Welcome to Egypt

If you don't discuss it in depth, the deepest first impression of Assassin's Creed: Origins is that the story takes place in Egypt during the Cleopatra era. Ubisoft has always been good at choosing historical themes as the background of the game plot, and this time is no exception. It just didn't expect that it didn't push the storyline to the expected World War I or World War II.

Ubisoft has already gained a great advantage in terms of subject matter alone. Egypt has always been full of mystery in the eyes of modern people. Just thinking about how we can explore the pyramids and the Sphinx image is enough to make many players excited.

The Assassin's Creed series is never afraid of competing with anyone in the picture, so the Egypt presented in this work is also very beautiful. When you walk through the dunes, you can see the details of the sand; when you crawl in the oasis, the grass leaves will bend. You can always see the standing pyramids on the horizon, and Ubisoft promises that they can all be explored in the official version.

Of course, the story is still a typical "Assassin vs Templar" drama, after all, it is the most important conflict in the entire series. This may make you feel a bit old-fashioned, but it can still be exciting to explore the Egyptian world. It is worth mentioning that this game no longer seems to be a science fiction tone. At least you can't see the special effects of the Animus system in the trial, which brings a greater sense of immersion.

A new open world

Although open world games are considered Ubisoft's old career, it is probably stressful to do it now, because the previous "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" and "Horizon: Dawn of the Zero" have set high new standards for the "Open World" category. Ubisoft launches "Assassin's Creed: Origins" this time, and the whole world wants to see if it can make progress.

Assassin's Creed has shown us many historical cities over the years, such as Jerusalem, Venice, Paris, and London. They are indeed beautiful, but they always make you feel less human. However, this Egypt is different. When you walk in the streets and alleys, you can encounter various emergencies, such as tax collectors pushing the people, crocodiles attacking fishermen, etc. These events do not even count side quests, and you can decide whether to watch coldly or be enthusiastic about helping. As long as these details do not give people a serious sense of repetition, they can make the world full of vivid atmosphere.

When creating this game, Ubisoft puts "immersion" in a very important position, and it even claimed that in the new game, there will be no longer "game end" scenes except for the death of the protagonist. This means that tasks no longer force you to complete them in a way specified by the developer. If you try to assassinate someone but are discovered by him and then run away, the next mission will not fail, but you must search the whole city to find him.

In addition, your actions will also have an impact on the world, which in turn canIt will also affect you. If you act too arrogantly, someone may hire a bounty hunter to deal with you. These people will not be like Jing Cha in "Grand Theft Auto", but will keep searching for your traces on the map.

Combat System

In the past, the combat system of the Assassin's Creed series was very simple. Most of the time, you can kill the enemy by just entering the anti-counter attack when it starts attacking. This mechanism ignores the weapon type and attack distance, and the judgment is also very loose, and even if the wrist blade is facing the upper qiang, you can easily win. Although this makes the game very easy to get started and the performances are gorgeous, players quickly get tired of it.

In this work, Ubisoft remakes the entire combat system of the series. I don’t know why I feel like “Dark Souls”. The light and heavy attack is located on the two shoulder keys on the right side of the handle, while the defense operation is on the left.

From this generation, Assassin's Creed's combat system has become more like a traditional action game. When fighting against strong hostilities, the outcome of a mistake in positioning may be serious injury or even death. Compared with the previous work, moving, dodging, and blocking have become more important, not just a performance that makes the battle scenes look better.

After strengthening the character level and damage system, various different weapons also become more meaningful, such as bishou with short attack distance, low damage, but fast attack speed, or axe with extremely slow attack speed and high damage, etc. In addition, there are several types of bows, each with its own characteristics.

The new work emphasizes the combat system so much, so the importance of the natural stealth mechanism has decreased slightly - but in the past, Assassin's Creed, it did not pay much attention to stealth. Of course, stealth is still an effective way to complete tasks. Assassination attacks can cause huge damage to the enemy, or even die immediately. But if the player's level and the enemy's level are too different, even if a backstab hits him with a painful blow, the enemy will eventually fight back. Assassin's Creed: Origins are highly suppressed.

General Review

Many players choose to give up Assassin's Creed because each of its game looks very different, but in fact, the gameplay has never changed at all. However, after "Assassin's Creed: Origin", I believe that there will be no few who want to try it back.

Compared with the previous works, "Assassin's Creed: Origin" seems to be a brand new game. With a world with more desire to explore, a more vivid city, and a completely remake combat system, Ubisoft tries to solve the fatal problems that existed in the series in the past. Compared to the previous game's large but empty collection elements, the new RPG system can give players a clearer sense of purpose. "Make yourself stronger" is a more powerful game motivation for players. They just mechanically collect various elements, but just satisfying obsessive-compulsive disorder.

At least judging from the content provided by the game trial, the official version of "Assassin's Creed: Origin" is worth looking forward to. It may still be different from what many people expect of Assassin's Creed, but at least the game has become more interesting. Ubisoft, determined to regain his reputation, performed well in "Watch Dogs 2", so we might as well have some confidence in it this time.

If you want to say what else is worrying about this game, it is that its entire system is too far from the predecessor of the series, which may anger many diehard fans. But what exactly will happen depends on the game after it is released.