Assassin's Creed Unity Basted by French Politician for Historical Inaccuracy

Assassin’s Creed Unity seems to be falling flat at every opportunity: it failed when it refused to allow female avatars over multiplayer, it failed to be a good game (most reviewers mark it as mediocre), and it even failed to run smoothly, with reports of bugs and crashes sprouting up like wildfire on the web... seems the latest Assassin’s Creed just can’t catch a break.

And it’s not going to get one, either, at least not from Jean-Luc Mélenchon, France's former Minister of Vocational Education and one time Presidential candidate for the Left Front.  In a recent radio interview, the man savagely attacks Assassin’s Creed: Unity’s portrayal of the French revolution, saying that the game inaccurately shows revolutionaries to be “Barbarians, bloodthirsty savages”, while the aristocrats they rebelled against were depicted to be “Fine upstanding people.”

He continued to say, as translated by The Telegraph:

"The man who was our liberator at a certain moment of the Revolution - because the Revolution lasted a long time - Robespierre, is presented as a monster,"
 
[AC:Unity] "presents an image of hatred of the Revolution, hatred of the people, hatred of the republic which is rampant in the far-right milieux (of today)."

Now, I can’t actually speak to the validity of his claims, I haven’t played the game.  I know in the E3 trailer the assassins certainly seemed sympathetic to the revolutionary cause, but that doesn’t mean much compared to the actual content of the game.  I do agree that the portrayal of Robespierre is... Unfortunate, but looking at the history, not undeserved.  He was one of those “You live as a hero too long and you become a villain” deals. 

Oh well.  Of all the things Ubisoft needs to fix about the game, this is certainly lower on the list.