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PSA: You don't need Assassin's Creed lore knowledge to play Shadows

Assassin's Creed Shadows is a pretty standalone entry in Ubisoft's long-running series, with fewer ties to what's gone …

Assassin's Creed Shadows is a pretty standalone entry in Ubisoft's long-running series, with fewer ties to what's gone before than any other game in recent memory. Instead, then, let this be a PSA as to how little you need to know about the two dozen Assassin's Creed games already out there, let alone their accompanying novels and that Michael Fassbender film. Once again, your sojurn back into the past is made possible thanks to the technology of the Animus, which peers into people's DNA and somehow detects where your ancestors have been and who they tailed over rooftops.

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