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8:53 yes it does. James Kidd explained in AC4 that everyone has the capacity for using Eagle Vision, some people are just much more capable in weilding this sense. Kind of how in Star Wars, some people are naturally more gifted in using the force than others, and some go their whole lives without ever being able to use it.
Eagle vision is not an isu ability. Except it is explained somewhere in the books, there is no mention of the isu using Eagle vision. Eagle vision us strictly a human thing not isu. Also the isu's 4th sense which is referred to as knowledge is their ability to kind of see time differently, that is not eagle vision.
@@Rengokuo4o6 is the eagle vision not a weakened version of the the sixth sense; knowledge..? the eagle vision tells you who is an enemy, who is an ally, and allows you to mark enemies. if that's not sixth sense knowledge, i don't know what is lol
@@Rengokuo4o6 Well yes and no. The entire reason humanity has Eagle Vision is because we all have some degree of Isu DNA in us. The way it manifests in us is different than in full blooded Isu, as they had the full Sixth Sense and we just have a little shadow of it. So true, the actual ability as it is presented in the games is not something the Isu would have experienced, probably, but it still came from them. Part of the whole Knowledge thing, Eagle Vision shows you knowledge of the world around you, just on a smaller scale than what the Isu were able to.
@@midasthegreat9905 That is a retcon. Previously if you go to the first and second game it is purely a human thing not an isu skill. In ac 4 mary reed explains that every human has eagle vision but different apptitude to it. It is something gotten through training not because of isu dna. Isu dna is supposed to help resist the mind control of the apple of eden not eagle vision just like Adam and Eve. But ubisoft has retconed it to be isu dna when it is not. If it is isu dna, it makes no sense that every single assassin would actually have eagle vision and no single templar has it. As not all humans have isu dna. Also the isus weren't gods, they were just really smart and had technology that helped them simulate timelines. That is how they reach out to people across generations.
I watched Whitelight's video on Unity and I believe he mentioned that in Unity there are movement controls that have absolutely no tutorial and are never mentioned. I might have things mixed up but I find that kinda odd, especially seeing how incredibly elegant you can look parkouring around Paris
Was literally going to comment this, You can get so good at the system so well that touching the ground feels useless(Can confirm as a person with like 50 playthroughs, some 100%)
That’s cause the game was barely finished at release. It’s when big publishers started leaning to heavy on post launch patches. I still consider this the last true assassins creed game. The rest have been Witcher/dark souls copies
@@SuperRONDALE got to agree on this unfortunately. The gaming scene had changed back then. We couldn't expect a complete game anymore and we sure did not get one
Unity is my favourite game in the series. Everyone always says 2 or black flag or maybe brotherhood but for me, this game always made me feel more like an assassin than any of the others.
Some people have also said Origins, Odyssey, or Valhalla is their favorite. That's part of the beauty of AC. People feel differently about every game in the series.
@@spiritlance364had to disagree there, AC had a clear identity, compared to Need For Speed, which had completely different gameplay from previous games. example : NFS ProStreet : Legalized Street Racing with you grinding from the bottomest bottom to the top NFS Most Wanted : rougher take with cops added in from the original street racing formula that undergound 2 offers NFS Shift : Track Racing with the worst tuning options to date but it offers the best cockpit view racing ever (it has stupid big input delay though) NFS Hot Pursuit : straight up Arcade Racer with you being able to play as cop or racer, Developed By Criterion Games (The Developer behind the Burnout Franchise) NFS Rivals : Similiar to Hot Pursuit, i can't mention the differences yet. NFS The Run : An Action Packed Racing game that's filled with amazing events and locations. from that you can see NFS had 3 different identity NFS Prostreet/Shift : Focused on legal track racing,although Prostreet is legal street racing... on a track. NFS Underground 2 - Undercover : Open World racing games with cops NFS Hot Pursuit/Rivals : Full-on Arcade racer with powers (EMPs and many more).
@@spiritlance364what i meant by that comment is, when people play Assassin's Creed they had clear expectation on how the game is gonna be, what the RPG Creed did is insult the older playerbase and divide the fanbase. NFS Never had that issue because NFS can be whatever it wants to be.
I do agree with the sentiment that there being a third party between the assassins and the templars would make the stories a bit more interesting...however that third side has shown itself with people like napoleon in this game. That being the people themselves, just living life the best they can in whatever walk of life they're in.
The comics have the Instruments of the First Will, a group that worships Juno and are the antagonists of the Uprising series (which closes out the Juno storyline overall) and the Last Descendants novel trilogy. They’re mentioned in the QR notes Standish left around the building in Black Flag’s modern day,
You missed that when Arno following De La Serres carriage, Germaine is the one that comes out of the similar carriage. Kind of cool that they met before either of them knew who they were
In terms of parkur or fighting this was one of the best ACs but the writing just went downhill after the first act but the world itself and the city was amazing Edit: honestly my feelings for unity from 2014 to now have not changed, it was a game that needed more time both before release to polish or make things as good as the vision for this game was and more time after release to make this kind of game evolve into the next game cause even with all it’s flaws it did something new and exciting unlike new ubisoft
I know the start had me fucking 1 to 10 hard 10 hypeddddd at the first 2 sequences with that title drop and leap of faith and then it was a 6.5 maybe 7 on the way through but worth it but my God I've played damn near all of em and wtf happened after rogue why wasn't Shays kill the dudes dad it was the same place same time. Could've rapped up Shays story. But naw. I thought hard and can't figure out why ac took the direction it did after the kenway games
Back in 2014 I loved this game for the customization of Arno and the story of how it was with Revolutionary France. Plus this game holds a special place in my heart as it was one of the first games for my PS4 and I got to meet the friendgroup that I have today from a coop mission. I never had many issues that the game had in its prime, but I did have some of the apparent problems that many people mentioned. But Unity was something I believe that could have gone in the right direction if it was more polished. But Assassin's Creed going from a mainly single player with some multiplayer to full coop would have been nice to see. As I will continue to be an AC fan and to see where the overall story go its sad to see some concepts be put to the side and not be mainline like Codename Jade or what happened with Juno and I would like the series to back to a system like unity or syndicate, but that is for Ubisoft to decide.
