

"I made some other stuff in the game, but 80 percent of my time was spent on the Notre Dame," she said.Īssassin's Creed Unity provides a unique opportunity, especially for those who have never been to Paris, to experience Notre Dame first-hand in its original glory, so be sure to pick up the game while it's free for the next week. Assassin's Creed Unity level artist Caroline Miousse told The Verge in a 2014 interview that she spent two years recreating the cathedral from the inside out. In fact, the virtual rendition of Notre Dame is so accurate that it may serve as an important piece of historical media. Ubisoft has a special connection to Notre Dame and the city of Paris-the setting was virtually recreated to a precise level of detail in Assassin's Creed Unity. Now Playing: Free Assassin's Creed Unity After Notre Dame Cathedral Fire - GS News Update The paper was coincidentally published about the same time the video game was released.By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's His 2014 paper The Chevet Plan at Notre-Dame in Paris: A Geometrical Analysis broke down to within five millimetres the layout of the entire eastern wing of the cathedral. All they had was Pong when I was a kid,” the University of Iowa professor says. Bork, who has done his own Notre-Dame recreations using laser measurements gathered from a billion data points, fires up a demonstration video and shares observations over the telephone. Bork, an architectural historian, has heard the theory circulating in recent days that the video game designed by Ubisoft might assist in reconstructing the fire-damaged cathedral.

Robert Bork, a world expert in the precision measurement and layout of Notre-Dame Cathedral, is running through a virtual version of the 12th-century Gothic church using Assassin’s Creed Unity, a video game designed in a Montreal studio.
