Assassin's Creed Origins

 PC
User Score
7.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 2376 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,389 out of 2376
  2. Mixed: 510 out of 2376
  3. Negative: 477 out of 2376

Review this game

  1. Your Score
    0 out of 10
    Rate this:
    • 10
    • 9
    • 8
    • 7
    • 6
    • 5
    • 4
    • 3
    • 2
    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
  1. Submit
  2. Check Spelling
view
per page
  1. faonik
    Nov 1, 2017
    5
    Tanking performance to "protect" a game from being cracked is inexcusable. I will change my review after Ubisoft have decided to take out Denuvo and allow the game to be played to its fullest potential.
  2. Brahim_Amine
    Aug 20, 2019
    7
    Beautiful game, but it doesn’t feel like an assassins creed game. I may be a bit of a fanboy, but I just miss the subtlety of the first few entries. I feel the stealth mechanics don’t work very well, and that a leveling system is unnecessary for the franchise. The game feels too grindy and the story isn’t interesting enough for me to want to follow. With any story, I feel it’s easier toBeautiful game, but it doesn’t feel like an assassins creed game. I may be a bit of a fanboy, but I just miss the subtlety of the first few entries. I feel the stealth mechanics don’t work very well, and that a leveling system is unnecessary for the franchise. The game feels too grindy and the story isn’t interesting enough for me to want to follow. With any story, I feel it’s easier to follow when you know how a character feels through the story, and Bayek had hardly any character, so it was hard for me to stay engaged in the story. I feel Unity, although really buggy and in dire need of a lot of polishing, was a step in the right direction. I don’t like being FORCED into combat and feel open combat should be a punishment for getting caught while in stealth.… Expand
  3. Sirex2003
    Nov 7, 2017
    5
    A ton of bugs. But main problem of this game is that world and quests fills completely separate from each other. You can wipe out and loot out hideout, and then get a quest to take an artifact in same place, and then take a guest to free someone there. So you have to go in the same places over and over again (it's very boring). is it so hard to place there that artifact and someone fromA ton of bugs. But main problem of this game is that world and quests fills completely separate from each other. You can wipe out and loot out hideout, and then get a quest to take an artifact in same place, and then take a guest to free someone there. So you have to go in the same places over and over again (it's very boring). is it so hard to place there that artifact and someone from the start? Combat animation is broken when height level is different for character and NPC. Carriage system is absolutely horrible since Syndicate. Since Unity the only thing changing is world around, and it's beautiful.… Expand
  4. Pat
    Nov 13, 2017
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First, some of the negatives.

    If you have played the first 10 hours of Assassin's Creed: Origins, then you have played the whole game. The combat is fun for a little while, but pretty much all the non boss enemies you will encounter are seen in that 10 hours. The main story plus doing side quests and exploring took 35-40 hours, so the repetitiveness gets a bit grueling. The main character is likable, but terribly gullible. He is constantly manipulated by his wife, who repeatedly coaxes him into carrying out her bad decisions as well as becoming a mass murderer, by playing on the loss of their son. The game then forces you to play as her, but she has the same skill set as the main character except not as good. Worse versions of all the main characters abilities, worse weapons an armour, etc. She's mean to everyone. She complains all the time. Essentially, she is the complete opposite of the main character except for his bad quality, being extremely gullible. I know they were going for strong female character here, but they created the opposite. Whoops

    Positives

    The environments in this game are beautiful and capture Egypt really well. The animations look great. They kind of adopted the Breath of the Wild climb anything mentality in this iteration. Old games required certain handhold set pieces. This gives a lot more freedom trying to navigate the world as well as infiltrate a stronghold. The fighting, for the most part, feels alright. The different weapon mods are neat. Game-play in general all feels really solid. The best part of most Assassin's Creed games for me ends up not being the games themselves, but the history they are based off of. This game is no different. Found myself looking up all sorts of Egyptian history and geography.