I definitely recommend looking out for the novelisation, as it presents the story from Elise’s perspective through journals Arno receives after the end of the game’s main story. It touches on the class conflict that’s fuelling the Revolution a bit more than Arno’s story and gives more context as to Arno’s involvement with the de la Serre family. There’s even a side mission to England, with Jennifer Scott (daughter of Edward and half-sister of Haytham) helping Elise with perspective on the two main conflicts back in Paris.
HA! Excellent timing! I just started replaying this game a couple days ago. It's not my absolute favorite but it's certainly top 5. Love to see it get the love it deserves.
Well, it's easy to judge based on time and poorly rated RPG installments. I would like to remind you that from around AC3 there were already complaints about the fact that the mechanics started to slow down in development. Add in poor graphics quality, and bugs significantly weakened the game's rating. Plus, remember that the Sages were a novelty back then, shown only a part earlier (Unity and Rouge have the same release date), so Ubi decided to use them.
Did you do a lot of the side context? Much like the homestead missions in 3 that fleshed out Connor outside of what the main story afforded, Arno gets to show there’s more to him than his infatuation with Elise and clash with the Brotherhood. He can do murder mysteries showing he can be quite analytical and deductive, and the game does not handhold the player in these activities. The Nostradamus enigmas will have you consulting the database many times, and as it’s part of 100%ing the game Arno canonically solved them.
1:10 That's a sextant, a device to determine latitude and longitude by measuring the relative angles between celestial objects. Probably there for AC4; they were widely used on ships of the era.
On the absorbing memories bit, I'm preeeetty sure only Arno is the only one who can do that. Games before AND after Unity shows the Assassin actually having to talk to their victim to get whatever information they need for plot reasons, so I think they just wanted Arno to be cool and fresh for the players with his last breath mindreading.
I have such a deep love for AC Unity, it's weird because it's my absolute favourite assassin's creed game along with AC 1. I get what most people say about their stories being repetitive etc. but these two games have what is the most important Assassin's Creed characteristic for me: Atmosphere. 1 and Unity are the only AC games I've played more than 5 times each, just because with each playthrough I get the feel that I play better, thus gaining that perfect Assassin vibe that hooked me back in 2007. The atmosphere was perfect in the Ezio trilogy as well of course, but I don't really feel it in Black Flag or even Origins, which are so popular nowadays (good games, not on my top 5 AC games).
Unity is a good game, played it after the glitch wave, but I just can't take it seriously. Mainly because of the story. It's not a bad story, but...the main character is in love with HIS STEPSISTER. I'm seriously curious, did the devs not realize, or were they hoping we wouldn't notice?
21:25 My guess is that Arno's Eagle sense is weaker than previous protagonists, which is why he can only use eagle vision it for a short time and then needs a cool down (or to translate it, he can't handle the strain and it gives him a brief headache afterwards, so he needs a moment to rest afterwards before using it again), and as a result instead of interpreting the memories as a conversation with the dead target, Arno is just able to read the memories.
I can't get over the weird feeling of the gameplay, but I'll give this game credit for 1 thing. That being the blueprints of Notre Dame in the game being uses after the real life fire of Notre Dame. Now that is actually good.
I'm saying this for years now - if this game wouldn't be so bugged at release, it would be at least in top 5, maybe even top 3 of every Assassin's Creed fan in the world It's a masterpiece, but at the cost of performance 9 years ago Btw : modern day didn't die with Desmond, but as I understand you didn't play Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla yet, so that's understandable that you think that is true
In an AC fan but i didnt like unity that much i still enjoyed it but to say top 5 no way its fun to play but id put it quite low in my list (my opinion so dont yell at me lol)
Dude, don't know how YT suggested this video for me out of nowhere, ( I am an AC fan but havent whatched much Unity contet for a while) Anyway , boy I was happy to whatch it, I agree 100% with you and amazeed also how correclty you see the situation after playing this gem almost 10 years after release. In my opinion, AC Unity could have should have been the best game, up until today! ( so many unrefined concepts that just worked, but need polish and buuilding upon) - Murder mystery missions - enjoyed them tremendously, - The Nostradamus Enigmas, actually added meaning to read the damn ( otherwise funny comments of Shaun) to the real life monuments you discover in the database - loved this idea) - The Paris stories random filler missions with their own little stories actual historical context making the most of giving life to revolutionary Paris setting. - Same for the coop missions - Heist missions, not my favourites but I do love the concept again for an assassin fantasy realization in multiplayer coop. With all its flaws and shining moments, Honestly AC Unity keeps being my favourite AC game, that I go back to every year or so... But ultmatley end up wishing these concepts being remade worked and build on in the next games... and Honestly Mirage finally showed that there are people at some stuido at UBI who actually passionately care for the franchise... Thanks for the Video Great one!
Ok hear me out for this counter fighting system idea I have (Roughly) still taking the core ideas of Arkham, specifically City, because it slowed down and you really felt the flow of it. So the enemies attack in pairs or groups more often and you do have to repeatedly hit the counter button for basic attacks. But once an enemy with a gun or heavy weapon or any other special weapon makes an attack you have to hit you have to press a specific button to counter while in your flow. I hope that makes sense, I also just thought of this so please don’t flame me too hard if it’s dumb.
I have mastered AC Unity after all these years , so now I just gave the time of my life with this game ! After playing , 100%ing and platinuming the WHOLE Ezio Trilogy and Desmond's Pentalogy and FULLFILLING my Childhood , I went on this MASTERPIECE of a game and MASTERPIECE of AC to have fun with it because when u master it , like I and many others did , its at technical and gameplay terms the BEST game and BEST ac game in the series
I liked this game even when it was first released I only ever had one bug/crash my whole time playing through then, but every playing a it again a few months back it was an enjoyable experience because I think the open world parts of this game are very well done in that it was fun doing side content and building up our residence
1:11 I'm pretty sure that's a sextant for black flag, they were used for sailing. Not a lot of people know what they are so I'm not trying to be that guy, it just was a pretty important piece of naval traveling back in the day.
