Assassin's Creed Shadows' new floor assassinations are as hilarious as they are deadly

Nov. 22, 2024

Stop, drop, and roll

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.

Assassin’s Creed Shadowswill be the first game in the series to introduce the ability to go prone, and one of the new assassinations this enables looks hilarious.

As we recently wrote about, there are a lot ofnew stealth mechanics in Assassin’s Creed Shadowsfor you to enjoy. My personal favorite is that double assassinations are back, but I now realize I’d completely overlooked the comedic potential of prone assassinations.

In a video shared on Twitter by ac_landmarks, we see Naoe barrel roll out of a patch of grass, slice a guard’s leg to get them to the floor, and then deliver a swift finisher with her hidden blade before going prone again. She does all this without ever going higher than a crouch.

Shadows has some motion capture in it, which may be why the move looks so sleek. It’s alsosure to delight Ralph Ineson, who did the mocap forBlack Flag’s Charles Vane and will be voicingFantastic Fourvillain Galactus in the upcoming movie. He recently said, “When you compare [Black Flag] to some of the later Assassin’s Creeds, there may be a little bit of facial capture, but they haven’t got the physical stuff, and I think you can notice that.”

While both Naoe and Yasuke can go prone, only the sneaky shinobi can roll about on the floor like that. Yasuke is just too big, you see. Now I’m excited to get my hands on the game and find out what his death from below moves will look like.

When I look back on my memories of the series, there have always been funny moments among the bloodshed. Once when I was bunking off school to playAssassin’s Creed 2with a friend, we both shouted in shock as Ezio took his dagger and drove it straight through the skull of an unwary guard, causing a Tarantino-esque spurt of blood to shoot out of his head.

If you’re as excited as I am, check outeverything we know about Assassin’s Creed Shadowsso far.

Sign up to the GamesRadar+ Newsletter

Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more

I’m Issy, a freelancer who you’ll now occasionally see over here covering news on GamesRadar. I’ve always had a passion for playing games, but I learned how to write about them while doing my Film and TV degrees at the University of Warwick and contributing to the student paper, The Boar. After university I worked at TheGamer before heading up the news section at Dot Esports. Now you’ll find me freelancing for Rolling Stone, NME, Inverse, and many more places. I love all things horror, narrative-driven, and indie, and I mainly play on my PS5. I’m currently clearing my backlog and loving Dishonored 2.

Open-world dress-up game Infinity Nikki is serious business – so serious its devs have already banned over 80 accounts for cheating: “We implore all Stylists to adhere to the game rules”

Hideo Kojima seems to be testing Death Stranding 2, but it’s not going well: “I fell asleep twice while on a delivery and ran the vehicle into a cliff”

Get hundreds of hours of RPG goodness for $30 with this bundle of 8 games that includes the first two Baldur’s Gate games, which are absolutely worth playing