Assassin's Creed Unity [PC, PS4, X1]

[Winjer]

Eurogamer - 7/10

As the seventh major instalment in the series, though, not to mention the first designed for new console hardware, Assassin's Creed Unity feels like a missed opportunity. Going back to basics at this point may have resulted in a less substantial game than recent years have led us to expect, but it might have delivered a more satisfying one. As it is, mild improvements in traversal and combat are quickly overwhelmed by the creaking systems onto which they have been grafted. Revolutionary Paris is one of the most beautifully realised environments in a series that has had its fair share of them, but the game you play doesn't really do it justice.

Joystiq - 2.5/5

Assassin's Creed Unity is the best and worst of Assassin's Creed. It's hard not to appreciate everything that it gets right, and you'll have a good time if you can wrangle some friends for co-op, but it's impossible to ignore where Unity falls tragically short.

Gamespot - 7/10

But is it the next-gen Assassin's Creed game we've all been waiting for? Not quite. It's very good, maybe even great in places, but the story's smaller focus has come at the expense of its exquisitely rendered backdrop. The grandness and spectacle that so often graces the finest Assassin's Creeds is sadly sorely lacking here.

Videogamer - 8/10

It's a good time to be an Assassin's Creed fan. I just wish my console could run it properly.

IGN - 7.8

Assassin’s Creed Unity leverages the new-generation consoles to add spectacular new sights and successful co-op multiplayer, but in doing so, it’s created some substantial new problems instead of solving the series’ most persistent ones. The scope is stunning, the customization is satisfying, and the multiplayer touches upon some really ambitious ideas. But the lack of a strong main character or interesting take on the Assassin’s Creed universe costs it momentum and excitement, and the persistent control problems are still a thorn in its side. The first truly new-gen Assassin’s Creed game is a gorgeous, entertaining, and successful proof of concept for what lies ahead for the series, though it isn’t what I’d call revolutionary.

Kotaku: NO

That isn't the game Ubisoft made. They made what amounts to a showpiece for a new graphics engine, a game that will initially turn heads but which quickly reveals itself to be frustrating, repetitive, and dull.I've been happy with Assassin's Creed for a long time. Any series can have an off year, and hopefully Ubisoft will do better the next time around. But this year, for the first time ever, I'm telling you to skip the year's biggest Assassin's Creed.

Game Informer - 8/10

Inordinately long load times, repeated onscreen notifications, and a couple of hard freezes prove that Unity is a complex game that hasn’t yet had all of its bugs smashed. However, Unity’s frequent missteps are balanced against an astonishing array of engaging content set in a stunning world. Even as I tallied problems, I marveled at the game’s breadth of gameplay and richly realized world. I encourage fans to give Unity a try, and leave your expectations at the door. For both better and worse, Assassin’s Creed is moving in a new direction.

Polygon - 6.5

The ingredients are all here for a spectacular new standard for the series on Sony and Microsoft's new machines. But in the quest to build something that looked and sounded "next generation," Ubisoft Montreal failed to fix the problems that have accumulated over so many annual release. Combined with an uninspiring story, and a long list of considerable technical problems, Unity falls short of the fresh start Assassin's Creed needs.

Destructoid - 7/10

If Ubisoft fixes the glitches, Assassin's Creed: Unity will be a much stronger game, even if the ceiling is a bit lower in general. Unity's potential is not as strong as some of the better entries in the series, but it's good enough for existing fans to continue to journey.

USGamer - 3.5/5

Unity attempts to improve on some of Assassin's Creed's innate problems, but it misses the mark as often as it hits. Nevertheless, you'll want to play it for the gorgeous rendition of revolutionary (etc.) France and the involving, opened-ended primary assassination missions. It's clear Ubisoft is trying to shake up the series a bit, but next time they need to shake a little harder.

As notas também não são nada de especial.
Este ano, entre o Titanfall, o Destiny, Driveclub e agora o AC Unity, temos vários bons candidatos a maior desilusão do ano.

[Jorge-Vieira]

Para a publicidade que foi feita, esperava-se melhor... mais um joguito mediano.

[Jorge-Vieira]

Assassin’s Creed Unity Suffering From Severe Performance Issues Including “Crazy Low” Frame Rates

Assassin’s Creed Unity is now out and running on both the latest consoles and PC, but prospective buyers may want to wait a little before getting their hands on it because it looks like the launch of the most technically advanced title in Ubisoft’s historical fiction open world action-adventure stealth video game franchise hasn’t been a smooth one. The latest game is reportedly suffering from several considerable technical problems, among which, the most notable is “crazy low” frame rates and other issues such as glitches, lag, and evident NPC and texture pop-in bugs.

