


There was everything you could ever want in an open-world game: an excellent story, compelling characters, exciting gameplay, and effective stealth which learned from the playbook of the Hitman series.įor as much as I loved the Ezio trilogy (spanning from Assassin’s Creed 2 to Revelations), I found that the series had begun to lose its way by going bigger and bolder. When I first played the second game in the series, Assassin’s Creed 2 in 2009, I was hooked. If you asked me a decade ago what my favorite game series was, I would have swiftly replied: Assassin’s Creed. From shots of the confined Baghdad’s urban sprawl, the emphasis on social stealth and parkour, this upcoming entry looks to fix the modern Assassin’s Creed’s major flaw: its lack of mechanical identity. A young Basim dressed in iconic white Assassin's Creed robes in midairĪssassin’s Creed Mirage looks to be a throwback to the golden age of the series – something the franchise is in desperate need of.
