It pains me to say that because I’m a big fan of Assassin’s Creed. All of this, too, is Assassin’s Creed Unity.

It’s carefully planning a unique assassination, just to watch it fall apart due to imprecise controls and a clumsy cover system. It’s a HUD that constantly bombards you with messages at the most inopportune times. It’s attempting to loot a chest and being greeted by a message asking you to sign-in to your Uplay account or download the companion app before you can access its contents. It’s getting surrounded by a group of enemies, throwing down a smoke or stun grenade, and watching as the frame rate plummets. It’s hopelessly trying to infiltrate a second floor balcony window, only to end up anywhere but inside said window. Unfortunately, that’s not all that Assassin’s Creed Unity is. And if matters weren’t complicated enough, Arno’s adoptive sister and love interest, Elise, is herself a member of the Templar Order. His late father figure was Grand Master of the French Templars while his biological father, who also died under suspicious circumstances when Arno was only 8 years old, was a member of the Assassin Brotherhood.

When his adoptive father is mysteriously murdered on the eve of the French Revolution, Arno can’t help but feel responsible so he joins the Assassin Brotherhood to seek vengeance. Though you wouldn’t know it by his accent, Arno Dorian is a dashing young Frenchman who is also kind of a brat.

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