Players Reporting Various Assassin’s Creed Unity Performance Issues Across Both the Latest Consoles and PC – Choppy Frame Rate and NPC/Texture Pop-In Bugs

It appears that all the pre-release rumors and early reports about Assassin’s Creed Unity being plagued with several significant technical bugs were pretty much true, as now that the game is out and running across multiple platforms, there are reports coming in with gameplay videos as proof, suggesting that Ubisoft’s latest gem is unfortunately not all that crystal. The game suffers with what players are calling “crazy low” frame rates, as well as quite a number of other issues such as NPC and texture pop-in bugs that have been specifically reported before.

Noticia completa:
http://wccftech.com/assassins-creed-...w-frame-rates/

[Winjer]

É o problema de várias empresas grandes de jogos. Gastam mais em publicidade e reviews compradas do que a fazer o jogo.
Depois sai porcaria....

[Jorge-Vieira]

Aqui também quem fica mal na fotografia é a nVidia, andar a patrocinar um jogo para ter as suas tecnologias e o jogo vir cheio de problemas não cai nada bem.
Faz-me lembrar o que se passou com o Battlefield 4 e a AMD que andou a mostrar o jogo nas suas conferencias.

[MR]

[Winjer]

E mais uma jogada baixa da Ubisoft para lixar os jogadores. Desta vez, as cópias do jogo enviadas para análise não tinham o sistema de micro-transações activado, para esconder o chulanço que esperava aos jogadores.

Por isso é que as notas até são mais altas do que o que deviam ser.


Análise de desempenho do jogo do Digital Foundry: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...mance-analysis

Nota-se bem que lixaram bem a optimização na PS4, pois esta não só corre com os mesmos settings gráficos, mas depois tem FPS mais baixos do que a X1.



Sinceramente, neste momento não tenho duvidas de que a Ubisoft é pior do que a EA.
Tenham medo, tenham muito medo, pois o FC4 está quase a sair............

[MAXLD]

Vi ontem a stream da PCPer e o jogo até nem apresentou bugs gráficos durante o gameplay PC, algo que muita gente se queixa.

Digamos que a coisa mais chata foi o próprio gameplay do Ryan a falhar em toda a linha nas coisas mais básicas como seguir o objectivo correcto no mapa ou atravessar um nível... se um gajo estivesse lá o lado estava sempre a dizer "vai prali! Não, faz assim!" XD É nestes momentos que, na minha opinião, ver streams de outros a jogar é preciso ter muita paciência e acaba por ser um bocado perda de tempo.

Em termos de performance, ele tinha à volta de 38~50 fps com um i7 e uma GTX 980. Até aqui eu acho que não haveria qualquer problema, até porque ele se estava a babar com os detalhes gráficos do jogo (embora a qualidade da stream não permitisse ver deste lado). Só que quando há relatos destes...

Running an i7 2600K with 16g of DDR3 and 2x 290x's. The game can get up to 40 frames per second on low. This is absolutely unacceptable. This has to be the laziest release from Ubisoft yet. How much worse can they get?

(update 11.11.14 12am) AMD Catalyst 14.11.1 drivers yield crossfire functionality for me with high settings at roughly 50 frames per second. It's an improvement, but not acceptable for 2 290x's. Even playing the game at 50 frames per second, it feels like yoga on a water bed.

... então a coisa não está famosa. Um jogo com bons gráficos tem o dever e o direito de poder puxar bem pelo PC com settings no prego, mesmo tendo uma única boa gráfica. Mas se na verdade o problema está em não escalar decentemente, principalmente em multi-gpu, ou simples gráfica melhor... então está tudo dito. Parecer ser aqui o caso... ao que parece nem mudar os settings resolve grande coisa.

[Jorge-Vieira]

Até quero ver o que vão fazer com o Far Cry 4, embora já comece a pensar que vem aí mais uma borrada e mais um lixadela em grande escala para os jogadores.
A Ubi está a precisar de perder uns bons clientes para acordar.

Valeu a pena o Livestream Max?
Não vi... adormeci.

[Winjer]

Não me admirava nada que o Ryan tivesse recebido uma acção de formação sobre como evitar os piores bugs do jogo.
Por isso devia andar mais ocupado a tentar evitar mostrar más coisas do jogo do que em seguir os objectivos.

