So I finally picked up a copy of France France Revolution (AC Unity) for $20 new on Amazon, and I've got to say I'm impressed. After patching the game is mostly bug-free. I'm about halfway through the story right now. Compared to previous games a lot of features have been removed. There's only one save slot, hidden blade is context-specific instead of being a freely usable weapon, civilians cannot be hit with melee weapons (guns still work), and no ships or naval combat (probably because Paris is 90% land

). They made some really dumb design decisions too, such as not adding a 'quit game/return to title screen' option in the pause menu and severely gimping the weapon selection. You can only carry 2 weapons at a time max (melee weapon and pistol). Or if you want to use a long gun like a blunderbuss or a rifle, get ready for that to be YOUR ONLY WEAPON because it takes up both slots.

At least they do let you use the long gun as a club if the enemy gets too close, though, but it's still stupid. Oh, and in order to switch your weapon loadout you have to PAUSE THE GAME and manually select the weapons you want from the customization menu. I should add that you must be anonymous and standing upright in order to do that (as if that makes any more logical sense than the weapon select wheel did).
Now on to the good parts: Paris is beautiful. Still screenshots don't do this game justice. The hordes of (literally hundreds of) NPCs crowding the streets make the place feel so alive too, which is a feeling I never got in the previous AC games. While your ability to select weapons may be gimped, there is a much greater variety of them compared to any other AC game. You can even use duckfoot pistols and polearms! And while the default outfits suck, the devs actually included the outfits of the previous AC heroes as bonus content skins! I just put on Shay Cormack's outfit from AC Rogue and the problem is fixed! I can now equip normal clothes underneath it purely for their stats and not have to worry about looking ugly.

Sadly Haytham's outfit didn't make the cut, else I'd be rockin' that on the Paris streets. The main character Arno also doubles as comic relief, being the type to act before he thinks (like the time he set a building full of gunpowder on fire and realized he made a slight miscalculation: he was still inside!) and frequently upsetting his fellow assassins.