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Forums - Gaming - Assassin's Creed Shadows Review Thread 81 Opencritic / 82 Metacritic

 

I'm...

In day one 0 0%
 
Waiting for a sale 5 23.81%
 
Not buying at all 13 61.90%
 
No opinion or interest 3 14.29%
 
Total:21

What are your aggregate predictions? I predict a very high score as Ubisoft is on the line and the games industry is going to come out in force to save it. I also think it's going to be almost deserving of a high mid to high 80s score, despite what the bombing will have us believe. More deserving than Star Wars Outlaws 75 score for sure. Based on what I've seen things like good, tight and most of all fun in combat. 

Update. IGN review leaked at 9/10 and another site dropped an 8/10 on Opencritic. Three more leaked at 9/10, 9/10 and 74/100

Last edited by LegitHyperbole - on 18 March 2025

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...to avoid getting banned for inactivity, I may have to resort to comments that are of a lower overall quality and or beneath my moral standards.

It's Ubisoft with online required for a SP game. So it's automatically trash but reviewers will be kinder to it.



Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

Early impressions are veeeery kind to the game so far. Plus, among those who have played the leaked copy of the game, sounds like it’s a big leap in AC quality. My bet is on 85+.



firebush03 said:

Early impressions are veeeery kind to the game so far. Plus, among those who have played the leaked copy of the game, sounds like it’s a big leap in AC quality. My bet is on 85+.

Same as you.



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Leynos said:

It's Ubisoft with online required for a SP game. So it's automatically trash but reviewers will be kinder to it.

Well they've reached a semi-desperate point where they're now saying the game won't require the Ubisoft client for the game on Steam, but it will require you to login to their account system when you do boot up the game itself...

Based on the damage that's been done since last year, and considering it's release is going to be on the day of the infamous Sarin gas attack in Japan, I'm not expecting this game to set the world on fire. I'll expect it to sell something, but I'm also not expecting more than what they previously made with Vikings.



Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.

Chazore said:
Leynos said:

It's Ubisoft with online required for a SP game. So it's automatically trash but reviewers will be kinder to it.

Well they've reached a semi-desperate point where they're now saying the game won't require the Ubisoft client for the game on Steam, but it will require you to login to their account system when you do boot up the game itself...

Based on the damage that's been done since last year, and considering it's release is going to be on the day of the infamous Sarin gas attack in Japan, I'm not expecting this game to set the world on fire. I'll expect it to sell something, but I'm also not expecting more than what they previously made with Vikings.

I'm thinking this one might actually do really well with a decent aggregate and Youtubers/Streamer praise, I'm not getting the vibe that any of that backlash matters and more of a vibe that people are hungering for a good Assassin's creed game for many different reasons as well as a Ghost of X like game. 



Update. IGN review leaks at 9/10 and another site dropped an opencritic early at 8/10. Things are looking good, I don't think the anti woke brigade are going to win this one.

I will reiterate that this game is gonna sell big. All it needs is a decent aggregate in the 80s cause it looks very well made and it seems like that is secured. I can feel the hunger in the air for this game, I don't know what it is but it's contagious, I myself may buy at full price if they have truly stopped trying to be a discount The Witcher 3, stopped auto parkour and returned to what the game series meant in the first place. I have bought 7 full price games in 5 years and it's looking like this could be number 8.



Going to up my estimate to 88 although it's basically cheating at this point we have such a picture of the game.

Will update OP as soon as scores hit. 



Looks like reviews will be up in 2 hours time based on live streams logged for 5pm GMT. I'm very excited to see how this game reviews.