Assassin's Creed® Unity

Assassin’s Creed Unity is like a fancy French pastry: beautifully crafted on the outside but a bit of a mess on the inside. Set in the heart of the French Revolution, it lets you parkour across Paris, assassinate bad guys, and enjoy the occasional glitchy NPC doing the Macarena.

Peak game overall, however some of the bugs and parkour issues are absolute pain. Trying to climb up or down sometimes does not want to work, sometimes attacking does nothing, Arno constantly jumps on random ledges and corners and sometimes does not want to drop at all and many other things like that. The game runs quite well however and the story and side content make up for the bugs and other issues. I would have given this a 9/10 at least, most likely a 10/10 normally but due to all the issues and bugs I'll have to drop it to a 8 or 9 out of 10. Online content isn't too bad either but getting matches can be a bit tough as AC unity is 10+ years old now. Otherwise great game

i played this game on ps4 as a kid and it was hella buggy, and playing it now it is awesome esp w the ac fixes mod. i love to parkour and change my colors and weaopon and shits like that, plus paris is awesome

Overall, its very underwhelming. The story isn't anything exciting and the characters aren't very appealing. Some of the best AC features, like whistling, aren't there. There are a bunch of side missions too, but other than new armor or money there isn't any reason to do them. The controls aren't intuitive and it feels super sluggish. And, on top of that, there aren't any cheats to make this game any less painful.

The best parkour and exploration fluidity in the whole AC series. I actually also think it's the best combat in the series, specially in the beginning you feel a sense of challenge, although by the end enemies are not challenging anymore.

The story is very bland though. Not memorable at all. The characters are not explored deeply enough but they had a lot of potential. The Brotherhood of Assassins shows promise in the beginning but at the end it's not explored at all and that gave me a sour taste. A revenge story that doesn't try to make you care about it. Forgettable.

I mean, we're in the middle of the French Revolution and still that's not the main focus! everything is happening in the background of this bland story. It's infurianting how much lost potential that is.

By now there's no one playing it anymore so I can't comment on the online aspect.

I've played a lot of Assassin's Creed games now and this is one of my favourite. The parkour is the best of all the games - very smooth and easy to dodge and weave. Lots of fun side missions and the main story line was a good one. I enjoyed exploring France during the Revolution. If you're a fan of the AC universe, I highly recommend this game.

it was a fun game and also sad and its also a good ending and many bosses and at the end it might be sad for you

Idk what steam did to this, but ever since they added achievements, we're back to the game being a buggy mess.

Made my computer crash many times. It's repetitive and boring. Awful game. Graphics are the worst.

One of the last "classic" Assassins Creed games, and I finally got a chance to play and successfully 100% it. And I have mixed thoughts. First, let's address the elephant in the room. Bugs. I should say that I did not encounter any of the cursed face bugs this game was apparently notorious for on launch. I did however, run into a whole bunch of other issues. I would describe this game as, uhm, inconsistent. When it works, it works really well, but there are a lot of glaring issues, still in 2025. I have a lot to say about this game so I'll break my review down into paragraphs.

World Design & Graphics
Paris is absolutely beautiful and really well designed. I've played through every AC game up to and including Unity and I have to say that the environments in this game are some of the best I've seen. The world feels alive and there's a lot to do. The graphics are are incredible. Still holds up 11 years after its launch. Even when you compare if to AC Rogue (which came out in the same year), it's still a massive step up.

Story
Not good. While the start of the game felt promising, it got very bland as the game went on. It's just your standard revenge story, nothing special. The brotherhood is just kind of there and does not feel like a "brotherhood"; I wish they were utilized in some way like in AC Brotherhood or Revelations where they'd actually come and help you in combat. The ending was very underwhelming too.

Missions
One of the strong points of the game IMO. Levels are very well designed with lots of ways to enter the huge palaces and whatnot that you’re supposed to go to, to assassinate your target. There’s a lot of variety and rarely did I get bored with them. The same can be said for most of the side missions.

