Assassin's Creed: Ranking All The Games From Worst To Best

9. Assassin's Creed: Unity

The go-to barrel-scraper itself, Unity should've been the best of the bunch. Touted as a return to the stealth-focussed original, melee combat was streamlined to remove the OTT group-kill animations the likes of Edward Kenway and Connor had used beforehand. Graphics were absolutely superb too, with some outstanding dialogue and performances from Dan Jeannotte and Catherine Bérubé as leading couple Arno and Elise, respectively. Sadly, like AC III, Unity was a victim to both overhype and a lack of providing the goods at release. A risky idea to make like Tenchu Z and take stealth online for cooperative multiplayer didn't pay off for a second, tanking Ubisoft's servers as the game literally couldn't run, the reality being a release that just hadn't had enough time in production.

In the end, the Xbox One version had to be completely replaced through a 150GB patch, an unprecedented cockup of timeless proportions that would paint AC in such a negative light, you wouldn't find a single soul excited for Syndicate's release the following year. In fact, you can argue that Unity was the shotgun to the foot that put down Assassin's Creed's already shambling momentum; a truly historic entry in gaming history for all the wrong reasons.