Remember some years ago when Ubisoft said it was opposed to making an Assassin’s Creed game set in Japan? The time has come for the company to walk back on that claim, as the publisher has just released the trailer for the next game in the series. It’s called Assassin’s Creed Shadows, recently renamed from Red, so a very cliche name for a setting the company had at one point said would be “boring“.
The trailer, as well as an accompanying video, describing the two protagonists. In Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the trailer shows what looks like two playable characters. One is Yasuke, famed African man who served Oda Nobunaga during the warring states period, depicted as a samurai. The other, Naoe, a fictional character shown as a shinobi hailing from the Iga province. From this, parallels can be drawn to a previous AC entry, Syndicate, which depicted one of the Frye twins as a brawler and the other as more classically assassin-like.
But for both of these videos on Assassin’s Creed Shadows posted on YouTube, none of them actually show any gameplay. Which quite a thing to do in a trailer for a game that’s releasing at the end of the year. Using the unofficial plugin that extrapolates data for dislikes, both videos look to have an even split between thumbs up and down, with the latter in a slight lead for both.
For what it’s worth, Ubisoft says that the game will be available on 15 November of this year, and you can get it via its own Ubisoft Connect or the Epic Games Store instead on PC. The standard edition of Assassin’s Creed Shadows costs RM229, on either storefront, but on PlayStation it will cost RM304.65 instead.
(Source: Ubisoft [1], [2], [3], PlayStation)
