Ubisoft delays Assassin’s Creed Shadows to February 2025

Ubisoft is delaying Assassin’s Creed Shadows from its planned November 15th merchandise to February 14th, 2025. After showing disconnected 12 minutes of gameplay successful June, it looked similar Ubisoft was acceptable to present its adjacent Assassin’s Creed installment successful the accustomed vacation period, but present the steadfast says it needs much clip to get its caller parkour and stealth systems ready.

“We recognize we request much clip to polish and refine the experience, pushing further immoderate of our cardinal features,” says Marc-Alexis Côté, vice president and enforcement shaper of Assassin’s Creed astatine Ubisoft.

Ubisoft says, “the learnings from the Star Wars Outlaws merchandise led america to supply further clip to further polish the title,” and that it’s besides changing up its accepted play walk model. “All players volition beryllium capable to bask the crippled astatine the aforesaid clip connected February 14th and those who preorder the crippled volition beryllium granted the archetypal enlargement for free,” says Ubisoft.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows will besides beryllium disposable connected Steam connected time one, marking a instrumentality of Ubisoft’s caller releases connected Valve’s store.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows will present debut conscionable days earlier Obsidian’s adjacent RPG, Avowed, launches connected February 18th. Microsoft announced the Avowed hold past month, saying it wanted to “give players’ backlogs immoderate breathing room.”

The hold comes conscionable a time aft Sucker Punch debuted a archetypal look astatine Ghost of Yotei, which is owed for merchandise successful 2025. Assassin’s Creed Shadows will beryllium acceptable successful Japan and is the latest introduction successful the bid to person dual protagonists. Players tin prime betwixt the samurai Yasuke and the shinobi assassin Naoe. Shadows is launching connected PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X / S connected February 14th. Ubisoft besides confirmed earlier this twelvemonth that Shadows is coming coming to macOS successful the aboriginal arsenic well.