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Assassin's Creed Shadows review: An ambitious and captivating world that's stuck in the past

Assassin's Creed Shadows has impressive technical work, great performances and an expansive, well-drawn story, but it's a little bogged down by some frustrating decisions and antiquated gameplay systems.

Silently thinning out enemy numbers with his bow or loudly with a teppō firearm before charging in to eliminate the remainder with a long katana, crushing club and special moves like booting a grunt into a wall never got old. Castles are valuable strongholds and offer a defensive advantage against attackers, so it's only logical that the bad guys would be stationed around viewpoints, which reveal new points of interest visible to our heroes after they scale up to a specific perch. The aforementioned puddle and grass anomalies aside, it’s a joy to roam around this gorgeous game, with its abundant foliage, carefully assembled settlements and dynamic weather system combining to form a rich, lived-in world that I won't soon forget.

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