Ubisoft Montpellier·Released Jan 13, 2015·Single player
Dead Kings is a piece of downloadable content for Assassin's Creed: Unity. Set after the game, it follows Arno Dorian as he battles a group of raiders sacking the tombs of French kings in Saint-Denis.
The bleak backdrop of Franciade sums up this miserable outing, as you engage in dreary underground missions built around the most rudimentary of brazier-based puzzles. We like the addition of the Raiders and the Guillotine Gun, but they're the only jewels in this expansion's smelted crown. Forget about the French revolution – this franchise needs an uprising of its own.
The now-free downloadable content for Assassin's Creed Unity kicks off with a passable new chapter that is neither a conclusion nor epilogue.
They say time heals all wounds, but free DLC can't hurt either. Dead Kings offers much for those still enamoured by the series, and its offering as a freebie is a fine gesture to anyone left aggrieved by last year's failings. Still, time will tell whether it - or what Ubisoft has planned next - can convince those who have been put off by the series' longer sense of stasis.
ACU: Dead Kings takes Arno into new subterranean territory, where both stealth challenges and some frustrating mazes await.
