10 Video Games You Should Play (Even Though They Suck)

2. Assassin's Creed Unity

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There are games that are legendary for their glitches. Sonic Boom. Sonic '06. Soni... okay, basically any 3D Sonic title fits that mould.

But Assassin's Creed: Unity is in its own league. The eighth instalment in Ubisoft's biggest franchise is so staggeringly broken, it feels like the developers made the glitches first, and then worked a game around it! Human faces disappear with disturbing regularity. Characters fall through the ground so often, you'd assume it was a deliberate feature. As you leap from building to building, you're just waiting for the moment when you freeze in mid-air.

If every bug was patched (which it wasn't), Unity would still be the nadir of Assassin's Creed. The relationships aren't interesting, the new mechanics are minimal, and the stealth takes a backseat. So, if you try and play Unity conventionally, you're not going to have a good time.

But if you accept this spin-off for the magnificent farce that it is, you'll have a blast. Instead of defending the gameplay, just embrace it when you climb an invisible wall or mesh with another character like the ending of Timecop.

Even though Unity was a massive misfire, it's responsible for some of Assassin's Creed's most entertaining moments.

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