History Awesome / AssassinsCreedUnity

** The Belle Epoque mission. It's amazing to see Paris 100 years after the Revolution, to see it survive the violence and bloodshed and witness the Golden Age of Impressionism, Art Nouveau and then see the Eiffel Tower with all the Balloons and then finally we see Lady Liberty just as she's being built as a gift to America and New York.

** For a series that has never been a stranger to insanity, from flying a glider across Venice, a fistfight with the Pope in the Sistine Chapel, a boss-fight with an AxCrazy George Washington over a Pyramid, a full Pirate game, you would think the developers have pretty much mined the field. Nope, in-comes reality-warping gameplay, that sends a French Revolutionary to scale the Eiffel Tower and fire Machine guns at Nazi planes.

-->'''Bishop:''' Arno won this fight two centuries before it started.
* Meta: The game’s model of the Notre Dame Cathedral is so detailed that it was tapped as a visual aid for the Cathedral’s restoration after it was badly damaged in a fire five years after the game’s release.

** The Assassination of Rouille is less extraordinary than most, but one notable element stands out. Arno needs to stop some snipers: he achieves this by ''lighting their watch tower on fire''.

** Assassinating Le Peletier. After stealing some poison wine, Arno bribes some window cleaners for a hilariously easy shortcut straight to the dining room, whereupon he has the wine replaced. Le Peletier stumbles into the back room before Arno stabs him, and he leaves without any trouble at all.

** Assassinating Le Peletier. After stealing some poison wine, Arno bribes some window cleaners for a hilariously easy shortcut straight to the dining room, whereupon he has the wine replaced. Le Peletier stumbles into the back room before Arno stabs him, and he leaves without any trouble at all.
** The Assassination of Rouille is less extraordinary than most, but one notable element stands out. Arno needs to stop some snipers: he achieves this by ''lighting their watch tower on fire''.

* What exactly Arno did with [[LivingMacGuffin the Sage]]'s remains. [[spoiler:He hid them amongst a pile of bones, making it nigh impossible to find them at all.]]
-->"Arno won this fight [[spoiler:two centuries]] before it started."

-->"Arno won this fight [[spoiler:two centuries]] before it started."

* The player can pull this off in the final memory. Arno observes, while trying to think of a way into the temple, that "Germain's built himself quite a fortress" - no weak points to exploit. The optional objectives are a pair of sabatoged alarm bells and some double air assassinations. Which means that it's not entirely difficult to locate Germain via the "[[ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination Leventine approach]]" ''and'' get full sync. And since the mission objective is "'''Find''' Germain", indicating that Arno didn't know where he was, this in turn means that Arno could have ''canonically'' located Germain ''with the Leventine approach.''

** The one in the demo carried over to the main game, the assassination of La Sivert. What does he do? He steals the keys to the Notre Dame, sets up a confession with his target, and manages to kill La Sivert while confessing everything to him. And because no alarms were rung for full sync, he escaped without anyone being the wiser.

* Every single assassination mission due to how Arno can meticulously find and exploit every weakness he can find, making every finishing stab BRUTALLY satisfying.
** The one in the demo carried over to the main game, the assassination of La Sivert. What does he do? He steals the keys to the Notre Dame, sets up a confession with his target, and manages to kill La Sivert WHILE HE'S CONFESSING EVERYTHING TO HIM. And because no alarms were rung for full sync, he escaped without anyone being the wiser.

* "Arno won this fight [[spoiler:two centuries]] before it started."

** Assassinating Le Peletier. After stealing some poison wine, Arno bribes some window cleaners for a hilariously easy shortcut straight to the dining room, whereupon he has the wine replaced. Le Peletier stumbles into the back room before Arno stabs him, and he leaves without any trouble at all.

** The Belle Epoque mission. It's amazing to see Paris 100 years after the Revolution, to see it survive the violence and bloodshed and witness the Golden Age of Impressionism, Art Nouveau and then see the Eiffel Tower with all the Balloons and then finally we see Lady Liberty just as she's being built as a gift to America and New York.

* The whole Time Anomalies Feature. How do you show famous monuments that they couldn't cover otherwise and satisfy fan demands for a World-War II/Modern Day AC, while still keeping it consistent with the design metaphor of the Animus and Modern Day story? You go nuts, that's how:

* For a series that has never been a stranger to insanity, from flying a glider across Venice, a fistfight with the Pope in the Sistine Chapel, a boss-fight with an AxCrazy George Washington over a Pyramid, a full Pirate game, you would think the developers have pretty much mined the field. Nope, in-comes reality-warping gameplay, that sends a French Revolutionary to scale the Eiffel Tower and fire Machine guns at Nazi planes.

* Napoleon managing to get the drop on Arno while he's infiltrating and managing to get a pistol at his chest before he could try attacking him with his Hidden Blade.