8:50 the precursors never had eagle vision, only humans have it and it's a sixth sense for humans only and the sixth sense for the precursors was the ability to look into the future and read time.
In spite of the flaws bugs and cracked ai, this was the first assassin's creed game that pushed hard in parkour. And I hope Mirage fixed ac to leave rpg forever
Gotta say I'm a fan of Unity, it's the luxury AC game for me. Not that it's perfect but with the last few ac titles being what they are, it's a gem imo.
I often find myself going back to Unity ever couple of years as a kind of pallet cleanser for when I’m about to play another AC game. I didn’t really have any issues myself when the game came out and often found myself playing it instead of doing my homework back in high school.
29:12 if I remember correctly, this guy Elise shoots in the face is an actual historic figure. It is thought he tried to off himself by shooting himself but missed and ended up shooting his cheek off instead. Pretty cool to see AC gave a different perspective to the story that it was actually Elise who did it and the supposed historic records of him shooting himself were just a cover up
Yep, Robespierre attempted suicide as the army moved in to arrest him, royally up and ended up getting guillotined a day or two after for all the people he killed in the reign of terror. There's another side mission in game where you actually assault the Jacobin Hall where the last of Robespierre's party were holding out, it happens the day after his execution I believe
1 Ezio's theme suffers the same thing that Obi-Wan's theme, wich is bieng so good that it embodies the whole franchise 2 Fun fact: in the Latam translation the names "Bishop" and "Deacon" where substituded by the names of chess pieces instead of Catholic tittles, Bishop wich translates to "Alfil" and Deacon, was substituded by the rook wich translates to "Torre"
I’m just replaying the game and realized that you can see the targets during the ball mission and if you use eagle eye, they are highlighted yellow like they are important.
I played this game back in the day late. So it already patched to greatness, no bugs no glitch...and oh boy this game is the best of all I just can't understand why the fluidity of the parkour can't be continued to later games
AC Unity reminds me a lot of the imagery of Martyr Logarius from Bloodborne, the skeleton of a dead king sitting proudly on his throne, seemingly having his flesh rot away, yet, he's still the king, there still are resemblances of what that king was and is. The vision of Unity remains, and that makes it THE AC game. It may not be perfect nor the best, but it shows the franchise's potential as a whole
For the Statue of liberty it's actually very simple it was created in France and even though it was never at the same time as the Eiffel Tower it represents the effects of the helix rift
This game would have been the perfect AC game if it just had more TIME, which is just like what Arno lacked in-game... You had: - A detailed recreation of Paris on a gigantic scale - Blackbox missions where you have complete freedom of how you want to accomplish it - The BEST parkour and stealth of the entire series - An insane amount of options for customization - A protagonist who shares a lot of similarities with everyone's fave, Ezio - The grey lining of the Assassin and Templar war like in the Kenway Trilogy - The best Co-op system - A fucking CROUCH button
1:10 that isn’t a microscope that’s a sextant which is used for celestial navigation by the navy Also seeing that napoleon scene again made me laugh because those soldiers that broke through the wall were clearly meant to be officers like in 3 but for some reason Ubisoft made them ‘regular’ soldiers (in the demos we saw the regular soldiers the national guard would’ve looked like but instead of like 3 they are regulated to being rare specialist enemies instead of the regular grunts
The message I'm getting here is that all the youtube creators that were excited for Mirage beat that shit in less than a week and moved on to replay their favorite entries. Because I'm definitely playing unity after I beat 3 again
4:45 IIRC such a group actually exists in the modern day setting, at least according to books of the series. They are a hacker organization that stumbled across the assasin-templar conflict when they got cheeky and hacked Abstergo's database. They processed to then take the habit of hacking both sides from time to time, their aims currently unknown. Also IIRC they are a bit friendlier and even cooperate a little with the Assassins since Abstergo is too "New World Order" for their liking, but they are still a sort of neutral group most of the time
@@HylianKnight02 searched it. They are called the "Erudito Collective". There is also a proper third faction, the Hermeticists. They also want the Apples to "transform mankind". Historically they were a third faction until Ezio murdered the crap out of them, and now they are kind of an Abstergo puppet in their modern incarnation
I love this game and honestly all AC games at least to some extent and i've been playing them for so long i cant even remember anymore and nothing's gonna change that
The one of many things I dispise about ubisoft for is the lack of respect for the game and especially the main protagonist. Instead of learning their mistakes to how they could improve this game, give it more time, update it now and then maybe to give us a better plot for its modern day, but decides not to and take the easy route by making a downgrade version of unity with syndicate and 3 witcher clones that gets worse in each entry. Its just heartbreaking that they decided to give up on this. (Sorry of this comes across as a bit too negative, it was the point. I still love this game and not just for its concept but what it is this was my first assassin's creed games I played and enjoyed it with my hearts content, and even though what I am about to say maybe contreversal to some of you who is reading this. I think Arno is my favorite character of the ac franchise, I just loved complicated driven characters, as it gives a lot of depth, even though I think this could be better presented in the story, since many sees him as a simp or an Ezio clone, or dead inside, I'm glad I got to see him grow more in the dlc, and its better than nothing at all so I am grateful for that.)
i didn't play this game until 2016ish and I loved it. it quickly became my 2nd favorite and still is to this day. Unity in my opinion has almost no flaws. almost. the story and Romeo and Juliet theme does not fall into that category Unity did so much right and it's a shame the game to this day still gets unwarranted hate.
yt decided to put your videos in my suggested section again and kept recommending the ac videos which got me thinking i want to try the ones i havent played and low and behold what goes on sale on steam but the entire ac franchise. 100 bucks later now i need to decide which one to start on
Dude I've been waiting so long for this video I love this game I hated it my first playthrough but on a revisit its my favorite. I agree with most of your points but I would point out that alpt of the themes that you felt lacking I noticed some popping out in the tenplar philosophy paly out in revolutionary Paris it's easy to miss them but they are there. And my last thought is I thought Germaine was the most impressive of the grand masters because even though he died he still won. He accomplished all his goals for reshaping the templar order a feat no other templar in the series can claim. Just my thoughts but great video I'm so happy you got around to this dude keep doing what you do and bringing us banger win videos.
