Remember when of us needed all of the supernatural stuff axed from Assassin’s Creed? Thanks to expansions like Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: Torment Of Hades, which launched at present, they’re a bit quieter now. Continuing the story arc kicked off in Fields Of Elysium again in April, Kassandra (or Alexios) is headed right down to the underworld, which implies going by means of its three-headed, fire-breathing guard canine. Turns out that Hades doesn’t respect strangers doing a Kratos on his pets, and presses you into his service. Below, a narrative trailer and Alice Liguori’s video report on the underworld.
While I hope to make time to hack by means of hell itself this weekend (assuming I can get my subsequent mod column completed early), Alice Mk.3’s video under ought to offer you an concept of what to anticipate. As with the earlier growth, you’re off to a wholly recent and surprisingly massive surroundings. This fairly grubbier, extra torment-focused layer of the underworld is the polar reverse of the wonderful floral blooms of Elysium, and jogs my memory a little bit of Hell from Doom 2016, solely a bit extra private. All these characters that you just murdered in the primary game are right here, and largely sad.
A big chunk of this DLC is devoted to following in Kratos’s footsteps, searching unruly, incorporeal lifeless of us through the Tartarus Rifts. Activating one enables you to beat up ghosts, at the price of halving your most well being, making for some attention-grabbing problem missions. It additionally encourages stealth, as when you get noticed earlier than attending to the rift, you’ll be hunted by invulnerable ghosts till you activate one. It’s nonetheless sneaky-stabby AC motion, however with a enjoyable supernatural twist, and an excuse to make use of one other three super-powers, which exchange regular expertise, however will be toggled off if needed.
There’s additionally an elevated deal with boss fights right here. As properly as kicking the god of dying’s canine (you monster), you’ll be monitoring down and brutalising a bunch of lifeless heroes with a purpose to persuade them to fill in for the pummelled pup. Some of the cult, mercenary and large story villains get a second lease of (un)life right here too, through a reworked mercenary system. While nothing revolutionary, it’s a intelligent remix of present techniques. Alice didn’t suppose the big-name hero battles labored so nice (Achilles’s heel isn’t even weak), however preferred the returning baddies, and reckons it’ll take you a very good seven hours to get by means of this chapter, or extra for 100% completion.
Torment Of Hades is out now, and obtainable as a part of the bigger season go, or the Fate Of Atlantis growth. In order to go to hell, you’ll have to complete Fields Of Elysium. If you’ve nonetheless not completed Odyssey’s predominant story arc, you possibly can no less than skip straight to The Fate Of Atlantis when you so want, however as Alice warns, you’ll miss out on lots of the affect of assembly the folks you despatched to the underworld. You can see the accompanying patch notes here. Fingers crossed that Ubisoft can stick the touchdown on the third chapter – Judgement Of Atlantis – later this 12 months.
