After cca 100 hours I've almost completed
Assassin's Creed Origins.
What's that almost? That's fukn need4speed chariot races. I did "the tutorial race" just so I can write about it, but that filler garbage does not deserve to waste time on it.
Everything else, locations, main story and all sidequests I cleared.
Awsome (partially already present in WD2):
- More than 100 sidequests were never done this good in AC games, most don't feel like a filler and are connected to the main story while chaining on each other and in between
- The world map is not full of useless clutter
- The game went RPG direction (sadly not completely because of Ubi greed)
- The world presentation of ancient Egypt is visual candy
- Historical facts to learn from scrolls and rocks are not gamecentric
- There is plenty of humor
Good:
- Graphics in general, although it's not better than TW3
- Ambient sounds and FX
- Combat is darksoulslike which means easy peasy brain on a vacation, but the game won't force you to grind like in DS, all trashmobs including minibosses have weaknesses
- Eagle (or is it a hawk?) with it's view and it's useful for sneak/combat perk
- Apart from handheld quest pointers there is more stuff to discover just by exploration (example papyrus puzzles)
- Shipfights are as fun as were in AC:Rogue
- Except chariot races, K+M Controls are generally good although diving suffers from being mushroombased and feels clunky (mitigated with a skill not to drown for a long time)
Bad:
- Hair
- Social rubbish photos cannot be disabled by default
- Motion blur horror cannot be disabled
- Outfits and mounts have no stats. Both are cosmetics that lead to letdowns, for example winning arena bosses nets you certain outfits that are basically the same one recolored and it doesn't get you some stat boost nor better protection, this ain't RPG! Why is this so? Because Ubi insisted to keep it under microtransactions idiocy.
Unforgivable atrocities:
- microtransactions
- music is so low it feels as if was from cheap indies and not AAA title
- CPU hammering code
- scam schemes: preorder only mission, deluxe only mission and season pass
- presence of lootboxes in the game, maps not buyable without real $
- presence of need4speed racing trash (on top of that K+M controls are horrible in that "activity")
Hopefully I didn't forget anything.
You should buy the game. Not now. Wait till it's complete (season pass will bring apparently beefy postgame content with special bosses but also early assassins missions and quests) and wait for sale.
Remember that after you finish the main questline, ingame $ gets a better use than wasting it on stupid lootboxes. Besides the second best weapon in the game is not gambling based but you get it from a quest (sadly the best weapon you can get only from lootboxes).
The game is interesting, it's fun and if Ubi was brave enough not to push scams but instead give us a complete nobullshit game like AC:Rogue was or like Elex is it'd be 9 out of 10 perhaps even more if outfits played any role in combat stats or if the game contained c&c.
The game functions as linear RPG and it yells for choices/consequences system, however the setting where you're reliving someone's memories through a machine simply doesn't allow it. I mean, the protagonist says a few times he doesn't want to raid tombs, but cmon, I just want to!
Perhaps this "obstacle" can be somehow removed from future AC games in a way "what would happen in future if" or something. Till Ubi removes scamware and c&c happens:
7/10
P.S. Initially I wanted to punish the scam parts even more and slap 6, but IMO this certain thing was the designer's choice and deserves a whole + point:
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2017/11/t...s-already-built-into-assassins-creed-origins/
This is not the first time Ubi's actual game makers (not their silly CEO or whatever board of suits are pushing scams) feel fresh before something happens - WD2 contained a mission about hijacking hospitals with ransomware a month or two before it happened in the real world!
