Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
Chronicles: China takes place after the film Assassin's Creed: Embers. It features the Chinese assassin Shao Jun in 1526. After being trained by legendary Italian assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Shao Jun…
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China is an adventure developed by Climax Studios, released 21 April 2015 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 5.6 hrs to finish.
What Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China is
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China is an adventure game developed by Climax Studios and released in 2015. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in 16th-century Imperial China during the Ming dynasty, the story follows Shao Jun, a determined member of the Assassin Brotherhood. In 1526, she returns home to China after a long journey to Europe, where she sought out the retired Assassin Mentor Ezio Auditore da Firenze and learned the key to freeing her oppressed people. Her homeland lies under the secret grip of the Eight Tigers, a cabal of powerful Templars who rule China from the shadows with the Emperor as their puppet, and who orchestrated the near-total extermination of the Chinese Assassins. Armed with her training and a mysterious artifact entrusted to her by Ezio, Shao Jun sets out on a perilous mission of vengeance and…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 18 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Assassin's Creed series
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China is the 89th of 205 entries we hold in the Assassin's Creed series. The next entry was Assassin's Creed: Naval Edition in 2015. Its critic score of 70 is 5 points below the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Assassin's Creed III: Deluxe Edition at 96.
How it was received
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 70, across 138 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5.6 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon II X2 240 @ 2.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM and nVidia GeForce GTS450 or AMD Radeon HD5770 (1024MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China launched on 21 April 2015, within three weeks of Mortal Kombat X, Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, Kerbal Space Program and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Mortal Kombat X, Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, Kerbal Space Program, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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