Assassin's Creed: Unity - 10 Things We Can't Wait To Experience

9. What's Going On In The Present Day?

As in all Assassin's Creed games, Unity - for better or worse - will include a present day section where someone interacts with an Animus to relive the memories of someone from the past (in this case, Arno). Ubisoft has been keeping pretty quiet about the present day stuff for their new game; all we know is that we're going to see 'something new' and that it will focus on the Assassins requesting help reliving Arno's memories whilst simultaneously helping them out in the present day. Since it's new, we can pretty much rule out the first-person wandering through Abstergo from Black Flag and can virtually rule out Desmond Miles, who appears to have really and truly kicked the bucket after the events of ACIII. The present day stuff in AC has always been pretty divisive; some gamers call for it to be kicked out altogether, while some are still intrigued by the storyline. We're hoping that this time around there'll be a lot more explaining, and a lot less confusing elements that make LOST's storylines look like kid's books. What's going on with the Assassins? Why is Juno in a virtual world? What's up with Roberts, the crazy time-jumping reincarnated IT guy who got himself killed to try and revive Juno? Does anyone else's brain hurt? As Unity marks the start of a new generation of AC on new hardware, now is the time to make this confusing storyline more streamlined and easier to understand. We're really hoping that the present day sections of Unity add up to something great.