You can pick up Assassin’s Creed Unity over on Uplay until the 25th of April. In either case, it is a nice gesture to show solidarity with the city, and the donation will greatly help reconstruction efforts. The cynics would say it is to capitalize on good PR of doing something nice. One would assume this is so those who may not know much about the cathedral can play and learn something.

Well, Assassin’s Creed Unity is set in France, Paris to be exact, and features the mammoth of a cathedral in the center of the city. To those who haven’t played or seen the game, it may seem strange to pick one of the games most notable for a large bug upon release. Though that doesn’t fully explain why, of all the games, they chose to give away Unity. Ubisoft, a French company themselves, wants to show they support the local historical importance of the structure by donating half a million Euro to help bring the cathedral to life once again. With the recent fire devouring the already crumbling structure, many have been jumping in and showing support for the nearly 675-year-old cathedral (883 from breaking ground). The reason behind this sudden free game is the awful situation with Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, or more commonly known plainly as Notre-Dame. However, today my collection has become one larger as Ubisoft are currently giving Assassin’s Creed Unity away for free. I’m so acutely aware I keep telling everyone that Grand Theft Auto, Watch_Dogs, Fallout, Saints Row, more recently Dark Souls, and inFamous (to an extent,) fall higher on my list of franchise games than Assassin’s Creed does. I’m not a massive fan of the series, but I own several copies of the literal mountain of a series known as Assassin’s Creed.

Assassin’s Creed is just one of those series that goes everywhere, gets up the walls, and infects your life.

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