Love may not be dead, but it certainly isn't canon – not according to the Assassin's Creed Shadows developers at Ubisoft.

Shadows is designed as something of a soft reboot for the series, with no playable modern day section and a strong focus on ...

But Ubisoft says the social stealth elements aren't necessarily gone for good.

Ubisoft has confirmed a return to the series' original storyline of Assassins and Templars after Assassin's Creed Shadows.