Killer Assassin's Creed games could be coming to Nintendo Switch

Killer Assassinator's Creed games could be coming to Nintendo Switch

Ezio Auditore, the player character of Assassin's Creed II

(Image credit: Ubisoft)

Update (Jan 12): This is at present official! Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Drove for Nintendo Switch is coming on February 17.

A batch of 3 remastered Assassinator's Creed games could be on their fashion to the Nintendo Switch, according to a fresh rumor.

If y'all fancy revisiting renaissance Italy for a spot of targeted murder and parkour, or never experienced the story of Ezio Auditore the get-go time around, then we have some good news. Twitter leaker Directly-Feed Games (via NintendoLife) claimed in a new tweet that the Switch volition soon receive the full trilogy of games starring the Italian assassin, originally launched for the PS3 and Xbox 360.

The Nintendo Switch already has access to Assassin'southward Creed III, and Assassin'southward Creed: Insubordinate drove, which contains Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag and Assassin's Creed Rogue. Japanese players besides have the choice to play a deject streaming version of Assassin'due south Creed Odyssey too. Therefore, it was simply e'er a matter of time before more games came to the platform.

From Straight-Feed Games' tweet, it sounds similar trilogy will be a new version of 2016's Assassinator'southward Creed: The Ezio Collection, which launched for the PS4 and Xbox Ane. This packet is made of iii games: Assassinator's Creed Two, in which Ezio takes on the mantle of assassin to hunt his family's killers across Italian republic; Assassin's Creed Alliance, where Ezio slowly liberates Rome with the help of a ring of hooded minions; and Assassin'due south Creed Revelations, which sees an older Ezio travel to the Middle East to learn the hugger-mugger history of the Assassin guild. Also Desmond Miles is around in the nowadays day, doing something of import to the plot that yous ultimately don't care about.

The drove makes some graphical updates and bundles in all the DLC for these games, plus a couple of animated brusk films on top. Nonetheless, you exercise miss out on the multiplayer modes with this collection, one of the unique parts of the experience that didn't get continued in later Air-conditioning titles.

At that place's a lot of competition for the best Nintendo Switch games, betwixt Nintendo's strong first-party library and the surprisingly robust number of indie and AAA games that have been ported to the organization. However there's probably notwithstanding room for the tale of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, if this trilogy is indeed on its style to the Switch.

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