Japan in regards of Ghost of Tsushima)

I hope you're doing well luke! Take care of yourself and your health. Love you lots

Only if they expanded on this formula instead of turning into RPG wannabes

Unity is by far my favorite AC game. The parkour feels smooth, the crowds are amazing, the stealth system actually works, the combat was fun, Paris is brilliantly designed, and the first half of the story was good (let’s not talk about the last half).

Another well done and thought out video! Great job!

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS MAN, DO AC SYNDICATE NEXT

Most the games I played when I was a kid weren't maybe the best, but they always made me use my creativity. This game allowed me to role play and be creative with an awesome setting. It was my own creativity that made this game enjoyable. If a game doesn't inspire you to be creative, it's a rigid mess. Games have to pull the creative side out of you at least a little to have a truely genuine experience. Ac Valhalla sucked the life outta me.

When it comes to Assassin's Creed, there are so many ideas in previous ACs that they could have genuinely built upon but they said "hell man, we gonna strip it off!" For instance I restarted Assassin's Creed 1, and the investigation system could have been improved a lot, we could start by investigating a target, and that could elicit a start of a journey, we could go from one mission to another. Picking up leads and then assassinate our target. They could have simply added that in Valhalla or Odyssey, or Origins but no. All they did was hey look for these xyz clues and kill a random order of ancient who isn't a templar anymore. Ac is now all over the place and even lost the pivotal point.

I absolutely love the parkour in this game. The ability to decide which direction you want to flow through was an amazing and very much needed implementation. I still think of this game fondly because of the parkour and lighting and think that Ubisoft messed up by ditching this system. I remember playing Black Flag very curious about how they'd handle parkour only to find that they reverted back to a very basic parkour system you find in any other game that lets you climb. I haven't been a huge AC fan; I really loved the first one because it was something new, then I enjoyed 3, but it seems that the series has become something entirely unlike what made it great. I actually just played Valhalla for the first time a few days ago and was very unimpressed. When Odyssey came out, people were saying that the combat was fun, so I was thinking I might enjoy fighting in Valhalla, but it was just very basic and unsatisfying and I found out how to cheese the enemies in my very first fight. I've long been very tired of casual gamers pre-ordering or paying full price for these games which lack in innovation and just churn out these empty husks of games which may look pretty, but play no better than games released 20 years ago.

I played through it about a year ago. It’s definitely in my top 3 AC games. It might actually be my favorite. Being able to customize your outfits, a wide weapon variety, set during the French Revolution, a co op mode, what’s not to like? Good DLC btw as well…,

I don't think that's the reason they simplified the free climbing sistem. I mean, you say it like you were in those rooms listening to the reasons. They simplified it because they completely change genre of game. They knew the problem was the rushing, that's why Origin took a couple of years to come out from the previous game, and not a single year like it was before.

the game is still pretty broken, but the combat system in unity is actually super fun. i wish they’d kept going in that direction for later games.

I bought this game for my birthday back in 2020 because it was like $10 on PSN and ngl, it was one of the best b-day gifts I gave myself. Despite hearing all the bad things about this game, I still gave it a chance and I liked it. The story was ok, but it was the gameplay that stuck out to me. I even got a friend of mine to play it with me just to dick around in co-op and even he liked it. Such a bizarre experience, but so much fun. Sort of want the next AC to go back to this. Possibly one of AC's finest moments, it just needed some touch up XD.

I'm quite envious of those that encountered little to no bugs in their gameplays, good on you. I wanted to get into ACU really bad. The problem I encountered which took me out of playing it, aside from the bugs, was this; whenever I paused the game and went into the options, my PS4 fan would turn into a jet turbine. That confused me so much; how would going into an options menu be so resource-hungry? No other PS4 game I had did this or had this problem. I got so concerned for my console's well-being enough that I stowed the game away after a week. Yes, playing it on a PC rig might fix the issues, and honestly ACU will be one of those games I'll boot up and mod to fix when I get my own rig. But if only Ubi was a little more patient with this baby, it could have made a big splash.

