Origin takes place around 50BC and is primarily set in Egypt. It is easily the best setting change in series since Ezio's games, and a unique well made location just in general. Detailed beautiful environment that can be explored outside of the game with a historical focus. Excellent weather effects, and day/night changes that alter how NPCs behave. Your eagle animal companion, Senu, serves as stand in for the usual dull vision mode is a very nice change as it allows you to focus on the world more and to use the view as the eagle to mark enemies, find alternate paths, or just to get a different view of the environments.
Easily the best series protagonist, a character focused on revenge as a motivation but not in a dull constantly raging or drunk way that tends to go there are a lot of moments to humanize the main character throughout the game. You are older than most game protagonists and your role in Egyptian society has you running into a lot of friends, your wife (also a playable character), and past acquaintances in your travels that lets you learn more about him. When he's not dealing with his enemies, Bayek is friendly, sarcastic, good with children while seeing his own dead son in them, and actively attempting to help the people he cares about and learn about the problems effecting his people. Side quests are the best they have been in the series, showing more about the main characters past, continuing to aid allies after their role in the main story is done, showing more about the people and culture, and offering much more variety gameplay and world building wise than the past games obsession with killing random targets or tailing people for information. The first good modern plot in some time, both character and information wise but also easier to ignore it and to just quickly get back to the main plot if its what you want.
Animus hack feature allows you to edit many different games settings, animations, how enemies and NPCs behave, it and the lab for Total War Warhammer 2 are two of the best setting/cheat/mechanic altering features added to games that I've seen in recent years.
The only real negative I had with the game is the amount of experience you need to not only gain all of your abilities but to at least gain all of your tools or options to engage with enemies. It would be nice if you at least gained all of your tools through normal gameplay.
Screenshots: https://twitter.com/Legolas_Katarn/status/1125222020877152257
https://twitter.com/Legolas_Katarn/status/1124939314943578113
https://twitter.com/Legolas_Katarn/status/1125218250390827008
Easily the best series protagonist, a character focused on revenge as a motivation but not in a dull constantly raging or drunk way that tends to go there are a lot of moments to humanize the main character throughout the game. You are older than most game protagonists and your role in Egyptian society has you running into a lot of friends, your wife (also a playable character), and past acquaintances in your travels that lets you learn more about him. When he's not dealing with his enemies, Bayek is friendly, sarcastic, good with children while seeing his own dead son in them, and actively attempting to help the people he cares about and learn about the problems effecting his people. Side quests are the best they have been in the series, showing more about the main characters past, continuing to aid allies after their role in the main story is done, showing more about the people and culture, and offering much more variety gameplay and world building wise than the past games obsession with killing random targets or tailing people for information. The first good modern plot in some time, both character and information wise but also easier to ignore it and to just quickly get back to the main plot if its what you want.
Animus hack feature allows you to edit many different games settings, animations, how enemies and NPCs behave, it and the lab for Total War Warhammer 2 are two of the best setting/cheat/mechanic altering features added to games that I've seen in recent years.
The only real negative I had with the game is the amount of experience you need to not only gain all of your abilities but to at least gain all of your tools or options to engage with enemies. It would be nice if you at least gained all of your tools through normal gameplay.
Screenshots: https://twitter.com/Legolas_Katarn/status/1125222020877152257
https://twitter.com/Legolas_Katarn/status/1124939314943578113
https://twitter.com/Legolas_Katarn/status/1125218250390827008