The UK's latest physical games chart is here, and Assassin's Creed Shadows is still top of the pile.
It's number one for the second week in a row, with 84 per cent of the boxed copies sold being the PS5 version.
While this is only physical sales in one country, it's clear the game is performing well for Ubisoft — a much needed win after a rocky 2024. In terms of digital sales, the game is reportedly killing it on PS Store, too.
It took going back to a much older game to realise just how empty Assassin's Creed Shadows feels.
"I've never thought feudal Japan would be a good Assassin's Creed setting. Give me 1960s southern England with mods and rockers."
Aaaaaaand that's where I stopped reading.
I agree with the first part of their statement. Japan is so overused and it wasn't particularly interesting in Shadows. Now that it's been done, they can do something better.
And shadows reminds me of something origins is lacking. Virtually every game is lacking something. It is because it is lacking, that it has what it isnt. Funny dichotomy that…
Origins is a beautiful game made by talented people that got turned into a brutal level-gate fest by the CEOs.
There are only a few Assassin's Creed games I played. Original, The Ezio Collection, and what I think is probably the best in the series Assassin's Creed Odyssey with the DLC. I'm done with the series, it's the same shit.
Same, enjoyed 1, looooved the ezio trilogy, and 4 was peak, everything after that just sucked. Unity was a great direction but the bugs and how long it took to fix killed it, best parkour system in the series tho
Fans and collectors will likely be thrilled over the new vinyl soundtrack release for the game.
"The First Berserker: Khazan features some tight combat and an interesting presentation, but is hit hard by a botched main story and repetitive content."
- Stuart Cullen, TechStomper
I’ll say the difficulty of this game ruined my enjoyment. I think they had something here, but it was way too frustrating for me to have much fun with. I also got tired of the environments. Things started to look sort of the same.
I do think boss designs were cool, but man, playing the final boss for hours upon hours until I barely got through did not leave me satisfied with the experience. If anything, it made me less inclined to replay it.
Great game but the boss fights are just too long and you dont have a lot of margin for error, so you have to be on point for ages, got burn out on this one at chaos, and i heard it gets worse
Astro Bot still kickin it with physical at 3rd. That's great considering there's a PS5 Bundle out there with a digital version of the game for free. Atomfall well done and Shadows to keep on keeping on
Nice job AC Shadows. 👏 Not bad for Atomfall. It's clunky at times but it is fun. I can't deny that. Well deserved.
Sure... because we are talking about AC but the fact that PS5 is dominating physical game sales so hard can only be blamed on MS' GP strategy. Overally its harmful to the industry if consumers stop buying games.
Seems like Sony owners are holding out for physical copies while PC and xbox prefer didgital at this point.