Assassin's Creed: Unity

[Slateman]

Ooooohhhhh

[Swarley]

The Unity season pass will consist of:

• Dead Kings DLC campaign
• New Paris missions and equipment
• AC Chronicles: China - downloadable sidescrolling game that uses the UbiArt engine

[Slateman]

I wonder if Steam will have a Cyber Monday sale

[SethMode]

So, let me see if I understand this correctly:

We have multiple reviews for all versions of Dragon Age: Inquisition, that won't be released for another 7 days. However, we have NO reviews for Assassin's Creed Unity...which came out almost 11 hours ago. What is Ubisoft doing with this embargo? It certainly SEEMS like it's a kind of dirty way of hoping that people will buy the game before they have the benefit of reading any reviews.

[Swarley]

So, let me see if I understand this correctly:

We have multiple reviews for all versions of Dragon Age: Inquisition, that won't be released for another 7 days. However, we have NO reviews for Assassin's Creed Unity...which came out almost 11 hours ago. What is Ubisoft doing with this embargo? It certainly SEEMS like it's a kind of dirty way of hoping that people will buy the game before they have the benefit of reading any reviews.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-one/assassins-creed-unity

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/assassins-creed-unity

Reviews aren't all that favorable so far.

[Twigg4075]

The Unity season pass will consist of:

• Dead Kings DLC campaign
• New Paris missions and equipment
• AC Chronicles: China - downloadable sidescrolling game that uses the UbiArt engine

That doesn't sound like it's worth $20.

[Twigg4075]

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-...ns-creed-unity

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/assassins-creed-unity

Reviews aren't all that favorable so far.

Huh? They look pretty good to me, with the exception of the Joystiq one.

[Swarley]

That doesn't sound like it's worth $20.

Guess it depends on how big the DLC campaign and the UbiArt game are.

Huh? They look pretty good to me, with the exception of the Joystiq one.

I would not say a 75/5.5 and 79/6.3 is good. Are they terrible? No. But not good either. Most of the more well-known sites are saying it's an just an ok game.

[Twigg4075]

Guess it depends on how big the DLC campaign and the UbiArt game are.




I would not say a 75/5.5 and 79/6.3 is good. Are they terrible? No. But not good either. Most of the more well-known sites are saying it's an just an ok game.

I honestly wouldn't consider ANY AC game review to be stellar at this point. The series has worn way thin. Sure, there's co-op in this one, but that's it. They've done about everything you can possibly do with the series.

But when you have ONE sub-70 review for each platform, I don't think that's "unfavorable" at all. Granted, there aren't many reviews at this point, period.

[SethMode]

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-...ns-creed-unity

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/assassins-creed-unity

Reviews aren't all that favorable so far.

Well, thank goodness they aren't terrible reviews, or it would have seemed SUPER grimy. I still don't understand why you would embargo reviews for your game for 12 hours AFTER it's released.

[Twigg4075]

Well, thank goodness they aren't terrible reviews, or it would have seemed SUPER grimy. I still don't understand why you would embargo reviews for your game for 12 hours AFTER it's released.

That is definitely shady as hell. I think embargoes are bullshit anyway. I understand why they're in place though. But having an embargo AFTER release is doubly bullshit.

[Swarley]

Well the Unity review scores are going up on Metacritic. So that's a good sign, I guess.

Interestingly enough, the AC Rogue reviews are a little better than Unity's.

[JayDizzle]

Well the Unity review scores are going up on Metacritic. So that's a good sign, I guess.

Interestingly enough, the AC Rogue reviews are a little better than Unity's.

Playing Unity today (probably streaming it depending if I get a decent bit-rate going) and will see for myself if this one's bad or not.

[Swarley]

Playing Unity today (probably streaming it depending if I get a decent bit-rate going) and will see for myself if this one's bad or not.

I'm eager to get my hands on it, but it'll have to wait until I finish my Rogue review.

[JayDizzle]

I'm eager to get my hands on it, but it'll have to wait until I finish my Rogue review.

From the bits I've read about Rogue's reviews, you'd like it.