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Lush Open World
Refined Combat
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows refines the franchise’s open‑world stealth‑RPG formula with detailed feudal Japan exploration, improved combat, and memorable dual protagonists, earning praise for its scope and aesthetic while its story and occasional design bloat divide critics.
Assassin's Creed Shadows: World Trailer
Assassin's Creed Shadows: One Duo - Two Playstyles
Assassin's Creed Shadows Official Gameplay - Combat and Stealth Evolved | Ubisoft Forward
Come for the neck stabs and stay for the surprisingly great combat, Assassin's Creed Shadows is a stealth action buffet with a story to forget.
By sharpening the edges of its existing systems, Assassin’s Creed Shadows creates one of the best versions of the open-world style it’s been honing for the last decade.
Expansive, detailed and polished, Assassin's Creed Shadows is a fantastic exploration and stealth game with beautiful Japanese aesthetics, somewhat diminished by a thin story, clumsy narrative, and immersion-breaking design choices. Despite this, it's a thoroughly enjoyable entry into the series for fans seeking to explore medieval Japan.
Majestic in scope, impressive in detail, Assassin's Creed Shadows honours the beauty of feudal Japan, even if its strongest moments are saved for the personal stories of two protagonists.
Assassin's Creed Shadows is a spectacular return to form for the franchise, delivering one of the series' more tightly focused historical adventures.
Despite some repetition and bloat that makes Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ final stretch drag more than the rest of the game excites, its brave approach to exploration in a gorgeous world, heartfelt personal stories, and satisfying tweaks to the formula still make it stand as one of my favourite entries yet. While no one can say if Shadows will be the all-timer hit that both Ubisoft and the series need right now, I can at least say that it’s more than worthy of your time.
Not every idea comes together neatly, and two phenomenal protagonists feel wasted on a lackluster story, but this is a titan in the same leagues as series staples Assassin's Creed 2 and Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag – and Ubisoft's best RPG to date.
As a day-one fan, every Assassin's Creed game has meant something to me. Ezio's trilogy is an all-consuming conspiracy through my favorite period of world history; Edward's journey is the best pirate game out there;
The post-game Isu content is funded by microtransactions.
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Yves Guillemot doesn't want Ubisoft's games to be ideological battlegrounds.
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Cross-progression is available, but it won't include 'Claws of Awaji' at launch.
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