'I'm Proud That We Shipped the Game!' — Assassin's Creed Shadows Developer Reflects on Its Legacy, a Year on From Launch

Ubisoft has reflected connected the bequest of Assassin's Creed Shadows, a twelvemonth connected from the samurai blockbuster's launch.

Shadows arrived precisely a twelvemonth agone today, pursuing its high-profile hold and assorted pre-release controversies. The crippled was followed by a large enlargement past fall, and a Switch 2 mentation close earlier Christmas. But, earlier this month, Ubisoft said it was moving connected from the game, prioritizing aboriginal Assassin's Creed projects alternatively than providing important enactment for a 2nd year.

Now, astatine an lawsuit designed to observe the game's archetypal anniversary, Shadows creation manager Thierry Dansereau told IGN helium was arrogant of the game's release, and that its technological advancements would payment aboriginal games successful the franchise.

"I'm arrogant that we shipped the game!" Dansereau told IGN. "I was astatine DICE not truthful agelong agone and shipping immoderate crippled is simply a tiny miracle, according to each developers. It's rather a challenge, and with Assassin's Creed there's a batch of radical involved, truthful it's a corporate challenge.

"The legacy, I think, is we've pushed rather a batch of things: we've improved parkour, stealth. Fighting we've pushed definite elements of it. In each the systems, we've guided a batch of exertion successful the crippled that I deliberation volition go bequest for aboriginal ACs." Here, Dansereau specifically called retired Shadows' summation of real-time ray traced planetary illumination to the franchise's graphical engine, and the improvement of Atmos, Ubisoft's upwind strategy that dynamically changes lighting, unreality generation, rainfall and upwind effects connected a fly.

"There's rather a fewer things that volition marque their mode done [to aboriginal games]," Danserau concluded.

Which games mightiness these be? Ubisoft has a pipeline of aboriginal Assassin's Creed titles successful production, including its long-awaited (and yet present confirmed) Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, which fans expect to motorboat aboriginal this year. Beyond that, the series' adjacent all-new blockbuster volition beryllium its witchcraft-y Assassin's Creed Hexe, though that's not apt to get until 2027 astatine the earliest.

Beyond these, Ubisoft is inactive readying to merchandise its Ancient China-set smartphone crippled Assassin's Creed Jade (which was announced years ago, though thing factual has been heard of it successful a agelong time) and the Assassin's Creed live-action Netflix series, which is present filming.

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