➀ The Assassin's Creed series has been evolving from a stealth game to an open-world RPG, often featuring maps that are unnecessarily large. ➁ Ubisoft seems to be addressing this by making the map of Assassin's Creed Shadows smaller than Valhalla's but larger than AC: Mirage. ➂ The map size of Assassin's Creed Shadows is compared to previous games like Syndicate and Odyssey, highlighting the changes in map size over the series' history.