In Assassin's Creed Unity, Paris is rebuilt as the game's open-world setting during the French Revolution. Players control Arno Dorian as he moves through a detailed version of the city and its districts during the late eighteenth century.
The game includes landmarks such as Notre-Dame de Paris, the Louvre, the Tuileries, and the Bastille area. Its story begins in Versailles and then shifts its main focus to Paris, where Arno joins the Assassin Brotherhood and investigates a Templar conspiracy amid revolutionary unrest.
Paris is not merely a backdrop: crowds, political factions, monuments, and changing districts are integrated into missions and exploration. Versailles is an important early location, but it is a separate city from the principal open-world environment. Unity was released in 2014 and was designed for eighth-generation consoles, allowing Ubisoft to present a denser crowd-filled version of revolutionary Paris than earlier entries had shown.