Assassin's Creed Odyssey

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6.5

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  1. Vikiro
    Aug 9, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I really enjoyed AC: Origins, and thought I would like this game as well. However, as much as the scale of the game was improved, it feels as if the game play was made worse. Ill start with what I like about the game. First, the graphics and sound design are very well made. This is one of the best, if not the best, looking AC games. The views are beautiful and the sounds in the game are crisp. The voice acting is also well done. The armor and weapon look customization make it great to mix and match armor set appearances to make your ideal ancient greek mercenary. The story starts of really well yet it loses its appeal quickly. Now for the bad. The plot feels like a repeat of Origins. A cult is taking over and they hurt your family, go kill them. This was done better in Origins, as Bayek felt more likable than both Kassandra and Alexios and his motive felt stronger. While you do get some dialogue choices to try to make them feel how you want them to, they rarely feel meaningful. A lot of your choices lead no where and just end up being "take quest or dont". Only a handful of choices ever end up affecting the world. Additionally, after about halfway through the game, the story feels weak. Theres not much a reason to hunt down the cult other than they are hunting you and your mother and took your brother (who is now part of the cult). The game fails to deliver any sort of personal threat from the cult. After you meet your mother, she is never in any danger from the cult whatsoever, and neither are you. The mercenary system (which just feels like a lazy way of adding extra enemies to restricted areas) couldve been used better in this regard, such as having the cult send mercenaries after you throughout the game. At the end of the story, not much pays off. The ending lacks any sense of emotional tension and ends abruptly. The cult is a long grind to hunt down as they are scattered among side objectives and different nations, which you very nearly have to do all side quests in a region to find the cult member in it. Now the combat. The ship combat is great, especially when cleaving ships in half or boarding them. Normal combat feels horrible at least until youre high lvl, at which point it only feels a bit better but still not entertaining. Every enemy is stronger than you, period. They have more health, deal more damage per attack than you do, and can actually use a shield. Hitting an enemy barely does any damage, no matter how well upgraded your weapons and armor are. Only legendary armor sets have any noticeable effects on damage. Melee weapons feel like youre hitting someone with a tree branch, and bows feel as if you just threw pebbles. The best way to improve this is legendary armor sets, however you only get those from either completing lengthy quest lines or hunting all cultists within a branch. You could choose to play stealthily, but you will soon find that "assassinations" very quickly stop doing enough damage after a few lvls. How do you fix this? Find cult artifacts to upgrade your spear, which can be found on cultists. Which you have to spend multiple hours hunting down, and each time you upgrade the spear it needs more artifacts to be upgraded. In fact, you cant fully upgrade the spear until you kill all the cultists, at which point you will have nearly nothing left to do in the game (I finished everything in the main game and did not bother with the dlc). Another way to upgrade your damage is through skills, which are funnily enough capped depending on your spear level. Great. Or you could just wait till you reach lvl 50 and unlock legacy skills. These allow you to increase damage or protection percentages. Sounds great until you realize theres three branches, each with around 30 skills, each with about 20 levels. You only get 1 skill point per level and the xp requirement increases each time you go up a level. Not only do the boss fights feel like an mmo, but also the damn leveling. I heard a lot of good things about this game, namely that it was a good rpg. I play a lot of rpgs and theyre my favorite genre of game. I hated this. The rpg elements felt like they were implemented by a team who had a very rough idea of what rpg mechanics were. The story felt uninteresting right about after you rescue your mother and loses its tension and structure quickly. Each main quest consists of three split quests which you can do at any time but are usually menial jobs, which can each split into three as well. So it ends up being "do six menial tasks to see a little bit more of the story." Overall, my opinion of the game is low. The rpg mechanics are handled poorly, the combat and stealth are unsatisfying and require a lot of grind to improve, boss fights feel like mmo boss raids, and the story is poorly structured. This fails as an rpg and as an AC game. However, this game does provide an interesting look at a rarely explored setting and made me more interested in learning about ancient Greece in general.… Expand
  2. Rendell
    Dec 10, 2021
    3
    -Un juego muy bueno, una pésima historia. Después de la entrega de Origins la saga parecía renovarse pero con esta entrega reciclada de la anterior tiraron toda la historia a la basura pero eso si la jugabilidad es buena si Ubisoft hubiera sacado una IP nueva con esta jugabilidad le hubiera salido muy bien.
  3. RidleayRomero
    Oct 10, 2018
    2
    The developers of the Assassin's Creed series just keep putting more ways to exploit their customers by offering "Player Choice" to skip the grind. This game is as grindy if not MORE of a grind then the last one. They keep calling it "Player Choice" when it's basically saying the grind is purposely put in there to extend playtime. Listen, I played Castlevania: Symphony of the NightThe developers of the Assassin's Creed series just keep putting more ways to exploit their customers by offering "Player Choice" to skip the grind. This game is as grindy if not MORE of a grind then the last one. They keep calling it "Player Choice" when it's basically saying the grind is purposely put in there to extend playtime. Listen, I played Castlevania: Symphony of the Night exploring the entire castle, getting all the equipment, all the HP UP and MP UP with most of the Heart Max up. Getting to a level that only the programmers knew to get to where your HP hits the quadruple digits to me is probably the biggest sense of accomplishment that I got out of the game. Then they put in a grind with the sole purpose to get you to pay to not play the game that you already paid for and are trying to play, it actually defeats the purpose of progression in a video game.

