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16 Comments on Ubisoft at GDC: How "Assassin's Creed Mirage" Grew from DLC to Full Game

arbiter As a fan of Assassins creed series, Mirage was a Big Let down when you look at games before it. Valhalla was a bit of a step back in that it wasn't barely about anything assassin instead of just fighting. Mirage was tiny map wise and very short which to me when compared to origin's and odyssey felt like waste 60$ as didn't get remotely the game of what were getting before. i had 60-90+ hours in origins and odyssey but i don't even think i hit 10 hours in Mirage before being done with campaign.

springs113 Unlike you I liked that mirage was shorter than normal. Origins was too damn long and I didn't touch odyssey and definitely valhalla because I've got a life outside of gaming. I need to be able to enjoy a game, not get bored and still be able to enjoy it.

arbiter \ 60$ for a sub 10 hour single player game to me is not good. Its another thing if it had decent online play to go with it but when game is only single player, 60$ needs to come with decent length of play time story wise.

springs113 Don't assume i paid $60 cause i paid $30. Anyone familiar with ubisoft... should know not to buy their games at launch. In fact no game is worth it anymore 'cause all we are to these game companies are beta testers. Spending $60 now is actually nothing, go back to cartridge games... chrono trigger was close to $200 for the snes. Not everyone wants a 80hr game... not everyone wants a $15hr game(and I've beaten mirage, it's not 10hrs). Origins was long af to total completion and valhalla is 3x the size of that. I found myself getting tired of origins because it was so drawn out. Mirage fits my bill and I was still able to enjoy other games. If it's not your cup of tea then do be it... no need to trash it.

Zendou Saw this comment and wanted to break it down. Point 1) Assumption of value It is fairly illogical to admonish someone for assuming you purchased something at MSRP. It is a point of reference that everyone would have and what the company thought the game was worth when released. Point 2) Personal Enlightenment People purchase games at whatever cost they find acceptable. That is how the market works, if you disagree on the value proposition of the game at the MSRP then that is a personal choice and it does not make you better or worse for it. Point 3) It was worse before This falls under the Bad Analogy fallacy where you compare two things so disparate in there likeness that is fails to make a point. Yes both Chrono Trigger and Assassins Creed Mirage are video games, however the similarities end their. Chrono Trigger costed more because at the time there was a chip shortage which caused the manufacturing of the game to be much more costly and required nintendo to sell several of their games at high prices due to it. That really has no bearing on whether the amount of $60 has value to you or not, which is the point you are making. Point 4) Speaking for the masses Saying that not everyone wants a game to last longer because (undefined) is not really a reason. Logically if a game is good, it would generally speaking be a good thing for it to last as long as possible because it provides more value for the financial investment. If the game is good, there should not be a reason to be tired if you continue to be engaged. What you described at the end was being bored and that is likely due to losing interested due to poor game design. Point 5) Only my opinions are valid I am happy for you that you liked Mirage, However just like you are able to praise something others are able to criticize it. This comes under a concept of toxic positivity where praise is good, but criticism is bad which is absurd on its face. I do not believe it is proper to try to compel another persons speech because they do not share your opinion. TL;DR It doesn't hurt to be nice, no matter how much you disagree with someone.

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As the period fans have been begging Ubisoft forever since Desmond’s first days in the Animus, Assassin’s Creed is finally exploring Feudal Japan with a new story and dual protagonist setup. Book-ending the Ubisoft Forward press conference and our last appointment of Summer Game Fest’s Play Days, Ubisoft invited us to take a deeper behind-closed-doors look at Assassin’s Creed Shadows .

During a guided presentation on PlayStation 5, Ubisoft presented an intimate look following the first assassination mission involving Yasuke, the more brash and directly honorable of the dual protagonists. Standing approximately six feet tall, Yasuke is head and shoulders above most Japanese retainers and common folk that adorn the streets of Fukuchiyama. As Ubisoft Quebec puts it, there’s no social stealth for Yasuke for quite obvious reasons. Each presentation has been quite cagey about bringing up Yasuke’s skin color despite it being such a notable part of the history that resulted in him being one of the first foreign retainers under Nobunaga Oda. Yet at the same time, the music that builds up once Yasuke enters combat infuses the traditional Japanese shakuhachi and koto melodies with hip-hop beats.

