{"id":18197,"date":"2025-03-20T14:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/back-to-the-feudal-assassins-creed-shadows-is-the-most-beautiful-game-ive-ever-seen\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T14:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:37:25","slug":"back-to-the-feudal-assassins-creed-shadows-is-the-most-beautiful-game-ive-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/back-to-the-feudal-assassins-creed-shadows-is-the-most-beautiful-game-ive-ever-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the feudal: Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows is the most beautiful game I\u2019ve ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"

This thrilling trip through Japan is the best the series has given us in years<\/p>\n

I have played many Assassin\u2019s Creed games over the years, but I\u2019ve rarely loved them. Ubisoft\u2019s historical fiction is perennially almost-great. A lot of players would say it reached its peak in the late 2000s, with the trio of renaissance Italy games beginning with Assassin\u2019s Creed 2, and their charismatic hero, Ezio Auditore. Since then, the series has become bloated, offering hundreds of hours of repetitive open-world exploration and assassination in ancient Greece, Egypt and even Viking Britain. Odyssey (the Greek one) was the last I played seriously; I found the setting exquisite, the gameplay somewhat irritating and the scale completely overwhelming.<\/p>\n

The Assassin\u2019s Creed games are extraordinary works of historical fiction, fastidiously recreating lost periods of history and letting you walk around in them. They\u2019re the closest thing to time travel. I play them for the virtual tourism, and find myself vaguely disappointed that 80% of what you do in these painstakingly realised worlds boils down to parkouring around killing people.<\/p>\n

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\nThis thrilling trip through Japan is the best the series has given us in years
\nI have played many Assassin\u2019s Creed games over the years, but I\u2019ve rarely loved them. Ubisoft\u2019s historical fiction is perennially almost-great. A lot of players would say it reached its peak in the late 2000s, with the trio of renaissance Italy games beginning with Assassin\u2019s Creed 2, and their charismatic hero, Ezio Auditore. Since then, the series has become bloated, offering hundreds of hours of repetitive open-world exploration and assassination in ancient Greece, Egypt and even Viking Britain. Odyssey (the Greek one) was the last I played seriously; I found the setting exquisite, the gameplay somewhat irritating and the scale completely overwhelming.
\nThe Assassin\u2019s Creed games are extraordinary works of historical fiction, fastidiously recreating lost periods of history and letting you walk around in them. They\u2019re the closest thing to time travel. I play them for the virtual tourism, and find myself vaguely disappointed that 80% of what you do in these painstakingly realised worlds boils down to parkouring around killing people. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This thrilling trip through Japan is the best the series has given us in years I have played many Assassin\u2019s Creed games over the years, but I\u2019ve rarely loved them. Ubisoft\u2019s historical fiction is perennially almost-great. A lot of players would say it reached its peak in the late 2000s, with the trio of renaissance …<\/p>\n

Back to the feudal: Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows is the most beautiful game I\u2019ve ever seen<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}