System: Xbox One X
Rating: 7/10
Playtime: ~75 Hours
If you're into the style of AC Odyssey, you're in for a good time here.
Odyssey is a story of having simply too much to do for it's own good. The graphics look good, the three main stories are interesting enough, and the game play is the same as you've come to know with the next gen of Assassin's Creed games. The gold rimmed question marks, and the side characters they lead you to are good, with some being standouts like Socrates being one of my favorite parts of this game.
The problems come in when you look at the size of the map, and see the amount of things you have to do. The white question marks all eventually become the same thing, and they seem never-ending. If you completed Origins at 100%, howlongtobeat.com says it has an average of 80 hours, which is big on it's own, but Odyssey takes that up another fifty hours, to 130, and it eventually becomes too much for it's own good.
If I didn't start off by attacking the question marks on the map and just stuck to real side quests, along with the gold ?'s, I believe that I would've enjoyed this game more, but by the time it came to it's conclusion, it just felt like a drag, and that's the biggest disappointment of all.
Rating: 7/10
Playtime: ~75 Hours
If you're into the style of AC Odyssey, you're in for a good time here.
Odyssey is a story of having simply too much to do for it's own good. The graphics look good, the three main stories are interesting enough, and the game play is the same as you've come to know with the next gen of Assassin's Creed games. The gold rimmed question marks, and the side characters they lead you to are good, with some being standouts like Socrates being one of my favorite parts of this game.
The problems come in when you look at the size of the map, and see the amount of things you have to do. The white question marks all eventually become the same thing, and they seem never-ending. If you completed Origins at 100%, howlongtobeat.com says it has an average of 80 hours, which is big on it's own, but Odyssey takes that up another fifty hours, to 130, and it eventually becomes too much for it's own good.
If I didn't start off by attacking the question marks on the map and just stuck to real side quests, along with the gold ?'s, I believe that I would've enjoyed this game more, but by the time it came to it's conclusion, it just felt like a drag, and that's the biggest disappointment of all.