Assassin’s Creed Unity has released its first downloadable content, Dead Kings, free for everyone who owns the game. It was given free as an apology on behalf of Ubisoft, for all players who bought the game at launch reporting issues on how broken the game was.

Dead Kings takes you from Paris to the troubled streets of Franciade, which is modern day Saint Denis, as well as the dark underground. Years after the incidents in Assassin’s Creed Unity, former assassin Arno Dorian comes out from the shadows once again in search of answers, Many that leave me questioning the game once again, just like Assassins Creed Unity did towards the end of the main video game.

At the start of Dead Kings, Arno Dorian meets back up with old friend Marqis de Sade in search of an old treasure called the “royal crypt.” Arno agrees to help out Marqis de Sade in return for him helping Arno leave France for good.

While the new location is large itself, there is a new additional weapon added to the game with this free DLC, the weapon being the guillotine. It is a pick axe and a mortar built together, making it a gruesome and deadly weapon at any range. I have to say this is one of my favorite weapons to use in the game because of how easy it is to counter enemy attacks, allowing you to finish your enemy with just one swing to the face, or if things get too out of hand with enemies coming at you from all directions you can just shoot off a mortar bomb and run off as if nothing ever happened. The city of Franciade is easily a quarter of the size of Paris is in Assassin’s Creed Unity. Its setting and nature is very different as well, having a dark foggy scheme with graves and abandoned buildings everywhere you go.

One thing that was very interesting about this DLC is the underground catacombs of Franciade. It was very much like going through a maze, both entertaining and confusing at the same time because of how dark it is, making you always having your lantern and refilling it with oil to stay lit. It was fun though running around the catacombs, jumping off broken pieces of wood and rocky walls. Some parts of the underground also had puzzles and riddles that are fun to solve and unlock a secret passageway out of the underground.

On the upside of Franciade, the city is filled with collectables for you to collect, as well as side missions and new murder mysteries. They also had outpost missions that were more familiar to be found in the video game Far Cry 4. Outpost missions are a small objective mission where you go throughout the city and take out enemy captains in order to liberate an enemy-conquered area.

The Final Verdict: Dead Kings gives us a handful of new content such as the guillotine and a new city to explore, making this a very fun campaign to play and very different feeling to what Assassins Creed usually is making you be stealthy and make quick getaways when running into trouble.

Rate 7/10