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hey everybody this is nick from gamers nexus dotnet it's the end of day 1 here at PAX Prime in Seattle and we started our day off by playing a cooperative Assassin's Creed unity this will be an up to 4-player cooperative experience and players can pretty much seamlessly drop in and drop out when they're enjoying the single-player mission and they can team up with their friends and create these more dramatic Assassin's battles and whatnot so it was pretty fun I was with Ubisoft's producer on the game and we got to enjoy a heist mission where we infiltrated a sewer and recovered some loot and in doing so it was a very stealth approached based strategy that we employed the game itself is more stealth focused and as some fans are saying out there it's really going back to the roots of Assassin's Creed whereas in with the more recent games like Black Flag Assassin's Creed 3 was more focused on the actual melee combat so you really do have to you know stay on your guard and make sure that you're not attracting too much attention from the other guards out there mechanically the game has actually seen some improvements so instead of just holding down one button to parkour and you know climb around the structures and whatnot you actually have a parkour up button combination in a park board down combination so that it's easier and more I guess player-friendly to go up and down buildings so that's great also the physics of the game seem more realistic as well so you feel more grounded to the structures that you're climbing there's also a dedicated toggle for for stealth so that you can crouch down and you stay in that mode so then that way you can always be controlling you know whether you're ducking and trying to be more stealthy in your approach there so so that's good it's good to finally see an assassin's creed game implement that the other thing is that the number of NPCs I've actually seen it now the number of NPCs on screen is at the scale that Ubisoft has been talking about you have dozens and dozens of people forming crowds outside of cathedrals like Notre Dom in the in the demo that we experienced here and I think it's not just a body count but it's also the level of detail in those characters is very on you know lifelike and so when you're actually walking through that crowd you see all different kinds of characters around you so it's kind of neat to just get caught up in that it's almost like you know going to a convention like this you know it's just you know taking place what two hundred and twenty something years before this event so yeah Assassin's Creed looks to be a good step forward for the franchise unfortunately the coop is only online so there really isn't a local tie-in for that but I'm sure that there are some people out there that would like to you know get together with four TVs and for consoles or pcs if you got them to enjoy that cooperative experience so well be sure to check out more of Assassin's Creed as more becomes you know public knowledge here so check out our extended coverage of Assassin's Creed unity at the description below and be sure to keep all of your PAX Prime coverage locked in at gamers Nexus net take it easy guys