{"id":21964,"date":"2018-07-05T20:28:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T10:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=21964"},"modified":"2018-07-05T20:44:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T10:44:42","slug":"assassins-creed-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=21964","title":{"rendered":"Assassin’s Creed Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Developer:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Ubisoft Montreal
\nPublisher:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Ubisoft
\nPlatform:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Playstation 4<\/p>\n

A<\/span>ssassin\u2019s Creed<\/em> is a series that I\u2019ve tried to get into no less than four times.\u00a0 Each time, I\u2019ve bounced right off.\u00a0 It hasn\u2019t been any one issue.\u00a0 Across the various games the story has failed to hold my interest, the overwhelming number of repetitive and simplistic missions has turned me off or the actual mechanics of the gameplay just lost its appeal well and truly before I\u2019d reached the end of the game.<\/p>\n

But I kept coming back for another go because in principle, the idea of an expansive open-world video game with a triple A budget that is set in some of the most interesting periods of human history is right up my alley.\u00a0 I want<\/em> to lose myself in an adventure set during Victorian era London.\u00a0 Or Civil War era America.\u00a0 Or Napoleonic era Paris.\u00a0 The potential for each of these games is always off the charts.<\/p>\n

Ubisoft themselves seemed to recognize that whilst the Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/em> series has sold extremely well, it wasn\u2019t quite hitting the mark and with some of their recent titles copping additional flack for poor technical performance (Assassin\u2019s Creed Unity<\/em> in particular), they gave the series a much needed \u2018year off\u2019 before returning with Assassin\u2019s Creed Origins<\/em>, a game based in ancient Egypt.<\/p>\n

Giving the series an extra twelve months of development time has paid off handsomely.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a long time coming, but this has finally been the Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/em> game to successfully get its hooks in me and it\u2019s the first one I\u2019ve seen through from start to finish.<\/p>\n

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Origins<\/em> is set in Ptolemaic era Egypt where players take on the role of Bayek, a Medjay (ancient Egyptian mercenary) who serves the people of Siwa.\u00a0 It is a tumultuous time in Egyptian history as there is a power struggle between the Pharaoh and his sister Cleopatra.\u00a0 Bayek becomes entangled in this power struggle when masked assassins abduct him and his son Khemu.\u00a0 Bayek escapes but his son is slain in the ensuing melee.\u00a0 A year later Bayek and his wife Aya resolve to hunt down all those responsible \u2013 a clandestine group known as the Order of Ancients.\u00a0 Thus, the stage is set for Assassin\u2019s Creed Origins<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Origins<\/em> is a massive game.\u00a0 It pulls a similar trick to a lot of other open world games where it lets you get used to a certain size and scale on the map, only to pull waaaay back and reveal that you\u2019ve actually only spent the opening few hours of the game in a tiny pocket of the overall map.\u00a0 Even after completing the story from start to finish, there are still large expanses of Egypt that I hadn\u2019t uncovered.\u00a0 Origins\u2019<\/em> scale is far beyond the scope of what I would ever have time to fully explore.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of new developments and gameplay additions to Origins<\/em> that are a first for the series but most importantly, Assassin\u2019s Creed Origins<\/em> has much more charm and personality than its predecessors.\u00a0 The Egyptian setting provides a rich and intriguing backdrop for the player to explore and in Bayek, Ubisoft has created their most engaging protagonist since Ezio all the way back from Assassins\u2019 Creed II<\/em>.\u00a0 Bayek is well spoken, intelligent and compassionate.\u00a0 A character whose company you are happy to keep.<\/p>\n

Not unlike Geralt\u2019s work as a witcher in CD Projekt Red\u2019s famous series The Witcher<\/em>, Bayek\u2019s role as a medjay goes a long way towards helping to contextualize his actions helping the people of Siwa.\u00a0 The relationship he has with his wife Aya is also a breath of fresh air for a series that has its share of broody and silent protagonists.\u00a0 Both Bayek and Aya are likeable, well-rounded and outspoken characters.\u00a0 Aya\u2019s agency in tracking down the Order herself, independent of Bayek, is also a welcome aspect to her character.<\/p>\n

In terms of gameplay, the core mechanics of Origins<\/em> \u2013 the parkour and the combat \u2013 feels pretty similar to other entries in the series.\u00a0 However, the welcome addition of some light RPG mechanics help round out the experience and add some much needed sense of progression and purpose to the proceedings.\u00a0 When you\u2019re unlocking new moves via a skill tree and finding new weapons that have variable stats, it makes the grind of working through the 100+ side quests much more enjoyable.\u00a0 I think these additions to Origins<\/em> were the key to keeping me engaged once the game hit its stride.\u00a0 In previous entries, I\u2019d grown weary of the storyline and gameplay when I reached the ten hour mark.\u00a0 With Origins<\/em>, this was when the game really began to hit its stride.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m stoked that Ubisoft has finally tweaked its Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/em> template to a point where it clicks for me.\u00a0 I\u2019d happily experience the Origins <\/em>gameplay template applied to other periods of history so I\u2019m looking forward to where they take the series next.\u00a0 The company appears to be back to its annual cycle and first up is Assassin\u2019s Creed Odyssey<\/em>, set in ancient Greece.\u00a0 Not only will the game have all the features of Origins<\/em>, it\u2019ll be the first in the series to have a playable female lead.\u00a0 Sign me up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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