Why Assassin's Creed Unity deserves a second chance

Zack Stein (IGN's News Lead) approached Assassin's Creed: Unity with cautious optimism, steeling himself for the inevitable heartbreak: he expected to play this glitchy, buggy game until he couldn't stand it anymore and move on.

But then something interesting happened.

[N311V]

I didn't think it was bad to begin with but regardless, if you've been interested but held off I'd say jump in. AC:Unity is a great game.

[Yi-Long]

I'm still waiting for a complete release of Black Flag, before I'll even consider getting Unity.

[Mr Pumblechook]

'Zack Stein IGN's news lead'

That says it all.

[Bobby Kotex]

I waited for it to get patched up and finished the campaign. Its just as good as any other AC game

[FriedGoat]

So average then.

[starchild]

@FriedGoat

No, it's very good, just like the other Assassin's Creed games.

I mean, while we're treating our opinions as facts...

[-Foxtrot]

I've seen a few of the articles in past month or so with this game.

Is it them trying to get back of Ubisofts good side...even though most of them still gave it a decent score it didn't deserve.

[N311V]

I doubt it. If as you say it received a higher score than it deserved why would they be on Ubisoft's bad side?

I'd say this is a genuin opinion piece. The author held off on AC:Unity because of the publicised bugs but after its been patched he decided to give it a chance and genuinely had a good time. He's just letting others whom might be interested but held off what he thought of it.

[Cyb3r]

Lets just put AC Unity behind us and hope they have learned from their mistakes

[Speak_da_Truth]

I would If I didn't pay full $60 for Watchdogs only to trade it in a week after being disappointed. What's funny is I was gonna get AC Unity. In fact I pre ordered it but then one of my friends let me shareplay Shadow of Mordor and on AC Unity's release date I read how the game was buggy as hell and I cancelled my pre order and got Shadow of Mordor instead. Guess what? I wish I had spend full $60 on Shadow of Mordor. My personal GOTY.

[XiMasterChief]

You should spend that $60 on grammatical classes.

[Speak_da_Truth]

Probably but I'd spend it on anything but AC Unity lol

[ion53]

This is why they shouldn't anualise their releases of Assassin's Creed. It leads to releases like AC 3 and Unity which are glitchy as hell. In addition, major modern day story elements were cut from Unity due to time cconstraints.

If you ask me, Rogue should have released like Black Flag did- on both last and new generation consoles, and then they should've released Unity this year

[airshiraz]

its the king of graphics .i enjoyed it a lot .tanx ubisoft

[starchild]

It definitely is the king of open world graphics. The comparison gets a little more difficult with games like Ryse and Crysis 3 which don't have the same massive scale.

[airshiraz]

if u play it on pc with dsr enabled and ultra quality then u will see its even better than crysis 3 and ryse.those 2 are great too but this game is better than those .i have them all .

[NickAwesome]

If you want a game with terrible framerate,bugs,stupid ai,repetitive gameplay,out of place voice accent,same random events over and over, and the same enemies again and again then by all means this game is for you, for everyone else i strongly suggest you play shadow of mordor!

[aco]

I see AC:unity in same caliber as the first AC game it was good game but not great.. Then AC 2 came out and it was greatness at its best.. Great story/ main character etc...I still regard it as the best AC game and I really hope Ubisoft make a remastered version for the PS4/Xboxone..

Hopefully they start putting more weight on creating a great story/ characters than how many times it is bigger than the previous games..

PS. I really liked the very first sequence of AC:unity.. The dark atmosphere of the medieval time was somehow appealing...

[snookiegamer]

I'm (still) really enjoying AC unity and Ubi have done what they could to fix it. But, I understand some gamers feel burned by Ubi/2014, and $60 per game is not cheap.

[ThatIrishGamer]

I bought it last week having held off at release.

The sheer scale of the game is absolutely stunning so there's always going to be a bit of pop in.

I'm blown away by it. Inside the buildings is so detailed as is the outside. The people and districts are very bustling.

I'm playing through in French with English subs for immersion and some of the script which non playable characters say to you or to each other as you roam around the town isn't subbed so I miss all that fun stuff but overall it is amazing. A technical marvel. Very fun. Very immersive. And it sounds brilliant.

[Chard]

Just let the franchise die. Maybe then we could get a pirate game without the modern day shit

[Mr_GoolyPunch]

I know what you mean - at the beginning I had high hopes, was really looking forward to finding out how the story ends, but it doesn't feel like we'll ever get a satisfying finish.

[DillyDilly]

If games like Drive Club deserves a second chance so does games like Unity

[lemoncake]

Got this game super cheap recently and glad I did, game runs well. If you played an assasins creed game before you know the game you are getting as it's very similar gameplay, the multiplayer coop is very good and a lot of fun. Like the author said climbing through windows can be a challenge at times, but they seem to have fixed whatever big bugs there was.

they did a good job making the city feel alive, the number of npc people is crazy maybe they went a little bit over the top in that department in places.

[zpoc]

i finally bit when cdkeys.com was selling codes for $20, and i am really enjoying it. in my opinion, it's the best AC since II. the scale and detail are incredible, and as the article mentions, the side content is actually compelling, varied, and fun.

it's a bummer the game was released so broken, but it's running great now, and really worth checking out if. along with talos principle. alien:isolation, and sunset overdrive, it's surprisingly one of my favorite games of last year.

[endzeitkind]

AC is over man, its game over for AC.