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Credit to Author: Matthew Gault| Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love Assassin’s Creed<\/i>. From the moment Alta\u00efr Ibn-La’Ahad\u2014the original game’s hero\u2014uttered “nothing is true, everything is permitted,” I was hooked. As a fan of weird conspiracy theories and beat writer William S. Burroughs<\/a>, the original Assassin’s Creed<\/i> felt as if the developers had made the game just for me.<\/p>\n

But my love has faltered over the years. Assassin’s Creed:<\/i> Unity<\/i>\u2014set in Paris during the French Revolution\u2014was a beautiful mess, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate<\/i>\u2014set in London at the turn of the 19th century\u2014was functional but boring, and Michael Fassbender’s Assassin’s Creed<\/i> movie was the dullest, most expensive commercial ever made<\/a>. The series became a victim of its own success. Each entry made tens of millions of dollars and publisher Ubisoft released a new one every year. Like Call of Duty<\/i>, this led to a string of interchangeable, boring, and repetitive sequels. <\/p>\n

The brilliant hook for the franchise, which follows an eternal battle between the Assassins and Templar factions, was that each game could take players to a radically different place. It started in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, then took players to Renaissance Italy, revolutionary America, and so on. Ironically, for a series that promised infinite variety, it became incredibly rote. The backdrop was different, but playing it was always the same: climb a tower, stab the dude. Same shit, different century. <\/p>\n

Assassin’s Creed: Origins<\/i> is the best the series has felt since Ezio Auditore da Firenze charmed players in Assassin’s Creed<\/i> II<\/i> because it actually, finally, makes a leap of faith. It doesn’t all work, and its first hour\u2014a crucial period for any game to grab players\u2014is messy, but at least it’s trying something different for the first time. Origins<\/i> stole the best features of its competition, completely reworked combat, and finally delivered on the promise of dynamic assassination missions.<\/p>\n

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