Assassin’s Creed Nexus is your next favorite VR game

There are few gaming recollections I’ve that invoke real emotions of pleasure and pleasure, however the second I deployed my hidden blade with a fast set off faucet and a wrist flick throughout my Murderer’s Creed Nexus preview is one I’ll always remember.

PCGamesN was not too long ago invited to Ubisoft’s Leamington workplaces to take a more in-depth have a look at Assassin’s Creed Nexus, with round an hour of gameplay to discover. Coming off the again of our Meta Quest 3 review, it was a fantastic alternative to see how a AAA expertise will look on the newest VR headset.

The preview kicked off by introducing me to the fundamentals of life as an murderer. Stealth, fight, and parkour – a holy trinity that Nexus must get proper if it’s to sit down alongside its non-VR predecessors. I’m comfortable to report that not solely do these core mechanics exist right here, however they soar in VR.

Parkour is as easy and intuitive as holding a button and operating. In some instances, you will have to work together with ledges and seize factors to keep up your momentum, however this was by no means a problem for me, and the extra I performed round with it, the higher it felt.

I performed the whole tutorial with free movement and was delighted all through. There have been no situations of illness or dizziness. You’ll be able to alter consolation choices to fit your desire, however free controls felt very clean, that means I’d advocate them to anybody.

Fight may have been left so simple as the swing and block mechanics that so many VR video games go for, however that is Assasin’s Creed, so it wanted a bit of additional depth. Timing your blocks is vital to opening up assault home windows, however you even have a shoulder cost transfer that may break your opponent’s defenses, leaving them susceptible to a hidden blade finisher. I additionally had entry to smoke bombs, which have been essential for after I was outnumbered in fight.

Stealth, nevertheless, is the place Murderer’s Creed Nexus really shines. Outdoors of the tutorial, I used to be positioned right into a sequence someplace in the course of the sport, in Venice, as Murderer’s Creed 2’s Ezio Auditore da Firenze. The first mission inside this sequence concerned tailing a guard, navigating an indoor market, discovering my method right into a restricted space, after which stealing a carnival masks.

Sounds fairly simple, proper? Mistaken. Not solely are you tailing somebody via the market, however you possibly can’t allow them to spot you. Once I reached the restricted space, I nonetheless wanted to search out my method in with out elevating an alarm. Lastly, to acquire the masks, I had the selection of pickpocketing the principle guard or lockpicking the chest containing the masks. Every choice had its dangers, however I selected to try the lockpicking minigame. I needed to transfer and rotate each controllers to hit all the rigidity factors within the lock, and the time strain I used to be below made it all of the extra exhilarating. The purpose right here is that there’s depth to each factor of Nexus. I went into this preview cautiously, involved in regards to the scale of the sport, however it shortly grew to become obvious that that is nothing lower than a brand new Murderer’s Creed title in dimension and scope.

The open map atmosphere offered me with collectibles to search out, actions to finish, and principal missions to progress the story. No corners have been minimize to make Nexus a actuality, and that’s what’s most spectacular.

Inside only a small slice of Murderer’s Creed Nexus, I used to be in a position to expertise so many breathtaking particulars. I’ve already talked about the second I first activated the hidden blade, however the motion is so pure that it was exhausting to not crack a smile. Activating Eagle Dives in VR can also be one thing any fan would wish to strive, and it’s now potential in Nexus.

I had a smile on my face for the whole hour I spent with Murderer’s Creed Nexus, and I left the Ubisoft workplaces eager to play extra. If this small pattern is consultant of the ultimate launch, we could have simply one of many best VR games ever on our arms.

Murderer’s Creed followers will discover a lot to take pleasure in right here, and doing so from this complete new perspective is one thing I may have solely dreamed of again in 2007. As soon as the Assassin’s Creed Nexus release date rolls round, the sport has the possibility to show to a skeptical viewers that AAA on VR not solely works, it thrives.