Assassin's Creed Shadows Trailer Showcases the World of Feudal Japan - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 September 2024 / 3,257 Views
Ubisoft has released a new trailer for Assassin's Creed Shadows that provides an overview of the world of Feudal Japan.
View the trailer below:
Read details on the game below:
Experience an epic historical action-adventure story set in feudal Japan! Become a lethal shinobi Assassin and a powerful legendary samurai as you explore a beautiful open world in a time of chaos. Switch seamlessly between two unlikely allies as you discover their common destiny. Master complementary playstyles, create your shinobi league, customize your hideout, and usher in a new era for Japan.
Explore the captivating open world of feudal Japan, from spectacular castle towns and bustling ports to peaceful shrines and war-ravaged landscapes. Adventure through unpredictable weather, changing seasons, and reactive environments.
Become Naoe, a shinobi Assassin, and Yasuke, a legendary samurai, as you experience their riveting stories and master their complementary playstyles. As Naoe, use stealth to avoid detection and agility to confound your enemies. As Yasuke, strike your foes with lethal precision and power. Unlock new skills, gear, and progression independently for each character.
Make information your weapon as you explore the world, and build your own network of spies to be your eyes and ears across locations to hunt down your next target. Along the way, recruit new allies with unique abilities to help accomplish your missions.
Create a fully customizable hideout for your growing shinobi league as you train your crew, craft new gear, interact with key characters, and choose your base’s layout, decorations, and accessories.
Assassin's Creed Shadows will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on November 15 for $69.99.
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I'm not terribly impressed, and I suspect it's the lighting. That said, it's still quite beautiful, so I'm not going to complain.
The last AC i played was black flags on ps3. I skipped the rest, i might play this because of the setting. But if i dnt see any kinf of new stealth, i will be skipping
I think Ubisoft is critisized too much for Outlaws and AC Shadows. Currently I play Outlaws and 12 hours in it's a blast. Valhalla wasn't my setting to be honest and to this day I did not finish Origins. But I loved Odyssey and as far as I know the team of Oddyssey has made Shadows. So I'm really hyped for their next installment.
How much experience do you have with Ubisoft's open world games? My impression is that they're criticized largely because of how similar they are to each other, so the formula is getting pretty stale, and at this point, it's a very old formula too. It's a lot of fun, but once you get enough of it, you start expecting something new/better.
Don't get why people make this formula thing so huge with Ubisoft. Have you played a Nintendo, Electronic Arts or Activision Blizzard game in recent years? You can feel the formula with every game being made by a bigger publisher. Especially in gacha gaming, All follow the checklist of metroid vania, platformers, simulations, shooters etc. It's nothing Ubisoft exclusive. It's an industry standard.
If it's a different formula, it might not get stale as fast. Anyway, I lack the expertise to compare the Ubisoft open world game formula to other kinds of game formulas, so take this as a possible explanation only. It's also my personal experience that Ubisoft's formula is getting old, regardless of what other games are doing.
I honestly don't understand the controversy behind this game or the very recent obsession with "Historical Accuracy" on a series that has never been historically accurate?
This is the first AC game that I plan on playing since Black Flag on my 360 because it actually looks interesting.
That's because you are sensible and can reason. The game that was once about a guy in the future reliving his ancestors lives through a magic device to learn... something, which happen to be a several thousand year fight between the illuminati and a bunch of killers has moved far from that original concept that people are forgetting it's a work of fantasy.
Alas for me, online Ubisoft account requirement means I'll never play these games.
The game is way more accurate historically than a lot of other games, and for me personally it's also a significant draw. I very much enjoy seeing historical places that have an aim to be as realistic as reasonably possible, all things considered. I just can't think of any alternative (there probably are, but I'm not very familiar with them).
Obviously there are some liberties, and I don't mind playing as e.g. minorities, people of colour in general etc., but this is the third game in a row in the series where the canonical character(s) isn't representative of the people you'd expect to be engaged in the kind of action you can find in the series. With Odyssey, Kassandra didn't seem too out of place, especially after Origins, with Valhalla, Eivor started to feel a bit like pushing it, but it was still OK, but at this point, it very much feels like an agenda, and I'm not one to blame such agendas all that easily. I'm still probably going to get the game eventually and enjoy it, but I wish the series wasn't all minorities, under-represented groups and such (for playable characters of course).
I never played Valhalla, not going to drop 60 hours in an AC game. I may play Odyssey one day though. Just curious what was the issue with Eivor?
I don't think 60 hours is going to be even close to enough for Valhalla unless perhaps you rush through the main story and purposefully ignore everything else... At 60 hours, I started to feel tired of the game, and I think I finally finished the story at about 120 hours. The game is way, way too long for its own good! Odyssey is also really long, probably too long, but the length is nowhere near as bad as with Valhalla. Just don't jump in to Odyssey after having recently spent a lot of time on other games in the series.
Nothing wrong in particular with Eivor on her own. It's just that it starts to settle in that there might be a pattern where the main characters might not be designed based on what makes the most sense but on other factors instead.
