Could Assassin’s Creed Odyssey guess set through the Roman days of Greece? Here’s what we all know thus far…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey launch date

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Ubisoft is prone to reveal the discharge date for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey at their E3 2018 convention, which takes place on June 11 at 13:00 PT / 16:00 ET / 21:00 BST. 

Anonymous sources have informed Kotaku  that Odyssey will launch throughout Ubisoft’s 2019 fiscal yr, which concludes March 31, 2019. They consider that Odyssey will ship this autumn, returning the sequence to the yearly schedule it has used since Assassin’s Creed II. 

However, Ubisoft’s earlier statements recommend {that a} 2019 launch is extra possible. Assassin’s Creed Origins was launched two years after Assassin’s Creed Syndicate as a result of improvement workforce requesting extra time, and the end result was probably the most extremely praised video games within the sequence. In February 2016, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot stated that “the goal is not to automatically come back to an annual cycle,” suggesting that the corporate wish to adhere to the brand new launch cycle. 

Instead, Guillemot recommended that Assassin’s Creed Origins DLC is what the studio has deliberate for the sequence, with ongoing assist in 2018. As such, a 2019 launch for Odyssey appears reasonable, probably launching within the February/March interval of Ubisoft’s calendar that was beforehand occupied by video games like For Honor and Ghost Recon Wildlands. 

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey setting

Our first glimpse on the subsequent recreation within the sequence got here within the type of an Assassin’s Creed Odyssey keychain, adorned with a golden helmet of distinctly Greek design. This was quickly adopted by a brief clip of a soldier kicking one other character off a cliff, mimicking the well-known scene from the graphic novel 300 and its movie adaptation. Clearly Greece is our subsequent vacation spot. 

However, whereas it could be tempting to consider that the distant years of Ancient Greece would be the setting of Odyssey, it’s extra possible that the sport shall be set a lot, a lot later than the time durations of the Trojan War or the Battle of Thermopylae. Assassin’s Creed Origins, which chronicled the delivery of the Assassin Order, software place through the Ptolemaic interval of Egypt. That’s 49-47 BC. The Trojan War was 1260 – 1180 BC, putting it far too early to be an occasion witnessed by the Assassins. While Ubisoft might definitely give you a lore purpose to go to this era, it appears possible that Assassin’s Creed Origins will all the time mark the earliest level within the sequence timeline. Last yr there have been additionally leaks that recommended that Origins was the beginning of a new Assassin’s Creed trilogy, and that the second half could be set in Greece. All fingers appear to level to a time interval later than 47 BC. 

So what is going to Odyssey revolve round? Well, it might take us to the Greek peninsula below rule of the Romans, particularly the interval through which it grew to become the province of Achaea in 27 BC. Augustus, the primary Emperor of the Roman Empire, was in cost, and would make the proper overarching historic determine for the sport. 

What’s extra, we all know that on the finish of Assassin’s Creed Origins, Aya travelled to Rome to assassinate Julius Caesar, who was the Dictator of the Roman Republic and the chief of Rome earlier than Augustus – his maternal great-nephew – took management. This neatly ties the story of Origins to a key Greek interval. 

Basically, it seems that we might be a trilogy of Roman Empire video games, beginning with Caesar’s story in Origins, Augustus’s in Odyssey, and who is aware of what within the third recreation. Our guess, although? Tiberius. It doesn’t appear out of the query that Origins and Odyssey are constructing to a finale involving the delivery of Jesus Christ.   

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey gameplay

Until the E3 reveal we are able to’t say for certain what new gameplay options will seem in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, however Kotaku’s sources recommend that we’ll be taking part in a recreation that’s much more of an RPG than Origins was. Allegedly, we’ll be seeing dialogue choices for NPC conversations, and a alternative of two predominant characters to play as – both a male or feminine protagonist. 

Aside from that we all know completely nothing. However, it’s in all probability secure to imagine that the fight mechanics and new questing construction from Origins will return, as will the loot and weapon methods. The Greek setting additionally means that the mythological components of Origins, the place you fought colossal representations of Egyptian gods within the desert, might return. Finger crossed for that, as a result of who doesn’t need to bash Zeus’s head in with a mace? What do you imply ‘go play God of War’?