Pocket Gamer recently got the chance to be plugged into the Animus and transported back to 1586: the setting for historically-inspired mobile title Assassin’s Creed Utopia.
The result of a partnership between Ubisoft and social platform GREE, this latest addition to the Assassin’s Creed franchise is something of a genre chimera: a blending of city building, resource management, and turn-based combat.
It’s pegged as an “introduction” to the story of the much anticipated Assassin’s Creed III, and Utopia follows a band of Europeans sailing to Roanoke Island to establish a New World colony.
Naturally, there are a couple of assassins stowed away on board the ship, giving us the chance to jack into the secret guild’s 150 year-long colonizing effort via the all-new mobile Animus VR machine.
As the game is currently in pre-alpha (official testing is due to begin later this year) we were treated to a guided demo which shone first light on the mechanics of the game - with particular focus on the combat system.
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