With Assassin's Creed Shadows imminent, Ubisoft has lifted the veil on The Animus Hub, the project once known as Assassin's Creed Infinity, which it definitely doesn't want you to say is a new Assassin's Creed launcher.

The lack of flexibility in when you can change characters reads as an intentional design choice, as if Shadows is denying you the chance to have as much fun in the sandbox as you’d like. The titular Assassin’s Creed creed stipulates in part that “everything is permitted.” Well, clearly not everything!