I REALLY enjoyed Unity. I played it on Xbox on release. I actually traded in my 360 to get the Xbox One so I could get this which is why I missed out on Rogue. I eventually played Rogue when it was made Backwards Compatible, I think it was around 2018 or something when I played it? Anyway, I didn't actually have many bugs when played Unity, just framerate issues and yeah, the co-op was just completely broken, other than that it was fine. I honestly had more issues with AC Syndicate. Social media wasn't really as much of the beast that it is today so I didn't actually know there was much discourse around it. I would see clips from youtube and stuff with the no face glitch and stuff but I never experienced that so I was very confused. I felt kind of guilty for liking it? I would love to play it again some day but I doubt that day will ever come as too many new games have priority. I will admit I don't remember much from the story itself apart from Elise but the gameplay was more than enough for me, it felt so new! As you say, I really wish that Ubisoft was able to build on the franchise from this game but those coporates found out about Microtransactions so they had to make games to incorporate them. Not to take anything away from the RPG games, I have liked them but I'm sure we'd all be happier if they stuck to this formula.
If anyone even slightly likes ac unity I cant stress this enough, YOU NEED to read the book, I am the furthest thing from a mass book reader infect i try to avoid reading where possible but i decided to pick the AC unity book up on an off chance that i might enjoy it, and gosh I couldn't have been more wrong. I didn't enjoy it i absolutely adored it the whole storytelling in the book was breath-taking and I found it hard to even put down and it has now drawn me into the AC book series and made me even want to replay the game all-over again and it gives you a different perspective to the whole game, so I would defiantly suggest getting the book by Oliver Bowden
Probably the best assassins creed game for Parkour, combat, gameplay, the visuals the story was fine Also the dead kings DLC is a perfect conclusion for Arno
*IF* you can PLEASE pick up Oliver Bowdens boon Unity. It gives SUCH a good backstory about Elise and what happened post-game thats its insane they dont sell Book+Game packs after they come out
I actually enjoy Unity and the Modern Day Segments..saying Modern Day died with Desmond is stupid because they told a story with Desmond and his story is over..he is just one person in a larger world, it would just get boring playing the modern day with Desmond. as much as I like Desmond..he's just one story I am glad is over. Aside from the Altair spinoffs and the Chronicles titles, I've played each game and enjoyed each one, and I am looking forward to where they go next.
Unity is in my top 3 AC games, It definitely wasn't perfect but it gave us a glimpse of how good these games could be if Ubisoft took a more measured approach to this franchise. I tend to look at Santa Monica Studios, they take 3-5 years between games for development and only working on that single IP and we are gifted masterpieces like God of War 2018 and Ragnarok. To this day no other game can hold a candle to the GOW IP.
Calling the song Ezio's family is weird, BUT... but. Just put on our tinfoil hats and hear me out. To a certain extent Ezio's family IS the assassin brotherhood. So the theme song being called that kinda sorta makes sense if we just ignore a few tiny details
I think my biggest issue with AC Unity are the controls. Sometimes I felt like Arno did what he wanted, not what I directed with the controller. It made me fall, die, go in the wrong direction. It ruined it for me..
I hope you'll cover the remaining Gears of War games like you covered the first one some day (maybe they'll even get a remaster like the first one, who knows).
I say unity deserves a remake, they was in their bag with this one but they fucked it up with not giving it that tlc it needed. Literally had every ground work it needed. Imo i still say this would be the best AC game period if it was refined, to the point Arno could've out done ezio
Looking thru this video jus to see what I can comment on. One point I came across is the seeing memories after killing at target 20:00. What if Arno was actually the only assassin to b able to see the memories of the person he killed? He literally does mention in the game he sees the memories of L(Templar guy) after killing him. So now I'm thinking what from Arnold childhood or past made him able to see memories like that? Never liked the concept 😂 but hey perhaps Arno got that DAWGma in him🤷🏽♂️
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I played this entire game in French simply for immersion, good subtitle reading times
That's a great idea I never even thought of that!
@@RoboLANEi’d do it for mirage as well if you’re gonna play
Playing the ezio games in Italian hits different 👌
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Also did it as well its way better
8:53 yes it does. James Kidd explained in AC4 that everyone has the capacity for using Eagle Vision, some people are just much more capable in weilding this sense. Kind of how in Star Wars, some people are naturally more gifted in using the force than others, and some go their whole lives without ever being able to use it.
Eagle vision is not an isu ability. Except it is explained somewhere in the books, there is no mention of the isu using Eagle vision. Eagle vision us strictly a human thing not isu. Also the isu's 4th sense which is referred to as knowledge is their ability to kind of see time differently, that is not eagle vision.
@@Rengokuo4o6 is the eagle vision not a weakened version of the the sixth sense; knowledge..? the eagle vision tells you who is an enemy, who is an ally, and allows you to mark enemies. if that's not sixth sense knowledge, i don't know what is lol
@@Rengokuo4o6 Well yes and no. The entire reason humanity has Eagle Vision is because we all have some degree of Isu DNA in us. The way it manifests in us is different than in full blooded Isu, as they had the full Sixth Sense and we just have a little shadow of it. So true, the actual ability as it is presented in the games is not something the Isu would have experienced, probably, but it still came from them. Part of the whole Knowledge thing, Eagle Vision shows you knowledge of the world around you, just on a smaller scale than what the Isu were able to.
@@midasthegreat9905 That is a retcon. Previously if you go to the first and second game it is purely a human thing not an isu skill. In ac 4 mary reed explains that every human has eagle vision but different apptitude to it. It is something gotten through training not because of isu dna. Isu dna is supposed to help resist the mind control of the apple of eden not eagle vision just like Adam and Eve. But ubisoft has retconed it to be isu dna when it is not. If it is isu dna, it makes no sense that every single assassin would actually have eagle vision and no single templar has it. As not all humans have isu dna. Also the isus weren't gods, they were just really smart and had technology that helped them simulate timelines. That is how they reach out to people across generations.
