{"id":1634230,"date":"2026-07-15T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BvuvEJvEGSxAXMSq99Au6G"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:27:08","slug":"i-reckon-assassins-creed-unity-is-one-of-the-series-best-and-a-former-ubisoft-director-agrees-its-one-of-the-most-underestimated-games-in-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-reckon-assassins-creed-unity-is-one-of-the-series-best-and-a-former-ubisoft-director-agrees-its-one-of-the-most-underestimated-games-in-the-series\/","title":{"rendered":"I reckon Assassin’s Creed Unity is one of the series’ best, and a former Ubisoft director agrees it’s ‘One of the most underestimated games in the series’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Assassin’s Creed Unity<\/a>, it hardly needs to be said, had its share of problems. At launch, the game which was intended to be Ubisoft’s big technical showcase on the then-new PS4 and Xbox One was rife with sometimes-hilarious bugs, filled with map barf, crammed with microtransactions, had a rather odd emphasis on co-op gameplay in a historically singleplayer series, and was\u2014a little garnish\u2014venomously reactionary about its setting: the French Revolution.<\/p>\n

And yet, and yet<\/em>, I maintain it was actually one of the best Assassin’s Creed games<\/a>, and represented a much more interesting avenue the series could have gone down had Ubisoft not embraced full Witcher 3-ification in games like Odyssey, Origins, Shadows, and Valhalla. <\/p>\n

I would like to call Jean Guesdon, former AC brand content director, as witness to Unity’s defence. In a chat with the most recent Retro Gamer magazine<\/a> (via GamesRadar<\/a>), he came to the game’s defence, hailing it as an overlooked entry in the series that fell victim to its own ambition.<\/p>\n

Unity is “one of the most underestimated games in the series,” says Guesdon. That’s not to say it’s unfairly<\/em> underestimated\u2014Guesdon is clear that the game had its troubles: “Sadly, Unity\u2019s launch was a huge challenge because of several reasons,” he says. <\/p>\n

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