Ubisoft developer Johnathon Dumont, the creative director of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed game, held an AMA (“Ask me anything”) on Reddit today to give out some new Assassin’s Creed Odyssey information that told us a great deal about everything we’ll be seeing in the new game, which takes place in Ancient Greece. Odyssey will be taking a different tack from the other Assassin’s Creed games that were released before it. Where Ptolemaic Egypt chronicled the start of the Assassin Brotherhood and the beginning of their conflict with the organization that would become the Templars, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will instead chronicle how the Pieces of Eden first came into the hands of man. Characters will be playing as one of two Greek mercenaries, named Alexios and Kassandra, as they travel across Greece in order to stir up unrest against the city-state of Athens, which rules Greece with an iron fist before the conflict known as the Peloponnesian War. The Assassin’s Creed Odyssey information also says that there will be a wide variety of both old and new mechanics in the game. The map will be larger than that of Origins, with a lot more content, but half of the map will be sea, though there will be seven different biomes to explore. Speaking of that sailing is returning to the map, but not to the extent of Black Flag. Your ship will play a significant role however; your crewmates will fulfill the Brotherhood mechanic from the Ezio side games and Assassin’s… [Read full story]
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