Combat
Remember the super fluid Arkham City style combat in AC3 and Black Flag? Or even Brotherhood? So uhm, there's none of that in Unity. The combat is very sluggish and straight up annoying at times. Especially at the beginning of the game, where enemies are overpowered and shoot you from a distance with no way to dodge them. My suggestion, just play the DLC and unlock the Eagle of Suger sword. Even with that though, the combat is still sluggish.

Parkour
When it works, it's very satisfying. But the controls (keyboard/mouse at least) are extremely unresponsive a lot of the time. And many times Arno will do whatever the fck he wants and then you get detected, falling to your death or something stupid because of that.

Stealth
For the most part, pretty good. I really enjoyed the phantom and berserk blade for shooting enemies from a distance. Smoke bombs, stun grenades and the disguise disguise make sneaking past guards very fun. I found the cherry bombs totally useless though, it does not distract the guards at all. And I really wished they didn't remove features like whistling from hiding spots, and the ability to hide dead bodies. Also for some reason, some snipers can see behind their fckin backs, through walls, and even floors. Anyway, I would say the stealth in Unity is great overall.

PC Performance
It's decent, but not great. With my 7600XT and 1440p screen, I was getting 70 ish fps for most of the game, but there are a lot of areas (mainly inside palaces and whatnot) where it drops to 40-50. As for crashes, I think I only experienced 3. Which is decent considering I played the game for 90+ hours.

Other Things
The coop still works somehow. There's not many people playing anymore (which is fair, it's an 11 year old game), but you can occasionally still play the coop missions with up to 3 other players. The Dead Kings DLC was actually pretty cool. Honestly, it had a better story and ending than the main game LOL.

Conclusion
With all these negatives, you might ask, why did I spent 90 hours 100%ing Unity, and why do I recommend it? Mainly for the old school AC fans. I was personally looking for that AC nostalgia from my teenage years, and this game definitely delivered. It's a flawed game, but I would say if you enjoy the pre-Origins AC games, Unity is worth a shot. For the nostalgia.

Overall Score
6.5/10. It's alright. It's a "wait for sale" game IMO, and I personally got it for $5 at some point. If you're an AC fan and you see it at that price, get it.

8/10. definitely still has minor bugs etc but still enjoyable

amazing graphics and movement for a 2014 released game

I cant even imagine how broken this game must have been on launch. Completed it now and it felt like unfinished mess. Only thing i liked was fluid parkour. DLC is also fine, but other than that this might me my least favourite AC game so far

Assassin's Creed Unity – My Quick Review

Graphics: 9/10
Gameplay: 7.5/10
Parkour/Movement: 8.5/10
Combat: 7/10
Story: 7/10
World Design: 9/10
Performance (now): 8/10

Set in revolutionary Paris, Unity offers one of the best city designs in the series with detailed interiors and amazing parkour. While it had a rough launch, it's now stable and fun—especially for fans of stealth and freerunning.

Overall: 8/10 – Underrated AC game, worth playing today.

Unity is an interesting game. It is deserving of a "neutral" recommendation more than yes or no, honestly. I'm leaning towards no purely of the fact that while it does a decent amount of good things, it doesn't really do enough for me.

Take for instance the setting of the game itself. It's the French Revolution--with perhaps one of the most lovingly crafted renditions of a city in a video game. The atmosphere, architecture, and ambiance are all perfectly on point. You've heard that a million times. At the same time though, it also somehow manages to feel incredibly empty every now and then. To me, this is because the story doesn't actually handle the chaos and tension of the period that well. Despite it being one of the main selling points of the game (alongside co-op), it serves as little more than a backdrop to what I can only describe as a mediocre Romeo & Juliet story. This also extends to the Assassin-Templar Conflict, where there are moments where it could've truly went morally grey and become something great, but didn't commit in favor of something else. Arno himself feels particularly weak as a character, exhibiting very little beyond his infatuation with the Juliet of the story. Really no one was all that memorable save for a certain someone with a penchant for calling people "pisspot."

