This game is not worth the 40$ that they want from you. It isn't even worth the combined 50$ adding the DLC. During some battles, the game decides "Oh, this guy is going to live. Let's kill him by making him unable to see. He can look under the map instead of the enemy who would have died to him. Also the wall. That lovely wall. Forget the enemies you were fighting and are about to slash you. Look at that wall."

There are also times in which the game decides "Oh, that was a perfect headshot? Let me put an invisible chair above a chair and make it a wooden chair shot. Doesn't matter that you were obviously shooting above it." Completely destroys some missions when you want to have better rewards. You can also cut an enemy but it goes right through them without them being time frozen, which the 'time frozen' bug will be explained slightly later. There are also times in which I was frozen in place with a gun. I couldn't move until an extremist hit me. Sometimes being hit doesn't do anything for you and you will die.

You have guards and extremists spazzing for two seconds to an entire minute on the ground like worms crawling. They even go across an entire area crawl spazzing the entire way... WHILE DEAD. You can't loot them during this time. One wouldn't stop so I just left him to spazz the entire time while going to a different area. There are also times in which a dead extremist, which you looted, has their mouth moving still. My reaction wasn't why this existed. It was more "What are they even saying?" At least make your bugs work correctly if you are keeping them!

You have a system that doesn't recognize double assassinations to a degree in which it should. (I'm looking at you messengers that clearly should be assassinated with one of your guard buddies) You got extremists who decide to parry every attack you make and sometimes some extremists that decide, "Oh, you were hitting me? I don't recall that. There was no sword going through my body for 3 seconds. I was time frozen. You can't hurt me." This entire game is a cesspool of bugs.

The entire trash of a combat system this game has is even worse. The developers decided it was an intelligent idea to give you a slow sword in a game in which you can have fifteen extremists after you at once. This isn't mentioning this particular sword (Rapier) should actually be fast and accurate.

You dodge one attack, you get shot by someone else. There is no avoiding bullets unlike Assassins Creed Syndicate. You better hope you use a crowd for a meatshield. (And even then the bullets can go through them) If you want a better combat system, suffer through most of the game first and buy some health upgrades and a better weapon (Which will be a while). Otherwise this game becomes pot reliant, which is a joke for a game based on assassinations. Even then it takes about 5-6 seconds to loot ONE body. This is literally a waste of time. It has gotten to the point in which I rather shop than loot for the common medicine.

I love the parry system. The dodge system is a joke. I don't want to distance myself from my prey. I want to kill them. Stop making me roll away. I don't need them pulling a gun on me while I have other people keeping me from closing the distance on the gunner. Dodging also makes you vunerable to attacks. "Remember guys; professional assassins are experts at parrying but not dodging" is the pesudo logic I got from this game's developers just based on the defense system alone.

The actual assassinations would be okay if you could whistle, but they decided to eliminate that concept. Instead, they added a distraction that is temporary. In other words, it's reliant on how much you have on hand. In the middle of a mission, this is a major annoyance that is extremely unreliable. You are better off going in and being 'detected' and have them investigate. They get close, don't get me wrong. However, not close enough to the actual sound and location. Smoke doesn't always work either. This makes and breaks many of your battles. You 'blind' them but somehow they can see you at times. The sight range of some enemies are rediculous as well. You can be 20 feet away from someone who has NOTHING to do with the mission and they will ALERT the MISSION area.

The game has the potential to crash randomly. (Still apparently) One of my friends had their copy crash around seven times in a row before they could actually get in again to do ONE mission. Mine crashed around five times during different points of the game. It got really irritating after a while.

This game is a disgrace. The game came out with death inducing bugs and still has death inducing bugs. I would get Syndicate instead. At least those bugs are tolerable. Only get this game if you like 'worms'. The crawling spazzing dead animated humans are amusing.

About 95% of bugs have been fixed i just played it recently was not completely unplayable. The story is fine(though at times i do feel like they are milking to series a bit too much" , still worth a play specially the co op missions. The graphics are good though hair textures are a bit meh! But as an assassin's creed fan can't stop following the series xD

I had an earlier positive review but I believe I reviewed it too soon. After beating Unity, I've decided it's one of the worst games I've ever played.

Is it the glitches? No actually. This is one of the least glitchy Assassin's Creed games I've played, but problems come from the fact that the game is just so very badly made from the core. Somehow Ubisoft managed to make one of the most frustrating and enraging games that I've played in my life.

For some reason it feels like Unity's sole purpose is to annoy you. Think you're doing well in combat? Get shot. Running away after a successful assassination? Get shot 6 times. Realize you have no smoke bombs? Get shot. Want to move out of the way of the guards? The controls don't let you - you waddle back and forth in the same spot, then attacked. Want to use the cover system? Use it, get seen anyway, realize you can't get out of cover, get shot. Want to take out a guard on the ledge? Climb on the ledge, take 10 seconds to kill him, get seen by all guards, get shot. Attack guards head on? Except you can't because you're sheathing your weapon for some unholy reason. Get stabbed then shot then plowed by an axe.