    Like most of these AC games, I wish the story was more gripping. If this were a movie story, it would give a 2 or so out of 10. Luckily, it is a video game :)    … Expand
  5. ajje
    Nov 19, 2017
    6
    I've enjoyed the AC series, iteration I - IV (black flag) and the main attraction of it was that it continued the stealth gameplay that the *original* Splinter cell game established, but which the latter series for some reason abandoned in its sequels. AC Origins however does away with the stealth focus, and a number of other things which made the previous titles fun to play. To me theI've enjoyed the AC series, iteration I - IV (black flag) and the main attraction of it was that it continued the stealth gameplay that the *original* Splinter cell game established, but which the latter series for some reason abandoned in its sequels. AC Origins however does away with the stealth focus, and a number of other things which made the previous titles fun to play. To me the game was a major disappointment. Where the former four installments had interesting stories to tell, characters you had some emotional attachment to, skills that manifested naturally as part of the story, Origins has none of that.

    In Origins you are a clumsy social worker with "sword", who flails unsuccessfully his weapon unless you continuously spend hours doing tedious busy-work to get a [experience] counter to increase. This means the game *forces* you to do tedious and repetitive busy-work even if all you want is to play the main story-line.

    Gameplay:
    The above paragraph says it all. The gameplay has regressed on all fronts except graphics and map size. Where the previous titles allowed you to focus on *what* you wanted to do, Origins have you constantly focus on *how*. This may appeal to some players, but it did not to me. The witcher struck a fine balance between player agency during combat and still being "an awesome hero". Origins has rougher control and response which makes fights imprecise and a bit of a crap shoot. This wouldn't have been so bad if the game didn't at the same time do away with most of the stealth which has been the hallmark of the franchise. In this combat oriented title these rough controls really got on my nerves.

    Protagonist:
    The main character is as wooden and uninteresting as a twig. Easily the least interesting character in the entire AC franchise so far. He has a wife however which has a lot more personality, seems involved in a much more interesting setting and plots. For example being an instrument to Cleopatra taking power, and when playing the game I felt that it would have been much better to have *her* cast as the lead.

    Story:
    It doesn't matter since most aspects of the game seems so detached from it. No interesting developments happening related to it, only a few lackluster recall cut-scenes which have no bearing on the progression of the game. It's a classic revenge setting. A family member got killed and off you go into the world.

    Side quests:
    The accomplishment of providing interesting and engaging side quests which the witcher game brought about two years ago has clearly been noted by Ubisoft. In Origins the company tried to tackle their number one complaint across their titles; forcing people through tedious fetch-quests. Unfortunately they did not study the inspirational title hard enough. Ubi observed some of the ingredients which made witcher side quests appreciated by the public, but failed entirely at putting those ingredients together, into something which resulted in entertainment. Instead what Origins offers side-quest-wise are still the same boring fetch-quests that have plagued the company's titles for years. The only difference to previous games is that this time they have you follow (literally run / ride behind) some uninteresting NPC, that you'll never meet again, for minutes, listening to pointless conversation, and *then* applies their old formula; pick up an item/kill a person or animal. There's absolutely no connection to the story, making these exercises entirely mind-numbingly boring and pointless.

    Technical:
    Ran OK on a Windows 7 machine with Intel i7 4770 CPU, 32GB RAM and GTX 1080 with frame rates between 40-60 FPS. No crashes that I can recall.

    Conclusion:
    This is the first AC game which I will not complete. I've invested 40 hours into it and can stand it no more.
    When I feel like playing a stealth game right now, I see two titles on my desktop. Wolfenstein NC and Origins. Wolfenstein gives me more satisfying stealth game play, controls, interesting characters and a better story. So if you're looking for some satisfying sneak-killing, then Origins is probably not for you.

