Raiden Skin
The Raiden Skin is one of the unlockable Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Outfits, a tribute to the Metal Gear Solid series' Cyborg Ninja character Raiden. While the skin appears to be full-body, Ezio Auditore's hair and face remain unchanged, possibly a move by animators to avoid needing to make an entirely separate set of facial expressions for one skin. Also if the player is not in a memory, the player cannot die from falling.
How to Obtain
The Raiden skin can be unlocked in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood by finishing all the training sessions in the Animus Virtual Training Program with at least a Bronze Medal. Once this is done, it will appear under the outfits sub-menu in your inventory and can then be equipped.
Notes
The Raiden skin alters several characteristics:
- While wearing the skin, no Hidden Blades are visible whatsoever.
- Since the Raiden skin has no visible sheath for Ezio's weapons, all of his equipment will appear to float in midair at roughly three to four inches from his body. Additionally, just as in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Raiden's SOCOM pistol can be seen in the hip-holster, despite the fact that it cannot be used.
- While not necessarily a change in style, the Raiden skin appears to have a more fluid movement style while climbing and a much blockier style while running. This is most likely the result of movement-conservation techniques used by animators that carried over between character models, since very little of Ezio's legs are visible with his default outfit.
- In the loading screen after unequipping the Raiden skin, the character model will flip back a cape that isn't there yet, since the idle animations load faster than the skin itself.
- Whilst wearing the Raiden skin, same as the Altair Robes, Florentine Noble Attire, and Desmond skins, the dagger is in a different position, on top of/under the sword, when you draw your dagger it will travel down the length of Ezio's leg then appear in his hand. This will happen even if you have no sword equiped.
Gallery
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The Raiden Skin in the outfit menu. -
The Raiden Skin in-game. -
MGS Raiden Bonus Outfit
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MGS Raiden Skin close-up
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Ezio "Raiden" talking with Leonardo
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Ezio "Raiden" escorting Salai
