With Assassin’s Creed Shadows getting delayed into 2025, it’s now in direct competitors with Ghost of Yotei, the Ghost of Tsushima sequel introduced throughout yesterday’s Sony State of Play.
The transfer begs comparability between the 2, as they’re each video games set in feudal Japan and have classical photos of ninjas, samurai, and ronin. But regardless of the similarities, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says there’s room sufficient for two massive open-world action-adventure video games set in Japan.
“There’s quite a bit of house for very high-quality video games, and people two video games can promote very properly,” Guillemot mentioned.
On what differentiates the 2, Guillemot centered on Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ twin protagonists, which permits gamers to take management of both a ninja or a samurai.
“The main focus is to actually guarantee that we ship a improbable expertise with this twin protagonist strategy and two totally different and complimentary gameplays…. a setting happening in feudal Japan must be actually attractive,” he mentioned.
A technique or one other, Assassin’s Creed Shadows will likely be going through quite a bit of competitors now that it has been pushed into February 2025, as it is going to be pitted towards Avowed, Civilization VII, Monster Hunter Wilds, and a bunch of different high-profile video games. Certainly, 2025 is shaping as much as be a really busy 12 months in basic because of the anticipated launch of the Change 2 and GTA VI.
To attempt to give Assassin’s Creed Shadows a lift, Ubisoft plans to launch it Day 1 on Steam in a shift from its earlier technique. It additionally confirmed that Assassin’s Creed Shadows will embody PS5 Professional enhancements.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows releases February 14 on PS5, Xbox, and PC, and you may learn our hands-off preview proper right here. As for Ghost of Yotei, we do not have a launch date but, but count on it to return out nearer to the vacations. Within the meantime, you possibly can examine the very best video video games of 2024 proper right here.
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