French videogame powerhouse Ubisoft announced Monday that a virtual reality version of its blockbuster ‘Assassins CreedThe franchise will be available by the end of the year.

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player inassassin’s creed nexus vr‘ will play the protagonist from before the franchise, complete with trademark hidden wrist blades, dramatic parkour escapes, and iconic “leaps of faith” from buildings above.

“Being able to feel what it’s like to be a master assassin is going to be a big draw for players,” the game’s senior creative director David Votipka told AFP at the Ubisoft Forward Showcase of upcoming games in Los Angeles. “It’s really strong for VR.”

in ‘gameplay’Assassins Creed‘ involves a lot of climbing, jumping between buildings swinging from pillars, running, fighting, and more.

“The games that work best in VR are obviously the ones with a lot of physicality; So it allows us to create something different and better than the non-VR version in some ways,” Votipka said.

A team at Ubisoft was dedicated to making sure people who get disoriented or nauseous from dashing in VR are comfortable, adding features like quick ways for characters to “teleport” from one place to another.

According to Votypka, there were also early discussions by the team about how realistic it should be for someone in VR to sneak up on him and choke him to death.

Game designers toned down the violence of the kill scenes, making them quicker and controlling where targets could be hit.

“You can’t torture them. It’s still like video game violence,” Votipka said of the assassination target, as opposed to trying to simulate it like an actual hidden blade assassination.

The game will be available on Meta’s latest VR headset, known as Quest, previously branded as Oculus.

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The new VR component will also add an interesting double-layer to the series, whose plots often center around modern-day protagonists who enter their own virtual historical world.

Players will see through the virtual eyes of Ezio Auditore da Firenze in Renaissance Italy; Kassandra in ancient Greece, and Connor in colonial America in a story that moves them in and out of the memories of their ancestors.

Real-world moves while holding the controllers will be used to duel, throw axes, sneak, and more in the game, the demonstrations showed.

‘It’s totally fair’Assassins CreedGames in VR. I hope it shows players and developers and publishers that big brands can be awesome in VR,” Votipka said.

Ubisoft also pretended to be coming”assassin’s creed mirageIn addition the franchise has been designed for play on videogame consoles and personal computers. It was described as an homage to the earlier game of Assassin and was played in ninth-century Baghdad.

Gamers will take on the role of ‘Bassim’ against ‘The Order of the Ancients’.mirage,’ which is set to release on October 12.

,Assassins Creed‘ is also going mobile, with acodename jadeFree-to-play version of the game set during the time of the Qin Dynasty in China.

Players were invited to register for a public “beta” test of “Z”.