The new video game Assassin's Creed Shadows has received a positive response from Russian players

The Assassin's Creed Shadows video game, which relies on historical authenticity, went on sale worldwide on March 20. Russian gamers greeted the novelty with great enthusiasm: they sold out the first batch on the first day of sales, retailers told Izvestia.

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"We know the love of Russian gamers for Assassin's Creed — the total volume of discs sold in our stores in the last 10 years alone has amounted to more than 300 thousand copies. We are glad that Russian fans of the series were able to start their adventures in Assassin's Creed Shadows simultaneously with the rest of the world," said the head of the Game Development and Gaming Community department at the M.Video-Eldorado by Sergey Mezin.

In Assassin's Creed Shadows, there are two main characters: the ninja girl Naoe and the African warrior Yasuke, who, according to some historical chronicles, served under the Emperor of Japan Oda Nobunaga. Gradually, the role of the African in the framework of the plot was significantly reduced, the emphasis was shifted to the girl Naoe, but the authors retained the ability to switch between the characters.

An innovation in Shadows is the immersion mode. It is designed to increase the immersiveness of the game and allows you to listen to the characters' speech in their native languages — Japanese and Portuguese — in those rare cases when native speakers appear in the plot. You can switch to universal English at any time. There is no Russian voice acting, but there are subtitles.

The game was originally supposed to be released in November 2024, but the release was postponed twice — to February, and then to March 2025. This is the fifth installment in the series of games after its formal relaunch in 2017 — "Assassin's Creed: Origins". Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla and Mirage were released before Shadows.

Read more in the exclusive Izvestia article:

Japanese grip: the first batch of Assassin's Creed Shadows in Russia sold out in a day