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Assassin's Creed Shadows developer on adapting Japanese culture, social media pressures and Ubisoft's controversial apology


The world of Assassin's Creed Shadows is beautiful. At Gamescom 2024 in Cologne last month, Ubisoft refrained from prov…

Ubisoft's vast virtual version of Japan features in the first Assassin's Creed made solely for the current-gen of consoles - and it looks the part, with dense forests and towering mountains, dynamic weather and shifting seasons. Fans have pointed out that Assassin's Creed - a franchise whose story involves secret organisations and civilisations manipulating human history from the birth of Adam and Eve up to and including the Moon landings - has always embellished real-world events and added its own wacky narrative elements. Image credit: Ubisoft Acknowledging the statement, which he said he found out about when it was made public, Dansereau explained was still confident in the game's wider reception at launch in November.

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