The parkour is good enough. Cinematic and well-animated for sure (with questionable physics at times), but at the price of the precision you got from the previous games in the series. Sometimes Arno will do what he wants regardless of your inputs and you just have to deal with that. ACUFixes mitigates some of these problems, but it isn't a cure-all.

Stealth is probably at its peak here, the assassination missions themselves and the wide range of gadgets make it an excellent sandbox of a game if you're into that. Narratively the motivation is weak most of the time and they're carried by setpieces, but what can you do. Combat is...okay--as one would expect from an AC game honestly. Customization is also at its peak here as well. I can't speak much on the co-op as I am cripplingly friendless (LMAO) and therefore didn't really engage with it.

The game is buggy, mandatory Ubisoft Connect, technical problems, bloated map, blah blah -- if you know about Unity (and Ubisoft) at all, you already knew about these things. Bugs seem to be a case-by-case basis for a lot of people, so it's hard to be definitive. I can say that my experience wasn't horrible on that front. Nothing that couldn't be fixed by a checkpoint reload or fast travelling out of a stuck position.

I think Unity is good for two types of people: Those who want to go on what is essentially a scenic tour through Late 1700s Paris, and those who want another stealth sandbox game to play around with, potentially with friends. If you're looking for something more than that, I can't say it'll hook you.

Game keeps crashing on my computer after assassinating Sivert. I'm not even doing anything intensive. Game sucks.

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☐ Watch paint dry instead
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☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☑ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

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☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

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☐ It'll replace your life

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☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

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☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
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Best Assassins Creed game all time in Paris, but sad is multiplayer is dying in this the Greatest Assassins game.

I initially DNF-ed this game, but I ended up playing through it just cause of FOMO and it was genuinely one of the most frustrating, unfun games I’ve ever tried. I kept notes so let’s get into it:

- the changes to the combat system were a real learning curve to get a hold of at first, but are completely negated by end game gear and smoke bombs. I don’t get why we lost counter-kill for this, it’s not even a fun system. If you’re fighting more than 3-4 enemies it’s impossible without smoke bombs. They will chain hit, everyone has a gun they like to shoot at your face, dodging never works - NO LITERALLY I PRESS THE BUTTON HE DOESN’T DO THE ANIMATION BECAUSE HE RANDOMLY DROPS OUT OF COMBAT, god forbid there are also snipers which can’t be countered at long range since Arno can use a rifle, but get this, it has the same range as his pistol.
- false advertising about the topic of the game - it was marketed as an ‘’Assassin’s help the people of France end monarchy’’ but it turned out ‘’Arno chases Elise like a simp while people riot in the background’’
- the story itself is so boring, there’s one twist I saw from a mile away, the main villain is always in the shadows and we barely see him. His lieutenants only appear in their respective assassinations with no story built up for them beforehand
- parkour - people often praise this game for its amazing parkour - well if you execute it perfectly it’s great, too bad you’ll never do that. Arno gets stuck on anything, takes 3-5 work days to respond to key inputs sometimes refusing to do something as simple as LETTING GO, if you try to vault over or slide under something about 70% of the time you’ll end up glitching through it or getting stuck and having to either close the game or fast travel away and retrace your entire route.
- basic abilities from previous games are not unlocked/changed/removed and are inconsistent when unlocked - air assasination, double air assassination and double assassination are all locked behind skill points, the new leveling system they introduced. Eagle vision is now limited and has a cooldown. Whistling and counter-kill are gone. Oh how do you get skill points? Only through the main story and CO OP MISSIONS. CO OP IN A GAME THAT IS 11 YEARS OLD. Murder mysteries, Paris stories, collectibles etc. award none of them. Most of them are in fact found in the co op missions. Double air assasinations never work, neither does a basic high profile double assassination. Only when i slowly walk up to 2 dudes, wait for both to turn red does double assassination work at all.
- not being able to collect from the start - there are so many chest types in this game and 3 levels of lockpicking you can only get through doing the main story so those of us who usually do all the side content in a chapter then progress the main story are out of luck
- the sheer amount of collectibles - it took me probably 45h out of the 75-ish I played the game to just collect all the chests, cockades, do the companion app missions etc., the map was incredibly cluttered and made me quit the first time around
- hack points aka pay to win - buy points and unlock maps for the collectibles instead of yknow DOING WHAT ALL OTHER GAMES HAVE DONE AND ALLOW YOU TO BUY THE MAPS WITH THE CURRENCY IN THE GAME
- BUGS - visual bugs galore (npc clipping through a wall, suddenly appearing, endless ragdolling), some audio bugs (music cuts out while a character speaks during a cutscene), game breaking bugs (parkour getting you stuck in a stand, teleporting to the shadow realm after trying to climb down a building, doing a side mission and the NPC not wanting to talk to you so you have to restart the game and do it all over again) - GOTTA CATCH THEM ALL
- intentionally daft design - 2nd floors that have no entrance aside from an open window. Stairs? What are those?
- overlapping text during murder investigations - you wanna read the letter you just picked up? haha suck it I’ve gotta inform you with a huge block of text over that letter that’ll stay up for 5s that you can see it in the database later

