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Ubisoft's Misguided Attempt at Promoting Assassin's Creed: Unity with Four Minute Snuff Film

Hardcore Gamer: A showing of graphic violence for the sake of graphic violence, Ubisoft might as well just released an excerpt from a documentary on the History Channel and crudely pasted a picture of an assassin over the last frame as it would've been just as an effective marketing tool and it would involve considerably less eye stabbing.

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ValKilmer3550d ago

I really didn't get the point of that video either. Make the game seem badass to all the 14 year old boys out there, I guess? It had nothing to do with the game and really disappointed following that great E3 trailer.

BVFTW3550d ago

Well, I liked the short and I'm old enough to know what death looks like.

cleft53550d ago (Edited 3550d ago )

Yeah I thought it was awesome and it's Rob Zombie so what the heck are people expecting. Guess what people, real life was a hell of a lot more brutal than this short film. What isn't mentioned or shown in this short film is the brutal tortures and rapes that was happening that also birthed the French Revolution. History, like life, is brutal as hell.

fenome3550d ago (Edited 3550d ago )

It had to do with the French Revolution and real things that can happen (and have happened) in the real world.

Guillotines aren't just movie props, neither are a hangmans noose, or a shooting gallery, but I'd still take those over getting quartered or stoned to death.

There were times when people would cheer and jeer at colosseums and bring their children to watch people be murdered in cold blood. Horrid things like this were actually considered a spectacle for the family to enjoy at some point in time, like a fair or a carnival.

Humans are primal beasts, don't you see the news? This is real life slappin' you in the eyes

RedDeadLB3550d ago

It didn't have much to do with the game, but it had everything to do with actual history. This is the world we're getting into with Unity.

OrangePowerz3550d ago

Jumping on the Polygon "Unity is too violent" bandwagon? Anybody who thinks that the french Revolution was a nice and civilised time meeds to go back to school. It was a very violent and unfriendly.

morganfell3550d ago (Edited 3550d ago )

This.

There is a reason this period is called la Terreur by the French. We know it as The Reign of Terror. Over 16,000 executed by beheading with the guillotine and over 20,000 more put to death by other means. Not to mention other types of killing. Easily over 40,000 and that doesn't account for those that succumed to disease, infection, and starvation.

It was bloody and it was violent.

There was assassination, rape, murder, mob executions, burnings, every form of killing you can name. Someone at hardcoregamer should have stayed in world history class instead of laying at home playing my little pony.

10V3N0M013550d ago

I agree with you @morganfell.
Although I am not qualified to have much say in this conversation as I never did history and, in the time that history was mandatory, we never learnt anything about the french revolution. Assassin's Creed Unity made me curious regarding it with it being the setting/era that the game was based off. From the research I've done in my own time, I can genuinely say that I am glad I wasn't anywhere near the French Revolution. It was truly a time of terror, not only for the innocent but for the guilty. No-one was truly safe.
I personally think the video was a lot more tame than what really happened, on a daily basis.

Bimkoblerutso3550d ago

I understand that the French Revolution was a very violent, brutal period in history, but the way the film was made just seemed more like something out of Superjail than an AC game.

The extreme closeup of the guy getting stabbed in the eye. The dude with his cheek blown out. It wasn't AC at all...it was more...well, Rob Zombie.

fenome3550d ago

"The dude with his cheek blown out", also known as Maximilien Robespierre, was who they were after. Once they got close enough to try to arrest (and execute) him he tried to commit suicide with a gun in his mouth, but only ended up 'blowing out his cheek'. They dragged him off and did it anyways, that really happened.

That dude had more than 17,000 people executed during the revolution, and most of them were by beheadings by guillotine.

This game is set in exactly this time period, so yes, this legitimately does need to be in the game. These are the real things that happened at the place and time they're taking us.

Here's some info on Maximilien Robespierre (aka 'cheek dude') if you'd like to know why that was included. This actually did happen after all:

http://www.history.com/this...

Bimkoblerutso3549d ago (Edited 3549d ago )

Yes, I understand that that happened. I'm sure there is a fairly good chance someone got stabbed in the eye as well. I was simply commenting on the way that it is presented: close up, in slow motion with blood splatters that rival 300 and super-stylized like a comic book.

I don't know why I'm commenting on this anyway. I wasn't offended by this or anything. I just thought it was tonally inappropriate for the game it was promoting. Like I said, it was kinda like watching Superjail in slo-mo.