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It was the second half of the presentation that deviated greatly from what Ubisoft Forward showed off with the mission to infiltrate a castle and eliminate an allegedly corrupt Lord Hayashi. In the moments leading into the mission, the UI is populated with hints about surface-level information about the target rather than just another icon for the minimap. As players walk through the level and eavesdrop on conversations, information populates. Eventually, the lord is indicated as spending time wandering through the nightly gardens due to insomnia, giving a clear indication of the end goal.

As Yasuke, players lose the assassination tools, such as the grappling hook and eagle sight, in exchange for raw power. Rather than trying to jump over and scramble over a locked gate, Yasuke can instead shoulder tackle and burst through like a wrecking ball. Yasuke can go loud and alert anyone in the immediate vicinity by utilizing a matchlock tanegashima rifle that tears through armor and bone alike.

His playstyle in combat is about as far from the assassin’s style as one can get. A massive studded club was Yasuke’s primary weapon in the Assassin’s Creed Shadows demos, which would be swung around like a baseball bat and squish ashigaru skulls like overripe tomatoes. For enemies that take more than a single strike to down, Yasuke’s mighty swings rip through the air and smash into their armor to strip their breastplates off in the streets. Charged attacks and a trio of special skills each operated on cooldowns mix up his brutish swings all the while having the fortitude to shrug off intense blows.

On the other hand, Naoe hearkens back to the more refined assassination styles. In addition to the single hidden blade, this plucky shinobi wields a shorter katana and a chain-and-sickle weapon called a kusarigama. With the latter, Naoe can swing a massive chain around for crowd control but also stun enemies with the weighted end before closing the distance and stabbing the foe with the sickle end (sometimes taking more than one stab to finish them out in brutal fashion). As a much smaller and more nimble combatant, Naoe does more with her agile frame to dodge and jump around the battlefield to sidestep enemy attacks that glow red (blue-highlighted attacks, on the other hand, can be blocked and parried).

Ubisoft Quebec omitted a year for the period during which this particular Assassin’s Creed Shadows mission took place, although there’s still a certain range of possibilities, starting with 1579, when Yasuke arrived in Japan as a Jesuit slave and sword-bearer for the missionaries who touched ground. The Honno-ji Incident of Summer 1582 marks the death of Nobunaga Oda, so I would narrow down the majority of Shadows’ storyline to fall within the three-year window.

In talking with other journalists, there was the concern that Ubisoft would provide a cold opening and tutorial segment with Yasuke in chains before being brought to Japan, but there would have to be a great degree of sensitivity and care that I feel an Assassin’s Creed title is not yet capable of portraying despite the multinational development cast. Similarly, the assassination mission presented an early encounter between Yasuke and Naoe to work as colleagues rather than competing anti-Templar fellows. In the art centerpieces featuring Naoe, she is marked by a scar below her right eye that seems indicative of a key moment or failed mission.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is looming on the horizon with a release that fans won’t have to wait much longer to check out. Ubisoft Quebec’s latest open-world action-adventure will be released on November 15th, 2024 across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S|X, PC (Luna, Ubisoft+ and Epic Game Store ) and Mac (Apple Silicon), as well as iPadOS.

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Assassin's Creed history: The full story (so far)

So you want to know more about Assassin's Creed before jumping into its latest entry? Well buckle up.

Important terminology

Assassin's Creed

Assassin's Creed 2

• Brotherhood
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• Modern-day story

Spoilers ahead

Trying to understand the overarching narrative of the Assassin's Creed series and how they connect to each other is as intimidating as it can be difficult. We'll help make the process as painless as possible. If you've never played an Assassin's Creed game before and you're looking to get into the franchise, here's the story so far.

For the purposes of this article, we'll be delving into the main Assassin's Creed games only. The series makes up some of the best Xbox games , in my opinion, but it also has some duds. The franchise also has several long-running comic series and spin-off games that continue the meta-narrative; however, it's unreasonable to assume everyone should go out and buy all of them, though Ubisoft oddly tied up important storylines outside of the games we'll briefly touch upon in the modern-day section.

