Ubisoft took trips to Japan with expert guides for Assassin’s Creed Shadows and spent ‘a lot of time’ researching on top of that — ‘We’re making video games, but for Assassin’s Creed we try to be credible’

• Assassin’s Creed Shadows art director Thierry Dansereau says the team took guided trips around Japan as research for the game
• He says the team visited most of the locations in the game
• They also continued to conduct research “throughout the whole project”

Ubisoft has revealed that it did extensive research for the development of Assassin’s Creed Shadows and even took guided trips around Japan for inspiration.

That’s according to art director Thierry Dansereau, who discussed the process during an event held to celebrate the game’s first anniversary.