I've been playing Assassin's Creed: Unity and....I don't know. Even with all the patches, the game still feels like it's being held together by string. I've had three crashes, the frame-rate seems inconsistent but bearable with it getting REALLY bad in a couple of instances. Add in a couple of other instances of all the audio in the game wigging out for a few seconds and then going back to normal. I've played more broken games for sure, but this game is pushing it. With Ubisoft touting how this was the AC to take the new consoles by storm, it leaves a very mediocre and occasionally very frustrating impression. The online co-op also seems to only want to work when it feels like it. At least when it concerns me and my friend getting into a game together, one day it works without a hitch, the next we either can't connect to each other at all or we get disconnected a lot when in a game.
I'm also baffled by some of the things it took out, like being able to whistle in haystacks or behind walls to lure enemies, not being able to carry bodies and the like. This entire game feels very slapdash. I make no bones about being somewhat of an AC apologist, the mission design has definitely needed better work for years and Unity doesn't seem to be a massive improvement in that area either. But it's one of the nicest games I've seen for my One and AC's combination of parkour and being back dropped in significant portions of history still does a lot for making me like the series, even when it has serious missteps. I didn't get this game on launch and with how it still feels really, really wonky is forcing me to wait on the next game with a healthy dose of skepticism.
This is the first Creed game to really test my faith in the series, AC3 had a lot of problems too but that game never felt/seemed as cobbled together as this one does. Also, the loading times in this game are pretty ridiculous. It really breaks my heart that Unity is such a hot mess, I really like the series, even when it's not at it's best but this game is making it really difficult to put up with the series short comings.
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