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Assassin's Creed: Unity Bastille Edition

XBOX ONE
Also available on:PCPLAYSTATION 4
Assassin's Creed: Unity Bastille Edition
Ubisoft11/13/2014Europe

Revolutionary France never looked this good on a shelf. The Assassin's Creed: Unity Bastille Edition for Xbox One wraps the French Revolution in a proper collector's package, led by a high-quality artbook filled with the concept art that shaped Paris down to every cobblestone and cathedral spire. You get the official game soundtrack, two lithographs in a stylized envelope, and digital access to two additional single-player missions: The Chemical Revolution and The American Prisoner.

Unity's art direction was genuinely breathtaking, and this artbook captures the work that went into recreating 18th-century Paris at a scale no game had attempted before. The lithographs are display-ready prints that carry real visual weight, the kind of pieces you frame rather than file away. For Assassin's Creed collectors building out the full timeline of editions, the Bastille Edition fills the Unity slot with physical items that emphasize craftsmanship over plastic.

This is Ubisoft treating the art of the game as the collectible itself, and for those of us who appreciate when a publisher leads with illustration and design, it's exactly the right call.