Unity was basically the game that made me wanna get a PS4 when I was still playing PS3. Honestly, I really enjoyed it in 2014. I also think it aged pretty well. All of its major problems were mostly technical imo

Unity was the last AC game that actually made me feel like an assassin, detailed urban map, stealth focused, huge crowds, smooth parkour system with depth and badass hidden blade takedowns. I wish ubisoft made another AC game like this again, just one more time.

I literally picked this game up again after not playing since it came out and I did the mission you just did earlier, then came and saw this video a few hours later what a coincidence. I loved this game, the characters were so good and Arno was great, I thought he felt a lot like Ezio.

I love how you reach objectivity quickly in each point

I love how every assassination mission in unity and syndicate feels like im playing hitman! Best level designs in franchise !

Unity is still one of my favorite games of all time, and I have fond and buggy memories of it. Yes I haven’t played a lot of games. But that still means something to me.

The parkour in this one was on a whole different level compared to the past games. Arno really has a lot more ability to move the way you want him to when you practice and get used to the way he moves and the systems they put in place.

How do you not have more subscribers? When I first came across your channel I figured you had at least 3 mil. Your quality is so good, I know you’re gonna make it big one day.

Unity is hilarious because when it came out the fandom was groaning at yet another cookie cutter AC game, and then everyone bitched when Origins wasn't cookie cutter like Unity. There is no pleasing this fandom. Been in the fandom since the very first game on 360, and I have since then re-purchased every single AC game again for my PC, and no Valhalla is not the culmination of everything I hate as a die hard long term AC fan no matter how many times you tell us they're awful.

Suh Luke. I bought RDR2 and I'm in love with it, it's crazy how much I remember loving Read Dead and Undead Nightmare all those years ago. I also liked Unity way back when, I think Paris is gorgeous and the setting is great. I don't remember much about the story other than some details, I don't think it was very memorable but it was cool seeing Napoleon though. Maybe I was not mature enough to appreciate the story OR it was boring.

you took the words right out of my mouth. ACU is the ghost of the franchise's future, and its sad

Worked at Ubisoft for a few months, ending recently. The keynotes for the new thing look very promising in line with your video :)

This little series is fantastic, keep up the good work bro.

Draw distance issue and npc pop up was not there on release. With one of the patches they reduced it significantly for the sake of performance and I can’t understand why the did that even on ultra settings. For me, on my medium-low pc, this decrease changed nothing, maybe that’s a boost for systems on hdd.

I really love the old games. I also really love the new ones (Odyssey maybe not that much but it still belongs to the AC family). I put more than 200 hours in AC Valhalla and I enjoyed every single minute. But seeing this and revisiting Unity myself I actually miss the old stuff. I hope that in September we get great news on AC and that we get to play either an Assassin or a Templar again and get more focus on stealth again. And combine that with the combat from Origins. I would really love to see dense cities again. Again I love both the old and the new but I think it is time to get back into the dense cities with a fun traversal, a good and rewarding stealth mechanic, and, if you f*ed up stealth, a good combat system. I see that Ubisoft can do that and I think they will do that. So, let's see what September's AC Event has in store for us. Thanks for this great revisit of Unity. Greetings from Germany :)

I just finished downloading the game for the 4th time in a year, I never encountered graphics issues at all, just frame drop, for some reason i keep going back to it & Syndicate, they just feel different, guilty pleasure game thats addictive, especially after modding them with photo realistic mods which make them look mind blowing. Cant wait for ur next 3hours review, keep up the gd work

I actually just restarted unity last night. I figured it's been a long time, I remember almost nothing about it, cause I hated it so much the first time....I figured I'd give it another chance from an almost fresh mind. So yeh. It really is a beautiful game and the traversal of the maps is awesome.

