The wind in Assassin’s Creed: Shadows offers more than graphical bluster

You can practically feel the wind on Naoe’s back as she whooshes through a winding valley. Great gusts funnel between the surrounding ridges, picking up orange-red leaves that tumble and swirl. On the plains, grass roils like waves; in the mountains, snow whirls and flurries before transforming into a blizzardy, diagonal sheet. The wind affects so much of Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ world, even protagonist Naoe’s sharp, short bob which whips in the game’s notably blustery wilds.

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Source: Eurogamer.net