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Catherine Lewis

Assassin's Creed Shadows is bigger than Mirage but smaller than Valhalla because Ubisoft only needed to make a small slice of Japan: "We're talking about Origins big"

Assassin's Creed Shadows screenshot showing female protagonist Naoe.

Don't expect Assassin's Creed Shadows to be as monstrously large as Valhalla, its art director suggests, because Ubisoft was able to focus on a specific slice of Japan in its next stealthy action RPG. 

Speaking to Play in issue 45 of the magazine, art director Thierry Dansereau reveals that while Shadows features an explorable open world, its size will seemingly strike somewhere in the middle of the colossal Valhalla, which spanned locations in both Norway and England, and the more compact Baghdad adventure Mirage. "We're talking about Origins big," Dansereau says. 

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