It’s just over a week until Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is out. For ages, I had zero interest in the game thanks to my playthrough of Assassin’s Creed Origins still fresh in my memory. I’m now thoroughly over that, because I like the direction that the game is taking the series.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is coming in just a few weeks, and it’s shaping up to be an incredible game – edging the franchise ever closer to becoming a fully-fledged RPG. Set during the peak of Greece’s golden age, it’s a game filled to the brim with action, myths and choices. Here's all of the stuff coming post-release
Assassin's Creed Odyssey is out next month, and we chatted to the game's Senior Producer, Marc-Alexis Côté. Topics covered in the interview include setting choices and scope, fundamental changes to the franchise experience and post-launch content.
We got hands-on with the opening two chapters of Assassin's Creed Odyssey to see if it's a reskinning of last year's Origins or a must-play new gaming experience in its own right. Here's what we uncovered.
It’s less than a month before Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is out, putting you as a soldier in Ancient Greece’s Peloponnesian War. To prepare for the release, Ubisoft has revealed the sort of PC you’ll need to shape the fate of history before the dawn of the Assassins
Speaking at Gamescom, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has confirmed that there won't be a new Assassin's Creed game in 2019 as the company seeks to continue supporting Odyssey
That Nemesis System was a stroke of inspired cleverness by developer Monolith Games, an idea that players wanted to see copied and pasted in other games. To a certain extent, Ubisoft’s upcoming Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will have its own take on the gameplay mechanic, offering players Mercenaries instead of Nemesises…Nemesi…dammit what’s the plural of Nemesis I should know this oh right it’s Nemeses.
Athens must have been a masterpiece of a city when it was bustling, as its ruins still stand today after centuries of war, wear and tear. For Ubisoft, the challenge in recreating Athens came from finding the right balance between digging out the original city from across the ocean of time and staying as authentic as possible to its origins in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
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A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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