I watched Whitelight's video on Unity and I believe he mentioned that in Unity there are movement controls that have absolutely no tutorial and are never mentioned. I might have things mixed up but I find that kinda odd, especially seeing how incredibly elegant you can look parkouring around Paris
Was literally going to comment this, You can get so good at the system so well that touching the ground feels useless(Can confirm as a person with like 50 playthroughs, some 100%)
@@mrKremeU yea I've seen loads of unfathomable clips out there. Mastering this is amazing!
played unity, literally no tutorial, i learnt from youtube
That’s cause the game was barely finished at release. It’s when big publishers started leaning to heavy on post launch patches. I still consider this the last true assassins creed game. The rest have been Witcher/dark souls copies
@@SuperRONDALE got to agree on this unfortunately. The gaming scene had changed back then. We couldn't expect a complete game anymore and we sure did not get one
Unity is my favourite game in the series. Everyone always says 2 or black flag or maybe brotherhood but for me, this game always made me feel more like an assassin than any of the others.
Some people have also said Origins, Odyssey, or Valhalla is their favorite. That's part of the beauty of AC. People feel differently about every game in the series.
Mine is Unity (for gameplay, it is goated), Black Flag (for story)
@@spiritlance364had to disagree there, AC had a clear identity, compared to Need For Speed, which had completely different gameplay from previous games. example :
NFS ProStreet : Legalized Street Racing with you grinding from the bottomest bottom to the top
NFS Most Wanted : rougher take with cops added in from the original street racing formula that undergound 2 offers
NFS Shift : Track Racing with the worst tuning options to date but it offers the best cockpit view racing ever (it has stupid big input delay though)
NFS Hot Pursuit : straight up Arcade Racer with you being able to play as cop or racer, Developed By Criterion Games (The Developer behind the Burnout Franchise)
NFS Rivals : Similiar to Hot Pursuit, i can't mention the differences yet.
NFS The Run : An Action Packed Racing game that's filled with amazing events and locations.
from that you can see NFS had 3 different identity
NFS Prostreet/Shift : Focused on legal track racing,although Prostreet is legal street racing... on a track.
NFS Underground 2 - Undercover : Open World racing games with cops
NFS Hot Pursuit/Rivals : Full-on Arcade racer with powers (EMPs and many more).
@@spiritlance364what i meant by that comment is, when people play Assassin's Creed they had clear expectation on how the game is gonna be, what the RPG Creed did is insult the older playerbase and divide the fanbase. NFS Never had that issue because NFS can be whatever it wants to be.
@@TheCapitalWandereryeah. Those newer entries are entirely new series basically. They’re assassins creed games in name only
I do agree with the sentiment that there being a third party between the assassins and the templars would make the stories a bit more interesting...however that third side has shown itself with people like napoleon in this game. That being the people themselves, just living life the best they can in whatever walk of life they're in.
The comics have the Instruments of the First Will, a group that worships Juno and are the antagonists of the Uprising series (which closes out the Juno storyline overall) and the Last Descendants novel trilogy. They’re mentioned in the QR notes Standish left around the building in Black Flag’s modern day,
You missed that when Arno following De La Serres carriage, Germaine is the one that comes out of the similar carriage. Kind of cool that they met before either of them knew who they were
In terms of parkur or fighting this was one of the best ACs but the writing just went downhill after the first act but the world itself and the city was amazing
Edit: honestly my feelings for unity from 2014 to now have not changed, it was a game that needed more time both before release to polish or make things as good as the vision for this game was and more time after release to make this kind of game evolve into the next game cause even with all it’s flaws it did something new and exciting unlike new ubisoft
no the fighting and parkour is a buggy mess
I know the start had me fucking 1 to 10 hard 10 hypeddddd at the first 2 sequences with that title drop and leap of faith and then it was a 6.5 maybe 7 on the way through but worth it but my God I've played damn near all of em and wtf happened after rogue why wasn't Shays kill the dudes dad it was the same place same time. Could've rapped up Shays story. But naw. I thought hard and can't figure out why ac took the direction it did after the kenway games
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Back in 2014 I loved this game for the customization of Arno and the story of how it was with Revolutionary France. Plus this game holds a special place in my heart as it was one of the first games for my PS4 and I got to meet the friendgroup that I have today from a coop mission. I never had many issues that the game had in its prime, but I did have some of the apparent problems that many people mentioned. But Unity was something I believe that could have gone in the right direction if it was more polished. But Assassin's Creed going from a mainly single player with some multiplayer to full coop would have been nice to see. As I will continue to be an AC fan and to see where the overall story go its sad to see some concepts be put to the side and not be mainline like Codename Jade or what happened with Juno and I would like the series to back to a system like unity or syndicate, but that is for Ubisoft to decide.
I definitely recommend looking out for the novelisation, as it presents the story from Elise’s perspective through journals Arno receives after the end of the game’s main story. It touches on the class conflict that’s fuelling the Revolution a bit more than Arno’s story and gives more context as to Arno’s involvement with the de la Serre family. There’s even a side mission to England, with Jennifer Scott (daughter of Edward and half-sister of Haytham) helping Elise with perspective on the two main conflicts back in Paris.
This had one of the best stories because of its nuance, imo
You had good Templars, evil Templars, good Assassins, and Evil Assassins on all sides
HA! Excellent timing! I just started replaying this game a couple days ago. It's not my absolute favorite but it's certainly top 5. Love to see it get the love it deserves.
Well, it's easy to judge based on time and poorly rated RPG installments. I would like to remind you that from around AC3 there were already complaints about the fact that the mechanics started to slow down in development. Add in poor graphics quality, and bugs significantly weakened the game's rating. Plus, remember that the Sages were a novelty back then, shown only a part earlier (Unity and Rouge have the same release date), so Ubi decided to use them.
I like how everyone after Mirage launch just went back to love Unity
Did you do a lot of the side context? Much like the homestead missions in 3 that fleshed out Connor outside of what the main story afforded, Arno gets to show there’s more to him than his infatuation with Elise and clash with the Brotherhood. He can do murder mysteries showing he can be quite analytical and deductive, and the game does not handhold the player in these activities. The Nostradamus enigmas will have you consulting the database many times, and as it’s part of 100%ing the game Arno canonically solved them.