In summation, sorry keyboard for almost demolishing you 10 times while playing this.

underrated game to my opinion , The character humor make the story enjoyable and multiply it. A great romantic game.

I love Assassin Creed games, but this is one of the worst I've ever played. The game literally crashes my PC, the screen freezes and I can't use anything, nothing works, I have to forcibly turn it off to be able to use my PC again.

I love this game so far, beacuse of its smooth parkour and combat. idk why people say unity sucks, it doesnt

Very Good Game
Few Bugs, but that makes the game funnier
Parkour can never be beat
beyond its time

Peak parkour, the only let down is weird story line of Arno. Collectables are horrendous, so many things in little places.
Bugs were terrible at launch but minor now. This game took a real stealth skill which I like that.

6/10 but +1 for the effort of Notre-Dame.

7/10

I just found out that the "Invite" function so you can play coops missions with friends is not working. You're still selling this game at a relatively high price so please fix this. It's not a free game, the functions should be working as intended and expected.

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☑ You forget what reality is
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☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

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☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

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☐ Eargasm
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☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Revolutionised the stealth aspects and genuine assassination concepts that the first couple of games lacked. Truly fulfilled the "Assassin" part of the title.

Arno isn't bad, pretty likeable, bland story compared to the previous games but not bad at all.
Great stealth game with neat mechanics, and the co-op + heist quests you can do add some really cool depth.

This game was overhated and perhaps the black sheep of the series back in 2014, But Assassin's Creed Shadows finally came around, and now that game took Unity's spot. But for some reason this game has better graphics then newer Assassin's Creed games. hmmmm. Oh the glitches still exist, with this game ,but no where near as bad as it did between 2014 and 2016.

DO NOT BUY.

Unplayable thanks to Ubisofts fucking launcher.
Dosen't even start, can't say if it's good or not.

The game itself is good, Paris is very well made and fun to navigate. The story is pretty alright too.

But Ubisoft bs like their launcher or being forced to be connected to the internet even to play single player sessions ruin the experience imo.

Also it's very buggy, took me two hours only to boot it the first time. Coop worked for one mission for me, then it stopped working completely. Needless to say, Ubisoft support never bothered to reply.

I recommend buying this game only when discounted and only after accepting that part (if not all) of the game MIGHT not be playable for you. If you're willing to risk it, go on and try it out.

A great game, if you ignore all the absurd amount of boring collectibles required for 100%.

i loved the game the only part that i did not like was when trying to play with club members you need to add them on ubisoft connect

The setting of this game "The french revolution period", the color grading and new parkour system made this game feel really good!
I did obverse few glitches but none of them as bad as the glitches game had in it's early stages, so total recommended👍

It has some bugs, crappy combat gameplay and parkour. The story isn't that good and the city is manly ugly (well, it's France).
The only good thing is that you get to play it mid French Revolution.