    The 4K graphics look good, but that still doesn't make the game feel any less dumb from the previous game. Also, you might have noticed that a whole bunch of Ubisoft games are starting to have the same formula. Recycled fetch quests, recycled extra objectives and very rarely; a recycled character. People are right to keep getting disappointed by this **** and I hope somehow they actually get such angry feedback it upsets their investors. So, in conclusion; don't fall for obvious traps like this in games anymore. They apparently want to exploit you so they can get more money out of you. Oh wait, the gameplay? What do you want? It plays almost identically to the last 2 Assassin's Creed games.    … Expand
  4. Drakkhan
    Oct 5, 2018
    2
    The Game itself looks amazing and the Story is ok (nothing Crazy but ok so far) BUT this game has a price of 60$ or 120$ and they implemented a micotransaction System into the game AND made the game SO GRINDY that u have to pay to progress in a reasonable speed. Shame on u greedy E.. oh sry i mean Shame on u Ubisoft ffs!
  5. senblade
    Oct 7, 2019
    2
    Младший брат-близнец более перспективного Origins, - который очень старается выглядеть лучше и больше, но в самый важный момент умудряется жидко наделать в штаны.
    Объективно, у игры можно выделить лишь два хороших момента:
    1) Движок - над которым провели хорошую работу, радующий игрока великолепной водой, освещением, партиклами облаков и тенями. 2) Музыкальное сопровождение, которое хоть    Младший брат-близнец более перспективного Origins, - который очень старается выглядеть лучше и больше, но в самый важный момент умудряется жидко наделать в штаны.
    Объективно, у игры можно выделить лишь два хороших момента:
    1) Движок - над которым провели хорошую работу, радующий игрока великолепной водой, освещением, партиклами облаков и тенями.
    2) Музыкальное сопровождение, которое хоть и не хватает звёзд с неба, но звучит приятно и погружает в игру.
    Во всем остальном это отвратительная игра, которая сама не может решить что из себя представляет, в которой попросту нет контента, скучная боевая составляющая, бездарные сюжет и диалоги.    … Expand
  6. Antohadance
    Jun 22, 2022
    2
    Жалкая попытка повторить успех ведьмака, игра во всем плоха, ещё и и сильно растянута
  7. Bulba2555
    Jul 3, 2023
    2
    I can be amazed that after this game, Ubisoft began to make donation dumps out of their games. From this part, the Assassin ceased to be an Assassin. We didn't see Assassins again from this part. This game can only be praised for the world and the music. And so.
    Graphics is worse than Unity.
    Detailing everything is worse than Unity. Parkour has degraded completely. It's Assassin's    I can be amazed that after this game, Ubisoft began to make donation dumps out of their games. From this part, the Assassin ceased to be an Assassin. We didn't see Assassins again from this part. This game can only be praised for the world and the music. And so.
    Graphics is worse than Unity.
    Detailing everything is worse than Unity.
    Parkour has degraded completely.
    It's Assassin's trash. And it's impossible to play.    … Expand
  8. Fooberz
    Nov 26, 2018
    1
    The worst, most pathetic excuse for an AC game I've seen. They should have just named it Combat Creed, since that's all you'll ever do in this game is fight, fight, fight. Ubi has removed most of the stealth components, so the game forces you into combat EVERYWHERE you go. Even just running through a forest, you'll be attacked relentlessly by wolves, bears, you name it. Oh, and yourThe worst, most pathetic excuse for an AC game I've seen. They should have just named it Combat Creed, since that's all you'll ever do in this game is fight, fight, fight. Ubi has removed most of the stealth components, so the game forces you into combat EVERYWHERE you go. Even just running through a forest, you'll be attacked relentlessly by wolves, bears, you name it. Oh, and your fully geared "warrior" will die in 3 hits even on Normal difficulty. This is nothing but a dumbed-down version of a previously great franchise. Combat, combat, combat, combat, combat. Forced down your throat. Die, die, die, die, die, because you cannot escape COMBAT and your enemies will chase you for 2,000 yards to kill you. No way to regenerate health in COMBAT. Get the drift? There is no more "assassin" to this game, no thought process, no planning. Just run to your objective, fighting 50 wolves along the way, then enter COMBAT against your foes. AVOID this trash!!… Expand
  9. KottarBjorn
    Nov 14, 2018
    1
    Dont just take my word for it, watch videogame dunkys video on youtube where he tells you how buggy this **** game is. **** .
    It is a big mess with a lot of microtransactions and there is so small xp boosts from doing missions that when you are done with the first 2 you have to go back and do like 10 side missions where you are doing trailing missions or collect **** 25 times and you fall    Dont just take my word for it, watch videogame dunkys video on youtube where he tells you how buggy this **** game is. **** .
    It is a big mess with a lot of microtransactions and there is so small xp boosts from doing missions that when you are done with the first 2 you have to go back and do like 10 side missions where you are doing trailing missions or collect **** 25 times and you fall asleep. This game is so stupid and i feel i am behing robbed of my money that i bought with this game. How can you let a game that is so aggressive on the point that you have to pay real time money in a single player game so you can skip half the game so you can have fun. What is the point of that when i pent 80£ on the game? is that fair? If you like assassins creed games then you are stupid.    … Expand
  10. Mode6Gaming
    Oct 5, 2018
    1
    Crap controls, intentionally slowed progression and the fix is trapped behind a paywall of 10 dollars. Don't buy this steaming pile of ****
  11. GRrrrrrr
    Feb 13, 2019
    1
    When you see a game that has nearly all perfect critic reviews and yet isn't even in the same vein as the previous games, you know there's something wrong.

