In October, senior producer Vincent Pontbriand said that the game would run at a 900p resolution and 30 frames per second on both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The Assassin's Creed Unity team thought they were keeping themselves out of that slapfight. Ubisoft stuck its foot in its mouth again in October on one of the most tiresome and petty arguments in video gaming: which console has more horsepower. That's a big reason why it can be considered the game of 2014. Ubisoft, for its part, issued a statement saying it 'recognize the valid concern around diversity in video game narrative,' and noting the series' past inclusion of playable characters of both genders and different ethnicities.Д«ut at what should have been a debut focusing attention on the game and the new and different things it would seek to do, Assassin's Creed Unity sunk into the kind of rancorous debate on social topics that formed the backdrop to the seething Gamergate cyber-protest in the late summer. It's important to remember he was dismissed from Ubisoft last year and is currently suing the publisher. Patrice DГ©silets, one of the original creators of the series, showed up to criticize Ubisoft for not even making the effort. It got worse when the former animation director on Assassin's Creed 3, now with another studio, said it would only take 'a day or two of work,' to include women in the multiplayer mode. It was an alienating statement, one that seemed to want credit for at least thinking of the idea, while saying women weren't worth the additional effort it would need to render them in the game. Questioned by Polygon at E3 about whether playable women characters were ever a part of the creative discussion, creative director Alex Amancio said they were early on, but the extra resources and time spent developing them made that prohibitive.ДЄn alienating statement mars the E3 debut

The controversy over women characters, the first big dustup to hit Assassin's Creed Unity, is a prime example. If there's a theme in these screwups, unintended slights, misstatements and other gaffes, it's that it reflects the behavior of creators and a publisher asserting its priorities in an unequal relationship and then not standing behind them when either gamers or the media push back. Assassin's Creed Unity even kicked up a fuss in France over how it depicted the French Revolution and some of the central figures within it.Д«eing a mediocre game - the lowest scoring in franchise history - was the least of its problems. Ubisoft exploited the review agreement it had with the games press, casting suspicion that it knew it had a stinker on its hand. The game was delayed two weeks, suffered comical and even horrific-looking glitches, and had the chutzpah to offer a purchase of $99 worth of in-game currency. The product that shipped was famously broken, the response to that had its own failures and, for good measure, the apology it offered arrived with a chunk of lawyerly language that made even that feel cynical and insincere. Other titles may have done more inept things, but Assassin's Creed Unity seemed to do all of them. Assassin's Creed Unity seemed helpless to stay out of trouble in the months leading up to a disastrous launch. All major video games will, during development, brush up against some petty controversy in interacting with a relentlessly unsatisfied public. It means that no one game was more 2014 than this one, for all of the wrong reasons. Assassin's Creed Unity is the game of 2014, and that's not meant as an honor or a compliment.

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