Anyone planning on playing this? Anyone played it? The setting (medieval Baghdad) sounds like fun, and Al Jazeera says they put a lot of work into historical accuracy of the city, and into making it pretty.
I admit my impression of medieval Baghdad is mostly based off “Tashkent” in the Chronicles of Narnia, but i would be happy to see another interpretation.
Anyway, I’m wondering both if the game is any good, and also if there’s an easy mode accessible to people who suck at the physical skills of moving around in a video game. (That would be me.)
But i enjoy the “walking around pretty and interesting places” aspect of video games.
(It might be worth adding “Mirage” to the title to make it clear which AC game you’re referring to.)
I haven’t played it yet, but I’ve played most of the games so I’ll probably play this one too. In theory I like the idea of returning to the shorter stealth + assassination games; I found AC: Valhalla to be too long (140+ hours of basically the same gameplay?) for my personal taste.
Skill Up (whose channel has the best long-form video game reviews I’ve come across) gave it a thumbs down, but one of the few things he complimented was the “walking around Baghdad because it’s neat to look at” aspect. So you might like it!
Architecture porn is my no. 1 reason for playing AC games. It’s why I think the series peaked with Syndicate. Yeah, yeah, conspiracy theories, precursors, kumquats of Eden, whatever - I want to climb that cathedral!
Eventually stopped playing because the plot was so dumb, and the climbing mechanic had been nerfed until it didn’t really qualify as “game” play anymore.
The review says that the plot of this one sucks and there’s a lot of parkour. Those are both negatives for me, since I’m too clumsy to succeed at parkour. So i probably won’t be playing it. But i might rewatch the review on my TV to enjoy the scenery a little.
In the last couple AC games, the parkour element has been really simplified. You just hold down a button while you move towards the wall, and you automatically scale it. The older games in the series, you had to find hand holds and make tricky jumps, but the modern games, it’s not any more difficult than just walking around on the ground.
At least, that was Odyssey, which is at least two games back in the series. I don’t know that the new one works the same.
I remember reading about older games in this series having a museum style mode where you could just explore the historical environment even without playing the game. I heard that teachers would use it.
The YouTube channel ACG gave it a buy recommendation. He had some quibbles with it but, overall, enjoyed playing it and saw it as closer to the early Assassins Creed games that made the series famous.
Personally, I am a little gun shy these days. I loved the first ones, not liked some later ones. Not sure about this one yet myself (I am only going on a few reviews…I have not tried it).
Valhalla had some climbing puzzles, but they were more along the lines of a platforming game rather than trying to figure out how to get from point A to point B (as you mention).
Spider-Man looks at the AC protagonists with envy. He wishes he could wall-crawl so well.
Yeah, how to climb a wall in a newer Assassin’s Creed game:
Walk over to wall
Hold the A button
You can pretty much do it with one hand while you eat a sandwich. (I think I’ve actually done that, now that I think of it.)
Oh and I haven’t played Valhalla yet, but Odyssey is one of my favorite games of all time. I actually want to visit Greece in real life one day based only on playing that game.
Yea, my general policy for AC games is wait a few years till they drop down to a couple bucks, and then play for a few hours just to enjoy walking around the historical settings. I think the Egypt one is the only one Ive actually “played” as a game.
