
OK Ubisoft, I'm excited for Assassin's Creed Shadows. I honestly did not see that coming. When Shadows was announced three years ago as "Codename Red," I was prepared to give it a big ol' shrug. Back then it was billed as the next "RPG" Assassin's Creed in the vein of Odyssey or Valhalla, which sounded like the opposite of the AC games I wanted to play again. Not even its Japan setting turned me around, a destination so highly requested for so long that Ubi let Sony beat them to the bag with Ghost of Tsushima.
But since then, slowly but surely, Ubi has been saying all the right things about Shadows to get a jaded, stealth-loving, "we peaked with Ezio" fan to wonder: Are we back?