If you're interested in a particular game or the modern-day story itself, you can jump right to any of those sections.

Before reading through some of the games' plots, familiarize yourself with these important terms that will help you understand the plot going forward.

The Animus is a machine that analyzes DNA and allows people to relive their ancestors' memories. This is the reason that we are playing through historical time periods in Assassin's Creed. The technology is eventually enhanced in the series so that anyone using an Animus (later called the Helix) can relive anyone's memories, not just someone related to them.

First Civilization

The First Civilization (also known as the Isu, Precursors, and Those Who Came Before) is an early race of humanoid beings that are thought of as gods by many, though they do not refer to themselves as such. Through the use of powerful artifacts known as Pieces of Eden, they created the human race and subjugated them, turning them into slaves as the Isu lived lavish lives in their advanced society.

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Pieces of Eden

Pieces of Eden can take on many forms and wield various abilities, but they all contain great power within. Most artifacts served a role in maintaining humanity's subservience, though some took more good-natured purposes like those that were capable of healing.

You may sometimes hear these referred to as Precursor artifacts, of which Pieces of Eden are a subclass.

Though the First Civilization was wiped out long ago due to a global cataclysm, their lineage continued in humans. Sages are reincarnations of an Isu being known as Aita. Sages have the ability to recall Aita's memories and possess natural talent superior to that of normal humans.

Chronological timeline by release

Because of the Animus and the series' separation between modern and historical timelines, we'll dedicate an entire section to the series' overarching modern-day narrative while we dig into each game's historical settings separately, as they usually (but not always) can be viewed as standalone adventures.

Altair Ibn-La'Ahad, an assassin living during the Third Crusade, is tasked by Assassin Brotherhood Mentor Al Mualim to retrieve a powerful artifact known as a Piece of Eden, specifically the Apple of Eden. His arrogance during this mission costs the life of a fellow assassin and permanently disables another. Al Mualim then demotes him within the Brotherhood and gives him nine Templar targets to take out. Upon killing the ninth, Templar Grand Master Robert de Sable, he returns to the assassin stronghold of Masyaf only to discover that Al Mualim betrayed the Brotherhood and stole the Apple of Eden for himself. After a fight ensues, which sees Al Mualim fall to Altair's blade, a glowing map is revealed that shows the location of more Pieces of Eden across the world.

This is the one that started it all. It's a shame it hasn't been remastered, but the classic formula stuck with the series for several entries until Ubisoft veered into RPG territory a few years ago. Altair's tale is one for the history books, literally.

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Assassin's Creed II begins during the Italian Renaissance in Florence with the birth of Ezio Auditore. Flash forward years later, and Ezio is a young man who sees his father and brothers killed after being framed for treason. On his journey to avenge their deaths, he discovers that his father was a member of the secretive Assassin Brotherhood, and he takes up the mantle in his stead. Traveling from Florence to Venice, stopping at a few towns in between, Ezio unravels the conspiracy taking root that sees Templar Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia becoming Pope Alexander VI. After overpowering Borgia in the Vatican, the Apple and Staff of Eden open a vault where a projection of a member of the First Civilization tells Ezio that a great catastrophe will destroy the Earth in the future.

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Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

Brotherhood picks up immediately after the ending of Assassin's Creed II. With the Apple of Eden in hand, Ezio retires to the country village of Monteriggioni. His life is thrust into chaos as Rodrigo Borgia's son, Cesare, lays siege to the village and steals the Apple of Eden. Ezio then journeys to Rome to take down the Borgia family once and for all. After gaining enough support and rekindling the Brotherhood, Ezio is successful in defeating both Rodrigo and Cesare. He reacquires the Apple of Eden and hides it in a First Civ Temple built beneath the Colosseum.