1:10 That's a sextant, a device to determine latitude and longitude by measuring the relative angles between celestial objects. Probably there for AC4; they were widely used on ships of the era.
On the absorbing memories bit, I'm preeeetty sure only Arno is the only one who can do that. Games before AND after Unity shows the Assassin actually having to talk to their victim to get whatever information they need for plot reasons, so I think they just wanted Arno to be cool and fresh for the players with his last breath mindreading.
It's rare to see this game get some well deserved praise
have you not been on the internet everyone dickrides this game when it's trash
I have such a deep love for AC Unity, it's weird because it's my absolute favourite assassin's creed game along with AC 1. I get what most people say about their stories being repetitive etc. but these two games have what is the most important Assassin's Creed characteristic for me: Atmosphere. 1 and Unity are the only AC games I've played more than 5 times each, just because with each playthrough I get the feel that I play better, thus gaining that perfect Assassin vibe that hooked me back in 2007. The atmosphere was perfect in the Ezio trilogy as well of course, but I don't really feel it in Black Flag or even Origins, which are so popular nowadays (good games, not on my top 5 AC games).
underrated game
I remember playing the hell out of this game with my friends. The only one that really let me use a full length musket as a main weapon
Unity is a good game, played it after the glitch wave, but I just can't take it seriously. Mainly because of the story. It's not a bad story, but...the main character is in love with HIS STEPSISTER. I'm seriously curious, did the devs not realize, or were they hoping we wouldn't notice?
21:25 My guess is that Arno's Eagle sense is weaker than previous protagonists, which is why he can only use eagle vision it for a short time and then needs a cool down (or to translate it, he can't handle the strain and it gives him a brief headache afterwards, so he needs a moment to rest afterwards before using it again), and as a result instead of interpreting the memories as a conversation with the dead target, Arno is just able to read the memories.
I can't get over the weird feeling of the gameplay, but I'll give this game credit for 1 thing. That being the blueprints of Notre Dame in the game being uses after the real life fire of Notre Dame. Now that is actually good.
I'm saying this for years now - if this game wouldn't be so bugged at release, it would be at least in top 5, maybe even top 3 of every Assassin's Creed fan in the world
It's a masterpiece, but at the cost of performance 9 years ago
Btw : modern day didn't die with Desmond, but as I understand you didn't play Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla yet, so that's understandable that you think that is true
modern day did die with desmond, they simply redo it in origins with layla.
@@TheCapitalWanderer You're wrong but ok
Sorry man, but Leyla is just a walking disappointment. Also, the actual modern day story surrounding her is horrible too.
@@cristianmihai4182 Nope, it's great
In an AC fan but i didnt like unity that much i still enjoyed it but to say top 5 no way its fun to play but id put it quite low in my list (my opinion so dont yell at me lol)
Dude, don't know how YT suggested this video for me out of nowhere, ( I am an AC fan but havent whatched much Unity contet for a while)
Anyway , boy I was happy to whatch it, I agree 100% with you and amazeed also how correclty you see the situation after playing this gem almost 10 years after release. In my opinion, AC Unity could have should have been the best game, up until today!
( so many unrefined concepts that just worked, but need polish and buuilding upon)
- Murder mystery missions - enjoyed them tremendously,
- The Nostradamus Enigmas, actually added meaning to read the damn ( otherwise funny comments of Shaun) to the real life monuments you discover in the database - loved this idea)
- The Paris stories random filler missions with their own little stories actual historical context making the most of giving life to revolutionary Paris setting.
- Same for the coop missions
- Heist missions, not my favourites but I do love the concept again for an assassin fantasy realization in multiplayer coop.
With all its flaws and shining moments, Honestly AC Unity keeps being my favourite AC game, that I go back to every year or so... But ultmatley end up wishing these concepts being remade worked and build on in the next games... and Honestly Mirage finally showed that there are people at some stuido at UBI who actually passionately care for the franchise...
Thanks for the Video Great one!
Ok hear me out for this counter fighting system idea I have (Roughly) still taking the core ideas of Arkham, specifically City, because it slowed down and you really felt the flow of it. So the enemies attack in pairs or groups more often and you do have to repeatedly hit the counter button for basic attacks. But once an enemy with a gun or heavy weapon or any other special weapon makes an attack you have to hit you have to press a specific button to counter while in your flow. I hope that makes sense, I also just thought of this so please don’t flame me too hard if it’s dumb.
I have mastered AC Unity after all these years , so now I just gave the time of my life with this game ! After playing , 100%ing and platinuming the WHOLE Ezio Trilogy and Desmond's Pentalogy and FULLFILLING my Childhood , I went on this MASTERPIECE of a game and MASTERPIECE of AC to have fun with it because when u master it , like I and many others did , its at technical and gameplay terms the BEST game and BEST ac game in the series
I liked this game even when it was first released I only ever had one bug/crash my whole time playing through then, but every playing a it again a few months back it was an enjoyable experience because I think the open world parts of this game are very well done in that it was fun doing side content and building up our residence
1:11 I'm pretty sure that's a sextant for black flag, they were used for sailing. Not a lot of people know what they are so I'm not trying to be that guy, it just was a pretty important piece of naval traveling back in the day.
Can verify, that's a sextant.
8:50 the precursors never had eagle vision, only humans have it and it's a sixth sense for humans only and the sixth sense for the precursors was the ability to look into the future and read time.
In spite of the flaws bugs and cracked ai, this was the first assassin's creed game that pushed hard in parkour.
And I hope Mirage fixed ac to leave rpg forever
Gotta say I'm a fan of Unity, it's the luxury AC game for me. Not that it's perfect but with the last few ac titles being what they are, it's a gem imo.
Thank god. Me and a ton of friends just bought this game and it is an actual joy to play. So much better than the modern “rpg” trilogy and mirage.
I’m waiting for that Spiderman 2 review 😫😔
I often find myself going back to Unity ever couple of years as a kind of pallet cleanser for when I’m about to play another AC game. I didn’t really have any issues myself when the game came out and often found myself playing it instead of doing my homework back in high school.
