Visual Studies, intermediality, space, anachronism, memory and embodiment: the case of the videogame Assassin's Creed Unity (Ubisoft, 2014)

Nowadays, images are everywhere: we are surrounded by them, we live by them, we inhabit them and we even become images. That is why it is imperative to approach Art History with an inclusive approach that allows us to rethink its roles and add new media, among which videogames stand out. Thus, we have approached its analysis from Visual Studies and a rich theoretical framework to question ourselves about the intermediality and transmediality of one of the games of the Assassin's Creed saga, Unity (Ubisoft, 2014), especially relevant to approach technoculture, the materialization of space in a place and how it is deployed in videogames, the embodiment and empleacement, the strategies developed by this title to appeal to authenticity by relying on verisimilitude and recognition instead of accuracy, the relevance of anachronism, how it proposes a new materiality, how it explores the connections between history and memory, and how it is situated in relation to genres. As evidenced in the article, videogames address all these issues and acknowledge the weight of our visual memory and the role it plays in how we perceive images and the importance we give to them.