If you’ve seen any marketing for Battlefield 6, you know that it takes the fight to New York City. Right from its initial announcement over the summer, Battlefield Studios put a major emphasis on a campaign mission and multiplayer map that would have players causing destruction in the streets of Brooklyn. The announcement was met with just a hint of trepidation. Would the military shooter series be able to handle a terrorist attack on iconic NYC landmarks sensitively enough, especially during a time when American politicians are doing everything in their power to paint major US cities as warzones?

Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed series is staged around noteworthy historical time periods, which typically means the series looks beyond American shores. The United States is less than 300 years old, and that doesn't give us a ton of material to work with. Reportedly, though, Ubisoft wanted to tap into that well once more.