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On October 6, 2014, Ubisoft announced that they had enlisted the help of academic historians such as Laurent Turcot, professor at [[Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières]] for daily life of 18th-century Paris, and Jean Clement Martin, a professor at the [[University of Paris (post-1970)|Sorbonne]], to revise the script.<ref>{{cite web | author=Beer, Jeff | title=The (fun, violent) History lesson inside "Assassin's Creed Unity" | date=October 22, 2014 | url=http://www.fastcocreate.com/3037212/the-fun-violent-history-lesson-inside-assassins-creed-unity | access-date=October 27, 2014 | archive-date=August 1, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160801162317/http://www.fastcocreate.com/3037212/the-fun-violent-history-lesson-inside-assassins-creed-unity | url-status=live }}</ref>
Like other games in the series, ''Unity'' portrays a large number of real world Parisian landmarks, including the [[Tuileries Palace]] and [[Notre-Dame de Paris|Notre-Dame Cathedral]] and, through the time anomalies feature, it also includes the [[Eiffel Tower]] and the [[Statue of Liberty]], neither of which existed at the time of the French Revolution.<ref>http://www.jeuxvideo.com/news/2014/00075547-la-faille-temporelle-d-assassin-s-creed-unity.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031212304/http://www.jeuxvideo.com/news/2014/00075547-la-faille-temporelle-d-assassin-s-creed-unity.htm |date=October 31, 2014 }} La faille temporelle d'Assassin's Creed Unity, [[Jeuxvideo.com]]</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Tassi|first1=Paul|title='Assassin's Creed' Needs To Slow Down And Refocus, Or Risk Total Derailment|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/11/11/assassins-creed-needs-to-slow-down-and-refocus-or-risk-total-derailment/|website=[[Forbes]]|access-date=November 11, 2014|archive-date=May 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529205644/https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/11/11/assassins-creed-needs-to-slow-down-and-refocus-or-risk-total-derailment/|url-status=live}}</ref> Since the [[Notre-Dame de Paris fire|April 2019 fire]], there have been persistent, unsubstantiated rumours that Ubisoft had sufficiently accurate scans of Notre-Dame that may help in the reconstruction of the Cathedral, despite people involved in ''Assassin's Creed Unity'' having acknowledged their own reproduction of the building isn't historically accurate.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rochefort |first=Simone de |date=2024-08-23 |title=Stop being wrong about Assassin's Creed Unity |url=https://www.polygon.com/gaming/443162/assassins-creed-unity-notre-dame-cathedral-models-debunked |access-date=2024-09-10 |website=Polygon |language=en-US}}</ref> Ubisoft donated €500,000 to the reconstruction of the cathedral and also provided ''Unity'' as a free download for the week following the event so as to give everyone a chance to explore the cathedral as they had modeled it in game.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.pcgamesn.com/assassins-creed-unity/notre-dame | title = Ubisoft's giving Assassin's Creed Unity away free and donating €500,000 to Notre-Dame | first = Ali | last = Jones | date = April 17, 2019 | access-date = April 17, 2019 | work = [[PCGamesN]] | archive-date = April 16, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190416210507/https://www.pcgamesn.com/assassins-creed-unity/notre-dame | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="NotreDameAid">{{cite web |last1=Domanski |first1=Harry |title=Ubisoft offers Assassin's Creed Unity for free so you can see Notre-Dame Cathedral |url=https://www.techradar.com/news/ubisoft-gives-away-assassins-creed-unity-for-free-so-you-can-see-the-notre-dame |website=TechRadar |date=April 18, 2019 |access-date=April 18, 2019 |language=en |archive-date=April 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418023141/https://www.techradar.com/news/ubisoft-gives-away-assassins-creed-unity-for-free-so-you-can-see-the-notre-dame |url-status=live }}</ref> Ubisoft reused the Notre Dame model for a [[virtual reality]] interactive tour entitled ''Notre-Dame de Paris: Journey Back in Time'', a subset of the original game's setting which allows users with a compatible virtual reality headset to explore the cathedral's interior and exterior.<ref name="notredamevr">{{Cite web |title=Assassin's Creed Unity Bends History As Ubisoft Celebrates Notre Dame's Reopening |url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-unity-bends-history-as-ubisoft-celebrates-notre-dames-reopening/1100-6528351/ |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=GameSpot |language=en-US}}</ref>
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