The enemies have laser focus vision and laser aiming that never misses except when you roll for some reason. They reload instantaneously, you can't use enemies as cover when getting shot, and counter all you want but in the time it takes you to start attacking the enemy you just countered is exactly the amount of time the game needs to attack you with another enemy. Sometimes you counter but your character does absolutely nothing in response, he just stands there and takes damage. Get level 5, full health upgrades, and still die in 5-6 hits. I just don't understand.

But then there's other problems: The collectibles swamp the map making it a Where's Waldo to find where you're supposed to go next (generally you want to fast travel so you aren't walking for 600 meters right? also for some reason when I would filter it to missions the main mission wouldn't show). Items are overpriced, and even with owning every Cafe I still can't make a substantial amount of money without what feels like MMO level of grinding. Without a substantial amount of money you'll be stuck with garbage armor and weapons. The weapons/armor price jumps are like this: 25,000F for second or third best items, 200,000F for best. You have to spend 200,000F on your sword, hat, gloves, boots, pants, and torso. Consumables cost too much and if you think you can just search guards to get consumables like you can in other games, think again! It's as if Unity deliberately goes out of its way to avoid giving you items you want or need.

I forgot what that arm-crossbow that you get is called but the entire tutorial for that weapon revolved around it being a silent weapon you can use to kill people, well, silently. Strangely, whenver I used it, every guard's vision in the vicinity immediately turned straight toward me even if I had only a split hair sticking out from behind three walls. It isn't very silent and because of that went largely unused for me.

And the worst part about all of this? The story is good, and I really liked it. I just hate that this is a game I will never play again, and can't believe Ubisoft managed to make one that was this unbelieveably frustrating to me. I've never been annoyed with an Assassin's Creed game before, in act I've never been this annoyed with any game before. How did Unity do it? I guess it just isn't the game for me.

Then there's the price. I don't know why it's still $40 on Steam when you can find it for less than $20 on the PS4/Xbox one. If you absolutely must then get this game on sale, but otherwise you won't miss a lot of the 'grand' story by skipping this one, and you may just save your anger.

Pros:
-The best one of many open world games
-Many skill that can upgradeable
-Improvement graphics from previousely franchise of Assassin's Creed
-Improvement skill and movement from previusely franchise of Assassin's Creed
-The story is very attractive
-Have co-op features

Cons:
-Less combos compared with Prince of Persia franchise
-Couldn't playing this game with other platform (don't have cross-platform features)

I recommended this game if you wanna one of best open world games from Ubisoft :)

What a disappointment.

After all those years this game is still buggy.
Missing textures, random deaths.

Story ain't that good either. If AC3 was bad ... this is a new low.
I was expecting so much from Assassins vs Templars storylines. What a disappointment again.

And if you are expecting at least a small scene that would mirror a thing or two from trailers.
HERE'S A BIG NOPE TO YOU.

More of a rant than a review.

The most boring one in the series up till this one. Missions are less varied than the previous titles. Even the detective missions where you investigate a murder, usually involves you running, running, running and murdering dozens. Ending with the culprit, who had a motive, behind bars, while the mass murderer gets a new shiny weapon he can murder with.
The storyline isn't all that bad. But I may be biased, I'm a sucker for redheads you see.
Controls are clunky and unresponsive. Combat has long lock down animations, and goes from time consuming, "is it not over yet"-easy to rediculus impossible in a blink of an eye. Enemies teleporting, animations not in sync, camera issues doesn't actually help either.
The free running has got an upgrade and looks better. But you get stuck on small objects all the time. Running from a group of enemies and you suddenly jumpes half sideways onto a chair, and just sits there like a crow, while you hammer the buttons trying to figure out which direction you must steer for him to respond - that's not my idea of fun.
And the popups... those constant messages popping up, obstructing text and hindering you to open the map for a certain time. Why isn't there an option to turn these off?
I've experienced some mission breaking bugs - nothing a reload couldn't fix. But oh boy, is it fun to run those 300 m again.
The upgrade system is a complete mess. It tries to make you choose a class of some sort and wants you to play with others so you can support each other. The multiplayer is dead btw. I find it hillarious that you have to upgrade your skills before you know how to sit down on a bench between two people.
Despite being a patient persona I don't think I'll be finishing this one. I can't recommend this. Maybe if you are a hardcore fan. I wasn't hardcore enough.