One of the things that this game did that I thought was very interesting was it moved the "send your team of assassins on a timed mission" side game into a mobile app. While you can argue that those missions aren't really that interesting, I thought the concept of being able to interact with the game while away from your console/PC was novel and could have resulted in something very cool if it was further fleshed out.

The crowds were supposed to have a huge role, in the E3 demo (which they mention, is a polished slice of Game) the crowd enters dinamically to the palace. Through the Game there are missions that had crowds in mind but they didn't react.

This game really deserves a remake. The story, plot and location is too good to be wasted like that.

I got this game just a few days ago on my Xbox one s and I don’t have really any issues with textures npcs spawning in or the graphics. The only thing I’ve noticed are the janky rag dolls and the clipping issues at times but other than that it runs pretty much perfectly for me

I played it on pc 2 years after it released and I do not recall having any technical issues. It was a relatively solid game.

I would argue that the AI in AC2 was actually pretty good compared to others in the series. If you punched a civillian the others would back away from your in fear, some would even run away. If you stepped to oclose to a guard, they would shove you, and if you did anything like retaliate, then you would find yourself having to run away from an entire mob of guards.

I love how much love unity is getting Tho im struggling with the dlc “dead kings” I play on a offline xbox which maybe the source of the problem because the items are in the game it just says” this for the upcoming dead kings dlc go online for more information” could it be im playing an older version of the game?

New drinking game… every time he says robust, shot!!! Hahaha. Great video buddy!

I played this on the PS4 about a year after launch and I only remember positive experiences with it. I don't think I hit a glitch more than once that I actually noticed/affected my game play and that just seems normal based on playing games for years. I would love another game in this style.

That feeling of depression when playing Unity and realizing how glorious the serious could have evolved, hadn't it been for the broken launch of this game. That feeling is so real. One feels betrayed for games that never came to exist.

Luke, have you played Control from Remedy? You could do a critique on it, just a suggestion.

They should make assassin's creed in Dubrovnik. It would return the old city feeling from the first games. Btw Dubrovnik is a beautifull city in Croatia with a lot of history. You could place the game in reasance. You could have players hvaing big boats like in black flag. Dubrovnik was the first rebuplic to remove slavery so the story could be about that or about building the wals of the city or about foreigners atacking the city. City has Christian history so the templars would be very well placed. You could be a pirat or a regular assassin.

There is a lot to this games parkor besides just hold right trigger an press a or b. There is a lot of awesome parkor moves a lot of it is hard as hell because the parkor play off ypur camera. Great review. ALSO THIS IS MY FAVORITE ASSASSINS CREED GAME HANDS DOWN.

all of thes bugs are fixable luke i just finally went through the process of editig the inl comands modding it and editing it you have to rely on the custom physics settings in the invidia settings and turn off teselation and increse resolution in the inl settings in you r doccuments its alot of work arounds ut the ultimte reult is perfection no npc poppin in and on no texture load outs and ac unity fixes added on to make the game the one we deserved

I feel like he's missing the fact that assassin's Creed syndicate came out after this that still had this free roaming system and basically a very similar design. They didn't go from unity to origins

I have never played it, but seeing this video makes me want to (even with the still present bugs) the crowd scenes are truly impressive even still.

What I liked about Unity/Syndicate was the Hitman style special assassinations you could pull off. Sadly removed afterwards, just like the free running improvements.

Easily my favourite AC game! Recently completed it again a few weeks back actually. The parkour is still the best in the series, heavy emphasis on stealth was great and I loved the customization. Apart from the odd drop in textures I don't really have anything bad to say about it.

For the LOD problems (glitchy texture and such), the engine will be broken if the fps is above 120, even above 100 they will be very minor texture glitches.

Wanted to love this game so much when it came out. Your video reminded me why I was excited to play it and also why in the end the dumb AI and combat made me drop it after twenty hours or so.

