Assassin's Creed: Unity for free through the 25th

[thewayne]

The game is set in Paris during the Revolution and features a laser-scanned Notre Dame. You do have to sign up for Ubisoft's Uplay service, I guess it's sort of like Steam. It's PC-only, no idea what level of hardware is required.

I'm hoping there's a god-mode or walk-through switch so that you can just walk through the game and look at stuff without having to fight things. Commenters in the Ars Technica article mention crossing bridges in Vatican City and Venice and experiencing deja vu from having seen them in other Assassin's Creed games!

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04/notre-dame-donation-leads-to-flood-of-positive-assassins-creed-reviews/

Comments

[silveradept]

If the computer can run a fairly hefty Steam game, or is the kind that plays FPS like Overwatch, it should be fine.

I do like the ways that the Ubisoft Team try to be as meticulous as possible in their rendering, detail, and authenticity of their places. And, I really like the way that they have on their loading screens "This game was created by a team of multiple beliefs, faiths, and creeds" or something like that, so as to signal that the experience you get with the story has been, essentially, checked over for crude stereotypes or inaccurate views about not-Christians in the times presented. It's a very nice touch.

[thewayne]

My laptop is quite beefy: it's an Asus high-end gaming rig with 32 gig of RAM, so it's overkill for my needs and plays anything pretty well. For the MMOs that I play, it's ticking along, only mildly engaged.

I started up the game to see if it needed any additional patching - it did not - and was impressed by that loading screen message. That makes me very interested to play it seriously, though I'd be a lot more interested if they had a Mac version.