Metallox3550d ago

I know. Finally we get an opportunity to experience in an approximated way what really happened during the early years of the French Revolution. I expect something accurate.

XXXL3550d ago

Rob Zombie is the worst.

nidhogg3550d ago (Edited 3550d ago )

The worst? THE WORST?? Really? Sure he makes depraved films but most of them are renowned horror classics and have been found as a foundation of subsequent horror films.

XXXL3550d ago

Renowned horror classics? You see the Halloween remake and his sequel? Holy shit were they awful. Myers backstory is he's white trash? Jesus...

nidhogg3550d ago (Edited 3550d ago )

I did not mention the Halloween remake as I do agree 100% that the whole thing was awful. But what about House of 1000 corpses? Lords of Salem? The Devil's Rejects? Those are often cited by movie critics. True, they were given negative reception but for fans like me, Rob Zombie clearly made his films a liking to great depraved films like The Holy Mountain, Salo: 120 days of Sodom, or even Eraserhead.

mhunterjr3550d ago

I dunno, the French Revolution was a graphically violent time... There are equally gory depictions sitting in museums world wide... Sure this is a promotion, but it doesn't seem out of place to me.

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I Played Assassin’s Creed Unity Almost 10 Years Later. It’s (Kinda) Spectacular

Shaz from GL writes: "Assassin’s Creed Unity is looked at as one of the worst in Ubisoft’s iconic franchise. But playing it nearly 10 years later reveals it may just be the best"

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Skuletor33d ago

Do the NPCs still randomly levitate every now and then? Even years later I noticed they hadn't patched that out

andy8533d ago (Edited 33d ago )

Honestly I loved the PS4 ACs. I'd love next gen ports of Black Flag, Unity and Syndicate

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Five small but brilliant maps in games

Small video game maps that are packed with things to do are better than huge but empty maps. Here are five small but brilliant maps in games.

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leahcim487d ago

I am playing the Batman Vita game, it is amazing really.

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Why Assassin’s Creed Unity remains one of the best games in the series

GF365: "Since the first Assassin’s Creed game, there have been entries up until now. There are more than a few titles that are far from an ideal stealth game. Let’s discuss why 2014’s Assassin’s Creed Unity is one of the best games in the series."

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isarai512d ago

Glitchy as hell and flat story, nah this aint it. AC2, brotherhood and 4 were amazing games in every respective

Furesis511d ago

Yeah i would say brotherhood and 4 were the best for me. I have not played the new ones and Unity was my last one. Seems like i made a good choice.

DarXyde511d ago

I gave up after Revelations. Just couldn't bring myself to care anymore and I got burned out of the gameplay.

Definitely agree on 2 and Brotherhood though. Great games.

YourMommySpoils511d ago

A Ubisoft AC game that's not glitchy? That will be the day.

Knightofelemia512d ago

After constant glitches Arno being boring nah I am good I skipped Unity. I will always like the Ezio trilogy, Black Flag, Rogue, Odyssey, Syndicate. I use to love the franchise but now it feels stale and boring. But my list of favorite entries into the franchise will vary from other players favorite entries.

RaidenBlack511d ago

Odyssey is a really well-made RPG game ... but it ain't a proper AC game, even though its part of the lore

ToddlerBrain511d ago

It’s funny because, at launch, it was universally panned for being unplayable. It’s a great game that holds up today. I’m glad they fixed it.

staticall511d ago

The only good things i remember from Unity are pretty graphics and really good descending mechanics (even though it sometimes didn't make much sense, when your character can drop down from like 10 meter height onto a flagpole perfectly).

Game is glitchy to this day, i was playing in it years after the release date (with all the DLCs) and it's still broken. You had to reload missions too often for my taste (characters do not spawn, you fall through the floor, getting stuck in falling/sitting/aiming animation, hidden blade stop working, assassination target running away at the start of the mission). Story was meh, searching for all the treasures wasn't enjoyable at all. Coop was pretty much useless, i've beaten every coop mission in solo. Helix rifts were awful as well.

Not saying i hate this game or anything, but it got too many problems.

Assassin's Creed (i know it's a controversial opinion) and Assassin's Creed 2 are still great to this day.

anast511d ago

Unity was okay. I prefer Syndicate and Origins.

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