Assassin's Creed Shadows' Japan should be incredible, but it is instead a frustrating, hollow map that vastly underachieves.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is the largest game at 103GB and features a detailed, massive world set in 16th century Japan. Assassin's Creed Mirage has a smaller file size at 35GB due to its condensed ...

16th century. Infighting among warlords is bleeding ... The open world picks up part of the map of Japan, but does not even include the entire island of Honshu. That means that one of the most ...

They’re on the hunt for the Shinbakufu, a group of masked figures set on taking over 16th-century Japan. By the time the credits roll, Yasuke and Naoe will have stabbed, bludgeoned and gutted ...

"Shadows" the game by France's Ubisoft, to be released on Thursday is set in 16th-century feudal Japan inspired by real historical events and samurai movies. But one gameplay video on YouTube ...

a return to form - and that includes the way it approaches its open-world map. It takes place in a fairly realistic recreation of 16th-century feudal Japan, consisting mainly of the middle of the ...

Shadows’ game world is a ravishingly vivid portrait of 16th century Japan that deserves to be celebrated, and it’s a shame that some may be deterred from playing the game due to a vocal ...

Naoe and Yasuke are introduced on opposing sides of Japan’s bloody wars of unification waged, in their time, by late 16th-century lord, Oda Nobunaga. Yasuke, fighting for Nobunaga, participates ...

THE art of eliminating any target in an Assassin’s Creed game involves a few key ingredients. Skill, patience, luck, guile – ...

In comparison, we have a lot of games set in 16th-century Japan or that heavily borrow from ... move the series away from the city-centric maps you could cross via rooftops, but Shadows keeps ...

Once in a while a new hotel comes along with a splashy aesthetic that looks so good on Instagram you can’t help wondering how it could possibly live up to the hype.

fully realized version of 16th century Japan at the height of its Sengoku Period. It’s a strong foundation. Image via Ubisoft The world depicted in Assassin’s Creed Shadows is one of the most ...