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Assassin's Creed
Origins
by Matt Cabral

ASSASSIN'S CREED ORIGINS GOES BACK
TO THE BIRTH OF THE BROTHERHOOD
TO PUSH THE FRANCHISE FORWARD.
MUCH LIKE PUMPKIN SPICE
lattes, pretty foliage and
football, the Assassin's Creed
franchise was a seasonal
staple you could count on
every fall. The annual series
was absent from 2016's busy
holiday line-up, however,
leaving faithful fans without
any skylines to climb, cities
to sneak through or throats
to slit.
After the last few entries
threatened franchise fatigue,

publisher Ubisoft decided to
put the popular stealth-action
sandbox series on ice until
it could offer an entry truly
worthy of wearing the iconic
Assassin insignia. That entry
is Assassin's Creed Origins, an
ambitious reinvention crafted
by the core team behind
fan-favorite, pirate-themed
installment Assassin's Creed IV:
Black Flag.
As game director Ashraf
Ismail explains, Origins

is focused on putting a
refreshing, innovative spin
on the franchise's familiar
formula. "When we started
this game, our intention was to
create an authentic Assassin's
Creed experience, but reinvent
that experience. We wanted
to modernize the series, so
everything from a new world,
new character, new setting
and new action-RPG system
is there to enhance the way
you explore the world and find

■ SHIELDS UP:
Sword-clanging
action in Assassin's
Creed Origins.

■ NO, NOT THAT
MEMPHIS: The
ancient Egyptian
city of Memphis is
brought back to life
in Assassin's Creed
Origins.

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meaningful rewards."
Ironically, the series is
revitalizing itself by going
back to the fiction's very
beginnings. In fact, Origins
not only serves as a prequel
to all previous entries, but
- as the subtitle suggests
- it explores the birth of the
Assassin Brotherhood. Behind
new cloaked killer Bayek, we
recently got a taste of the
game's many aforementioned
enhancements, from its
ancient Egyptian setting
and revamped gameplay
mechanics and systems to
its cinema-rivaling visual
presentation.
Taking place in the
3,000-year-old city of
Memphis, our hands-on
session doesn't start with
an epic clash of steel or a
pulse-pounding scamp across
rooftops, but with a bull
suffering from a belly ache.
More accurately, we're tasked
with investigating the illness



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