Assassin's Creed Revelations

During the later years of his life, Ezio makes a pilgrimage to Masyaf to understand more about the Brotherhood. Unfortunately, he finds it overrun by Templars. Upon learning that the keys to Altair's secret library vault lie in Constantinople, he travels to the center of the Ottoman Empire to find them. Along the way he's caught between two warring brothers as they fight for their father's throne as Sultan. As he deals with this conflict, Ezio also relives parts of Altair's past through the keys to his library, which turn out to be First Civ artifacts of some sort. Settling the brothers' dispute and leaving Selim to rule, he goes back to Masyaf and enters the vault. At this point he is greeted by another member of the First Civilization who speaks through him and to Desmond (our modern-day protagonist), telling him the location of a central vault that should stop the upcoming catastrophe.

Assassin's Creed III follows a new assassin and jumps all the way to the American Revolution. Ratonhnhaké:ton, also known as Connor Kenway, witnesses his Native American tribe burn to the ground at an early age due to English/Templar colonizers. After learning that his destiny is to stop the Templars from seizing control, he gets caught in the midst of the Revolution while simultaneously trying to do what's best for his people and way of life. This struggle takes him from the fledgling cities of New York to Boston and across parts of the frontier. He eventually retrieves a First Civ key meant for a Temple, but decides to bury it in the ground instead.

Follow Connor Kenway's journey through the American revolution as he tries to balance clashing cultures and a centuries-old war. This concludes Desmond's journey, so it's certainly not one you'll want to miss out on.

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Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag

Black Flag takes us back to the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. After unknowingly killing an assassin traitor, pirate Edward Kenway dons his robes in an effort to take his place in an important meeting and reap the rewards. This leads him into the age-old Assassin vs. Templar conflict where he must stop those he once thought allies before they enter an ancient Observatory that has the power to locate anyone on Earth through the use of a Crystal Skull and blood vial. Successful in his efforts but unable to prevent the pirates' way of life from falling apart, he retires to London where he is seen living with two children, one of whom would become Connor Kenway's father from Assassin's Creed III.

Ubisoft went: What if Assassin's Creed but make it pirates? It surprisingly works. Sail around the Caribbean on the Jackdaw and plunder treasures from sunken ships and Templar forts strewn across the many islands you'll visit.

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Assassin's Creed Rogue

Another tale set in Colonial America, this time during the Seven Years' War. While on a mission to retrieve a Piece of Eden, assassin Shay Patrick Cormac witnesses the destruction of Lisbon due to an earthquake. He comes to find that the earthquake was caused by his retrieval attempts and that the Assassins knew what the price would be for meddling with these First Civ objects. He becomes so disillusioned in the Brotherhood that he turns to the Templars, fearing that the Pieces of Eden would be too dangerous in Assassin hands. Shay then hunts down his former allies, with his actions kicking off the events taking place in Assassin's Creed Unity.

Shay Patrick Cormac makes his own luck, and he certainly needs it after the events he finds himself entangled in. This is the first main entry in the series that allows us to play as a Templar, giving us another viewpoint to the historic feud.

Assassin's Creed Unity

After witnessing his father's death at the hands of Shay Patrick Cormac, Arno Dorian is taken in by a family friend and his daughter Elise, who unbeknownst to Arno are Templars. Years later in Paris the early embers of the French Revolution are beginning to burn. Members of both the Assassins and Templars, specifically Elise, offer to parley in the hopes of peace, or at least to end the current threat against the two organizations, a man named François-Thomas Germain, a Sage sowing the seeds of betrayal from within the Templars, but these offers fall through. After Arno is exiled because of his relationship and loyalties to Elise, he returns to Paris for one last fight between Germain, which ends with both Germain and Elise dead.

You've probably heard this game is awful. And honestly? Yeah, it kind of is. But some people still enjoy it, and if anything it recreates the streets of Paris during the French Revolution beautifully. No one does real-life cities like Ubisoft.

Assassin's Creed Syndicate

Revolutions don't always need to bring about death and chaos, as evidenced in Assassin's Creed Syndicate. Twins Jacob and Evie Frye answer the call for help from a fellow assassin in Victorian London. Upon arriving, Jacob quickly begins to build up his own gang to take back the city from Templar control during the Industrial Revolution. While this is going on, Evie is on her own journey to find a Piece of Eden that she knows is hidden somewhere in the city. Their adventures eventually converge as they finally reach Grand Master Crawford Starrick. A battle ensues in which Starrick utilizes a Piece of Eden known as the Shroud; however he is defeated, and the twins return the Shroud to its vault beneath Buckingham Palace.

