Ubisoft published a gameplay video for Assassin’s Creed Unity that showcases one of their game’s co-op heist missions. The video is of two assassins infiltrating an ancient Parisian hospital to steal artifacts. The video also features the voice of creative director Alex Amancio who narrates while a friend skillfully plays through the mission by using abilities like Eagle Vision and lockpicking–which requires you to successfully complete a quick minigame. A really cool aspect that comes with having another player alongside is that you can perform “sync kills” where you team up with your friend to pull off some deadly shit. As you’ll hear in the video, Assassin’s Creed Unity’s heists are designed to be “highly replayable,”. These missions have...
An official listing for Assassin’s Creed Unity at Sony Entertainment Network shows that the title is expected to run at 720p resolution on the PlayStation 4. It quite clearly says that the game outputs 720p HD. This is so strange as the last game, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag ran at 1080p on the PlayStation 4. In addition to this Ubisoft confirmed in an interview with GamingBolt that they were targeting 1080p and 60fps on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Now there is a chance that this listing may just be an error and the developers are still working on the final resolution or this is just the minimum resolution that is supported by the game. In any case, we just hope that this isn’t true. Even Diablo III: Reaper of Souls – Ultimate Evil Edition have their correct resolutions lis...
Day before yesterday Ubisoft is released a new CGI trailer for Assassin’s Creed Unity that shows Arno racing against time and through a dense and chaotic central Paris in order to prevent the beheading of Elise, a character central to Assassin’s Creed Unity’s story. As an independent young noblewoman, Elise is determined to secure her place in the Templar dynasty amidst the chaos of the French Revolution. Her quest leads her to cross paths with Arno and establish an unlikely bond with him. In addition to the new trailer, Ubisoft is offering fans the chance to discover a novel by Oliver Bowden based on Assassin’s Creed Unity. This new paperback from Penguin Random House builds on Bowden’s past Assassin’s novels – with 3 million copies sold to date — and examines an era when th...
Arno Victor Dorian (1768 – unknown) was a French-Austrian Assassin active during the time of the French Revolution. An orphan who blamed himself for the death of his adoptive father, Arno sought redemption by joining the Assassins in 1789 and working to expose the true instigators of the Revolution. Biography Born to an Austrian mother and French father, Arno was raised in Versailles until his father was murdered in 1776, when Arno was eight years old; some time later, his adoptive father also died in a similar manner. Wracked by guilt and blaming himself, Arno sought out the Assassins to find redemption, helping those suffering similar injustice. Weapons and Skills Arno was a witty, brash and charismatic Assassin, but he was also known to be stealthy and ruthless. He wore a dark blue hood...