2023-06-12 17:59:00
Ubisoft thinks now is the right time to bring Assassin’s Creed into virtual reality. As announced at the Ubisoft Forward event, Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR will bring the long-running series to the Meta Quest VR headset in the near future.
Coming to both VR and first-person for the first time, Assassin’s Creed will be a title that tells a unique story, combining Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Cassandra, Assassin’s Creed II’s Ezio and Assassin’s Creed III’s Con accept. The story would be connected through modern events, with Abstergo returning to the scene and hoping to use their historical memory technology to gather data from key events in the past. The player needs to use the memories of Kassandra, Ezio, and Connor to stop Abstergo’s efforts and work to bring down the tech corporation.
As for how the gameplay will work, we’re told that the Nexus will feature open map environments that players can use parkour to traverse at will. Each objective will use a non-linear sandbox design to encourage players to work their way through the task at hand, all using a range of tools and items.
Combat will include a melee system designed to feel intuitive and real, and allow players to draw a sword (or Connor’s battleaxe) by reaching over their hip, draw a bow by reaching over their shoulder, or chest to pull smoke bombs or throwing knives.
Movement will use the portal system that’s so common in other VR games, and the game will even have a vignetting system to draw attention away from things in the player’s peripheral vision. There will also be proper ways for players to overcome their fear of heights in the game, and since this is a VR experience, it’s a very real problem, especially since leaps of faith are possible.
The game is being developed with the assistance of a number of different supporting Ubisoft studios, and as of today, there’s no mention of when Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR will launch – so it might be as early as 2024.
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