From watching classic samurai movies to rendering the unique way light falls on Japan’s mountainsides and modelling individual characters’ socks, Ubisoft has spared no effort recreating a fascinatingly violent period of history
More than four years after its announcement and after two last-minute delays, the latest title in Ubisoft’s historical fiction series Assassin’s Creed will finally be released on Thursday. Set in Japan in 1579, a time of intense civil war dominated by the feudal lord Oda Nobunaga, it follows two characters navigating their way through the bloody chaos: a female shinobi named Fujibayashi Naoe, and Yasuke, an African slave turned samurai. Japan has been the series’ most-requested setting for years, Ubisoft says.
“I’ve been on [this] franchise for 16 years and I think every time we start a new game, Japan comes up and we ask, is this the time?” says executive producer Marc-Alexis Coté. “We’ve never pushed beyond the conception phase with Japan until this one.”
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