Assassin's Creed: Unity "experience trailer" shows off new lighting and animation

According to Ubisoft's latest Assassin's Creed trailer, Unity is an experience materially different from anything Ubisoft has designed before. A truly immersive experience revolutionized by new-gen technologies and a next-gen engine that brings characters alive like never before possible. Is it visceral? You bet it is.

The empty buzzwords may fly fast and furious in Ubisoft's new "experience trailer," but they're paired with five minutes of exciting footage from Unity and some cool glimpses of the Anvil engine powering Assassin's Creed. The scale of digital Paris is especially impressive. I don't know if Notre Dame is a triumph of digital architecture, but I definitely want to climb it.

If you're interested in the tools Ubisoft uses to make Assassin's Creed, check out IGN's longer Making Assassin's Creed video series. The latest update, focusing on "next generation technology," shows off Ubisoft's development tools, with several minutes of footage dedicated to facial animations and building Paris.

Wes has been covering games and hardware for more than 10 years, first at tech sites like The Wirecutter and Tested before joining the PC Gamer team in 2014. Wes plays a little bit of everything, but he'll always jump at the chance to cover emulation and Japanese games.

When he's not obsessively optimizing and re-optimizing a tangle of conveyor belts in Satisfactory (it's really becoming a problem), he's probably playing a 20-year-old Final Fantasy or some opaque ASCII roguelike. With a focus on writing and editing features, he seeks out personal stories and in-depth histories from the corners of PC gaming and its niche communities. 50% pizza by volume (deep dish, to be specific).