Eu já vi muitas imagens tiradas por utilizadores, do jogo real com os settings máximos. Realmente há algumas sequências onde o desing e arte do jogo são impressionantes.
Mas depois também há muitas partes onde o jogo não tem um aspecto que justifique a falta de desempenho.
Uma GTX 980, com um i7 a correr a 38-50 fps é muito pouco para os gráficos que o jogo apresenta.
O que não faltam são jogos com gráficos mais impressionantes e a correr muito melhor.

Não tenho é muitas esperanças de as coisas mudem com a Ubisoft. Tanto no Steam como na amazon.com, o AC Unity está em segundo lugar no top de vendas.

[MAXLD]

Valeu a pena o Livestream Max?
Não vi... adormeci.

Nem por isso, desta vez só lá estava o Ryan a jogar sozinho. Houve também algumas falhas de stream ao início. Mas momento fdido do evento foi quando fizeram o segundo sorteio (bridges SLi, salvo erro) e calhou ao mesmo gajo que já tinha ganho um steam key do jogo minutos antes... not cool. Deviam ter limite de um prémio para cada.

Ele disse que estava a tentar orientar mais streams em breve, incluindo do Dragon Age Inquisition e FarCry 4. Dragon Age seria interessante, já que é AMD stuff, fora destes habituais streams powered by nVidia. Suponho que não haverá monitores freesync nesse caso, mas pronto... stocks de R9 290/X e cupões Never Settle não devem faltar aos partners para doar ao pessoal.

[Jorge-Vieira]

Dass.. o sorteio calhar ao mesmo gajo duas vezes, isso parece de amadores
O Ryan sozinho, não é costume...
Então já vi que não perdi nada de especial.

Os Live deles nos ultimos tempos têm sido praticamente todos do lado verde, eu gostava de ver também algo dos vermelhos e com ofertas.

[MAXLD]

Não me admirava nada que o Ryan tivesse recebido uma acção de formação sobre como evitar os piores bugs do jogo.
Por isso devia andar mais ocupado a tentar evitar mostrar más coisas do jogo do que em seguir os objectivos.

Eu já vi muitas imagens tiradas por utilizadores, do jogo real com os settings máximos. Realmente há algumas sequências onde o desing e arte do jogo são impressionantes.
Mas depois também há muitas partes onde o jogo não tem um aspecto que justifique a falta de desempenho.
Uma GTX 980, com um i7 a correr a 38-50 fps é muito pouco para os gráficos que o jogo apresenta.
O que não faltam são jogos com gráficos mais impressionantes e a correr muito melhor.

Não tenho é muitas esperanças de as coisas mudem com a Ubisoft. Tanto no Steam como na amazon.com, o AC Unity está em segundo lugar no top de vendas.

Não porque ele estava ir random por todo o lado (não seguia directamente para a missão quando estava em "roaming", ou perseguia o ícone errado no mapa e depois é que lá via que era para o outro lado, ou não seguia logo o NPC quando era dito, ... ele como gamer é muito trapalhão. Até demorou uma eternidade a perceber e conseguir atravessar um hall com um puzzle muito simples e com "timer".

Até teve problemas antes do stream no instalador ao fazer download do jogo pela Uplay e acabou à ultima da hora por comprar ele pelo Steam... e fez download do jogo todo em ~5m por fibra.

Não me parece que estivesse ali a esconder alguma coisa, foi mero gameplay não planeado. Mesmo tendo falado do baixo framerate que estava a ter e requisitos de hardware do jogo, houve momentos em que procurou de propósito uma situação que fizesse puxar mais pelas frames num monte de gente.

[MAXLD]

Oh boy, Ubi on a roll. Já não faltavam as reviews e o backlash dos jogadores, agora também levam em cima dos media com a situação do embargo...

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[Polygon] (Opinion) How Assassin's Creed Unity weaponized review embargoes
Opinion by Ben Kuchera

There’s always a meta-commentary to be had about the timing and execution of game reviews. If a review comes out a good ways before launch, such as the new Dragon Age game, it’s usually a sign of confidence. Strong reviews that far out can help boost pre-order numbers and lead to a larger launch at retail. A good, strong early review can have an appreciable effect on the business of launching a game.

The reviews for Assassin’s Creed Unity were held until noon, Eastern time today. The game will have been available to purchase for as long as a dozen hours before anyone could read whether it was good or bad, or if it suffers from technical problems.

"All of this adds up to a game whose technical issues often make it more difficult to play. Assassin's Creed Unity isn't as framerate-sensitive as a shooter like Call of Duty, but navigating the world when the game was struggling to respond to my inputs felt like a chore," Polygon's review states.

