Assassins Creed Shadows gets new parkour system as Ubisoft faces difficult year [Video]

Ahead of Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ launch next month, Ubisoft has shared a surprisingly thorough breakdown of its revamped parkour mechanics.

It is not hyperbole to say Assassin’s Creed Shadows may be the most important release in publisher Ubisoft’s history, considering the tumultuous year it had in 2024.

The company’s shares were already dropping all last year and between a string of underperforming titles and cancellations, there have been serious discussions of Ubisoft selling itself off to Tencent.

Time will tell if Assassin’s Creed Shadows is successful enough to pull Ubisoft out of the fire, but in the meantime the publisher is trying to drum up hype for the February 14 launch, with a lengthy breakdown of the game’s parkour mechanics.

Parkour usually comes as standard in an Assassin’s Creed game, especially one with ninja protagonist Naoe as one of its playable characters (although the playable samurai, Yasuke, can do parkour as well).

A recent blog post from Ubisoftreveals that …