The final part of the preview was my favorite. After playing through that introduction, the preview skipped ahead to Basim's early training days with the Hidden Ones before then skipping even further ahead to a story mission where he's tracking down one of the leaders of the Order of Ancients, the precursor to the Templar Order. Basim is a cocky and brash individual who's good at climbing and has at least one dead parent, just like every Assassin's Creed protagonist that predates him.
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All the trademark narrative set-up for an Assassin's Creed game is on full display in this first part. First, I played through what's likely the first level of the game, with Basim living as a talented street thief, yearning to be a part of the Assassin Brotherhood's precursors, the Hidden Ones. In my time with Mirage, I got to play through three different parts of the game. "Making a condensed game allows us to make more detailed experiences as well, so we can go in and make finer quest lines with more dialogue, or sometimes make live a little bit and create custom characters for them." "By the RPG aspects from the three previous games and the large RPG aspect in the role-playing sense, it allows us to focus a little bit more on the micro-actions," Assassin's Creed Mirage world and quest director Simon Arseneault told me. Now Playing: Assassin's Creed Mirage Hands On Preview Some of the series' newer RPG elements (like roleplaying an encounter or unlocking new abilities via a skill tree) make a return, but they are much smaller in scope-no branching, choice-driven dialogue like in Odyssey or a constellation-sized assortment of perks and skills like in Valhalla.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's Taking place in 9th-century Baghdad, Mirage features the return of social stealth, a smaller map size, and a singular playable protagonist. There's a heavy dose of Assassin's Creed Unity injected into Mirage's veins and Assassin's Creed Odyssey's detective-driven hunt for the Cult of Kosmos informs Mirage's Order of Ancients assassination missions, but, despite these more modern gameplay additions, this game feels closest to the first game in the franchise.Īs the latest mainline game in the 15-year-old action-adventure series, Assassin's Creed Mirage sees you play as Basim Ibn Ishaq, a young thief who joins an army of trained killers who vow to protect the freedom of humanity from those who wish to take it away. Having only played about three hours of the game, it's still too soon for me to make a definitive call on how the whole experience will play out overall, but it certainly feels like fans who have been waiting for a return to the series' smaller scale formula may finally be getting what they want with Mirage. On first blush, Assassin's Creed Mirage feels delightfully familiar, delving into storylines and gameplay moments that are reminiscent of the earliest games in the franchise.
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