Assassin’s Creed VR – Review

When the original Assassin’s Creed was launched the first time in 2007, no one could have imagined that there would be a time when you could enter the virtual world to battle with the Templars as Desmond Miles. Assassin’s Creed’s Nexus VR brings you a step closer, as the series’ first attempt at VR proves to be quite the success because it provides you a rather unexpected adventure that also has a good story. Ubisoft has managed to launch the most immersive Assassin’s Creed game.

The game

You will find that this action-adventure game has managed to recreate every aspect of the original Assassin’s Creed game in virtual reality and this proves to be quite impressive. The campaign takes you roughly 15 hours where you could be battling with Spartans in Athens, channeling your inner Assassin on the rooftops in Venice or find yourself in colonial America tailing someone.

It might be a VR game, but it has been fleshed out properly like all the non-VR game of the series, as it boasts minigame challenges, such as archery target practice and also comes with optional historical trivia collectibles. It is quite surprising just how much of the format of Assassin’s Creed has been incorporated in the VR version by the developers.

The story

When it comes to the story of Assassin’s Creed VR, you will find yourself playing a double agent between the most powerful factions in the series, the Brotherhood of Assassins and Abstergo. You have to enter Animus in search of powerful artifacts that can be used by Abstergo for building a mind-controlling MacGuffin.

You will come across some familiar faces, even if they are not really exciting. These include Desmond’s old friends, Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane from the Brotherhood. You will also come across some interesting new characters, such as Dominika Wilk, the evil Abstergo lady boss. As you go looking for ancient artifacts into the Animus, you will revisit three of the protagonists in the series.

These include Connor, the top favorite Misthios Kassandra and Ezio, the Renaissance-era GOAT. Each of them get their mini campaign and it gives a small taste of their past adventures. This means that you get to enjoy three different settings, even if it does get a bit difficult to keep track of the story.

The consistency

This is due to the fact that regardless of what character you are playing, you will still be doing the usual classic Assassin’s Creed things that you would expect. The developers have done a great job of translating all of it into VR. You can use your hidden blade to creep around and assassinate your enemies, eavesdrop on conversations to gather intel and also blend into the crowd.

In fact, you can do it better in VR because it gives you room to be creative, something you cannot do in a regular Assassin’s Creed game. The combat, like non-VR games of the series, is a little weak because the AI is rather bad and the mechanics are very simple.