A Plague Tale: Innocence - Coats of Arms

The third game in the Plague Tale series is a prequel set on a Greek island.

Seriously, where are all the rats?

The Plague Tale series' new game changes genre and style as we discovered in preview hands-on gameplay — watch footage here.

Where A Plague Tale's Amicia spent two games hiding in the grass, Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy's smuggler Sophia is far more athletic and trained for danger, and it plays less like a full-blown stealth puzzler than like Assassin's Creed crossed with Tomb Raider. On this evidence, it's the best the series has ever felt in our hands.

It's all-change in Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy. This series - known for stealth and the emotional adventures of brother and sister Hugo and Amicia in plague-ridden France - now no longer has stealth, no longer has Amicia and Hugo, and no longer takes place in France. But - and I say this as someone fond of the Plague Tale series and who's played the new game for an hour or so - Resonance is undeniably a Plague Tale game, and a very promising one at that. Read more