Key Takeaways
- A YouTuber modded GTA’s Los Santos into Assassin’s Creed Unity, combining the urban aesthetics of both games.
- Assassin’s Creed Unity, released as Ubisoft’s 8th major installment in the franchise, recently gained a player count boost thanks to the Paris Olympics.
- Unity remains popular and modders are enhancing the game, even aiming to include GTA’s CJ.
The bustling city of Los Santos from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has been modded into Assassin’s Creed Unity, thanks to a YouTuber’s efforts. The urban aesthetic of Grand Theft Auto’s expanse meets Assassin’s Creed Unity’s Paris during the French Revolution, which is a jarring combination for both fandoms to witness.
Serving as the eighth major installment in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise, Unity was released as the successor to 2013’s Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, and it revolves around the tension between the Assassins and the Templars set against a backdrop of real-world events. Assassin’s Creed Unity recently got a player count boost 10 years after its release thanks to the Paris Olympics, but the game has retained its popularity over the years despite a controversial start on newer consoles.
Posted by Sliderv2 on YouTube, the modder shared a three-minute clip of Unity protagonist Arno sprinting down the streets of Grand Theft Auto’s Los Santos. It was explained that the city map was only partially modded into Unity as a project to test the game’s current editing capabilities. The modder also noted there were several issues with the mod, including missing collisions, which meant fully playable maps could not be imported yet. Assassin’s Creed Unity is one of the best parkour games thanks to its smooth free-running in 18th-century Paris, and the YouTube community never thought they’d see Arno in Grove Street. Furthermore, a fan highlighted that this mod was one of the first examples of another game’s map being imported into an Assassin’s Creed game.
Modder Brings Grand Theft Auto’s Los Santos to Assassin’s Creed Unity
Considered the pinnacle of Ubisoft’s action-adventure franchise, the 2014 title is no stranger to modifications, including one Assassin’s Creed Unity mod that implemented a removable hood. Despite Unity being a stellar game already, the mod also implemented several quality-of-life fixes and parkour improvements to raise the game to its full potential. Modders are now pushing the boundaries of game design to have Arno and GTA’s CJ existing in the same space, but the biggest hurdle facing the Los Santos mod, according to the modder, is creating custom collisions and producing climb data for parkour.
Ubisoft and Rockstar have big releases on the horizon: Assassin’s Creed Shadows will launch in November, and Grand Theft Auto 6 is targeting a Fall 2025 release. Some fans hope GTA 6’s Vice City will include Walt Disney World parodies, unlike Los Santos’ missed opportunity, but most are just keeping their fingers crossed that the release window doesn’t get pushed back to 2026.