This game is amazing and so far havent encountered any bugs, I only dislike the fact that i only have 1 save but overall a great game.

Donno why there's so many negative reviews, beautiful landscape, good gameplay

a game full with graphics bugs (blurry and noise)

i love ac, but this game is sucks. the parkour is ass, tons of bugs in game, the story is just okay. i dont get it why people calling this ac is the goat. the only thing good about this game is the trailer and this game is place in the 1790's french revolution.

omg my email was dont 1 thing left i cant not play the game pls a refung
i dont like this i save monye for this gmae all i get some git plsssssssssssssssssssss fix this for me i just want to play assassin creed unity

It's Assassin's Creed, what more is there to say. Haven't finished the game, but I do recommend it.

Underrated / Overhated

very fun game, the story is good, graphics and Gameplay are too. i would reccomend to platinum this game and get all the trophies, i'm trying to get them all currently right now.

Im conflicted about this game. On one hand it has the best parkour system Assassin's Creed will ever have, on the other hand the game is still a technical mess, there are bugs everywhere and runs terrible, dipping to 45 fps in most crowded areas on my powerful PC, and experiencing crashes while trying to play Coop (look up "Windows 11 Fix for AC Valhalla", also works on Unity).

Other good things is the graphics which were pretty advanced for the time. Paris feels alive with all the crowds and the French Revolution feels genuine, the soundtrack is very good and it has Coop so you can play with a friend.

One huge bad thing is the story. The game is supposed to be set during the French Revolution but the campaign is about a revenge/love story of the protagonist whose adoptive father, the Templar Grand Master, got killed by Templar conspirators and both Arno and his lover Elise (daughter of Grand Master, also Templar) are hunting them, and the revolution is on the background, though the Templars use it for their own needs while the Assassins are against it (????).

It really is a nonsensical plot that undermines what was built at the end of Assassin's Creed Rogue. The game was supposed to pick up on Arno hunting down the Templars who killed his REAL ASSASSIN FATHER, not his ADOPTIVE TEMPLAR FATHER, and eventually getting to Shay Patrick Cormac being the Templar Grand Master in Paris, but that is too good of a revenge story for the incompetent writers at Ubisoft to think about.

I finished this game with 100% achievements in around 60 Hours, to do that you have to open every single chest around the map, which is a effing slog. I recommend this game only to completitionist and AC fans, although the modern story is practically non-existant here.

this game is super fun theres AMAZING story and a lot of skill in the game its one of my all time favorites although it can be slightly buggy at times (that might just be for me)

Game had a rough launch, but today, it stands as one of the most visually stunning in the AC series. Absolutely worth playing :)

P.S Download the ACUFIXES MOD, makes the game 10x better.

Another stealthy game of the Assassin's Creed collection and holy sh*t! I don't want to say something bad about Mirage, but the developer should have learned something from this well-developed game. ACU also has a captivating story, a extremely smooth parcour system and a large selection of weapons and clothes, with which you can fully costumize your assassin. It would be a lie if I would said I never got bored while playing some missions but that's why Co-Op exists :)

All in all a wonderful game and I highly recommend to buy Assassin's Creed Unity.

Even in 2025 this game is visually stunning and the stealth system is fantastic.
As a die-hard Ezio fan, I'd still say this is the most enjoyable Assassin's Creed game to play.

10/10 would play again
and again...

Another Ubisoft disappointment, crashes every 20 minutes especially on the end mission cutscene. cringe af

The only horrifying thing about this game is that you're French.
Otherwise, great game 10/10 would co-op again.
The story felt like a watered down Ezio's story crammed into one movie.
The multiplayer aspect of this game is absolutely amazing, if only UBISOFT didn't fumble.

I miss AC of this era. Story is OK. Paris is beautiful. Co- op is fun and better with friends, love it!