Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the following sport in Ubisoft’s long-running action-adventure sequence, is scheduled to launch November 15, just a bit over a yr after Assassin’s Creed Mirage. And as confirmed by the brand new cinematic reveal trailer, you may play Shadows three days earlier when you’re paying $18 a month for Ubisoft Plus’ Premium Plan.
Although the trailer doesn’t verify it, it looks like Shadows will characteristic two playable protagonists: Yasuke and an unnamed Japanese lady. As we see each characters working collectively, the implication is that you will play as each of them, both shortly switching between the 2 throughout the identical mission or switching after huge story beats–the latter, of which, has huge Assassin’s Creed Syndicate vibes. And that may monitor, seeing as Ubisoft Quebec, the studio that helmed improvement of Syndicate (the most effective Assassin’s Creed sport), is the developer lead for Shadows.
Initially codenamed Challenge Crimson, Shadows was already confirmed to happen in feudal Japan, however the cinematic trailer narrows the when even additional to the Edo interval, which occurred between 1603 and 1868 and noticed Japan united below the Tokugawa shogunate. The trailer options one of many presumably two playable protagonists speaking about “unification,” which factors to Edo. The opposite attainable essential character is Yasuke, an African samurai who served in the course of the finish of the Sengoku period–the interval that immediately preceded Edo. So it looks like Shadows takes place in the course of the early years of the Edo interval.
No matter how the protagonist-switching works, it looks like enjoying as Yasuke affords a extra action-oriented fight expertise just like Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Valhalla whereas the Japanese lady is geared extra towards the social stealth gameplay of Assassin’s Creed Unity and Syndicate. This additional suggests that you will play as each characters, somewhat than choose one or the opposite at first and stick to them for the complete story (like Kassandra and Alexios in Odyssey, who’re gameplay mirrors of one another). The conclusion of the trailer additionally sees each characters reference the Creed of the Murderer Brotherhood, which signifies that they each are inducted into the order and are subsequently each essential.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is scheduled to launch for Xbox Collection X|S, PS5, PC, Mac, and Amazon Luna.