Assassin’s Creed Shadows may be shaping up to be the hit Ubisoft needed. On social media, the Assassin’s Creed team announced that the game, which was released on Thursday, has so far drawn in two million players.

But mention it I must! Because as we all remember, Breath of the Wild was the first big-budget, third-person, open world action game in the post-Skyrim landscape to come out and do something properly different with its structure - and succeed in doing so.

Ubisoft (UBSFY) announced that Assassin’s Creed Shadows reached 1 million players on release, but that might not be the win investors hoped