    So many people are arguing that this is a good game, sure it is, but could you define an ASSASSIN? Most people think of an assassin as a silent killer. Most assassins don't lead armies, or even large bodies of men, because the    When you see a game that has nearly all perfect critic reviews and yet isn't even in the same vein as the previous games, you know there's something wrong.

    So many people are arguing that this is a good game, sure it is, but could you define an ASSASSIN?

    Most people think of an assassin as a silent killer. Most assassins don't lead armies, or even large bodies of men, because the role of an assassin is not to be the heavy from TF2. An assassin is a silent, stealthy killer, who strikes without even being seen.

    This is an RPG, a complete and awful RPG. If this was called "Ancient Greek Magical Unicorn RPG Simulator", I'd give it a straight 10. I mean, the only reason I'm not giving it a 0 is because of the clear ingenuity of Ubisoft to create a game that puts you severely out of pocket, then comes back around and actually makes your gameplay experience hell unless you pay more money. Now THAT'S a sneaky assassination of my hard earned cash.

    Ubisoft makes the same mistakes over and again - employing B-grade idiots who don't know games. They botched the Anno series. They botched the AC series. What's gonna go next. Now, Ubisoft's own fans are trembling, wondering where the next sneak attack comes from. Ah! I get it. That's the real meaning of ASSASSIN'S creed! You sneaky buggers, you just decided to deliver your punchline differently.

    Seriously, if you like RPG's you probably already blew like $5,000 on LOL, why spend more on a crappy AC rip-off? Give it up, half the AC gamers are casual, we don't want a grind, we don't want to play some role just so you get a feminist endorsement. History sucks, we get it, but what sucks even more is people like the PR department at Ubi deciding what version of history we get. Really? They market this as realistic? I had more fun reading my old grade 8 ancient history textbook.

    I own every AC game, invested much more into the DLC, love it. It was the reason I began parkour and I now enjoy it a lot. But if you want an RPG, just rename it ok, just don't screw the age-old fans. I'm not buying another AC game... period.

    And I'm not the only one. My review counts for nothing, Ubisoft is massive, multi billion, why would they care about my $60? I'll tell you why. Because I am just one of many. I Implore you, anyone who reads this, do not surrender a single cent to Ubi. Make them learn the hard way. They clearly haven't learned.

    But, at the end of the day, all the people who like RPG games are usually playing a ROLE playing game cause their OWN ROLE, AKA LIFE, is not interesting enough. So even though AC is dead to me, I still have a community and can live AC stunts out in real life. So screw you Ubisoft, I'm going outside. Great job, not only will I not spend money on AC, I've stoped buying your other games.

