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E3 2018: Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Modern Day Story Picks Up From Origins
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will pick up its modern day story with a familiar face. As revealed at E3 2018, Layla Hassan’s story hasn’t come to an end just yet, and will continue in the forthcoming iteration. If you haven’t wrapped up Assassin’s Creed Origins just yet, we recommend to stop reading now as spoilers will follow.
While we don’t know much about where the modern day story will go, or Layla’s connection to Alexios or Kassandra, the last time we saw her, she was heading to Alexandria with William Miles. Faced with few other options and her partner from the Sigma Team captured, she allies with Miles and the Brotherhood, though she is not a member herself.
Ubisoft’s showcase also confirmed the game to be set in Ancient Greece. We also know that for the first time in the core series, players will be able to choose a male or female character, Alexios or Kassandra, to play as for the entirety of the game. Naval combat also makes a return, and the RPG systems introduced in Origins are being expanded even further, including with branching dialogue choices.
Odyssey release for PS4, Xbox One, and PC on October 5.
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Microsoft’s E3 press briefing was the one we needed, the one we deserved, and arguably their best one ever. They came into E3 2018 with fan confidence, perhaps, at an all-time low. Sure, the Xbox One X is a fantastic piece of hardware, but less-than-glowing review scores for Sea of Thieves and State of Decay 2 did nothing to change the negative narrative surrounding the quality and especially quantity of Xbox’s first-party output. In unleashing 50 games total at E3 — including 18 with exclusivity — and five new first-party game studios, Phil Spencer and the Xbox team made it clear that while the current-generation battle with Sony may be lost — at least in the hardware installed base department — Microsoft is playing for the next round and they’re playing to win.
E3 2018: Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Release Date Revealed
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey developer Ubisoft has unveiled a release date for the latest installment in the series, just ahead of E3 2018. Odyssey will release October 5, 2018 on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
Odyssey will take players to ancient Greece. Specifically, the game happens around 431 BC, in the middle of the Peloponnesian War, and prominent historical figures like the philosopher Socrates and ‘Father of Medicine’ Hippocrates will play a role in this adventure. You play a mercenary in the middle of the battling Athenians and Spartans but aren’t on either side.
The game will allow you to play as a male or female character, much like Mass Effect; you’ll choose between playing as Alexios or Kassandra, who both have the same story and play identically but with different character models and voice actors.
For more on everything Ubisoft, including the latest news and updates on Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, head over to GameSpot’s full coverage from E3 2018.
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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is venturing into territory the Assassin’s Creed franchise has never fully immersed itself in before in an attempt to fully honor the premise of making history your playground. Explaining this new creative direction as “putting choice at the core” of the Odyssey experience, Ubisoft’s new Assassin’s Creed is going to be incorporating romance options into the gameplay. The two playable characters, Alexios and Kassandra, will have a wealth of romance-able characters, a decision narrative design director Mel MacCoubrey says will help personalize the experience for each player.
“With our focus on relatedness between the player and the game, we wanted a story that would impact people, so we wanted to tell a personal story. In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, we’re telling a story of a family that has been torn apart and a family tragedy,” she told IGN during a group interview at a Ubisoft press event at E3 2018. “We thought it would be better to place those romances in the world, to have their own stories to be able to develop those stories further, instead of forcing an opinion on you as a player.”
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