Assassin's Creed Unity celebrates its 10th anniversary this month, and its open-world map - a 1:1 re-creation of central Paris as it was in the 18th century - is still one of the most detailed and graphically impressive simulations of a city in Assassin's Creed's 17-year history. If you're curious to see how big Notre Dame is up close, visit the Louvre before it was converted from a palace to a museum, or even climb the Eiffel Tower (which didn't exist in the 18th century, but we'll get to that), Assassin's Creed Unity is a captivating way to experience Paris without actually being there - and you can dive into it right now with a Ubisoft+ Classics or Premium subscription on PC, Xbox, or PlayStation.
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Set during the French Revolution, Assassin's Creed Unity tells the story of Arno Dorian, an orphan of the millennia-long secret war between Assassins and Templars. Raised by an adoptive Templar Grand Master but recruited by the Assassins after being framed for his murder, Arno works to unravel a web of deceit, and eventually uncovers a conspiracy behind the revolution itself. He's also the Assassin half of an Assassin-Templar love story that answers the question of what would happen if the Assassins and Templars - two feuding secret societies with boundless resources and eons of forbidden knowledge - tried working together for a change.
Being the standard-bearer for a re-imagining of Assassin's Creed for the then-new PS4 and Xbox One, Arno did a lot of things differently than his Assassin forebears. For example, he was the first Assassin players could create builds around, using a variety of unlockable weapons, gear, and skills to buff, tweak, and optimize his abilities for stealth, ranged attacks, or melee combat. He also