Assassin's Creed Origin

Assassin's Creed Origins: Everything we know so far
What is Assassin's Creed Origins?

Assassin's Creed: Origins is the next entry in the hugely popular stealth-adventure series. After a two year hiatus, Ubisoft Montreal is taking the series to the city of Thebes, Ancient Egypt in the year 1354. The debut gameplay demo shows that Assassin's Creed has undergone some serious changes, refining its flawed yet enjoyable gameplay formula with new ways of defeating enemies and navigating the world. Oh, and you can totally ride camels.

TrustedReviews has compiled everything we know about Assassin’s Creed: Origins including all of the latest news, rumours, gameplay, trailers and more. We’ve also put together our very own wishlist.

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Assassin's Creed Origins release date – when is it coming out?

Assassin's Creed Origins is coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC on October 27, 2017, Ubisoft has announced.

With South Park: The Fractured But Whole launching in October and Far Cry 5 not arriving until February 2018, a November 2017 release date is a wise choice.

Assassin's Creed Origins trailer – How does it look?

Ubisoft showcased Assassin's Creed: Origins for the very first time at Microsoft's E3 press conference. The extensive gameplay demo shows that the formula has undergone some big changes, and the world of Ancient Egypt is absolutely huge.Assassin's Creed Origins wishlist – what we'd love to see

More personality in the open world

Assassin’s Creed Unity and, to a lesser extent, Syndicate, tried far too hard to convey the scale of its open world rather than its actual contents. Clambering across the archaic rooftops of London and Paris quickly grew into an arduous game of icon janitor. Repetitive side activities bled into one another as you completed the same objectives with the same NPCs. Quantity doesn't translate into quality, and it’s high time Ubisoft realised that.

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acob and Evie Frye were a step in the right direction; now we need the same semblance of likeability transferred to the setting itself. The relatively unorthodox layout of Ancient Egypt should offer Ubisoft an opportunity to shake things up a little. Chances are, we’ll be climbing a pyramid or two.

Bring back the future stuff

This is probably a divisive idea, but the Desmond Miles narrative that was effectively retconned in Assassin’s Creed Unity was fun, wacky and unique to the series. It combined elements of sci-fi and historical fiction that gave all our actions inside the animus an important context. Despite how convoluted it would eventually become, it lent each assassination a meaning beyond lazily referencing famous figures we already knew so much about.

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Such a narrative element could be easily introduced if 2017’s Assassin’s Creed aims to go in a surprisingly new direction. And considering (SPOILERS) Desmond Miles was killed off at the end of Assassin’s Creed 3, now’s the perfect time to try something new.

Plan your own assassinations

What if the largest of operations in Assassin’s Creed worked in a similar manner to Grand Theft Auto 5’s infamous heists? Several missions acting as cohesive, strategic build-up while you decide on different avenues of murder for the game’s big targets. The personal investment that comes from spending hours building up to an extravagant assassination could be fantastic. You’d also grow to truly despise the big evils you’re tasked with taking down, ensuring the final blow is all the more meaningful.

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