While Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is a great action-adventure title, it gave up so much of the series’ core identity in pursuit of its Ancient Greek power fantasy. Origins offered a back-to-basics approach that was ultimately for the better, despite introducing a host of new issues that would continue to persist through its sequels. It made for a refreshing break from the modern missteps of the previous title, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, with its button-mashing combat, reliance on guns, and disappointing story. It was the furthest back in history that the franchise had gone up to that point, and detailed exactly how the ancient assassins came about around a thousand years before the rise of Al Mualim’s order in the original Assassin’s Creed. Assassin’s Creed Mirage could change all that if the course correction can be done effectively and avoid repeating the same mistakes.Īssassin’s Creed Origins is an excellent RPG that features robust hit-box combat, one of the series’ best protagonists in Bayek of Siwa, and a truly gorgeous Ptolemaic Egypt starting from 49 BC.

While things were back on track with Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, a genuinely excellent pirate game but so-so assassination simulator, the franchise never quite hit the mark the same way ever again. It attempted to do too much and buckled under the weight of its ambition with under-baked mechanics and an unfocused main narrative that was far from the franchise’s best. The cracks began to show with Assassin’s Creed 3 an ambitious yet flawed title that was set during the American Revolution of 1754 to 1783. There was everything you could ever want in an open-world game: an excellent story, compelling characters, exciting gameplay, and effective stealth which learned from the playbook of the Hitman series.įor as much as I loved the Ezio trilogy (spanning from Assassin’s Creed 2 to Revelations), I found that the series had begun to lose its way by going bigger and bolder. When I first played the second game in the series, Assassin’s Creed 2 in 2009, I was hooked. If you asked me a decade ago what my favorite game series was, I would have swiftly replied: Assassin’s Creed.

From shots of the confined Baghdad’s urban sprawl, the emphasis on social stealth and parkour, this upcoming entry looks to fix the modern Assassin’s Creed’s major flaw: its lack of mechanical identity. A young Basim dressed in iconic white Assassin's Creed robes in midairĪssassin’s Creed Mirage looks to be a throwback to the golden age of the series – something the franchise is in desperate need of.

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