Th most modern the series has been, apart from the present-day storyline, Syndicate takes us to the Industrial Revolution, complete with child labor and disgusting amounts of pollution. But let's just focus on the Assassin/Templar conflict.

Assassin's Creed Origins

Bayek, an Egyptian Medjay (a police force of the pharaohs), finds himself on a journey of vengeance after five masked men cause him to inadvertently kill his own son. These men, known as the Order of the Ancients, are what would eventually become the Templar Order. His quest takes him all over Egypt, eventually even allying him with Cleopatra's forces as she tries to seize control from her brother Ptolemy XIII. During this time, Bayek discovers that one of Julius Caesar's lieutenants was one of the five masked men who was there when his son was killed. After avenging his son, Bayek and his wife Aya begin to form the Hidden Ones, what would become the Assassin Brotherhood, to protect the world from suffering at the hands of the Templars.

Origins was Ubisoft's first foray into what an Assassin's Creed RPG could look like, and it sets the tone for what future entries in the series may be. Everyone was asking for Ancient Egypt, so here you have it.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is one of the few main entries in the series to feature multiple endings. As such, the plot isn't exactly set in stone, but it follows the same paths more or less.

Set in Greece during the Peloponnesian War (431 BCE), you play as Kassandra or Alexios, descendants of the legendary Spartan King Leonidas. Your character is thrown off of a cliff as a child after attempting to stop the death of their younger sibling, who an oracle prophesied would need to be sacrificed to stop the fall of Sparta. Presumed dead, your character grows up to become a Misthios (mercenary) and is contacted by a man to kill someone named "The Wolf of Sparta," who turns out to be your character's stepfather. What follows is a tale of close family drama as the Misthios' relatives all find themselves mixed in a plot with the Cult of Kosmos, led by your younger sibling, a group secretly responsible for causing the Peloponnesian War through harnessing the power of a Piece of Eden.

It is during this time that the Misthios also discovers the hidden city of Atlantis, guarded by Pythagoras, the Misthios' true father, and seals it from human contact. Depending on the actions you take within the game, you can reunite with your family and start to rebuild your relationship with them or you can choose to let them perish. Either way, the Cult of Kosmos is wiped out.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 

Odyssey takes the RPG ideas that Origins had and runs with them, becoming the first Assassin's Creed game to feature multiple endings based on decisions you make throughout the story. You'd better choose carefully.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Like Odyssey before it, Valhalla is the only other entry in the franchise to feature multiple endings, though it has fewer than Odyssey does.

Valhalla begins with a young Viking, Eivor of the Raven clan, witnessing the deaths of their parents during a raid on their village. Years later after avenging their deaths, Eivor journeys to England to settle new land as Norway falls under King Harald's rule. Eivor then spends much of their time building up alliances between various regions throughout England, all while defying King Alfred's rule, who seeks to drive the Vikings out of England. While this is going on, Eivor's adoptive brother Sigurd and Hidden Ones assassin Basim attempt to find the Saga Stone, an Isu relic that should make Sigurd a god.

Eivor, Sigurd, and Basim also come to find out that they are reincarnations of Odin, Tyr, and Loki from Norse myth. When Basim tries to kill Eivor for Odin's killing of Fenrir, they trap him in a First Civ computer of sorts.

Valhalla brings the Viking age to Assassin's Creed. Pillage towns and forge alliances to secure a place for the Raven Clan in England, or visit the mythical realms of Asgard and beyond.

Each game continues its modern narrative in some form, though the series featured its most cohesive narrative up until Assassin's Creed 3, with future entries veering a bit off course. If you want the complete story of Assassin's Creed, then you'll want to pick up any of its several comic series.

Premise and backstory

As I've said in an earlier quick primer of the series leading up to Odyssey's release: "The crux of the modern day is the continuation of an ancient war between Assassins and Templars. The Templars, in this case, aren't the Knights Templar you may visualize. Instead, they are a group of people committed to the Templar Order's ideals under the guise of controlling a multinational corporation known as Abstergo. To put it simply: These are the bad guys."

