Assassin's Creed Shadows Refines the Formula Into a Series High Point

It's been almost 18 years since the Assassin's Creed franchise first debuted, and after more than a dozen games, Assassin's Creed Shadows might have finally found just the right mix of action and stealth to satisfy everyone. In the series' grand tradition, Assassin's Creed Shadows takes players to another time period, this time to feudal Japan in a period of strife as a major civil war rages across the land. For much of the game, players have a choice to control either Naoe, a female shinobi invented for the game who works best in the shadows to quietly assassinate enemies, or the African samurai Yasuke, a real historical figure who was initially an indentured servant to the Portuguese before rising through the ranks under the Japanese ruler Oda Nobunaga. The two characters exemplify the two styles of play the Assassin's Creed series has developed over the years. Naoe is the true-to-form stealth character that the series was originally built upon, emphasizing silent movement out of e ... Read full article.