    After all, we vote with our wallets, vote against this or the future for you gamers won't be bright, just extremely expensive.    … Expand
  12. KonstPlay
    Apr 3, 2020
    1
    This is not Assassin's Creed. It's just an Odyssey. Disgusting and hacky game. After Unity, to release such a thing is disrespectful to their players, as well as to those teams that previously made games in the series. In this game, everything is done abominably, except for the landscapes. But if you look at the buildings close, you can see that they decided to deceive the players. TheThis is not Assassin's Creed. It's just an Odyssey. Disgusting and hacky game. After Unity, to release such a thing is disrespectful to their players, as well as to those teams that previously made games in the series. In this game, everything is done abominably, except for the landscapes. But if you look at the buildings close, you can see that they decided to deceive the players. The implementation of parkour is disgusting, dialogues and NPC as if made 10 years ago. I really regretted that I bought this game. I will be happy to try Unity again. It was one step ahead in terms of both the graphics and the fullness of the world. And now in 2020, it looks and plays much more interesting and enjoyable.… Expand
  13. Tired0ftheBS
    Oct 5, 2018
    0
    hot garbage, $60 for something that looks like its meant for my phone. deserves as much effort of a review as the devs put into making the game fun.
  14. jugadorhardcore
    Oct 7, 2018
    0
    has the same design than origins. ubisoft with assassin's creed and EA with FIFA are the kings of code reusability. Shame on both...
  15. vaan23
    Oct 3, 2018
    0
    this is not assassin creed game , i want real assassin creed game, this is the witcher 3 game style.
  16. JimmyGibbs
    Oct 7, 2018
    0
    One of the worst ubi games i've played thus far. Odyssey is to Origins, what Rogue is to black flag. Just some after wank-spank with a $60 price tag. Instead of improving on the good mechanics, they've tweaked it, and it's complete ass. The games voice acting is terrible, and ubisoft still doesnt know how to properly make a human-head. The only thing that looked alright were the friggin'One of the worst ubi games i've played thus far. Odyssey is to Origins, what Rogue is to black flag. Just some after wank-spank with a $60 price tag. Instead of improving on the good mechanics, they've tweaked it, and it's complete ass. The games voice acting is terrible, and ubisoft still doesnt know how to properly make a human-head. The only thing that looked alright were the friggin' waves breaking against the shores. This game is garbage and i cannot fathom how people are positive about this.. it truly baffles me. If this is the current standard for open world games, then i'm pretty sure the world isnt ready for Red Dead Redemption 2.… Expand
  17. ZboqZboq
    Dec 3, 2018
    0
    If you played the first Assassin's Creed game, you've played them all. Ubisoft are just simply texture swapping and pumping out the same freaking game each year. This one has cool graphics sure, but nothing more than that. Don't waste your money and time on this game
  18. KnightDragon777
    Apr 23, 2019
    0
    What an absurd game! Filled with progressive garbage, and above the protagonists can not use shields being supposedly Greek warriors. So the protagonists are Greek warriors and can not use shields? Well, if so, I'm not interested in using your mediocre game
  19. david01126
    Jun 26, 2020
    0
    The worst AC game in the series, It is a bad The Witcher 3 clone, which lacks Assassin's Creed as well. It is neither a decent rpg nor an AC game.
  20. justsomedude-09
    Jul 21, 2019
    0
    A grindy game that forces you to buy microtransactions with a **** story and a worse voice acting cast.
  21. mcpattycakez
    May 23, 2020
    0
    This game is awful. I just registered a meta critic account for the first time today so I could rate this game, because it is that awful. It is the worst experience I’ve ever had with an Assassin’s Creed game, having played almost every one of them since the beginning. They took all of the good elements from AC: Origins (which was actually a great and fun game) and threw them all in theThis game is awful. I just registered a meta critic account for the first time today so I could rate this game, because it is that awful. It is the worst experience I’ve ever had with an Assassin’s Creed game, having played almost every one of them since the beginning. They took all of the good elements from AC: Origins (which was actually a great and fun game) and threw them all in the trash. Ubisoft Quebec, which remains a stain on the Ubisoft brand and name, have tried to turn the AC franchise into an action RPG in the most superficial ways possible. They added dialogue options into Assassin’s Creed for the first time ever, not because it adds to the story and the franchise, but because almost every game nowadays has dialogue options so AC has to have it now too. They give you a preset character (either Alexis or Kassandra) who has their own character traits and morals that show up in mocaped cutscenes you can’t interact with, but at the same time give you the option to turn that character into a murderous psychopath who can kill entire villages of civilians and acts like a dick to everyone. There’s no feeling of immersion or relatability to this character since there really is no character, and they are completely susceptible to violent mood swings based entirely on your whim. The “story” is poorly written by AC standards, is horribly paced, ends abruptly and PALES in