The game earned a 6.5 rating.

There’s no valid reason for a review embargo such as this; it’s blatantly anti-consumer and likely designed to get the first rush of hardcore fans into the stores to buy their copies of the game before the reviews hit. We learned about the embargo last week.

Hell, I was going to pick up a copy of the game today until I read user reviews. I’m glad I waited, there are way too many other things to play.

This leads us into a good discussion of what embargoes are, and what they do. An embargo is an agreement between the press and the publisher about when coverage for the game can be released to the public. In exchange for early access to the game, we agree to hold content until a certain agreed-upon time.

Breaking embargoes, on the other hand, can potentially lead to a loss of access to future release games, and you have to agree to the embargo to play the game, which means by the time you realize a game is broken, it's already too late. It's a vicious loop, and making a good faith agreement and then breaking it later is bad news for a publication that wants its word to mean something.

Usually this isn’t much of a problem, and it lets every review run at the same time and gives reviewers ample time to play the game. Embargoes can remove the temptation to rush through a game in order to get the first review out, which leads to better reviews for the consumer.

That’s the ideal, at least.


WHEN EMBARGOES GO BAD

When a game’s embargo isn’t up until the day of launch you need to be careful. If it isn’t up until a few hours after the game is launched you should probably run screaming the other way. That’s not a signal that the game may have middling reviews, that’s a signal that the publisher is trying to sell copies before the word hits the street.

It could also meant the game is still being worked on, but any embargo past midnight the night before is sketchy as hell. It’s a way to weaponize embargoes, and the best thing to do is to hold off until you can read about the game in detail.

The press can, of course, purchase a copy of the game and run stories based on the performance of that version of the game in the first hours it has been released, but that closes the door on reviews based on completion.

The good news is that these situations are rare, and this Fall you can count Destiny, DriveClub and Assassin's Creed Unity as games with launch day reviews. Take from that what you will, although that also happened with Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls, which was great.

You should always be on the lookout for these situations. The earlier a review hits, often the more confidence the publisher has in the game.

We agree to embargoes because we need to do so in order to get early access to the game. That value is that the majority of traffic on a review comes on the first day of release, and any outlet that waits loses that traffic.

This system is actually in service of reader's interests, even if we have to play by the publisher's rules. The reality is that most readers come when the embargo is first dropped. If you agree to the embargo and then go back on the agreement in order to warn readers, you're going back on your word, which hurts your credibility in every other aspect of your business.

We're reacting to the realities of the market: You tell us via your readership, or lack thereof, that early reviews are more valuable to you. This is what it takes, and sometimes it puts us in a bind. This is one of those times.

Embargoes, on the whole, are a good thing. They help us get coverage of games without rushing through after release and it’s fun when the embargo drops and you can gorge on reading all the reviews. I don’t want to live in a world where everyone gets their copy of the game and rushes to write the first review; the quality of criticism would drop significantly.

The best thing to do is to inform consumers about what’s happening, and you can always get some hints about the game from the timing of its embargo. In this case the embargo hinted at a game that’s in no way ready for release, and the reality of the situation proves that hypothesis. Assassin's Creed: Rogue was not provided for pre-launch review at all.

The industry has more to gain from embargoes than to lose, however, which doesn’t lessen the bullshit-factor of these situations. If you buy before you read reviews, written by the press or simply other fans, you’re putting yourself at risk.

The longer you have to wait to read the review, the greater the risk. In the future we're going to work to do a better job of sharing information about embargoes and when to expect reviews.

This is a gentle reminder that waiting is almost always best.

in http://www.polygon.com/2014/11/11/71...review-embargo


E assim não admira que a Ubi cague trailers todos os dias...

[Winjer]

A Ubisoft já sabia que tinha um jogo cheio de problemas nas mãos e por isso sabia que tinha de evitar reviews e opiniões nos primeiros dias. Senão não vendia nada.
Neste momento muita gente ainda não está a par dos problemas do jogo e por isso ainda compram, mas a palavra está a espalhar-se e as vendas vão descer.

Já quando foi o BF4, na primeira semana o jogo vendeu bastante bem. Na segunda semana a palavra e os vídeos dos problemas do jogo já tinham chegado a muito mais gente e as vendas caíram para metade.
Com este AC Unity deve acontecer algo parecido. Cada vez mais pessoas sabem dos problemas de desempenho, dos bugs e das microtransações.




BTW, lembram-se desta promessa?