10 Times In Gaming You Got SCAMMED

5. Assassin's Creed Unity

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The Assassin's Creed games may stick to a fairly familiar formula, but for a time they seemed to launch with a fair degree of polish considering their annual launch cycle.

And so it's probably not a coincidence that the series' biggest embarrassment to date occurred when Ubisoft released two Assassin's Creed games in a single year for the first time.

In 2014, they released Assassin's Creed Unity for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and the very same day launched Assassin's Creed Rogue as the final game in the series for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Though Rogue received mixed reviews for feeling a little low-effort, few could've expected that the "next-gen" Assassin's Creed would be the one to fall totally flat.

Unity was panned upon release for its litany of bugs and graphical issues, causing among other things characters' faces to render incorrectly, as horrific-yet-hilarious faceless abominations during cutscenes.

It was clear that Ubisoft spread their teams way too thinly with this approach, and evidently weren't equipped to release two new satisfactory titles within the same year.

The backlash caused Ubisoft to cancel the game's season pass and offer a free game from their library as compensation to those who'd already paid.

Naturally players couldn't be blamed for feeling like they'd been given the hard grift, even if the game was eventually patched into acceptable shape.

Still, Unity's botched release had a devastating impact on the franchise, denting sales of follow-up Assassin's Creed Syndicate and prompting Ubisoft to release no new Assassin's Creed game in 2016.

They opted instead to spend an extra year on Assassin's Creed Origins, which was largely deemed to be a return to form for the series.

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