Assassins Creed: Unity

Assassins Creed Unity is the next eagerly awaited instalment of the Assassins creed series and is set for release on PC, PS4 and XboxOne. Set in Paris during the French revolution, the single-player story follows Arno Dorian and his fellow assassins in their efforts to expose the truth behind the French revolution.

Arno is a Frenchman born and bred who was born in Versailles, he is on a quest of redemption that leads him to the assassin organisation, he slowly rises through the ranks similar to Altair and Ezio in the past games.

Unity has introduced a cooperative multiplayer mode, a first for the series, which lets up to 4 people explore the open world and engage in missions which can be accomplished in different ways based on how many players you have and what tactics you use, you can go for a full frontal assault, or a distraction and sneak method. It works by players entering taverns, that acts social hubs, in which you can see your friends who are playing unity and if they are in a mission they appear as a 'ghost' which allows you to request to join their mission/game, a little like Fable 3, if they accept you are migrated to their game and you begin from the hosts most recent checkpoint in the mission they are on and continue from there, in your game you will play as Arno and the other players will be random members of the brotherhood, most missions and activities are available for coop play, but some are restricted to single player only.

Combat for the game has undergone a remodelling, inspiration for the new combat system was fencing. In addition to the returning weapons from past games in the series, Unity introduces the Phantom Blade. The Phantom Blade  is basically a crossbow that fires arrows/projectiles a great distance silently, while still serving as the traditional assassins choice, the Hidden Blade. Ubisoft also remodelled the navigation system creating the Parkour Up and Parkour Down mechanics to help the player scale building faster and with ease in either direction. Additionally Arno's parkour skills advance during the game gaining more moves and skills, but players can acquire new optional skills, at a cost of course. NPC's/public have even been upgraded as well, new interactions have been given to them, the player can engage with them at their leisure for example interfering with fistfights or chasing down pickpockets.

in my opinion Ubisoft have outdone their selves this time and this will be the best game in series.