Oh, video games. What is it about you that makes you so terrible with women? No other art form is so consistently dismissive, disrespectful, and indeed hateful about women regardless of genre. This isn’t because gaming is inherently a sexist thing – and anyone who says it is doesn’t understand gaming – but probably because the people who make the games are, themselves, completely naive about or dismissive of the issue, or very much not designing and creating games with the issue of female representation on their minds at any point.
Which brings us to Ubisoft, and Assassin’s Creed: Unity, which was announced at the annual E3 games expo in Los Angeles this week. For those who haven’t played it, the Assassin’s Creed series is stupid but fun – you play as a man reliving the memories of his assassin ancestors, who creep and stab their way through historical periods like the Crusades and the Renaissance as part of some poorly-written end-of-the-world conspiracy cult narrative. Unity is the seventh installment in the series, sequel to the sixth installment, the confusingly-named Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. That was set among pirates, and Unity‘s schtick is to take the game to the streets of Paris during the French Revolution.
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