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Assassin’s Creed Nexus Is a Captivating First-Person Assassin’s Creed Game in VR
17.10.2023 - 16:25 / ign.com / Game In
I’ll admit I entered my hands-on demo with Assassin’s Creed Nexus with a bit of pessimism – could Assassin’s Creed work as a first-person VR game? And then I found myself repeatedly answering that key question with “Yes!” for an entire hour. Not only does Assassin’s Creed Nexus seem to be a full-featured Assassin’s Creed game that incorporates stealth, combat, and parkour, but from what I played so far, each of those pieces works surprisingly well and comes together to capture the entire assassin fantasy with shocking efficacy. I brought a lot of skepticism onto that demo floor, but by the time I left it I was grinning ear-to-ear.
There’s perhaps no franchise better-suited for virtual reality than Assassin’s Creed, starting with the fact that strapping on a VR headset bears an awful lot in common with stepping into the Animus. But actually making all that stealth and subterfuge feel good is another matter entirely, and I half-expected Nexus to be little more than yet another half-baked tech demo that had little in common with a proper entry in the long-running series. Instead, I was stunned to find that this is a full-on Assassin’s Creed adventure, complete with a lengthy story mode that has you playing as three iconic protagonists from the franchise’s history: Ezio in Renaissance-era Italy, Connor in Colonial America, and Kassandra in Ancient Greece. As an employee of Abstergo, I was sent on a mission to relive moments from these characters’ pasts to collect data for what must surely be some shady masterplan.
My demo focused on Ezio in Italy, where I went on a series of missions that involved sneaking around to steal things, tailing unscrupulous sorts, running along walls and across rooftops to get from place-to-place, and when all else failed, running fools through with the pointy end of my blade.
Sneaking around is, predictably, a lot of fun. I mean, who doesn’t want to live out the thrill of crouching behind a crate as a baddie walks by or holding your breath as you snatch a key from the hip of an unsuspecting guard? Stealth mechanics can already be pretty stressful, but experiencing the tension of almost getting caught from a first-person perspective is downright nerve-wracking and hilarious. In one section, I even tailed an enemy by climbing alongside buildings and, my personal favorite, using crowds to blend in with the unwashed masses, hiding in plain sight – mostly because it meant I could goof around with dumb NPCs, holding totally not-suspicious conversations with them while I waited for my quarry to turn the corner.
Parkour felt surprisingly natural, as the same auto-jump mechanic found in other Assassin’s Creed’s games applies here, and I could change directions by simply turning my head in
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