The Templars, and by extension, Abstergo, want to create a perfect utopia through the use of manipulation and control, which they will accomplish with Pieces of Eden. The Assassins want the same; however they believe that free will is of the utmost importance. These conflicting ideologies and desires form the basis of their feud.

Where the story begins

Assassin's Creed begins with a man named Desmond Miles, a New York bartender who is abducted by Abstergo Industries and forced to relive his ancestors' memories through the Animus to help Abstergo find the locations of Pieces of Eden. He ends up being rescued by Lucy Stillman, an Abstergo employee who secretly worked for the Assassin Brotherhood. While on the run they discover that the world is to suffer a cataclysmic event in 2012 similar to the one that destroyed the First Civilization. To prevent this solar flare from wiping out humanity, Desmond and his friends find a First Civilization Temple and encounter an Isu being known as Juno, who wants to take over the world and enslave humanity again once. She states that she will protect the Earth at the cost of Desmond's life for setting her free. He does so, saving the world from the impending solar flare, thus concluding Desmond's arc.

Here's where Ubisoft went a bit off the rails in terms of narrative. With the solar flare stopped and Juno set free, players now take control of a random, unnamed, unseen Abstergo employee who was hired under the guise of helping the company create a video game. In actuality, the Templars are using your character to search for a First Civ ruin known as the Observatory to find the location of a Sage, reincarnations of Aita, Juno's husband.

During this time Juno existed as a digital entity of sorts, not having the power to manifest in her physical form. Through the manipulation of her followers, who are dubbed the Instruments of the First Will, she attempts to become whole once again by inhabiting a cloned First Civ body recreated through Abstergo's Phoenix Project and the Shroud of Eden.

Juno's entire arc is almost completely forgotten about in the games and was instead wrapped up in a comic series. In her attempts to become whole again, she retrieves the Koh-i-Noor, a Piece of Eden so powerful it can locate all other Pieces of Eden and bind their fates, and finds Desmond's son, who happened to be a Sage. By using the Shroud of Eden and Elijah's bone marrow, which contained First Civ DNA due to him being a Sage, she becomes a full-fledged Isu in under 24 hours.

Thanks to a little trickery from Elijah, an assassin named Charlotte de la Cruz was able to kill Juno with a hidden blade through her throat. What was left of her body was destroyed in an explosion.

Now the story is focusing on a new playable character, Layla Hassan. She is a former Abstergo employee turned Assassin affiliate who is now helping the Brotherhood in their fight. During the events of Assassin's Creed Odyssey, she attempts to find the Staff of Hermes on a quest that eventually leads her to the ruins of Atlantis. It's here where she counters the Misthios, who was kept alive for thousands of years thanks to the staff. The Misthios warns Layla that the Assassins and Templars must always be at war to maintain balance between order and chaos, for should one prevail over the other, the world is doomed. Layla is apparently the one who was prophesied to bring balance between the two, and as the Misthios gives her the Staff of Hermes, they pass away.

In the events of Odyssey's DLC, Layla undergoes trials by the Isu Aletheia to prove she could become the Staff's keeper. While this is happening, Abstergo agents arrive as Layla is arguing with her physician, Victoria, who worries that Layla is becoming lost within the Animus and to the power of the Staff. A fight breaks out that leaves all but one Abstergo agent dead. Otso Berg, leader of an Abstergo strike team, then shows up to steal the Staff from Layla, but he ends up being crippled as a result. Layla is finally able to re-establish contact with other Assassins and informs them of what happened.

When Assassin's Creed Valhalla begins, it's been a few years since the events of Odyssey's DLC. Layla, with the Staff of Hermes, appears to be growing more irritable under its influence, suggesting it's taking over control. Due to the Earth's magnetic field strengthening and causing all sorts of climate issues, Layla, along with Rebecca and Shaun, go to New England to relive Eivor's memories, hoping there's a clue to stop whatever's going on with the magnetic field.

