Critic reviews for Assassin's Creed Shadows are in, but now it's time to listen to what gamers are thinking about the launch.
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows arrived with a
solid 81 on Metacritic, nothing vaulting it into GOTY contention perhaps, but on par with most AC games, including last time’s Valhalla, which had an 80 and set franchise sales records.
But that’s critics, and who listens to game journalists anymore, am I right?
Well, so far, early reviews of Assassin’s Creed Shadows by users who have bought and are playing the game are positive. This is still early hours, but the scores so far are good and often even higher that critics’, for now:
What’s missing are Metacritic user scores, but the platforms above actually require you to own the game, while Metacritic does not, and you can shoot out any number you want. The site makes you wait a few days before posting, but that has not stopped controversial games from being review bombed all the same, and those numbers are often well below other player scores on actual platforms. This is mainly true for “woke”-classified games, which Shadows has been accused of since its announcement. So expect those scores to be lower, almost without question.
The other caveat is yes, it’s still very early, and if you are leaping on getting a new Assassin’s Creed game at launch, you are probably more predisposed to like it at baseline, so the scores may skew somewhat higher initially. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, by comparison, settled at 4.11 on PS5 after 67,000 ratings. We’re at 2,000 for Shadows right now.