I tried giving this game a fair shake in the year of our lord 2020, and blitzed through it as fast as possible to be done with it. Usually I play a game long after reception has cooled and it pops up in a sale. I had a lot of fun playing the Borderlands Pre: Sequel twice with the gunslinger-gal and the drone-guy. With AC Unity what little fun to be had quickly runs dry when you stop poncing around collecting cockades.
COMBAT: Fighting was in the previous games was shallow but flashy, a poor man's Arkham. Combat in this game is shallow and hard. There's no weight, few options, and the whole affair resembles a bloody pantomine. What do you do when an enemy has their pistol trained on you? Why you clutch your chest and keel over dead.
STEALTH: Apparently this is the first AC game with a crouch button but you wouldn't know it. The moment you're seen the notion of stealth becomes moot and you're directed to Combat above. You're about as hidden as a 400-pound Adam Jensen with body odor.
PROGESSION: There's a skill-tree, but skill-points are locked behind story-progress. You can do eighteen boring scavenger-hunts to find a mystical set of armour that does precisely nothing. AC Rogue had a lot of padding too but it was saved by the naval gameplay and Templar twist on gameplay. Unity struggles to say anything new on the eight consecutive outing.
CLUTTER: The map in this game is completely useless. There are over two hundred useless chests clogging the screen you can't do anything about because the lockpick skill isn't available until a later chapter. There are hundreds of redundant weapons and armour pieces to collect and buy. There's a currency devoted entirely to upgrading equipment. Every side-mission is repeated ad nauseam a dozen times. What's the point of a murder-mystery if you don't give a toss about any of the suspects?
In short this a collection of thousands of painstaking hours of artistic labor gathered to create what is essentially a forty-hour excel-sheet read-through. I got a Platinum in AC Odyssey and enjoyed it, so I can tell you AC unity is simply dire. Buy it on a sale only to screw around the rooftops of Paris for a few hours.
On the plus side you get to see what Notre Dame looked like before Quasimodo played with his matches.
Crap.
I tried giving this game a fair shake in the year of our lord 2020, and blitzed through it as fast as possible to be done with it. Usually I play a game long after reception has cooled and it pops up in a sale. I had a lot of fun playing the Borderlands Pre: Sequel twice with the gunslinger-gal and the drone-guy. With AC Unity what little fun to be had quickly runs dry when you stop poncing around collecting cockades.
COMBAT: Fighting was in the previous games was shallow but flashy, a poor man's Arkham. Combat in this game is shallow and hard. There's no weight, few options, and the whole affair resembles a bloody pantomine. What do you do when an enemy has their pistol trained on you? Why you clutch your chest and keel over dead.
STEALTH: Apparently this is the first AC game with a crouch button but you wouldn't know it. The moment you're seen the notion of stealth becomes moot and you're directed to Combat above. You're about as hidden as a 400-pound Adam Jensen with body odor.
PROGESSION: There's a skill-tree, but skill-points are locked behind story-progress. You can do eighteen boring scavenger-hunts to find a mystical set of armour that does precisely nothing. AC Rogue had a lot of padding too but it was saved by the naval gameplay and Templar twist on gameplay. Unity struggles to say anything new on the eight consecutive outing.
CLUTTER: The map in this game is completely useless. There are over two hundred useless chests clogging the screen you can't do anything about because the lockpick skill isn't available until a later chapter. There are hundreds of redundant weapons and armour pieces to collect and buy. There's a currency devoted entirely to upgrading equipment. Every side-mission is repeated ad nauseam a dozen times. What's the point of a murder-mystery if you don't give a toss about any of the suspects?
In short this a collection of thousands of painstaking hours of artistic labor gathered to create what is essentially a forty-hour excel-sheet read-through. I got a Platinum in AC Odyssey and enjoyed it, so I can tell you AC unity is simply dire. Buy it on a sale only to screw around the rooftops of Paris for a few hours.
On the plus side you get to see what Notre Dame looked like before Quasimodo played with his matches.