Alongside previews for Assassin’s Creed Shadows going reside as we speak, Ubisoft supplied element on a brand new characteristic for all future Assassin’s Creed video games referred to as the Animus Hub, which appears to be the previously-reported Assassin’s Creed: Infinity.
In a presentation from Ubisoft that IGN attended, Ubisoft revealed the Animus Hub, successfully a place to begin from which video games equivalent to Assassin’s Creed Shadows will be launched. Nevertheless, Ubisoft was adamant that this was not merely one other sport launcher, however reasonably a characteristic embedded in Shadows that may also be built-in into future video games such because the upcoming Codename Hexe or Codename Invictus.
The Animus Hub might be cut up into quite a few sections, one in all which can embrace direct paths to opening not simply the primary marketing campaign of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, but additionally different Assassin’s Creed video games in the event that they’re owned and downloaded on the system.
There’s additionally a “Tasks” part, which can characteristic ongoing content material together with new narrative missions tied to the sport’s new, modern-day story, with free rewards baked in for Assassin’s Creed Shadows. New content material is predicted to be launched frequently all through Shadows’ post-launch interval.
Ubisoft plans to inform an ongoing story by means of the Animus Hub that may prolong into future Assassin’s Creed releases and can happen within the “close to future” to facilitate that development. The story begins in Shadows, and is framed by longtime Assassin’s Creed villainous group Abstergo, which within the lore of the sport has launched a model of the Animus for public use, although the participant’s “model” of the Animus within the story will contain an anticipated contact of rebel.
Whereas that is maybe a bit completely different from what we imagined when Infinity was first mentioned, it is not fully dissimilar from what Activision has been doing with Name of Obligation, whose hub serves as a platform tying battle royale Warzone to regardless of the newest Name of Obligation is.
You possibly can compensate for our current preview of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. The sport is predicted to launch on March 20, 2025 after a current delay out of February.
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