Assassin’s Creed Jade Should Not Be Relegated to Mobile

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At the latest Ubisoft Forward, Ubisoft unveiled what the future of Assassin's Creed looks like. There are a lot of open-world games to look forward to, and Ubisoft also has plans to bring the franchise to mobile platforms with Assassin's Creed: Codename Jade. It will apparently be an open-world title with classic Assassin's Creed gameplay in the brand-new setting of Ancient China. It holds a lot of promise, but players may be turned off by its mobile nature.

Ubisoft has not revealed much about Assassin's Creed: Codename Jade beyond a logo and the setting. The only other information Ubisoft has shared is that it will be the first time players can create their own assassin protagonist, and that concept has a lot of promise. Couple it with the Chinese setting and Jade has the potential to be a really cool entry for the series — except for the fact that it's weighed down as a mobile game. Mobile games have a bad reputation, and the entire concept of Jade could suffer for it.

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Assassin's Creed: Codename Jade will not be the first time the series has explored the Chinese Brotherhood, but so far it has only cropped up in spin-offs. Back in 2015, Ubisoft kicked off a trilogy known as Assassin's Creed Chronicles. The first game in the trilogy brought players to 16th Century China. Its gameplay was a far cry from the mainline series, as the Chronicles series included 2.5D sidescroller that told much shorter stories.

Assassin's Creed Chronicles China put players in control of a new assassin named Shao Jun who wished to take out the Eight Tigers, a group of Templars that ruled the country from the shadows. The game itself was decent fun, but was nowhere near