29:12 if I remember correctly, this guy Elise shoots in the face is an actual historic figure. It is thought he tried to off himself by shooting himself but missed and ended up shooting his cheek off instead. Pretty cool to see AC gave a different perspective to the story that it was actually Elise who did it and the supposed historic records of him shooting himself were just a cover up
Yep, Robespierre attempted suicide as the army moved in to arrest him, royally up and ended up getting guillotined a day or two after for all the people he killed in the reign of terror. There's another side mission in game where you actually assault the Jacobin Hall where the last of Robespierre's party were holding out, it happens the day after his execution I believe
Oh my gooddd did not expect this but here for it any way. Keep up the good work
1 Ezio's theme suffers the same thing that Obi-Wan's theme, wich is bieng so good that it embodies the whole franchise
2 Fun fact: in the Latam translation the names "Bishop" and "Deacon" where substituded by the names of chess pieces instead of Catholic tittles, Bishop wich translates to "Alfil" and Deacon, was substituded by the rook wich translates to "Torre"
I’m just replaying the game and realized that you can see the targets during the ball mission and if you use eagle eye, they are highlighted yellow like they are important.
That was also the case in 3 black flag and rogue
I played this game back in the day late. So it already patched to greatness, no bugs no glitch...and oh boy this game is the best of all
I just can't understand why the fluidity of the parkour can't be continued to later games
That “microscope” is a sextant, which is an instrument used for sailing to determine location at sea using the stars. Probably a black flag reference.
You don’t need a video documenting everything great in this game because EVERYTHING IS GREAT!!!❤❤
AC Unity reminds me a lot of the imagery of Martyr Logarius from Bloodborne, the skeleton of a dead king sitting proudly on his throne, seemingly having his flesh rot away, yet, he's still the king, there still are resemblances of what that king was and is. The vision of Unity remains, and that makes it THE AC game. It may not be perfect nor the best, but it shows the franchise's potential as a whole
8:49 everyone has eagle vision. There are some people that have strong enough isu dna to be able to use it without training though.
I love how he just drops baldur’s gate 3 at the end and I hope we get to see a video on that 2
Review Spider-Man 2 it’s gonna be like a 1 hour long
For the Statue of liberty it's actually very simple it was created in France and even though it was never at the same time as the Eiffel Tower it represents the effects of the helix rift
I loved this one with my sister!
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This game would have been the perfect AC game if it just had more TIME, which is just like what Arno lacked in-game...
You had:
- A detailed recreation of Paris on a gigantic scale
- Blackbox missions where you have complete freedom of how you want to accomplish it
- The BEST parkour and stealth of the entire series
- An insane amount of options for customization
- A protagonist who shares a lot of similarities with everyone's fave, Ezio
- The grey lining of the Assassin and Templar war like in the Kenway Trilogy
- The best Co-op system
- A fucking CROUCH button
Two videos within two days? Hell yeah
Parkour was peak and Combat was heading on the right direction
Nobody to blaim but Ubisoft
YO this is perfect timing, injust redownloaded this game this week to play through dead kings and unlock all the costumes for it
1:10 that isn’t a microscope that’s a sextant which is used for celestial navigation by the navy
Also seeing that napoleon scene again made me laugh because those soldiers that broke through the wall were clearly meant to be officers like in 3 but for some reason Ubisoft made them ‘regular’ soldiers (in the demos we saw the regular soldiers the national guard would’ve looked like but instead of like 3 they are regulated to being rare specialist enemies instead of the regular grunts
The message I'm getting here is that all the youtube creators that were excited for Mirage beat that shit in less than a week and moved on to replay their favorite entries.
Because I'm definitely playing unity after I beat 3 again
4:45 IIRC such a group actually exists in the modern day setting, at least according to books of the series.
They are a hacker organization that stumbled across the assasin-templar conflict when they got cheeky and hacked Abstergo's database. They processed to then take the habit of hacking both sides from time to time, their aims currently unknown. Also IIRC they are a bit friendlier and even cooperate a little with the Assassins since Abstergo is too "New World Order" for their liking, but they are still a sort of neutral group most of the time
A hacker organization, you say...DedSec, perhaps?
@@HylianKnight02 searched it. They are called the "Erudito Collective".
There is also a proper third faction, the Hermeticists. They also want the Apples to "transform mankind". Historically they were a third faction until Ezio murdered the crap out of them, and now they are kind of an Abstergo puppet in their modern incarnation
Sextant not microscop in the beginning. It's a tool used to measure the horizon
Been waiting for this vid since I’ve discovered this channel
I love this game and honestly all AC games at least to some extent and i've been playing them for so long i cant even remember anymore and nothing's gonna change that
I never played unity or looked over it till this year and with an unbiased opinion on the refined final product, it’s honestly my favorite ac
The one of many things I dispise about ubisoft for is the lack of respect for the game and especially the main protagonist. Instead of learning their mistakes to how they could improve this game, give it more time, update it now and then maybe to give us a better plot for its modern day, but decides not to and take the easy route by making a downgrade version of unity with syndicate and 3 witcher clones that gets worse in each entry. Its just heartbreaking that they decided to give up on this.
(Sorry of this comes across as a bit too negative, it was the point. I still love this game and not just for its concept but what it is this was my first assassin's creed games I played and enjoyed it with my hearts content, and even though what I am about to say maybe contreversal to some of you who is reading this. I think Arno is my favorite character of the ac franchise, I just loved complicated driven characters, as it gives a lot of depth, even though I think this could be better presented in the story, since many sees him as a simp or an Ezio clone, or dead inside, I'm glad I got to see him grow more in the dlc, and its better than nothing at all so I am grateful for that.)
i had great memories with this game. don’t really remember any glitches. i miss seeing the eiffel tower during occupied paris
i didn't play this game until 2016ish and I loved it. it quickly became my 2nd favorite and still is to this day. Unity in my opinion has almost no flaws. almost. the story and Romeo and Juliet theme does not fall into that category Unity did so much right and it's a shame the game to this day still gets unwarranted hate.
yt decided to put your videos in my suggested section again and kept recommending the ac videos which got me thinking i want to try the ones i havent played and low and behold what goes on sale on steam but the entire ac franchise. 100 bucks later now i need to decide which one to start on
Dude I've been waiting so long for this video I love this game I hated it my first playthrough but on a revisit its my favorite. I agree with most of your points but I would point out that alpt of the themes that you felt lacking I noticed some popping out in the tenplar philosophy paly out in revolutionary Paris it's easy to miss them but they are there. And my last thought is I thought Germaine was the most impressive of the grand masters because even though he died he still won. He accomplished all his goals for reshaping the templar order a feat no other templar in the series can claim. Just my thoughts but great video I'm so happy you got around to this dude keep doing what you do and bringing us banger win videos.
