Ever since it was formally announced four years ago as Assassin’s Creed Infinity, the retitled Animus Hub has been something of a mystery. First rumoured to be a live-service Assassin’s Creed connecting games past and present, Ubisoft later said the project would act more like a hub-style platform that groups those games together rather than a game in the more traditional sense. It’s still a bit of an unknown, however, especially since its sudden rebrand last summer.
But having finally seen the Animus Hub in action during an extensive preview build of Assassin’s Creed Shadows last week at the Ubisoft Quebec studio, I can finally tell you what the Animus Hub is, how it works and what it looks like.
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The Animus Hub is effectively the new start screen when you load up Assassin’s Creed Shadows. It’s not a separate launcher that has to be installed or updated – for now, at least, you’ll only ever see it inside the game once you’ve started it up.
There are four main sections in the Animus Hub, and I’ll go through each one below:
Memories (your games)Projects (in-game mission content)Exchange (rewards)Vault (narrative content)
The Animus Hub is only supported in Assassin’s Creed Shadows for now, but it will be added to other ‘Period 2’ games in the series (Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla and Mirage) at a later date, and, of course, all future Assassin’s Creed games as well.