Assassin's Creed Shadows may be the game we've been wanting from Ubisoft for years, and I can't wait. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

It took me all of five minutes with Assassin’s Creed Shadows to get it: We’re so back, y’all. By “we,” I mean Assassin’s Creed fans, who’ve been pulled in all directions by a series that reinvents itself every few iterations.

It may have been recently pushed back, but Assassin's Creed Shadows' release is close on the horizon, and players can expect its open-world Japanese setting to be quite different from what Ubisoft has created before when it comes to its detail and scale.