    The following excellent review echoes my own feelings about the game nearly perfectly. Particularly observations 20-4 in the article's descending order. Chagrins 4-1 I did not agree with or did not suffer:
    https://www.thegamer.com/the-worst-things-about-assassins-creed-origins/    … Expand
  6. zwireqq
    Nov 2, 2017
    6
    I played every other AC game before and now I put 20 hours into Origins and I give this game 6/10. Graphics are very good, world looks beautiful and attention to details is impressive too. Combat system - nothing groundbreaking, feels ok, I dont like light paths after attacks, ruins mood for me. AI of the opponent is just meh... stupid as always. Main character Bayek is unfortunately dullI played every other AC game before and now I put 20 hours into Origins and I give this game 6/10. Graphics are very good, world looks beautiful and attention to details is impressive too. Combat system - nothing groundbreaking, feels ok, I dont like light paths after attacks, ruins mood for me. AI of the opponent is just meh... stupid as always. Main character Bayek is unfortunately dull and boring. Side quests are meaningless fetch quest, go there bring that, kill him, steal that, no real story behind them and complexity, there was only one or two that was "cool". Loot system is ok, cool looking armors and weapons. Soundtrack is amazing, Every song enhances the mood in the game. Lipsync is off very often and sometimes I beg for the NPC to stfu already, every minute you hear the same small talks of the NPC's, once I had 3 NPC talking the same text with little delay, it sounded like an echo. Performacne - CPU usage at 100% all the time, frame drops but overall not bad, I was able to run AC on ultra on my 4yr old pc. Is this game worth 60$ + 40$ season pass + micro-transactions? Hell no, but if you wait and get it for maybe 30$ at discount then its a fair price for the experience.… Expand
  7. Rrichard
    Feb 6, 2018
    7
    Good:

    Graphics
    World
    Combat

    Bad:
    Performance
    Story
    Quests

    Its like a wannabe version of the Witcher 3, with a SJW story for children. The world and graphics are enough to keep going, but its wholly unmemorable.
  8. bigdeadanimals
    Mar 28, 2019
    7
    Pros:
    - well-made world. really great work made by designers, 3 game in a row I feel sad for them, for making such incredible worlds, and not getting enough praise cause other parts of the game are quite far from "great".
    - great pre-death scenes, with great performances - quite good dlcs, outer world landscapes are one of the most visualy reach things Ive seen in last years. - now we    Pros:
    - well-made world. really great work made by designers, 3 game in a row I feel sad for them, for making such incredible worlds, and not getting enough praise cause other parts of the game are quite far from "great".
    - great pre-death scenes, with great performances
    - quite good dlcs, outer world landscapes are one of the most visualy reach things Ive seen in last years.
    - now we know why assassins started to cut finger
    - some emotionally envolving quests
    - devs continue on bringing back some good stuff that they removed in Unity and Syndicate

    Cons:
    *anti pirate system that eats a 50% more of PC performance.
    - sadly forgettable main quest with self-repeating plot (one more revenge coolstory)
    - "rpg elements", leveling that makes game more repetitive and prolonged but dont add anything fascinating. grindwalls.
    - stealth mechanics almost removed.
    - 2 hidden knifes removed. no awesome kills on the run and other cool animations from the past allowed.
    - no new cool weapons/fighting styles
    - no big items or sets that we would like to collect.
    - combat system, "inspired by" Witcher and Dark Souls. Every cool feature from the 1-4AC removed. Shield gameplay that got boring in DS2 and been removed and laughed at in Bloodborne in 2015, been copied in AC in 2017. Makes gameplay boring and repetitive af, while not bringing anything fascinating. Cool animations of parrying and killing more than 1 enemy - removed. Everything that been lackluster in Wither and DS - blindly copied while AC also add broken "lock-on" on top of it.
    - Only good thing that been added in Unity was new depth in killing main enemies. We have a place with enemy and many ways to make it to them. In Syndicate this been brought even further with awesome context kills. Now everything is removed.
    - less realism with flying numbers and stabs with giant swords that only make character to move backwards a little bit and say "ooh"
    - bad new controls. Hidden Kill placed on separate button while still only being used in context situations.
    - not an assassins creed game.    … Expand
  9. lhmtgame
    Feb 14, 2018
    6
    ACO is just a Far Cry Primal but in Third Person View.

