Time rifts aren’t the only glitches in Assassin’s Creed Unity’s matrix

Oh, the horror! Assassin's Creed Unity glitches are pure, unadultered nightmare fuel

By Will Fulton Published November 13, 2014

Thousands of assassins have taken to the streets of revolutionary Paris in Ubisoft’s newly launched Assassin’s Creed Unity, and as is so often the case with sprawling, open world games like this, loads of glitches have come to light. These range from the prosaic and silly to the strange and sort of horrifying.

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Of course the usual fare of characters clipping or falling completely through environments have showed up. The real winner, though, is a glitch wherein characters’ heads disappear, leaving you talking to nightmare visions consisting of disembodied eyes and mouths. Here are some of our favorites, culled from Twitter:

All the AC: Unity glitch gifs just make me realize how much untapped potential there is for slapstick comedy in games pic.twitter.com/bVsjFRlzMu

— Scott Jon Siegel is @numberless@xoxo.zone (@numberless) November 12, 2014

My favourite AC: Unity glitch so far has invisible race karts – http://t.co/EFAGjXVl9V

— Tom Phillips (@tomphillipsEG) November 12, 2014

https://twitter.com/AShimmyDance/status/532396870166122499

https://twitter.com/HanFreakinSolo/status/532631178801856512

https://twitter.com/PressTheButtons/status/532620378833977344

https://twitter.com/McNarnia/status/532633535849693185

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Will Fulton is a New York-based writer and theater-maker. In 2011 he co-founded mythic theater company AntiMatter Collective…

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