Assassin's Creed Origins

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  • Summary: Set in mysterious Ancient Egypt, Assassin’s Creed Origins is a new beginning. Experience a new way to fight while exploring the Great Pyramids and hidden tombs across the country of Ancient Egypt, and encounter many memorable storylines along your journey. And discover the origin story ofSet in mysterious Ancient Egypt, Assassin’s Creed Origins is a new beginning. Experience a new way to fight while exploring the Great Pyramids and hidden tombs across the country of Ancient Egypt, and encounter many memorable storylines along your journey. And discover the origin story of the Assassin's Brotherhood. [Ubisoft]… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 29
  3. Negative: 1 out of 29
  1. Gaming Age
    Oct 27, 2017
    100
    Assassin’s Creed Origins manages to live up to the expectation that the preview event gave me. I dubbed it “near perfect” after that event, and the final product does not disappoint. A few pacing issues late in the story caused things to drag a little bit, and the loot system doesn’t remain intriguing after the first few hours, but finding a complaint beyond that is difficult. You can nitpick some of the graphical hiccups or complain about repetitive side quests, but even those manage to stay fun and interesting with all of the different styles of play. On a day with two other heavy hitting AAA games and an amazing TV show releasing simultaneously, your time and money are going to be precious commodities. With Game of the Year talks coming up, Assassin’s Creed Origins is a serious contender for the title in my book.
  2. GameCrate
    Nov 9, 2017
    90
    For those of you who were suffering from franchise fatigue, Assassin’s Creed Origins should cure your ailment. Ubisoft’s increased development time for the game brought a gigantic open-world full of stories, exciting battles, and a loot system that have you exploring for dozens of hours.
  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Dec 30, 2017
    90
    Ubisoft Montreal managed to make Egypt not only beautiful, but extremely atmospheric. When you’re admiring the city and a mounted patrol rushes past you, you always get that urge to step aside to avoid getting trampled, even though you know you can eviscerate them all in a blink of an eye. [Issue#225, p.32]
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  4. App Trigger
    Nov 3, 2017
    85
    Assassin's Creed: Origins marks a new beginning for the series as this open-world prequel successfully merges the old and new. While not perfect, the result is still a deeply satisfying Egyptian playground that will revitalize your love for a series that was starting to fall by the wayside.
  5. PC Gamer
    Nov 1, 2017
    84
    Naturally, once you've beaten the main quests you can continue exploring the world, and the biggest compliment I can give Origins is that I'd much rather be playing it than writing about it. It's a got a dazzling and beautiful setting, lots of enjoyable systems for mischief and mayhem, and has just the right amount of diversions and distractions to keep you busy without ever feeling like busywork. The extra year Ubisoft took with Origins didn't result in a completely new and novel experience, but it did provide one of the best games in the Assassin's Creed series.
  6. Games.cz
    Jan 2, 2018
    80
    This killer holiday in Egypt is definitely no boring. On the contrary, it is a pleasant excursion to the times, when the sphinx had a nose, and mysterious killers did not call themselves assassins. You cannot find a nicer version of an Ancient Egypt in any other game, and up to it it’s entertaining. A modest family story affects the whole empire at the end, and you will forgive a handful of bugs to its charismatic heroes, as well as the fact, that you have played the same pattern so many times, just in another scenery.
  7. Quarter to Three
    Nov 3, 2017
    40
    Why not think of Assassin’s Creed: Origins as a lovely and chill sightseer sim? It only took about forty hours of game tax to get here, but you’ve earned it.

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  1. Positive: 263 out of 495
  2. Mixed: 118 out of 495
  3. Negative: 114 out of 495
  1. Tre251
    Oct 27, 2017
    10
    Played for a couple hours I have no issues at all, everything runs smooth for me and the game has not crashed.

    My Rig CPU: AMD FX-8350    Played for a couple hours I have no issues at all, everything runs smooth for me and the game has not crashed.

    My Rig
    CPU: AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Clocked 4.2Ghz 8 Core
    RAM: 12GB Ram
    GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050 TI SC 4GB GDDR5
    SSD Drive OS + Hybrid Secondary Drives For Installed Games

    Visuals are amazing using the autoconfigured preset which was high for everything getting 50-65 FPS on high settings even during combat. Using Uplay client to play the game not steam version. Uplay client built games just run better on Uplay and steam users always complain about more bugs on the steam version.

    I love that you get flashback missions not just cutscenes when something big happens like killing a high-rank enemy, giving you a backstory to the point of why your taking down this high rank masked one etc. the map is quite big bigger than any AC universe and if you wanna 100% this game then it will take you some time.

    Struggling a little with combat I'm so used to countering then killing like all the other AC games if you think the combat is simple compared to the other games your in for a little surprise!

