Assassin's Creed Shadows is delivering on a long-standing request from the community: action unfurling across Feudal Japan. It's an exciting prospect, but I think what really caught my attention is the prospect of the world state allowing for more reactive stealth than we've ever seen in the series before.
"Everything we have done since the first Assassin's Creed, when we created what was probably one of the first open-world games, and everything that we've done since, has been to try and improve the immersion of people in our universe," says Marc-Alexis Cote, vice president executive producer of the Assassin's Creed franchise, following a new trailer revealed during the Xbox Games Showcase.
