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4. Assassins Creed: Unity
What you were promised: A 'completely revamped' gameplay experience with all-new animations and climbing mechanics. What you got: The same old same old, with the only 'all new' thing being a button to descend from ledges. Whoopee. Syndicate might have gotten the Assassin's Creed train back on the tracks for at least one more yearly instalment that's inevitably already on the way for 2016, but Unity's disastrous reception will always be the franchise's low point. Such a disastrous reception was threefold. Firstly, we could immediately see straight through Ubisoft's various interview snippets referring to Unity's gameplay as being 'built from the ground up', when one look confirmed almost nothing had changed. Second was the 'Descend' button aimed at helping you leap off ledges with the greatest of ease, a string of perfectly animated moves getting you to the floor - ending up as something you'd almost never use, and when you did, rarely resulted in anything impressive. Lastly was the generally buggy state Unity was in at release. Characters floated in mid-air, pedestrians invaded cutscenes, protagonists' faces didn't load in - the list was endless. It took various 40+ GB patches to even get the thing stable, but even if you play 2014's release now, you're more likely to fall through the floor than complete a mission.