    YES! there is a Helix credit system, so for people who don't have time to grind can buy in-game currency to spend and some weapons can be unlocked via Uplay credits which are free to earn via your Uplay account anyway. I personally don't buy in-game content at all and only believe that if micro-transactions are on multiplayer games it is unfair.... for single player games the only things you buy with your real money for in-game currency..... if you even want to buy them only affects your personal experience for campaign, not like GTA Online, Battlefield, Battlefront 1 & 2 Loot Packs etc etc so for single player content i don't mind but I personally don't buy content from any game I play!

    Apart from that 10/10 definately an upgrade for syndicate and the bugged monster Unity!

    Would recommend.    … Expand
  2. Solidsphere
    Nov 14, 2017
    10
    I really enjoyed the game. Graphics were beautiful. I'm only writing a review, because there was so much critiquing of performance I almostI really enjoyed the game. Graphics were beautiful. I'm only writing a review, because there was so much critiquing of performance I almost didn't buy the game. I found it to run smooth on my system at 50 FPS on very high. I highly doubt a lot of the bs DRM performance killing claims people have been making.
    CPU: i5-2500(no OC) GPU: GTX 970 RAM: 8GB    … Expand
  4. Bakdassa
    Mar 21, 2019
    9
    I think that even when the game can't be better than ac 2 and brotherhood, for me, is the 3rd best of the whole franchise, it has an improvedI think that even when the game can't be better than ac 2 and brotherhood, for me, is the 3rd best of the whole franchise, it has an improved gameplay and the combat sistem is more challenging than previous games, the open world is beautifull and huge, its really fun to travel trough the desert and the cities, the new eagle sistem is just perfect and improves one of the weakest points of the ac games.

    The only thing that i would improve, would be the story and the amount of secondary missions, but even with that, is one of my favorite games.

    Btw... ot runs perfect on my computer with ultra settings, i have a ryzen 7 2700x and a rtx 2070.

    Note... sorry for my spelling, I speak spanish so sorry for the mistakes    … Expand
  5. JaGamer
    Jan 20, 2019
    8
    Wonderful game, beautiful settings, story is a bit lame and dragging but I come to like Bayek and Aya a lot. Pharao DLC also has veryWonderful game, beautiful settings, story is a bit lame and dragging but I come to like Bayek and Aya a lot. Pharao DLC also has very beautiful netherworld settings but also lacks some deep decent story like the main game.… Expand
  6. Geralt123
    Jul 5, 2020
    7
    Graphics 10/10
    Main Quests 7/10
    Side Quests 4/10 Combat 6/10 Graphics -------- The graphics are gorgeous, but the combat is quite    Graphics 10/10
    Main Quests 7/10
    Side Quests 4/10
    Combat 6/10

    Graphics
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    The graphics are gorgeous, but the combat is quite repetetive that you will clear the same enemy camp 1000 times.

    Main Quests
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    Story is ok, but nothing special at all

    Side Quests
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    Oh man...90% stupid quests that lack any creativity. Very sad compared to Witcher 3. Most quests are like "go there, kill all bandits" or "go there, escort/free someone".

    Combat
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    Combat is mediocre, not very complex, annoying sound effects, annoying slow motion effects, extremely repetetive, limited enemy movesets

    The climbing mechanics are quite fun.

    This game lacks true emotions, feels like a mainstream Hollywood movie. It was clearly not made with love. It was made with a "good enough" objective.

    Cities look very good, but NPCs keep saying the same phrase over and over and most houses you cannot enter. You cannot even open doors. Very annoying and cheap.

    I bought it for 13 Euros and that's ok. But please, don't be fooled by the good graphics. This game is unfortunately mediocre. It is not bad, but not good either.

    How does it compare to Witcher 3? Maybe it's 50% of it, it is just to boring and repetetive.

    How does it compare to Dark Souls 3? Combat is a joke compared to Souls Games. It totally lacks compexity and is always the same button mashing.

    Ubisoft, next time you make a smaller open world with a better story, better quests and better combat. Improve your quality!

    After all I somehow enjoyed it, but it is quite a lackluster game.    … Expand
  7. kesik93
    Dec 8, 2022
    5
    This is not even an Assassin's Creed. It's just lazy Witcher 3 clone but worse in every possible way. Compared to the previous AC gamesThis is not even an Assassin's Creed. It's just lazy Witcher 3 clone but worse in every possible way. Compared to the previous AC games Origins have worse gameplay, worse parkour, worse clunky combat and worse story. And game runs terrible on PC.… Expand
  8. ChampionofDeaTH
    Oct 29, 2021
    0
    так же тупое подобие ведьмака, с тремя городами в пустыне абсолютная тупая игра разве что интересна египетская мифологиятак же тупое подобие ведьмака, с тремя городами в пустыне абсолютная тупая игра разве что интересна египетская мифология

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