It picks up the baton from the likes of Odyssey and Valhalla, offering an expansive open-world Assassin's Creed game experience that will scratch plenty of itches for fans of the series’ plus-sized adventures - but also has plenty to offer those who preferred the earlier games’ stealth focus.

The $89.99 Digital Deluxe Edition of Assassin’s Creed Shadows is available to pre-order for consoles from Xbox or PlayStation, while PC players can reserve a copy from Steam or the Epic Games Store.

First, we shared our picks for the games we most want to see make their way to the Nintendo Switch 2. We also shared our impressions of Assassin’s Creed Shadows after some recent hands-on time with the game,

Yasuke, one of the dual protagonists in Assassin's Creed Shadows, is bucking an important series tradition - he's not an assassin, Ubisoft doesn't want him to be an assassin, and he doesn't have the abilities that an assassin normally might.