I stupidly bought this game in a bundle with AC Rogue. I figured since I bought it shortly after the release of AC Synicate all the bugs and glitches would be patched and fixed. Boy was I wrong. This game is completely unplayable and since I bought it in a bundle deal with AC Rogue, which has 27 hours played I am unable to get a refund. Thanks a lot Steam... So I'll start out by saying the combat in this game seems very heavy or laggy. The free running is mostly the same with anyother AC game. Trying to get through that door or window? How about you run up the wall instead or just jump up then down on this balcony railing for a while? I was able to play this game for a total of 2 hours before it starts crashing. I got to just past the prelude/tutorial part and decided to take a break to eat. Come back to load up my game and it crashes while loading my save right after the title screen. Restart PC try again, still does the same thing. Do some research online and discover that it could be a corrupted file. So I delete my saves and try again. Again it crashes at the same part. Do a little more research and find out I need to have Uplay in 'offline mode'. This time, since I deleted my saves and am now playing in 'offline mode' I start a new game and get to the beginning where it has the "Helix" cutscene. Once I try and see the opening short sequence it crashes again during loading. So once again I am looking online on how to fix this. Then I find out I need to once again delete all my saves again, then go into my documents, find the AC Unity folder and delete it. This folder has all your graphic settings and UI settings etc saved on it. So after doing that and starting again in 'offline mode' I was finally able to progress past the opening "Helix" cutscene and actually am able to play all the way plus a little more that I was at previously. By that time it was time for me to call it a night. So I quit the game. Next day try turning it on again to get some hours in and low and behold the same crashing problem happens when I try to continue from the main menu. This is complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥t. Ubisoft seems not to care to fix this game at all. And I have too many hours played (9) so Steam says they can't refund it even though its a broken ♥♥♥♥ing game.

I have tried everything to get this game to work. Doing numerous trouble shooting, running as Admin, continuely deleting the save game files that aren't my main. Continuely deleting the AC Unity settings folder. Its horrible that Ubisoft continues to release broken games for the PC and does nothing to fix it. Being burned twice now by Ubisoft with the game and the ♥♥♥♥♥how that The Division is on PC I can honestly say that I will not be buying a Ubisoft game anymore.

My hardware is not a problem.
i7 4770k @ 3.5, 3.8 w/boost
16GB RAM DDR3
EVGA 980TI FTWx2 SLI

A bright point, when running, this game looks very good playing Ultra High 4k @ 60FPS

Absolutely terrible optimized game. One of the worst purchases I've ever done in my lifetime.

A simple pros & cons overview follows below.

After 90+ hours in-game at the time of writing this, I can safely say that I really enjoyed my time with Unity. The changes to core gameplay mechanics took a bit of getting used to, but ultimately they suit Paris' landscape very well in terms of free running. I also enjoyed the fact that combat got a bit tougher, forcing more forethought to any given mission. Paris is rendered in stunning detail, which really made me want to explore—adding to this the fact that side missions feel fresh and have a bit more context than usual. A great cast of nuanced characters and a down-to-earth story was also a welcome feature for me. Some minor bugs and annoyances remain but I think it's safe to say that Unity has come a long way since its disastrous launch, and can now stand proudly alongside the best instalments of the AC series.

I personally haven't experienced any crashes or difficulties in actually being able to access/play the game.

Pros:

• Gorgeous world is incredibly detailed and immersive, and a reason in itself to explore;
  
• Well-written story explores grey areas between Assassin and Templar, while focusing on a more personal level with the characters;
  
• Charming, witty protagonist and well-balanced supporting cast of characters—fantastic voice over performances all around;
  
• A good variety of well-contextualised side quests, some of which try to distance themselves from the usual mission types;
  
• The ability to free run "up or down" gives more control over movement;
  
• Preparing for main assassination missions feels like it has more of an impact;
  
• Combat system makes things a bit more challenging, in a good way;
  
• A lot of customisation options in terms of skills and appearance;
  
• Some interesting online co-op features;
  
• Murder Mysteries, Enigmas, and Helix Rifts are a nice break from the usual action;
  
• Paris Stories are a more interesting take on the usual assassination side quests;
  
• Great soundtrack makes an effort to distance itself from the usual theme.

Neutral:

• The Helix and Bishop are a fun excuse for memory exploration and the present day Assassin plot (or lack thereof);
  
• Selective Map, showing different levels of detailed depending on zoom, is quite handy;
  
• The Dead Kings DLC (Sequence 13) adds a bit of welcome length but with an uninspired story.

Cons:

• Some lengthy loading times and bugs remain;
  
• Clunky stealth mechanics and no corner switch while in cover;
  
• On-screen prompts get in each other's way (especially during investigation missions);
  
• Some camera issues and sometimes stiff controls can make combat frustrating;
  
• Companion missions are painfully uninspired;
  
• Gunshot dodge prompts are completely unreliable;
  
• Constant reminder of how to perform a wall jump gets irritating;
  
• Dan Jeannotte is a terrific voice actor but his sometimes obviously Québécois pronunciation (when portraying a Frenchman) is immersion-breaking.

Game is awesome, honestly. But i'm not gonna give it a good review because like many other PC games (AAA titles) that plaque us PC gamers, have lazy devs. BUGS BUGS BUGS BUGS BUGS and didn't i mention? BUGS... Very dissappointed. For me this game crashes consistently and other issues. Do devs even care about us anymore?