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Assassin's Creed Shadows preview: a few steps in the right direction

Assassin's Creed Shadows at least looks and plays well enough for what Ubisoft needs it to be, with the company skirting the line between playing things extremely safe and trying something different.

After the successes of AC Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla(as well as the enjoyably smaller-scale Mirage), Shadows marks new territory for Assassin’s Creed to a certain degree. Yasuke can still sneak up on an opponent to eliminate them with a single button press, but his "brutal assassination" sees him ram his sword through an enemy and lift them skywards. In Assassin's Creed Shadows, swapping characters means going into the menu, holding a button and waiting just a couple of seconds for the other hero to replace them.

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