    - I love the way they render the sand, fog, and wind effects. But I hate the way they ported the game from Console to PC version. Too much stuttering and lag. - The buying, selling, adding point system by hold your left-click is too annoying. - The inventory, gear interface are stupid and inconvenient. Why they don't make it like    ACO is just a Far Cry Primal but in Third Person View.

    - I love the way they render the sand, fog, and wind effects. But I hate the way they ported the game from Console to PC version. Too much stuttering and lag.
    - The buying, selling, adding point system by hold your left-click is too annoying.
    - The inventory, gear interface are stupid and inconvenient. Why they don't make it like FarCry's inventory menu instead..!
    - Ubi's games have one thing that make us a little bit boring... Hitting people doesn't make them fall.

    Bottom line, the game is good, or I say that it's the best in AC series. I played AC1, AC2,... only not more than 2h, each of them because it's boring. But AC Origins is interested.    … Expand
  10. oz4n
    Nov 29, 2017
    7
    Assassin's Creed is a wrong title for this decent game. I understand that the concept is "origins", so it'd be necessary to not see so much Assassin-ish stuff, but it's imho not the correct move after taking 2 years off.

    Graphics are amazing. All visuals but facial animations are fantastic in this game. The details are mind-blowingly many and amazing. I find the plot indecent;    Assassin's Creed is a wrong title for this decent game. I understand that the concept is "origins", so it'd be necessary to not see so much Assassin-ish stuff, but it's imho not the correct move after taking 2 years off.

    Graphics are amazing. All visuals but facial animations are fantastic in this game. The details are mind-blowingly many and amazing.

    I find the plot indecent; initially it was good but then it went too vague, to me it seemed like the dudes went off-budget and cropped a lot from the late parts of the game. I got bored by the last few missions and wanted to finish & remove the game quickly.

    Combat is so much fun and obviously better than the prev AC games, but again a wrong move for an AC game. Who needed it?

    Stealth is a miss. Guards are much more responsive which is great, the AI is decent; but where the heck are crowd kills or in general, the disguise? Combat is given more importance in the game. Again, wrong move.

    Parkour is totally eliminated. I show my mid finger here to the devs.

    The modern life parts were unnecessary. Everyone has an Animus these days and especially this dudette can go to everyone's past. Really?