I didn't get a xbox one until the S came out and AC unity was my first game and I was blown away by the crowds the amazing interiors and gritty exteriors,I experienced roughly 3 bugs but nothing game breaking.

Also what was great about unity was the customization, the suits u could have and change the colors, no other ac game did that again

5:28 on xbsx and xbss unity doesn't have these issues that im aware of, im a stickler for this stuff and the game runs damn near perfectly this game is amazing and is slowly becoming my favorite ac game

Pop-ins and graphical issues were just animus glitches bro. This whole time we’re giving Ubisoft such a bad time when in reality we were more immersed than ever. (Sarcasm)

I remmeber i was 12 when i saw videos of people playing multiplayer. Thay was when i fell in love with assassins crees i then played assassins creed 3 then 2 brotherhood and recelations then i got assasins creed 4 and then syndicate. I tried ro get through valhalla and the greek one but never got through th

How is the multiplayer now? My first co op game was a horrible experience. Teammates running off, refusing to get into the circle to advance to the next stage? I forgot it's been a while. But i remember 3 of us waiting for one guy to stop running around so that we could move on. Then there was a tournament event thing and despite winning it, the NPC enemy got stuck on the fence and i couldn't kill or get rid of him. There was also something about climbing up a pole but it didn't work cause it kept bugging out. I played it last year or the year before. Solo was great though.

It's such a shame that people got so many bugs. I honestly can't think of a single issue that I had during my time. I was playing on the original Xbox One too. Whereas I found Syndicate to be a really buggy mess. No missing faces, but I had NPC's flying up and down and around the place, sections of the world disappeared (like that famous AC4 clip), etc. I still put over 100 hours in Syndicate, but it was definitely the buggier game.

When I played this circa two years ago I didn’t have any of the graphical issues, or even the NPCs spawning in. I only once had a game breaking bug, where I had to restart in the middle of a mission. Bugs like the one, where Arno glitches back, when running against that window don’t really bother me. Thus I had a great time with the game. Even though the story could be better imo.

I know I'm late, but I just reinstalled Unity and had the same random drops seen in your clip. Once I activated NVIDIA Reflex for tbis game in the panel it fixed it fully. Flawless perf, apart from the classic Unity jank. Still the best in the series.

Hi Luke, what about Syndicate ? I remember when I played it that i enjoyed it more due to its refined gameplay, parkour & its combat (which in my opinion was much better, fast & more accurate than Unity). I tried to play it on my PS5, but unfortunately its not optimized nor work smoothly at all (30fps with light flashing almost every 2 seconds). Tried Unity as well on the PS5 (the 60fps version without updating it). The slow, heavy combat was killing me! But the parkour was more fun & engaging than any other AC games in the last recent years. I’d love to hear your retrospective thoughts on the gameplay & parkour of Syndicate. Apreciate your work man 👏🏻

This game is the last true ac game and despite it's rough launch it's stil a great looking game to this day. Great parcour with depth and good fun animation. Combat feels heavy and looks stylish without the feeling that u are OP. Strealth is bether then ever and u FEEL like a assasin. Something ubisoft fails to give in all recent ac games. The city is great full of detail and feels alive. This was the way to go fore ac games. And i just hope that they give this game a remaster 60fps 4k on next gene en not 60 900p ( disc version) and that they make a game like unity set in Rome. Would love to see a detailed rome version like they did with paris. I know Brotherhood did rome but common if u look at Paris just imagin a rome ore Jerusalem version in a later periode away frome desmond ore Altair.

I am currently playing this for the first time only 1 crash so far haha knock on wood. Loving it though I'm not utilizing stealth as much as I should but the combat and parkour is satisfying enough to me. A few bugs but the game is still beautiful.

I don't enjoy Ubisoft games as a whole. They're interesting to me and I love a lot of the game design in them, or the world's they craft-it's super cool what this studio creates and how, but I almost never get to engage with any of their titles because I don't enjoy playing them. However, your videos are a lens for me to peer into the creation and worlds of Ubisoft's games. I love your commentary and passion for these series and it's one of the most enjoyable ways for me to consume games like Assassins' Creed. Keep up the amazing work man, I love it!