Realizing that the Earth's problems stem from when Desmond activated the Isu towers and stopped a solar flare in 2012, Layla goes to an Isu temple in Norway to reduce the field's strength to normal levels. It's here that she encounters Basim, still trapped in the Isu computer hundreds of years later. Layla learns that he's the one who sent the Assassins the initial coordinates to New England. 

After Layla enters the computer to stabilize the magnetic field, Basim frees himself, trapping Layla inside. He then takes the Staff of Hermes, containing the consciousness of Aletheia, who we learned was his lover in his past life as Loki. Escaping the temple, he meets up with Shaun and Rebecca and demands a meeting with William Miles. Though Shaun and Rebecca are concerned for Layla, they listen to a message of hers telling them that she's okay, and that she does not want to be rescued.

While in the computer, Layla meets a mysterious figure called The Reader. This Reader appears to "run calculations within the Gray," knowing all possible events that will come to pass in the future. Along with The Reader, Layla stays in the Gray to prevent future mass extinction events.

What the future may hold

Ubisoft appears to be developing a live service title called Assassin's Creed Infinity . In an initial report from Bloomberg, sources said that the upcoming game was inspired by "living online platforms" like Fortnite and GTA Online. All Ubisoft has officially revealed so far is that it's a collaborative effort between multiple studios.

Judging from rumors, Assassin's Creed Infinity could provide a hub where smaller "games" could launch, each with their own setting and story. It doesn't seem like the game will be out until 2024 or later, though, so plans can obviously change.

Bloomberg also claims that a smaller, more stealth-focused entry code named Assassin's Creed Rift is expected to release before Infinity. Rift was allegedly planned as an expansion for Valhalla before it was spun off into its own game. Rift is expected to star Basim. 

Jennifer Locke has been playing video games nearly her entire life, and is very happy Xbox is growing a stronger first-party portfolio. You can find her obsessing over Star Wars and other geeky things on Twitter @JenLocke95 .

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Assassin’s CREED. The different types of assassinations. Air assassination AC-ACIII. The air assassination starts with being located at a high point. Then after locating a target you jump then assassinate the target. Stealth assassination AC-ACIII. Come up to a guard.

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Assassin’sCREED The different types of assassinations

Air assassination AC-ACIII The air assassination starts with being located at a high point Then after locating a target you jump then assassinate the target.

Stealth assassination AC-ACIII Come up to a guard Then assassinate note: body will draw attention of guards. Being near dead body when guards approach and staying after they do will cause detection.

Hidden assassination AC-ACIII First hide whether by jumping or other means into a hiding spot. Then assassinate from hiding spot the body will be hidden in the hiding spot so detection of the body is not a worry although being seen assassinating the target will cause detection

Ledge assassination AC-ACIII First climb to a high spot under a guard. Then throw target over the body will cause attention but not to you.

Horse to horse assassination AC, ACII, ACB, ACIII First ride close to target on horse. Then assassinate you will then commandeer enemy horse.

Ground to horse assassination AC,ACII, ACB, ACIII Approach guard on horseback. Then assassinate guard you will pull him down and assassinate him you will not automatically mount horse like in horse to horse.

Ranged weapons How to use assassins creed’s ranged weapons

Pistol assassination ACII, ACB, ACR, (ACIII but with a pistol rather than hidden gun) First make sure gun is loaded then aim.. The aimer will appear as a white line towards the highlighted target(this is the same for all ranged weapons) Once the line of firing is clear shoot. The gun will make a loud bang and if seen shooting will cause detection.

Crossbow assassination AC, ACB, ACR (ACIII with regular bow) First aim crossbow at guard from hidden location. Then shoot no detection will come if you aren’t near the body.

Poison dart assassination (ACII, ACB, ACR, (ACIII in form of throwing dart rather than dart blaster on vambrace) The guard will for fifteen seconds stumble then for another fifteen seconds swing his sword around after that he dies.(note the fast poison upgrade in ACB, ACR will make this ten seconds instead of fifteen this is a non detectable method unless you are near the body. First aim then shoot

Throwing knife assassination AC, ACII, ACB, ACR First line up shot then throw. This is a non-detectable method unless near body while dead.

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