    Anyway, all in all this was a decent ARPG game but hell no, by no means, an AC game.    … Expand
  11. Renaigse
    Feb 5, 2020
    5
    Тупейшие враги, тупейший и скучнейший сюжет, повторяющиеся и неинтересные сайды, за парочкой исключений, отвратная озвучка из-за которой порой просто пропускал катсцены, лица персонажей, которые даже в главном сюжете фигурируют просто одинаковые, вот чисто 3 модели у них всего в игре, молчу про гринд и ужасную систему лвлов,лута, те, кто додумался сделать из AC РПГ - желаю закончить им 1Тупейшие враги, тупейший и скучнейший сюжет, повторяющиеся и неинтересные сайды, за парочкой исключений, отвратная озвучка из-за которой порой просто пропускал катсцены, лица персонажей, которые даже в главном сюжете фигурируют просто одинаковые, вот чисто 3 модели у них всего в игре, молчу про гринд и ужасную систему лвлов,лута, те, кто додумался сделать из AC РПГ - желаю закончить им 1 класс. Один из худших АС ever, хуже него наверное только Синдикат. Из хорошего - графика, точнее арт-дизайн, графика весьма говно, если всматриваться.… Expand
  12. artnat
    Nov 17, 2017
    6
    Until the technical problems and abysmal performance with SLI (negative scaling!) are fixed - steer clear. Also the beginning is pretty bland story-wise. There is no hook but it gets better.
  13. dypsomaniart
    Mar 11, 2018
    6
    I wish I could say this game was awesome, but I'm at level 30, with about half the map cleared, and I just can't be bothered playing anymore. I've tried for the last week but after an hour or less playing I just get sick of it.
    The graphics are excellent, the movement physics and stuff is improved on previous AC titles, but the fighting is simple brawling and the missions and plot are    I wish I could say this game was awesome, but I'm at level 30, with about half the map cleared, and I just can't be bothered playing anymore. I've tried for the last week but after an hour or less playing I just get sick of it.
    The graphics are excellent, the movement physics and stuff is improved on previous AC titles, but the fighting is simple brawling and the missions and plot are repetitive and boring. At first I was intrigued by levelling up my gear, but that's all done now and I'm barely halfway through the game. It was cool to see the pyramids, and explore some tombs, but just doing essentially just more of the same stuff over and over with no challenge or useful rewards is disheartening (gaining xp to level up is only necessary because the level system is so wonky, attack someone a few levels higher than you and you barely do any damage at all while they can one shot kill you) so gaining xp feels less like a reward and more like a forced grind so you can continue.
    Kudos to the graphical design teams and artists, the world is beautiful and it ran smoothly on my pc mostly, but the game itself gets boring and repetitive quickly, and it's just not fun or challenging (yes I could go and fight enemies ten levels above me and slowly wear them down for a challenge, but after putting 300hrs into Nioh, the fighting in this game is abysmally boring and simple). I've seen people say you should use different attack styles to make it interesting, but, why bother? when I can just hack up the enemies, why bother being stealthy? it's not a challenge it's just slower. Why even bother hacking them up when I can just use a magical guided arrow to kiil them one by one? I'll just hack em up anyway, it's quicker...
    I can't honestly recommend this game. I was hoping for another black flag, but this isn't it.    … Expand
  14. FreedomFigher
    Nov 9, 2017
    6
    Ubisoft it is so obvious that you use fake reviews! Why? Nowadays companies like Ubisoft are not doing what they should do. BRING SOMETHING NEW IN TO THE GAME INDUSTRY. AC is a very good game series. But it can not develop anymore. The process is no more attractive and funny. AC Origins is a good game but is is old AC game with a few additional things.

    PROS - Big world. If you like    Ubisoft it is so obvious that you use fake reviews! Why? Nowadays companies like Ubisoft are not doing what they should do. BRING SOMETHING NEW IN TO THE GAME INDUSTRY. AC is a very good game series. But it can not develop anymore. The process is no more attractive and funny. AC Origins is a good game but is is old AC game with a few additional things.

    PROS
    - Big world. If you like discovering a game world than you will like this game. BUT! 85% of the map is empty with no sens. Of course there are a lot of locations but most of them have only weapon. Whole game is based on weapons. They are everywhere. Ubisoft just said: OK just put a lot of stupid locations to fill the map with markers which are not interesting to players.
    - Interesting story. Egypt. Nothing to say more.
    -Fighting is interesting. But not cool or great. Just interesting.

    CONS
    - GTX 1070 - 40 fps. WHAT???
    - A lot of stupid markers and boring missions.
    - micro transactions. Very bad idea
    - lack of new interesting things. AC is dead. Admit it.
    - Big but empty map.
    - Dont even think do complete side missions. 90% are boring.