I REALLY enjoyed Unity. I played it on Xbox on release. I actually traded in my 360 to get the Xbox One so I could get this which is why I missed out on Rogue. I eventually played Rogue when it was made Backwards Compatible, I think it was around 2018 or something when I played it?
Anyway, I didn't actually have many bugs when played Unity, just framerate issues and yeah, the co-op was just completely broken, other than that it was fine. I honestly had more issues with AC Syndicate. Social media wasn't really as much of the beast that it is today so I didn't actually know there was much discourse around it. I would see clips from youtube and stuff with the no face glitch and stuff but I never experienced that so I was very confused. I felt kind of guilty for liking it? I would love to play it again some day but I doubt that day will ever come as too many new games have priority. I will admit I don't remember much from the story itself apart from Elise but the gameplay was more than enough for me, it felt so new! As you say, I really wish that Ubisoft was able to build on the franchise from this game but those coporates found out about Microtransactions so they had to make games to incorporate them. Not to take anything away from the RPG games, I have liked them but I'm sure we'd all be happier if they stuck to this formula.
If anyone even slightly likes ac unity I cant stress this enough, YOU NEED to read the book, I am the furthest thing from a mass book reader infect i try to avoid reading where possible but i decided to pick the AC unity book up on an off chance that i might enjoy it, and gosh I couldn't have been more wrong. I didn't enjoy it i absolutely adored it the whole storytelling in the book was breath-taking and I found it hard to even put down and it has now drawn me into the AC book series and made me even want to replay the game all-over again and it gives you a different perspective to the whole game, so I would defiantly suggest getting the book by Oliver Bowden
Probably the best assassins creed game for Parkour, combat, gameplay, the visuals the story was fine
Also the dead kings DLC is a perfect conclusion for Arno
Best AC game in the series and an indication of what could have been
Oh I have been WAITING for this Everything Great About Unity!
*IF* you can PLEASE pick up Oliver Bowdens boon Unity. It gives SUCH a good backstory about Elise and what happened post-game thats its insane they dont sell Book+Game packs after they come out
Love that intro music
Can't wait for you to play Origin. I know it'll take forever for the video due to the size of the RPG AC games
I actually enjoy Unity and the Modern Day Segments..saying Modern Day died with Desmond is stupid because they told a story with Desmond and his story is over..he is just one person in a larger world, it would just get boring playing the modern day with Desmond. as much as I like Desmond..he's just one story I am glad is over. Aside from the Altair spinoffs and the Chronicles titles, I've played each game and enjoyed each one, and I am looking forward to where they go next.
That telescope is a Sextant, a tool used by sailors!
That is not a microscope in the beginning, that's a sextant - a ship navigation tool - Black Flag/Rogue symbol?
Honestly my favorite ac i never got the hate for it. Best parkour imo and one of the best settings too. Plus you can co op.
Unity is in my top 3 AC games, It definitely wasn't perfect but it gave us a glimpse of how good these games could be if Ubisoft took a more measured approach to this franchise. I tend to look at Santa Monica Studios, they take 3-5 years between games for development and only working on that single IP and we are gifted masterpieces like God of War 2018 and Ragnarok. To this day no other game can hold a candle to the GOW IP.
For real I platinumed unity and I can say it’s one of my favorite platuims
YESSS FINALLYY THANK YOUU!!!! LOVE YOU,!
Whens Spiderman 2 video coming out
Calling the song Ezio's family is weird, BUT... but. Just put on our tinfoil hats and hear me out. To a certain extent Ezio's family IS the assassin brotherhood. So the theme song being called that kinda sorta makes sense if we just ignore a few tiny details
One of my first games I got when I got my PS4
The AC vid I've been waiting for!
I think my biggest issue with AC Unity are the controls. Sometimes I felt like Arno did what he wanted, not what I directed with the controller. It made me fall, die, go in the wrong direction. It ruined it for me..
This was my favorite AC game 😅
This is my favorite game thank you s much for covering it u did awesome
ALSO this game story is solid , could have been waaay better but its solid . AND actually , Bellec was right
I hope you'll cover the remaining Gears of War games like you covered the first one some day (maybe they'll even get a remaster like the first one, who knows).
YES, I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR ABOUT A YEAR TO SEE THIS VIDEO
I like the love focused plot in this game. It reminds me of Romeo and Juliet since it takes place in France, and it's more like a tragedy.
Using the Assassins and Templars as the Capulet and Montague counterparts as well.
13:25 harsh criticism is better than blind praise.
FINALY IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
I say unity deserves a remake, they was in their bag with this one but they fucked it up with not giving it that tlc it needed. Literally had every ground work it needed. Imo i still say this would be the best AC game period if it was refined, to the point Arno could've out done ezio
Pretty sure that Microscope in the beginning is actually a Sextant but maybe I'm wrong.
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if arno’s personality didn’t change so much than unity probably wouldn’t of taken me 4 months to beat
i adored unity but me and arno always had beef because my character would constantly to something different to what i told it to do
Unity is a good game, been playing it lately. Also Should so a vid for Mirage. Pretty good game in my opinion.
Looking thru this video jus to see what I can comment on. One point I came across is the seeing memories after killing at target 20:00. What if Arno was actually the only assassin to b able to see the memories of the person he killed? He literally does mention in the game he sees the memories of L(Templar guy) after killing him. So now I'm thinking what from Arnold childhood or past made him able to see memories like that? Never liked the concept 😂 but hey perhaps Arno got that DAWGma in him🤷🏽♂️
The road to Mirage eh G?