![]() All the work that went into making it convincing can easily - well, perhaps not easily, but directly - be applied to educating the player as well as thrilling them.Īnd quizzing them! The end of each guided tour will have an optional live quiz-type chat with the guide, which Ubisoft assures players will be fun and not for a grade. Obviously others at Ubisoft felt the same way, especially Discovery Mode director Maxime Durand, who says he envisioned a feature like this a decade ago.Īnd how could you not with the Assassin’s Creed series? From the very first one players were immersed in a painstakingly recreated period of history that gave variously accurate but always compelling experiences of really living in that bygone era. It seemed wasteful then, as in Odyssey, to create such a rich world and just have you stab your way through it. It’s an expanded version of a similar feature created for Assassin’s Creed: Origins, which was set in ancient Egypt. The free update, available now to anyone who owns the game, adds dozens of historical “tours” guided by a NPC, in which you can learn about the cities of ancient Greece, the life and crafts of the people who lived there, what they believed and how they were governed, and of course the many famous battles of the era. But the highlight was ancient Greece in all its classical splendor, and a new educational Discovery Tour mode aims to teach the history of that society through a gaming lens. ![]() In my review of Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, I was blown away by the authenticity and level of detail in the game world.
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