Ubisoft Releases Assassin’s Creed Origins After Two Years of Developing

Jessica Fosse, Life Editor

A stroll through the streets of Alexandria, Egypt and scaling the Pyramids of Giza seem amazing, but adventures in Egypt can expand more through video games.

After producing nine Assassin’s Creed games, Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed: Origins on Oct. 27.

Ubisoft has been releasing Assassin’s Creed games every year since 2007 until 2016 when they decided they would take a year off to ensure Origins was a great game.

Displaying all the historic landmarks, the game takes place in Egypt during the reign of Cleopatra. Players would take part the assassin, named Bayek, and assist Cleopatra and Julius Caesar to keep rule over Egypt from Cleopatra’s brother.

This single person game does not include a minimap, unlike previous Assassin’s Creed games. Instead players are given a compass bar that points in the direction of quests and objects.

Bayek also has an eagle companion that players can use as a bird’s-eye view when trying to spot things.

The game has a huge draw distance (which is how far you can view from a high point) as well as very small details.

Though the basis of the game is an open world RPG or role-playing game, Assassin’s Creed is a lot of parkour which is animated to match the motions and physics of a human. Origins is no exception to the clear animation.

Alanah Pearce of IGN noticed that the combat animation changed depending on the people being fought.

“Your enemies do significantly more damage per hit than we’ve seen before,” Pearce said. “There’s more urgency in knowing when to block, when to dodge, and when to parry; that, of course, depends entirely on what kind of enemy you’re fighting, what their specific combat animations are, and how many of them are attacking you at once.”

Origins is priced at $60 in most retail stores like the other Assassin’s Creed games when they were first released, but the price usually drops once the DLC or downloadable content for the game is available.

According to IGN, it takes about 30 hours to complete the main campaign or storyline and another about 40 hours to complete every side quest.

Ubisoft announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in 2013 that the series will eventually have an ending.

Long-time fans of the game will keep playing if they keep topping their previous games.