As one who was indifferent to the much flaunted crowd densities of Assassin's Creed Unity, I greatly preferred maintaining pursuits from rooftop to rooftop even if my target was on the street. Tailing objectives are painless, as are the foot chases, which both benefit from thick urban designs. Suppress your enthusiasm early: aside from one bar devoted to tracking the six main assignments, the other columns represent an unremarkable swath of optional missions and collectable trackers.ĭead Kings is a wholly unsurprising sampler pack of many of the mission types from Assassin's Creed Unity, right down to the easy-to-solve environmental puzzles. The sight of a new set of vertical bars in the Progress Tracker provides an initial (and irrational) hope that Dead Kings might aspire to more than the usual half dozen story missions expected from Ubisoft's post-release add-ons. One would think that a ticket from Paris to Egypt would be less complicated, but it wouldn't be much of a game if Arno just spent a day pickpocketing for boat fare, now would it? The Marquis de Sade, one of the highlights of Assassin’s Creed Unity, makes a welcome return. Safe passage to Egypt is Arno's reward all he has to do is find a manuscript and solve several tomb puzzles. This is also why Dead Kings is set in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis rather than in Paris proper. Without the need for money or emotional attachments to complicate the situation, Arno comes into the job as a brooding ex-assassin who just wants to get away from all the dark memories of his time in the city. It is from a "one last heist" premise that Dead Kings springs forth. All he wants to do is leave late 18th century Paris.almost as much as I do. So it's a minor blessing that protagonist Arno Dorian returns without a thirst for vengeance or a love interest to protect, his two motivations from the main game. Dead Kings, the first downloadable content for Assassin's Creed Unity, is an unfortunate example of the perils of taking the beaten path and the design bugs that go with it. Whether it's a sequel from an annualized racing series or an expansion pack to a well-received game, there's comfort in the familiar-and, potentially, boredom as well.
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