Assassin’s Creed Shadows will introduce base building

It looks like Assassin's Creed Shadows will have at least one highly unexpected feature – an RTS-style base building mechanic, allowing players to manually place houses and build their own little villages in the Japanese countryside. 

The new mode was revealed in a developer diary published early by IGN China. In screenshots, we see a city-builder style grid of squares, allowing users to create pathways, place buildings and other decorative objects around to personalise the place.

In many ways, it looks like one of the early Sims games, before we got more in-depth city-building mechanics in more modern titles. Obviously, it isn't fleshed out enough to compete with a game that's entire focus is building, but it does look like a very nice addition to the game. Perhaps Ubisoft took some inspiration from Bethesda, who struck gold with their settlement building mechanics in Fallout 4 back in 2015.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is due to launch on the 15th of November for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

KitGuru Says: I could see myself wasting a few hours putting together my own little settlement in Shadows. While the leaked developer diary video has since been taken down, we will no doubt see Ubisoft officially reveal all of this again soon, but not at the Tokyo Game Show in two days time, as Ubisoft just abruptly cancelled its plans for the event. 

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