Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR Review

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When the central fiction of your series revolves around inserting yourself into a machine and experiencing someone else’s life, few franchises could lend themselves as seamlessly to VR as Assassin’s Creed. While the Meta Quest isn’t quite like an Animus, Ubisoft has drawn upon its VR tech – and enhanced it for the pumped-up Quest 3 – to get you closer than ever to experience the life of Ezio Auditore and his brethren. If you’re a fan of the series, you should be very excited.

You’re immediately dropped into the shadowy modern world setting of Assassin’s Creed, and tasked by Abstergo’s Dominika Wilks – played by the excellent Morena Baccarin – with seeking out a new MacGuffin for various reasons. It’s actually some kind of ancient computer, and because you can’t trust Abstergo to do the right thing, you also fall in with a couple of familiar faces in the shape of Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane who have you playing for both sides. While you’re manoeuvring through other people’s memories, this is still a story with you at the centre of it, both metaphorically and physically.

Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR puts you in the robes of some of the most well-known protagonists from the iconic series – hidden blades and all – and thus begins a heady mix of sneaking, fighting, climbing, leaping and, of course, assassinating. It’s hard to express quite what it feels like to be performing these tasks in first person after controlling them remotely for so long, but Ubisoft Dusseldorf has done an incredible job of capturing both the feel and the look of the franchise’s central action.

Your first stop is the series’ most iconic assassin, Ezio Auditore, as you travel to his hometown of Monteriggioni to meet with his sister. While you revel in