Packing familiar formulas into an all-new Japanese setting, "Assassin's Creed Shadows" is the latest big-budget game from developer Ubisoft that is staking its future on the title.

Washed up on the shores of Japan, Yasuke is a black man who is rescued by Portuguese missionaries and finds himself, through various quirks of fate, in the employ of the warlord Oda Nobunaga as a samurai.

Ubisoft’s pivotal new entry in the Assassin’s Creed series features two different playable characters in 16th century Japan.