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In open-world games, more and more people are curious about how big the total play area is when you compare it to something in the real world. If you’re wondering how big Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ entire map is, wonder no more, as we now have an answer.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows Entire Map Size Roughly A Quarter Of The Windy City
Thanks to The Nerd Stashwho calculated the Assassin’s Creed Shadows map by creating a rough rectangle housing almost the entire game’s playable space. This is achievable via the game’s waypoint system that allows players to gauge the distance from the farthest possible location of the marker. Per the calculations, it measures approximately 13,000 meters from north to south, while west to east is around 11,000 meters. This gives a total area of 143,000,000 square meters or 143 square kilometers.
That’s around 55 square miles or a quarter of the size of Chicago’s total land area. It might not be super big if you frame it that way, and it pales in comparison to the most enormous Assassin’s Creed map, which is from AC Odyssey. That game had a map size (including the sea) of 256 square kilometers or around 99 square miles.
Comparing it to other Assassin’s Creed games, here are the top three (via Game Rant):
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey – 256 square kilometers (99 square miles)
- Assassin’s Creed Black Flag – 233 square kilometers (90 square miles)
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla – 120 square kilometers (46 square miles)
How Does AC Shadows Map Size Compare To Other Games
Assassin’s Creed isn’t the only game with a vast open world. In comparison to other franchises, here’s how it stacks up:
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 28.9 square miles
- The Witcher 3 (Including Toussaint) – 20.8 square miles
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 6.1 square miles
- Marvel’s Spider-Man – 4.62 square miles
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 – 9.2 square miles (Insomniac said it’s roughly twice the size of the first game’s map).
- Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 – 12 square miles
If you compare Assassin’s Creed Shadows to other games, you can see how it fares much better. Of course, a game’s land size doesn’t matter if there’s nothing to do. Thankfully, that’s not an issue in AC Shadows.
In other news about the game, while it was delayed multiple times, it seems to be doing well for Ubisoft, as it hit an impressive milestone less than 24 hours after it launched.
If you need help with 16th-century Japan, our exhaustive Assassin’s Creed Shadows wiki page has a wealth of information.
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