Assassin's Creed Unity

Platforms

• PC

  Nov 11, 2014

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  7.1

  playscore

  7.2

  9 Critics

  6.6

  30K Players
• PlayStation 4

  Nov 11, 2014

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  7.8

  playscore

  7.7

  21 Critics

  8.2

  68.8K Players
• Xbox One

  Nov 11, 2014

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  7.2

  playscore

  7.3

  34 Critics

  6.9

  3.66K Players

58 critic reviews · 51 community reviews across all platforms

Critic Reviews

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  Push Square

  5.0

  It's a perfect example of how Ubisoft's insistence to annualise the series has backfired, as it's clearly an unfinished product. While it manages to both refine and add to the franchise's formula with enjoyable co-op, missions that encourage experimentation, and a few accessible RPG mechanics, we simply can't guarantee that your experience won't be plagued by problems both big and small.

  Reviewed on PS4

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  The Jimquisition

  5.0

  Assassin’s Creed Unity is a beautiful game that’s fun to play with friends. It’s also an outmoded mess that incenses with its dated controls and shoves Ubisoft’s executive-minded priorities directly in the player’s face. It’s not difficult to see why some people refer to this publisher’s recent releases under the blanket name of Ubisoft: The Game, because the company makes itself hard to ignore in every experience.

  Reviewed on XB1

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  Arcade Sushi

  7.0

  Unity is not a bad game, but it certainly doesn’t feel like it advances the series very much, especially for the first title in the series to be a fully next-gen game. Perhaps we expected too much and hoped for a lot more out of the co-op experience, but it just doesn’t stand up to our expectations. So it’s funny that the backdrop is the French Revolution, since it doesn’t do too much that could be construed as revolutionary.

  Reviewed on PS4

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  TheSixthAxis

  7.0

  Unity is an impressive technical achievement despite its issues, and it is certainly a significant step forward for the series as a whole. The difficulty of combat encourages use of the overhauled stealth system, perhaps signalling a shift towards a real focus on stealthy gameplay in the series, which is certainly exciting. And on top of that, it’s utterly gorgeous almost all the time.

  Reviewed on PS4

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  PC Gamer

  6.5

  It's a solid campaign elevated by quality assassination missions and an extraordinary setting that might just push the big number at the bottom of this review into the 80s, but with a big selling point out of operation, a raft of technical issues, performance problems, microtransactions and stilted combat and freerunning systems, Unity—in its current state—can only be considered a failed revolution. What a shame.

  Reviewed on PC

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  Game Trailers

  8.0

  Unity is an attempt to get back to the basics of stealth-action, and there are a lot of subtle upgrades that make the formula feel freshly tailored for this new generation. This is an extremely ambitious, beautiful game that you can spend a lot of time with. Unfortunately, system performance may vary substantially, Arno’s story is a bit underwhelming, and if you don’t have a few patriots to join you in battle the co-op missions won’t impress.

  Reviewed on XB1
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  Giant Bomb

  4.0

  For all its hugeness and graphical splendor, Unity is starved for excitement. It's much too concerned with a story that feels confused by itself, wasting potentially interesting allies and antagonists in much the same way that it wastes the rich, violent history of its time period. ...but that co-op alone isn't enough to make up for the myriad other ways in which Unity is deeply, disappointingly deficient.

  Reviewed on XB1

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  ZTGD

  7.5

  I’ve been a huge fan of Assassin’s Creed. I always thought since the first game that it had potential to go above and beyond, and I never imagined it would reach the heights it does now. With so much going on in their gaming world, the quality of visuals, number of NPCs and more is a true testament to their talents at Ubisoft, and the sense of scale always wowed me.

  Reviewed on XB1

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  Game Front

  6.5

  Assassin’s Creed as a series needs an overhaul, and it needed it three games ago. Even ignoring my own personal fatigue of the franchise, Unity is still one of the weaker entries of the series. Co-op, while fun, feels half-baked; the game is ultimately meaningless in terms of the series canon because of the lack of focus on the present day story line; and many of the design decisions feel driven by the unwelcome addition of micro-transactions. Better luck next year, I guess.

  Reviewed on XB1
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  USGamer

  7.0

  Unity attempts to improve on some of Assassin's Creed's innate problems, but it misses the mark as often as it hits. Nevertheless, you'll want to play it for the gorgeous rendition of revolutionary (etc.) France and the involving, opened-ended primary assassination missions. It's clear Ubisoft is trying to shake up the series a bit, but next time they need to shake a little harder.

  Reviewed on XB1

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