    SO
    Ubisoft made a good game which is very far from great. It is time to create another games. Stop crating Far Cry and AC. Unless you just want to earn money. Ubisoft is not communicating with fans anymore.    … Expand
  15. RagnarTheKing
    Oct 27, 2017
    6
    Sorry Ubi, I just don't feel like giving you 10/10. Playing on GTX 1060 6gb, FX-8350 and 12gb of RAM yet I get 35-40fps on lowest details. Sad even though you were given one more year to develop this game.
  16. ivan4o200
    Dec 8, 2017
    7
    I would say that the game is beautiful and stunning. The atmosphere and the setting of Ancient Egypt is is amazing. The story is good but the side activities are even better. The quest system is similar to Witcher 3 and that is great. The performance is good(I dont know why so many people complain. Yes there are some glitches and weird animations but they are bearable.
  17. Jenne
    Mar 2, 2019
    7
    Parts of the game are visually astonishing, especially the underworlds in the second DLC. And they had the right idea about the combat, even though it's still undercooked in Origins and it took Odyssey to perfect it. But relying on side quests instead of activities is a huge downer. They are boring, repetitive and unrewarding. I MUCH more preferred activities of the old AC model.
  18. MusclePig
    Apr 24, 2019
    5
    If a SJW committee made a game this would be it. Utterly forgettable story and characters.
  19. sblantipodi
    Nov 25, 2017
    5
    No SLI support means no 4K for most PC systems.
    We are approaching 2018 and it is not tolerable that I'm not able to play 4K with a 4000 euros PC.
    I have a GTX980 Ti SLI, a 5930K six cores 40 lanes CPU, everything overclocked.
  20. dylandeb
    Jan 14, 2018
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The beginning of the game is fantastic, great scenery, great story, great adventures...but the ending of the story is bad (spoilers ahead) its unsatisfying and extremely SJW. Aye is at first a love interest of Bayecks (main character) who the game is constantly reminding you, one she is a women and two she is a strong women. i actually LOVED her character at first but every time she is on the god damn screen it has to rub my face in the dirt in it. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. When you complete the main story she is the one narrating out to wrap things up, she claims she isn't "Aye" anymore and is the true first Assassin...The shadow of the creed...why did i play as Bayeck then? and not Aye?… Expand
  21. daoy
    Jul 19, 2020
    6
    Very mediocre. After thoroughly enjoying Assassin's Creed Odyssey, I figured that this would be similar and I would also love this. While the gameplay isn't bad, parts of the game are just boring. For example, the combat is extremely basic and there is absolutely nothing interesting about it.

    There are plenty of side quests of wildly varying quality. Many are some of the most boring    Very mediocre. After thoroughly enjoying Assassin's Creed Odyssey, I figured that this would be similar and I would also love this. While the gameplay isn't bad, parts of the game are just boring. For example, the combat is extremely basic and there is absolutely nothing interesting about it.

    There are plenty of side quests of wildly varying quality. Many are some of the most boring side quests I've ever done, but I've found some side quests which have very interesting stories and characters. I'm hesitant to do the side quests since I don't know if I'm in for another slog or an actually interesting experience.

    I also have mixed feelings about the story. Without spoiling anything, all I can say is that you can find interesting stuff in the story, but it is definitely not a strong point. I found a lot of the story to be quite boring, only sporadically keeping my attention.

    It might seem strange that I love Odyssey but am on the fence on Origins; but I genuinly believe that there is a huge improvement in Odyssey even though both games seem incredibly similar. Origins suffers from less interesting combat, story and characters, but is still not horrible.    … Expand
  22. Blackcompany
    Mar 26, 2018
    5
    A good game with a solid combat system that long overstays its welcome, mires down the pacing with forced side quests full of obnoxious repeating puzzles and a mediocre narrative marked by a legion of utterly forgettable characters. This is a game that should have plopped you into its open world and let you forge your own emergent path, but once again, Ubisoft forgets they are making aA good game with a solid combat system that long overstays its welcome, mires down the pacing with forced side quests full of obnoxious repeating puzzles and a mediocre narrative marked by a legion of utterly forgettable characters. This is a game that should have plopped you into its open world and let you forge your own emergent path, but once again, Ubisoft forgets they are making a game and not a movie - and the experience suffers for that fact.… Expand
  23. Legendb2015
    May 30, 2018
    5
    The only reason it got 5/10 and not a 3/10 is because I was smart enough to not spend $60 and instead watched a friend (whom cracked the worthless CPU hog that is denuevo) streaming it. So glad you put worthless DRM into your games that only makes paying customers suffer (sarcasm). That being said, its still the same cookie cutter crap, rinse and repeat. Enemies still dont know how toThe only reason it got 5/10 and not a 3/10 is because I was smart enough to not spend $60 and instead watched a friend (whom cracked the worthless CPU hog that is denuevo) streaming it. So glad you put worthless DRM into your games that only makes paying customers suffer (sarcasm). That being said, its still the same cookie cutter crap, rinse and repeat. Enemies still dont know how to fight back, combat is way too easy..so simple a 5 year old can do it. Sure graphics are decent...but alas, graphics dont equal fun gameplay and account for only 3/5 of my bars. Maps are overfilled with stupid lame grab this/grab that filler...Ubisoft doesnt know how to make a decent game..they should get into the fast food business since all their good as is crap filler.… Expand
  24. Crackfarmer
    Feb 9, 2018
    7
    First i gotta say im using the CPY version not the legitimate version, but mine has the DRM removed and the performance is awesome. Im running everything maxed out on 1080p 144hz stable on 60-72 fps. (i7 4790k & gtx 1070). CPU Load max 70%.

