As you probably know, Assassin's Creed: Unity takes place during the French revolution and one of the characters you get to meet in the game is the revolutionary leader Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre. A hero for many people in the French left movement, according to Independent.ie, despite the fact that Robespierre was directly or indirectly responsible for more than 40,000 executions during the revolution.
The left Euro MP and former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon had the following to say regarding Robespierre in the game:
"This is propaganda against the people. The people are [shown as] barbarians, as bloody savages. A man who was our liberator at one stage of the Revolution is portrayed as a monster."
Melenchon also says that Assassin's Creed: Unity is a part of a "capitalist conspiracy" and adds:
"They are insulting us to destroy what keeps us together as French people"
He's not the only one from the left being mad at the game, the politician and historian Alexis Corbière says that young people do learn from the video games. Therefore, he says, there must be a "public debate" on how history is portrayed to the young.
Ubisoft has commented this by saying Assassin's Creed: Unity is fiction and not intended as a history lesson.
Thanks, VG247.