Ubisoft has shared a cinematic TV ad for Assassin’s Creed Shadows that, while not including any actual gameplay footage, offers a more life-like look at Naoe and Yasuke—the action-adventure franchise’s newest pair of protagonists—ahead of the game’s launch on Thursday, March 20 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Ubisoft+, Amazon Luna, Macs with Apple silicon via the Mac App Store, as well as Windows PC via the Ubisoft Store, Steam, and the Epic Games Store.
See below for the new video that Ubisoft posted to its official YouTube channel today, which has garnered 6.3K likes at the time of this posting, as well as comments from players about how they’re going to spend 800 hours to build their hideout, take off work, and more:
“Live the intertwined stories of Naoe, an adept shinobi Assassin from Iga Province, and Yasuke, the powerful African samurai of historical legend,” reads a description for the game. “Against the backdrop of the turbulent late Sengoku period, this remarkable duo will discover their common destiny as they usher in a new era for Japan.”