My prior experience with the Assassin's Creed games is limited. I played a bit of the first game on PS3 but didn't get very far, and I also picked up Assassin's Creed: Unity for $5 but only played the first mission. The first Assassin's Creed I enjoyed but just never got around to finishing it while I hated Unity. My favorite genre of games are role-playing games, especially open world ones, so this game fits right in. I heard about this game from looking into Assassin's Creed again after one of my favorite PS4 games, Final Fantasy XV, had the Assassin's Festival event. The location of Egypt intrigued me and I had never seen another game (especially a PS4 game with amazing graphics) set there, so I pre-ordered it and it was probably one of the best gaming decisions I ever made. This game is amazing.
I think the best part about this game is the setting in Egypt. The developers did a fantastic job recreating ancient Egypt. It is absolutely stunning. The pyramids are the main part they are pushing in advertising for the game, and indeed one of the most enjoyable activities in the game is climbing the Great Pyramids and looking out over all of Egypt from their peaks, and then sliding down the sides once you've had your fill of sight-seeing. However, there are many other places to go and breath-taking sights to see in Egypt. My favorite place to go is Alexandria. I love going to the Great Library and being surrounded (in the game at least) by the vast collection of ancient wisdom and having the great statue of Zeus (which reminds me of Zeus Olympios, one of my favorite Wonders of the Ancient World) towering over me. I'm also not sure how realistic it is, but it is also possible to look from the doorway of the Great Library in the game and see the Lighthouse of Alexandria, another Wonder of the Ancient World, towering in the distance. Overall, Alexandria in particular is a shining example of one of my favorite parts of the game: being able to essentially visit cities that are now lost to history. If you've ever wanted to see the Library of Alexandria or the Lighthouse, or see the pyramids before they were too weathered, playing Origins will get you as close to those experiences as it is now possible to get (and hopefully a PSVR update at some point may get you even closer!). Also, in addition to Alexandria, there are many other beautiful sights to see, including lush green areas, sprawling deserts, swamps (watch out for crocodiles and hippos!), and large seas and rivers. All of it rendered with beautiful grahpics, as well - the sunlight glinting off the water I think is especially well done, and how realistic the water looks both when swimming on top and when diving is incredible. There are also many other little things that make the game seem rather realistic, such as when you whistle for your mount it seems to often come out from behind some corner or obstacle instead of just appearing out of thin air, and if you whistle for it when you are already really close (but maybe it is down a cliff it can't climb or something) it won't just port to where you are and you have to go maybe a few 10s of meters up further before you can whistle again and it will port a little behind you and appear to come out from behind a corner, as if it had found some way to navigate the cliff or something that you hadn't found when riding it. Lastly, I think you also get a better perspective on just how old Egypt is and how long ancient Egyptian society actually lasted. Before playing this game, I grouped ancient Egypt into essentially one time period, but this game takes place around 2000 years ago during the time of Cleopatria, and yet there are still many ruins in there day and the pyramids are considered ancient even by the people in the game, being built almost another 2000 years before then. Also, before playing this game, I thought that the Sphinx was about the size of the pyramids, however the game shows that it is much smaller than the pyramids (Bayek even comments that it "is smaller than I expected"). Overall, I think the Egyptian setting is one of the best parts of the game and it makes me excited for what technology may be able to do with historical simulations in the future. I am definitely excited for the release of Discovery Tour mode.
As far as other aspects of the game, it took me a little bit to get use to the movement and combat of the character but once I did I think both are really enjoyable mechanics. I at first disliked how you could not have Bayek jump on flat land, but after a while I got used to being able to make him jump or climb whenver there was an obstacle. Also, there are a variety of different melee and ranged weapons Bayek can use, all of which give a different feel when using, so you are likely to find your favorite. My personal favorites are regular swords, sickle swords, and heavy weapons for melee, and warrior bows and hunting bows for ranged. There are also many cool costumes you can get in the game which make Bayek look really cool.
As for the story, I have gotten all the way to level 40 but have not done any of the main quests beyond The Snake quest, which is essentially among the beginning story quests. I was not overly drawn into the main storyline initially and was more interested in exploring Egypt, so I have not done much with the main storyline and cannot comment on that yet. I plan to eventually finish it and will update this review when I did. As far as stories with the sidequests, many of which I have completed, I have found the sidequests to be rather interesting so far. They aren't the most interesting quests I have ever done but they aren't the worst, either. There is also a ton of content in the game. I have explored most of the map and done a bunch of sidequests and got all the way to 40, and there are still many locations I have not completed and many quests I have not done, so you should have no trouble getting to level 40 and it should be a while before you are bored or have nothing to do in the game. I also like that after you get to level 40, you can still earn more experience and just get ability points for the "levels" you earn without the additional level increase. In most games they stop you from earning levels and ability points. Even if you put enough time into the game to finsih everything, there is a bunch of stuff you can just do exploring Egypt to have fun. There is an ability you can get in the ability tree that lets you tame sleeping animals - I tamed a hippo and led it all the way to the Library of Alexandria (though for some reason it wouldn't go in), then I untamed it and watched the chaos unfold as it attacked citizens and guards had to come and fight it. There are also daily quests from a merchant named Reda that you can get to get really good weapons every day, and Ubisoft has been running Trial of the Gods events which let you fight Egyptian gods in epic showdowns. You need to be level 40 or close to it to participate in them, but so far they have released Anubis, Sekhmet, and Sobek (I will now be calling all crocodiles "children of Sobek" after playing this game...) for players to fight. Overall, there are hours and hours of content to keep you busy for a long time, and Ubisoft has much more content it plans to release, especially if you own the Season Pass. You are likely to never get bored with this game.
To conclude, this game is one of the best I have played. It has a massive amount of content and its recreation of ancient Egypt is absolutely beautiful and lets you come as close as possible to experiencing lost wonders of the world for yourself. I do not yet have the Season Pass but plan to get it soon, and it sounds like the Season Pass unlocks even more great content for this great game. Playing it definitely gives you a new perspective on ancient Egypt. If you haven't gotten this yet, I highly recommend you get this game, and the deluxe edition gives you a pretty cool costume, horse, and weapons in addition to the base game.
Update May 13, 2019: I finished this game a while ago and wanted to confirm that the entire story is indeed very good and it is worth completing it. I have also completed the expansion content and think it is definitely worth getting the season pass for. The Curse of the Pharaohs is very fun - you get to fight four famous pharaohs of Egypt, and you get to enter their tombs which take you into a part of the afterlife. I thought the new afterlife areas were very interesting to explore. I wasn't as impressed with The Hidden Ones expansion, but it still opened up a new area of Egypt to explore. It wasn't the most interesting being a mostly rocky area of Egypt, but it was interesting nonetheless and you get to see how Bayek is doing a few years after the end of the main game. Overall, I recommend both playing both Origins' main story and also getting the season pass for the expansion stories and to explore the new areas.
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