Assassin's Creed Shadows: AC Japan

[rudyjuly2]

Maybe the game actually needed more time. Looking forward to it.

[illwill10]

https://blog.playstation.com/2025/03...ches-march-20/

The Pro Enhanced version seems to have the VRR 40 fps mode. I have enjoyed that mode in other games. The balanced mode seems to have the best of both worlds. 4k40 with extended RT.

Overall, I’m looking forward to playing this game. I enjoyed playing other games like Ghost of Tsushima and Rise of the Ronin. But, seeing reports of about 80 hours with side content is a double edged sword for me. While it’s great to hear that there’s a lot to do, but it seems like it will be a bloated game. So, there will most likely be a lot of repetitive side content.

[Money99]

Quote: Originally Posted by rudyjuly2

Maybe the game actually needed more time. Looking forward to it.

Hopefully the game has many shadows and bushes for you to hide and kill in the most cowardly ways.

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[rudyjuly2]

Quote: Originally Posted by Money99

Hopefully the game has many shadows and bushes for you to hide and kill in the most cowardly ways. Sent from my Garbage Phone

A true assassin uses the environment and all tools at his disposal!

[peter42O]

A few more days to go!! Looking forward to playing Assassin's Creed Shadows this Thursday via Ubisoft+. Let's go!!!

[Picci]

I'll say that this series has disappointed me in the past. Just saw some reviews and was wowed by the graphical leap it made especially with RT. Game play sounds special too. Lol....

[Gotmadskillzson]

So this game released early on PC for Uplay+, been playing since 8:20pm. Graphically the game looks insane. The lighting and shadows are incredible. Ray tracing is done very good. Playing of PC with a RTX 4090. Run smooth for me with everything on ultra.

Game play is good so far. Grant it typical AC style, you do some stuff prior to the actual title screen appearing. That takes about damn near an hour. Then you do some other stuff that takes about 90 minutes to do until what I would say, the entire world officially opens up, you know what you are doing, who your target is, etc.

Much like Origins, it just isn't one person, it is a organization, with a head, bosses, sub bosses, etc. You will know like the key figure heads however everything else under them, who they are working with, what they control etc, you will have to discover yourself.

Combat is pretty straight forward. Dodge, parry, light attack, heavy attack, charged attacks. You can upgrade your gear, weapons, etc. When the map finally is available to you, for me it was after 2 hours, the world is a pretty good sized map. Now I know why it will take 80 hours or more. It is a hell of a lot of area to explore. From the looks of it, all of Japan.

From the looks of it, grant it early on in the game, Ubisoft look like they went back to their roots. I see elements of Origin, AC2 and Brotherhood in the game. Seem to be way more story focused and not action hack n slash oriented like Valhalla and Odyssey were.

[Gotmadskillzson]

One of the few games to actually take advantage of the PS5 Pro extra power.