I played this on the Xbox One S awhile back, and it wasn’t as buggy, and not nearly as graphically faulted or clunky as it seems here. Strange

I still want to see your video analisis of Gothic 1 and 2 in 2022. I'm sure you will appreciate the immersive living world they have, with believable characters and actual decision making with consequences. Features achieved in these games more than 20 years ago, and rarely found in more recent games. Sure they're clunky and poorly refined, but they're worth a try.

Btw when i do the mission u just did, i just shoot him from distance with a berserk dart & let his men do the job, i use that thing in a lot of situation when i want to avoid confrontation

I had no idea you made a video about it. Thank you! I have always thought AC Unity is underrated. It could've been so much more

None of the bugs and stuff that you highlighted "the clunk" occured on my PS4 Pro. There was some frame drop until the Assassin ceremony and one glitched cutscene at the end with his face, but that was it. I have spent hundreds of hours and I never saw the missing buildings, NPCs didn't pop in front of me, nothing. Which is funny

I have played tis game for only 4-5 hours. What irked me the most was mouse smoothing on camera and texture popping in even when maxxed out. There are also no fixes for those problems. Controls are basic and easy to use though. But having heard that the game has English accent when using English as audio language, I began game with French. Felt really authentic playing in French.

Initially I had skipped over Unity, as I didn’t have a new gen console at the time and it was getting terrible reviews. I finally picked it up about a week ago, and I’m pleasantly surprised at how much I love it, it’s quickly become one of my favourite AC games. The free running is highly nuanced; the combat system is punishing, encouraging tactical play of a sort previous editions have lacked; there’s a robust customisation system which, once you have your head around it, allows you to tailor Arno exactly to your play style; Paris is beautiful and I can spend hours just exploring in a way I haven’t felt compelled to do since AC2 or Black Flag; the side missions tend to have a narrative structure that makes them actually engaging, at least for me; I could go on. I honestly haven’t noticed any major bugs, no more than in previous instalments, and nothing to really pull me out of the experience. My only critiques that put this game in A-tier rather than S-tier for me is that while I love the concept behind the updated combat and parkour systems, it could have used a bit more care to iron out some details (controls can get clunky sometimes, with the famous exhibit of this being The Tournament, which becomes nightmarish for all the wrong reasons). This is probably my biggest gripe. Also the pay-to-win aspect, which bothers me more on principle, though I’m also of the opinion that in a single-player game, if shelling out money to get OP stuff early is what you find fun, more power to you. I don’t think it’s made a necessity at all, cash in Unity is easily obtainable as it is and I got the OP gear early too just by doing heists and getting the renovation chest on max income as soon as it became available. Honestly, I can’t stand the latest RPG games, so rediscovering Unity was like a breath of fresh air. If Mirage were to have the same system with some refinements, it could be perfect.

Preferred this combat system over the new ones by a million miles.

I really want them to make a new ac game like this again, with the same parkour, a dense city instead of a huge flat open world, and templars.

And the best thing is that unity is now dirt cheap on steam

If u were like me, who played the game after its horrendous launch, u were def perplexed at the reception of it since my experience wit it was absolutely terrific. Obvs after looking up the type of bugs the day1 launch players had to deal wit i quickly understood. But I def was very happy that I got to enjoy the game the way it was ment to in my 1st playthrough, cuz it was jus absolutely stunning. N revolution France has to b 1 of the best settings too

I think there is something off with the way your game is rendering at 7:15, mine doesn t look that bad. Maybe try to set your nvidia to quality instead of performance?

Correct. The only issue I had was that it was rushed. I got it much later after updates, but this game is sort of underrated mostly mechanics wise. Like he said, the only issues where on the technical side. They just should've spent more time on it.