Assassin's Creed Chronicles

The game is set in China in 1526 with Shao Jun as the protagonist, a character that was earlier introduced in the short film Assassin's Creed: Embers .

Set two years after the events of the film, Shao Jun is one of the few remaining Assassins of the Chinese Brotherhood.

Her brotherhood was wiped out by Zhang Yong, the leader of a group of eunuchs known as the Tigers, which are in fact Templars controlling the emperor as a puppet.

Her new leader Wang Yangming calls her back to China to push back the Templar influence.

She brings along the Precursor artifact given to her by Ezio Auditore.

At the start of the game she lets herself be captured to infiltrate a former Assassins stronghold now controlled by the Tigers.

The game has a linear side-scrolling design, but with a lot of vertical movement.

At times it is possible to move to a plane in the background and Jun can hide in alcoves or pass unnoticed by hanging from ledges.

The game brings over the parkour movement of the main series with jumping, crouching, vaulting, sliding, sprinting, platform sections and more.

Although a combat approach is possible, the game encourages the use of stealth.

Each level is split up into multiple sections and based on the stealth performance (times seen, times alerted, assassinations and combat kills) one of three Shadow Style ratings is awarded along with a number of points that act as experience to access upgrades such as increased health.

Enemies have a visible awareness cone based on line of sight.

Next to white that shows the reach of their sight, there is a yellow state where guards investigate and a red state where they alert others and attack.

Jun has a large amount of abilities to wield stealth.

She can take cover in alcoves and assassinate from there and