A new adventure is about to begin! "Assassin's Creed" adds free DLC

　　When "Assassin's Creed: Shadow" was fully released, Ubisoft unexpectedly prepared a surprise update for its previous work "Assassin's Creed: Fantasy". This game, which was officially stated to be "no follow-up content plan", has recently announced through social media that it will launch a free DLC later this year, including new story chapters and tasks set in the 9th-century Saudi ancient city of Ora, and optimize the basic game mechanism.

This update is particularly eye-catching. Its position change is the April 2024 narrative director Stephen Buden also emphasized that "Fantasy" is an independent experience work and no DLC is planned." The opportunity for the change may be related to the revelations from French Echo several months ago: The report pointed out that DLC originated from a cooperation project between Ubisoft and Savvy, a game group under the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, which also explains why the new plot is set in the ancient city of Saudi Arabia.

The player community also noticed that the line of the protagonist Basim "hopes to participate in the Netflix drama" may be intentional market warm-up. At present, the official has only released the concept map, but it shows its ambition to expand the IP map: not only continue the main line through "Shadow", but also deepen cultural exploration with "Fantasy" DLC, forming a dual-line and parallel strategic layout.