Unity's glut of side quests are far more enjoyable, with Murder Mysteries offering a modicum of logical thinking to reach a solution and Rifts transporting you to alternate versions of Paris in a bid to collect data and free entrapped assassins, just because your present day hackers told you so (the only time the game touches on present day happenings). There's a clear thread running throughout the game's generous running time, but I found it hard to care about what was going on. You simply go from big baddie to big baddie, assassinating them as you see fit, before facing Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars at the end.

There's the flicker of a love story between Arno and his childhood girlfriend Elise, but this aspect of the story never really goes anywhere, which is largely true of the rest of the narrative itself. 'Everything is permitted' has seemingly been crossed out of their assassin guidebook. As a bit of an arrogant twat, it's hard to like Arno, but then it's even harder to like the bickering authoritarian figures of the assassin's order, who make being an assassin feel more like being a naughty child. You assume the role of Arno Dorian – 'pisspot' to his friends – a brash and privileged adolescent who finds himself inducted into the assassin's order when it transpires that he can read wriggly lines only visible to those with the gift and stuff.

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