The "Assassin's Creed" series of video games is adored for painstaking historic accuracy, but also sparks controversy with heavy use of artistic license -- most recently with a black samurai in the latest installment,

One of the characters is based on Yasuke, a formerly enslaved black man from Mozambique, who worked for the Japanese war lord Oda Nobunaga.

With ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows,’ Ubisoft has made a visually stunning, mechanically uneven entry — including its best stealth gameplay in years.