Ok, let me start from here:

My gaming group (consisting of 2-6 players given the average night) LOVE co-op games, good and bad. We've played almost everything from the old days of Tom Clancy games through the rough times of Tenchu-Z and currently bounce between games like Guild Wars 2, GTA V and Rainbow Six.

I've always liked the mechanics of the AC games even if I think the story is garbage. I've heard good things about AC Syndicate and will check it out, but since AC Unity is on Amazon for 12 dollars, my group and I are wondering if just the co-op content is worth it.

I know that game is super broken (or was) and the story is bad, but I heard the co-op was all right. Any seasoned AC players out there care to chime in? I've played the series intermittently with part of 2 and Black Flag but not much else.

Thanks duders!

I think Unity gets a bad wrap in the AC franchise. I think now days its substantially less buggy than it was at launch but I really think the emphasis on co-op was their worst in the franchise. I preferred the Wolf Pack mode in AC3 and whatever coop mode they had in Black Flag to this. My issue was when I went to play through the game all the players had moved on so getting into coop missions was difficult. Having said that if you got a group of people to play them with they can be quite fun.

I don't know about the PC version, but the PS4 version is definitely fine now. No absurd slowdown, no inside out faces, hell they even basically got rid of all the annoying companion app required content so now you can unlock everything without having to go outside the game. As for the coop, it's ok but there aren't exactly a ton of people playing it. It's the multiplayer mode for arguably the most disliked game in the series, and is now like a year and a half old. Definitely not super popular.

You could definitely buy worse games for 12 bucks these days.