Summary
- Assassin's Creed Nexus brings the classic franchise to VR, offering a unique and immersive gameplay experience.
- Players can embody iconic assassins like Ezio, Kassandra, and Connor, each with their own distinct weapons and environments.
- The game's original story sets up future plotlines, with the return of the Templars hinted at in a suspenseful conclusion.
Assassin's Creed Nexus is the first game of its kind in the now classic Assassin's Creed franchise. Taking the series to VR for the first time, Nexus features unique gameplay that allows players to experience the feeling of being an assassin in a way not previously possible. Available for Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, and Meta Quest Pro, this Assassin's Creed VR experience includes everything one would expect from an AC game, including parkour, hidden blades, stealth kills, and much more. Fortunately for fans of the series, Nexus is not just an assassin simulator but a unique AC game with an original story and characters.
Assassin's Creed Nexus allows players to become three classic assassins from the AC franchise. These include Ezio Auditore, Kassandra, and Connor Kenway. Each of these characters features their own unique weapons and gear from their respective games in the series. Each character also inhabits open environments inspired by the settings of their games that players can explore freely. In Assassin's Creed Nexus players have the freedom to interact with crowds, move through maps however they please, and experience the original cinematic story that concludes with an interesting moment suggesting future plotlines in the series.
Assassin's Creed Nexus and the Future of the Series
How Nexus' Story Fits In
In the story of Assassin's Creed Nexus, players are brought into the lore of the series by taking on the role of an anonymous hacker who is hired by series regulars Rebecca Crane and Shaun Hastings to infiltrate an Abstergo project called the "Nexus Eye". The Nexus Eye project is led by Dominika Wilk, who seeks to retrieve the code of an Isu machine and combine it with the Animus into a computer capable of predicting and influencing human behavior. The hacker is successfully hired by Abstergo to locate the fragments of the code but secretly plans to plant logic bombs in the Animus memories to prevent the Templar organization from retrieving them.
Ezio's memory takes place in Venice and Monteriggioni in 1509, a story after AC Brotherhood, as he seeks to recover his lost relics; Connor's memories are set in Boston and Newport, Rhode Island in 1775 as Connor assists Achilles in various missions to aid the cause of the Sons of Liberty; and Kassandra's missions take place in 405 BC in Delos as she aids the Spartan army and Athens as she seeks to liberate the city from corruption. As the hacker gets deeper into the conflict between the assassins and the Templars, things get interesting.
What Nexus' Story Sets Up
As the hacker continues moving through the memories of history's greatest assassins, they are eventually discovered by Dominika Wilk. Now outed as a spy, it is up to Rebecca Crane and Shaun Hastings to rescue them. Players then continue until the final mission, which is a corrupted memory that houses the final fragment. Pursued by Dominika's hunters, the hacker plants the last of the logic bombs and detonates them to destroy the memories of Assassin's Creed's greatest assassins.
Though the bombs are detonated and Abstergo's Nexus Eye is ended, the assassins don't walk away completely unscathed. Dominika discovers the location of the hacker and, in one of the game's immersive cutscenes, captures them. She gives an ominous speech that alludes to the return of the Templars in future entries.
As Assassin's Creed Nexus 2 has already been announced, it is likely the assassins will strike back at Dominika either to rescue the hacker or to prevent another Templar plan. Dominika could also be suggesting a plan that will appear in a mainline game like Hexe or Red. Either way, Nexus' open-ended conclusion will likely be continued in the future.
- Released
- November 16, 2010
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Ubisoft
- Publisher(s)
- Ubisoft
- Engine
- havok, anvil
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Franchise
- Assassin's Creed
- Number of Players
- Extra & Premium
WHERE TO PLAY
Live and breathe as Ezio, a legendary Master Assassin, in his enduring struggle against the powerful Templar Order. He must journey into Italy’s greatest city, Rome, center of power, greed and corruption to strike at the heart of the enemy.
Defeating the corrupt tyrants entrenched there will require not only strength, but leadership, as Ezio commands an entire Brotherhood who will rally to his side. Only by working together can the Assassins defeat their mortal enemies.
And for the first time, introducing an award-winning multiplayer layer that allows you to choose from a wide range of unique characters, each with their own signature weapons and assassination techniques, and match your skills against other players from around the world.
It’s time to join the Brotherhood.