comparison to Origins. “Exploring” this vast open world becomes a chore when you realize almost every location in the game is just a bandit or soldier camp where the enemies will just attack you on sight. Sure, location variety was a problem in Origins, but they’ve doubled down on the lack of variety in this game. The cities and towns in this game are designed with no free running potential, so the parkour which has become a staple of this franchise is nearly absent. The visuals are somehow mostly worse than in Origins, a game two years older running on the same engine, with noticeable downgrades in lighting and fire effects, facial animations, and the environments in general. And the combat system is (in my opinion) the worst part of this game. They somehow managed to create a combat system that copies most of the mechanics from Origins but is objectively worse in every way. They completely removed the ability to use a shield, so if you liked that from Origins, it’s gone. The attacks in this game don’t feel or look nearly as weighty or have as much impact as they do in Origins. The cardinals sin though, and the thing that makes this combat system so bad, is that every single enemy is a damage sponge that can tank a ridiculous amount of hits before going down, just like in AC: Syndicate. Every enemy, from the big beefy hoplites with heavy shields and armor, to the archers and marksmen who are wearing no armor, all take a ridiculous amount of hits to kill, which turns the combat system (which should be this game’s biggest strength) into a tedious chore that you try to avoid at all costs. But it’s not like you can avoid it completely, since most enemies can’t even be killed with an assassination from stealth in one hit. Sure that was a problem with Origins too, but there are way more enemies that will survive a stealth assassination in this game than in Origins, which completely ruins the point of playing like an assassin, since trying to assassination an enemy will just have that enemy alerted to you and not dead, and then alert the other guards around you as well. Oh and you can also drive a boat I guess. I don’t know, that sort of seems like an after thought in this game, and is definitely not nearly as well done as the naval portion of Black Flag was. I passionately hate this game, and I will never be playing anything made by Ubisoft Quebec ever again.… Expand
  22. Cingleon
    Dec 2, 2021
    0
    The worst assassin ever. Don't buy this game never. Ubisoft just killed a great series. And will dancing on it. Maniacal donate and **** grinding 100+ hours. Ubisoft dead.
  23. Oleh_Yasha
    Nov 12, 2020
    0
    Never touch this...it's not worth it!!!The game is extremely boring and totally based on stupid grind. YOU HAVE TO PAY TO GET BETTER OUTFIT ETC. It's Ubisoft........
  24. Sashik317
    Dec 21, 2021
    0
    Донатная помойка с конченой системой уровней, отвратительной боёвкой и мерзким паркуром. Это не Assassin's Creed!
  25. Just_rotem
    Aug 17, 2021
    0
    0/10 dont play that **** Very bed gampley, borning story, borning world ..
    Yes this is a big ****
  26. Iowntheworld
    Feb 15, 2022
    0
    Absolutely awful AC game, almost as bad as AC 3, but in a different way. This game simply isn't Assassin's Creed, there's no hidden blade, main characters are unlikable, open world is extremely boring, side quests are awful and main story is extremely mediocre. Thank god AC Valhalla was million times better AC games than Odyssey and brought back many old elements, also Valhalla time periodAbsolutely awful AC game, almost as bad as AC 3, but in a different way. This game simply isn't Assassin's Creed, there's no hidden blade, main characters are unlikable, open world is extremely boring, side quests are awful and main story is extremely mediocre. Thank god AC Valhalla was million times better AC games than Odyssey and brought back many old elements, also Valhalla time period and locations are way, way better!… Expand
  27. Bulldozer1
    Aug 18, 2023
    0
    I have never played a game as boring as AC Odyssey. While the game is fun, it's just way to stretched out. 95 percent is just traveling. Finished a quest? Nice! Now go and talk to 3 more people that are far away from fast travel points. I'm 50 hours in and I just can't be bothered to finish the Atlantis DLC because it's so unbelievably boring.
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Awards & Rankings

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#11 Best Xbox One Game of 2018
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#7 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2018
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#26 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2018

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Metascore
87

Generally favorable reviews - based on 34 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 34
  3. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Dec 18, 2018
    90
    The best AC yet, with finessed game design, gorgeous visuals and great narrative. [Christmas 2018, p.79]
  2. GameGrin
    Nov 5, 2018
    85
    It was yet another good game from Ubisoft and I always like to be an Assassin again. I look forward to seeing if the next Assassin’s Creed game will be just as big as Odyssey, although not too big please.
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  3. New York Daily News
    Oct 22, 2018
    80
    Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is plenty of fun, and it’s a solid turnaround for the franchise. The future of the franchise is bright.
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