    Still some Textures are slowly loading in and they mostly look blurred. The Quests are somewhat okay but i don't like them personally.    First i gotta say im using the CPY version not the legitimate version, but mine has the DRM removed and the performance is awesome. Im running everything maxed out on 1080p 144hz stable on 60-72 fps. (i7 4790k & gtx 1070). CPU Load max 70%.

    Still some Textures are slowly loading in and they mostly look blurred.

    The Quests are somewhat okay but i don't like them personally.

    Microtransactions and ingame shop - im not gonna point out that this is pitiful.

    Apart from the good graphics/performace & story, i usually get bored after like 1-2hours of playing. I mainly try to reveal the map and discover stuff/collectibles. So im not doing much Quests..

    If i'd aim for the main story i would probably have more fun but the A.I is pretty bad and the missions are quite repetitive.

    But like other reviews said : The Game is too massive, too large. - i do like games with good content like Witcher 3 (replayed 3x on 100%) but not if its uncreative and stretched.

    In my opinion the game is worth like 20-30€. I do recommend using a trainer/unlocker for the ingame shop items though.    … Expand
  25. Adamcriz
    Apr 23, 2018
    6
    Beautiful graphics, scenery and detail. Ubi brought ancient Egypt to life, its utterly stunning. However, It's a little boring, gameplay wise, Singleplayer MMO style grindfest. You don't feel like an assassin. Older AC titles are build around a stealth kill system and penalised open warfare, this does the opposite, and the story isn't that gripping to begin with.
  26. eva3si0n
    Dec 17, 2017
    6
    I very much waited for new Assassin's Creed, up to the 4th part earlier I was a big fan of a series. But every year the industry left forward, and франчайз marked time. And here lower 2 years there is a new part on which at Ubisoft huge plans. This sorts restart of a franchayz. The first 30-40 hours I played with ecstasy and explored this ancient Egypt. And every hour I understood thatI very much waited for new Assassin's Creed, up to the 4th part earlier I was a big fan of a series. But every year the industry left forward, and франчайз marked time. And here lower 2 years there is a new part on which at Ubisoft huge plans. This sorts restart of a franchayz. The first 30-40 hours I played with ecstasy and explored this ancient Egypt. And every hour I understood that Origins is not a new product, and just one project of Ubisoft in which all mechanics of studio are used. Hunting and interaction with animals - Far Cry, Oryol drone from Watch Dogs, big empty and boring (in comparison with Skyrim and Wild Hunt) the world from Wildlands. Fighting mechanics - For Honor on the minimum requirements. A plot which had to tell about formation of an award? Why, if fans can push nonsense with set of historical persons. Let's give to formation of an award of 30 minutes of a game - same INGENIOUSLY. A game is a degradation of a series. The majority of mechanics or is simplified to a minimum, or in general is removed. The architecture is simplified to a limit. Games are caused by disappointment. Origins - a striking example of the fact that Ubisoft isn't able to release the worthy product looking as NEW any more. But a game has 1 advantage - it is a visual look. It is the best study of the area and a historical setting which I saw in video games. At Ubisoft one of the best designers and artists in the industry. It is a pity that only they also work in studio.
    PS. The Russian postscoring - the worst that I listened to. From ears there is blood.    … Expand
  27. Burretploof
    Apr 21, 2019
    5
    It's okay.

