How to get Assassin’s Creed Origins silica.While there’s a strong sense of humour running through Egypt - “why did it have to be snakes?” howls Bayek in one tomb - there’s true feeling at work here and the eternal presence of death manages to simultaneously be trivial as you cut down endless guards in inventive ways, and heart wrenching as you see its consequences in both the campaign and multi-layered side quests. The sense of scale only escalates and, playing on Xbox One X, the visuals are nothing short of spectacular whether you’re watching the morning sun rise over seas of sand, or hurtling over the red rooftops of Alexandria, realising that the tiles underfoot sound just like Assassin’s Creed 2’s Florence.īrilliant characters and genuinely emotional dialogue means you’ll feel your way through every part of Origins.
Origins has no qualms about delivering you to entire cities complete with Coliseums 80% of the way through your campaign, knowing full well you’ll be back for more once it’s all over. The impressive story campaign guides you through beautiful lush farmland, craggy mountains and Greek cities before leaving you to unwrap the rest of the world like a giant living hidden-blade wearing Christmas present. This isn’t just a world of deserts, pyramids and palm trees. Hit the map and you’ll have to zoom out for four seconds longer than usual and that’s before panning across endless different regions, each with their own distinct feel. While Creed maps have seemed overwhelming before, they’ve got nothing on Egypt.
Assassin’s Creed Origins might celebrate a whole decade of the franchise - insert joke about feeling old here - but a year off for the series means that this leap of faith into the Animus might just be the spinning 360 ° pinnacle of the series so far. More ridiculous adventures where hungry vultures circle, and cruel, masked gladiators race across the desert sands in chariot pursuit. I have a lot of stories and, while Anubis greets me at the end of some of them, others see Bayek and I riding into golden hued sunsets of Ancient Egypt to create more.