Shadows, Ubisoft and Assassin's Creed
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Worldwide, Shadows has reached more than three million players so far. Shadows had the second-highest day-one sales revenue for any Assassin's Creed game, only trailing Valhalla. Shadows did beat Valhalla by one measurement, though, setting a record for the most day-one digital revenue on the PlayStation Store for the Assassin's Creed franchise.
The newest instalment in Ubisoft's blockbuster "Assassin's Creed" franchise received a "very positive" rating on Steam based on 751 user reviews, with 80% of them being positive, around four hours after its launch on the game distribution platform.
In the original Assassin’s Creed, the line between combatants and civilians was clearly defined. The first game used its lore as an excuse to prevent players from killing random civilians, citing any unendorsed killing as a disruption of prewritten history. In Shadows, the distinction is murkier. And the kills, messier.
Ubisoft (UBSFY) announced that Assassin’s Creed Shadows reached 1 million players on release, but that might not be the win investors hoped for. That’s due to the extreme development costs that went into making the video game developer’s “AAAA ...
"A new creed rises. Play as Naoe, a shinobi Assassin from Iga province, and Yasuke, the powerful and legendary samurai of African descent. Against the turbulent backdrop of the late Sengoku era, these two unexpected allies will discover the destiny that unites them as Japan enters a new era ".
dialogue choices and quests were enough to make it seem like Ubisoft had been successful in its pivot. But the more of these RPGs it makes, the more the gaps become obvious. Assassin's Creed Shadows is chock-full of RPG systems—possibly more than any ...
Shares in Ubisoft jumped about 8% Monday, after the videogame company's new title “Assassin’s Creed Shadows” clocked up two million players in less than a week. Get the full story:
Shadows haven't made major changes to the game based on the poor reception of Star Wars: Outlaws. However, they may add a higher difficulty level in the future.