    The revised combat system certainly is refreshing but unfortunately, there is no long-term fun to be found in it for me. After about ten hours I grew tired of fighting enemies. Even switching up weapon types a bit did not help. The main story is mediocre at best with a very small number of powerful moments. While the characters certainly are interesting, they go through    It's okay.

    The revised combat system certainly is refreshing but unfortunately, there is no long-term fun to be found in it for me. After about ten hours I grew tired of fighting enemies. Even switching up weapon types a bit did not help.

    The main story is mediocre at best with a very small number of powerful moments. While the characters certainly are interesting, they go through relatively little development over the course of the story.

    Other than that, it's... Assassin's Creed. You sneak around, you kill people, you climb towers, you collect things. The last two things are probably the game's biggest issue. It's just too much. The map is ridiculously big and is chock full of side-activities that are ultimately pointless. Sidequests are neat, but again, are nothing to write home about. Other than that it's your usual collectathon. Go to location, pick things up/kill specific enemies, rinse, repeat. It is beyond me how anyone could think that it is a good idea to develop the game like this. It's overwhelming and exhausting. The only way around this is to entirely focus on the main story which causes me to feel like I'm skipping over content I have paid for.

    Really, it's a shame that more linear singleplayer experiences are going the way of the Dodo as far as multi-platform AAA developers are concerned. Most new AAA games are either multiplayer-only/focused or live services or open-world games or a mix of all of those - simply because it keeps people playing and allows for aggressive monetization using microtransactions. Maybe I should stick to indie and A or AA games.

    Anyhow. It's not great and it's not bad. If you are on the market for a tedious, repetitive open-world game and you see it on sale for    … Expand
  28. ivancat
    Nov 13, 2017
    5
    B+. the Egyptian setting is cool. feels like WoW/mmo. grinding, grinding, grinding. if you like grinding, you'll like this game. the story is cool, but gets lost in all the endless grinding. did i mention the grinding? i miss missions like from earlier games. there is one longish mission 3/4 of the way through.

    my advice is to just do the quests. that will keep the game from    B+. the Egyptian setting is cool. feels like WoW/mmo. grinding, grinding, grinding. if you like grinding, you'll like this game. the story is cool, but gets lost in all the endless grinding. did i mention the grinding? i miss missions like from earlier games. there is one longish mission 3/4 of the way through.

    my advice is to just do the quests. that will keep the game from dragging too much.    … Expand
  29. Keok
    Feb 20, 2018
    6
    Many bugs, the game had crashed 5 times. The AI in combat is really weird. The story could've been better. Graphics really good, but the performance wasn't the good, although I have a high-end PC. The map was positively big. Also new combat mechanics, the possibility of using Senu, besides many others looked great. The essence of assassin's creed has been losing, compared to previous gamesMany bugs, the game had crashed 5 times. The AI in combat is really weird. The story could've been better. Graphics really good, but the performance wasn't the good, although I have a high-end PC. The map was positively big. Also new combat mechanics, the possibility of using Senu, besides many others looked great. The essence of assassin's creed has been losing, compared to previous games of the franchise, looking more like an RPG. I felt disappointed, because I'm a big fan of these games.… Expand
  30. ScyryuS
    Mar 18, 2019
    7
    The game has great graphics, good details and a large map to discover and animals to hunt but it's badly optimized and there is no attachment to the game since the story isn't that good. The combat is okay.
prev
Page:

Awards & Rankings

34
#34 Best PC Game of 2017
6
#6 Most Discussed PC Game of 2017
8
#8 Most Shared PC Game of 2017

Critic Reviews

All reviews »
Metascore
84

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 29
  3. Negative: 1 out of 29
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 2, 2018
    80
    The resurrection of the seemingly exhausted series was successful. Beautiful and enormous Egypt is complemented by the sympathetic hero Bayek and plenty of modifications to the proven formula. [Issue#280]
  2. 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.
    Read full review
  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]
See all critic reviews »