Assassin's Creed Unity Limited Edition - PlayStation 4

I am so disappointed in Assassin's Creed Unity. Yesterday the game was released and the internet was in a huge kerfuffle about how amazingly buggy the game is, glitching to the point of hilarity. So when I got home with my copy I couldn't wait to start playing so I could join in the fun. I popped the disc into my PS4, waited for it to install, and then started playing.I played it for about six hours straight. To my horror, I found that bugs and glitches are exceedingly rare. In all the time I played, I saw all of TWO glitches. One was a nice French gentleman who was stuck on the edge of a doorway, stuck and twitching like one of the ghouls from Jacob's Ladder. The other was when I was inside a chapel and noticed the huge stained glass window I had seen in a video yesterday afternoon, in which someone is climbing on the window and the frame rate goes down the toilet. I climbed up the window, and sure enough the frame rate went to hell. The good news is, there is absolutely no reason to climb on the window. If I hadn't seen that video yesterday, it never would have occurred to me to climb on it, and I never would have experienced the bad frame rate drop.But that's it. Other than that, so far it seems like nothing more than a great new AC game in which you run around a fantastically designed version of 18th century Paris, playing as a likable rogue of a character through what is shaping up to be an intriguing story. The visual design in this game is a feast for the eyes, I can't overstate how amazing it is to wander around the incredibly detailed (usually filthy)streets of the city and then enter a beautiful mansion owned by some noble, the drop dead gorgeosity of their pristine and decadent abode is delicious eye candy. The lighting effects when going from bright sunlight to a dim interior and vice versa, it's truly a sight to behold. And yes the PS4 GPU incurs a heavy toll. I don't appreciate the intrusion of outside-the-game elements, i.e. messages telling you can't open the yellow or blue chests unless you install the AC Companion App on your smartphone and create an account at the AC Initiates website. But I won't be losing any sleep over it. EDIT: A patch was released which unlocked all of those chests for all users, so it's a moot point anyway.My favorite thing about Unity is that, finally, there is a new AC game that pushes a lot of the same buttons AC2 did. I've been waiting for five years for them to reach that high water mark again, and so far it looks like Unity might be the game that finally does it.This has a been a bad year for Ubisoft as far as how the gaming community feels about them. Between Watch Dogs being blatantly downgraded and the announcement that Unity was being kept at 900p on PS4 simply to maintain parity with the XBone version, a lot of people are pissed and to some degree I agree with them. But I'm not going to let that bias me to the point where I will outright LIE about the quality of this game just to spite Ubisoft. AC Unity is nowhere near as bad as many people are claiming... most of whom have likely not even played it and never will. Based on my personal experience with the game so far, most of the bad Amazon reviews are sounding to me like flat out lies. The game has more flaws than it should, and Ubisoft does suck for releasing it with this many bugs, but believe it or not it's still actually a very good game. If you read the professional reviews, many of them make small mention of any technical aspects and tend to criticize the game for more subjective reasons, which is fine.I'm still somewhat early in the game. If my experience changes I'll update this review.EDIT Nov 14, 2014: 20+ hours in, witnessed a few more NPCs doing bizarre things like trying to walk through solid objects or floating along the ground instead of walking. Another apocalyptic frame rate drop when I was climbing on the outside of a huge cathedral. 99% of the time, no issues.EDIT Nov 19, 2014: Completed the game, never did see an unusual spike in glitches. Ubisoft have done some crappy things over the past few years and they do deserve a good pranging for it. Shame this game has become a casualty of that. I predict in the future there will be many people saying "I just picked up AC Unity for $15, I waited because I heard how bad it was... but it's great. I guess they must have fixed most of the bugs?" Even if they never patch it again, people will say that. After my own experience with Unity I'd be lying if I said it wasn't well worth playing in its current state.

For the lack of a 4.5 star rating it will pass as a 5 star game... I never played it when it first came out due to the massive explosion of complaints that erupted from the gaming community. So I waited until it was $15 and fixed. Holy helk is this game a lot of fun. First things first delete any negative reviews or complaints you've seen or heard about this game because they simply don't hold true to the present version of the game. I have a total of 20% total sync in this game and i'm guessing around 8-10 hrs. Never have I loved being so distracted from the main story and quests by looting chests, cleaning public crimes, grabbing cockades(cheeky), completing co-op missions the list goes on. There is just so much to do in this game. I had to make this review to give Ubisoft some justice they deserve. While it is completely unfair to those who bought the game on day one, the game has received countless updates, and Ubisoft could have just left it to die. Customization of your own Arno is great i personally like wearing a very sleek outfit with nothing that jumps eccentric. The colors for your outfits are great as well and I am sporting the Ubisoft blue which contains my favorite combination of colors possible: teal as the main, and yellow as the aux. The weapon choice is also fantastic, I personally love the long weapons (spears) compared to the one handed (swords), or heavy (Great swords). Combat has received some major enhancements with more difficulty and the removal of the quick time event feel. you make your own counters now with the parry and dodge buttons... This game has the most realistic feel to combat we have seen in an AC game. While there are more positives to this game there are very minor hinderances, again VERY minor, frame rate isn't the best, I hardly ever notice the fps as the graphics are amazing and I love love love the population in the streets of France, climbing can be extremely frustration and this does occasionally reach a med-high hinderance as it can be pretty annoying. Nothing else really took away from my gameplay experience thats why it is a 4.5. I am now going to rate all the AC titles from worst to best IMO. (Syndicate not included).7:AC Revelations (Not one single fond memory of this game, I didn't enjoy it at all 6.5/10)6:AC 3 (No comment 7.2/10)5:AC Brotherhood (Truly a great game no doubt but severely overshadowed by its predecessor 9/10)4:AC Unity (9/10)3:AC 4 Black Flag (Got 100% completion loved every second of it, buy it if you haven't already 9.2/10)2:AC 1 (Man I have so many great memories of this game, and it was freaking hilarious at times great entrance to a great series 9.5/10)1:AC 2 (Where to even begin I love this game so much... It is in my top 5 games of all time for sure, it was perfect in every aspect, and I honestly believe if Ubisoft takes a 2 year break from AC again we could see something spectacular, if you haven't played this game before you absolutely need to! 10/10)AC Unity isn't the best, but in its current form is a solid entry in the series... if you do purchase this game and find yourself hating the first 30min-1hr get through it! If you don't you will miss an absolute blast of a game... My recommendation is to play the Co-op mission Heads Will Roll that is what grabbed me in and you will find it about 45min in... enjoy! i hope this review helped!