Ubisoft has shown off the gameplay for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and given a new promise for Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time in 2026. Although there’s still the Nintendo Direct to come at some point this month, the Ubisoft Forward event on Monday otherwise marks the end of this year’s not-E3 preview season. Unlike the other events though, Ubisoft didn’t announce any major new games and spent the majority of their time on just two titles: Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
Strategy game Anno 117: Pax Romana was the only brand new reveal, although the announcement that the Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time remake isn’t going to be out until 2026 makes sense give the recent annoucement that development has been restarted from scratch once again . Ubisoft didn’t show anything of either game and instead spent the time between the two main focuses talking about updates for their various live service titles, including the recently launched XDefiant, and new DLC for Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown – including a new story expansion in September. As for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, it got over 20 minutes of gameplay footage, split relatively evenly between samurai Yasuke and ninja Naoe.
It’s difficult to pretend it contained any surprises though, with the footage starting out with Yasuke as wanders about town, strokes a dog, and then embarks on a mission to take out some corrupt samurai, who are menacing the peasantry. This involves walking a few ya.