{"id":9595,"date":"2017-09-29T04:45:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/29\/news-3368\/"},"modified":"2017-09-29T04:45:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:45:31","slug":"news-3368","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/29\/news-3368\/","title":{"rendered":"Does \u2018Assassin\u2019s Creed\u2019 Need Murder to Be Fun?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Leif Johnson| Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

For a full decade now, Ubisoft has used the Assassin’s Creed<\/i> series as an excuse to let players get all stabby with the likes of everything from Knights Templar and pirates to sans-culottes. Only now, apparently, it’s realizing it can use these big-budget bestsellers to teach actual history. <\/p>\n

A few months after the launch of the upcoming ancient Egyptian-themed Assassin’s Creed Origins<\/i>, players will get to download a separate, peaceful “Discovery Tour<\/a>” mode that lets them wander about the streets of ancient Egypt without having to worry about outrunning guards or pickpocketing random passersby. <\/p>\n

Instead, as you amble about, genuine Egyptologists and historians will give you guided tours of the game’s world on subjects ranging from mummification to the Great Pyramids, delivering real historical knowledge about what you’re seeing compared to what the base game gives you. <\/p>\n

“Discovery Tour is another way to enjoy the beauty of the world we’ve recreated,” said Jean Guesdon, creative director for Assassin’s Creed Origins<\/i>, in the announcement. “It’s a more educative mode, so it’s clearly focused on education and on bringing to people actual facts, more academic knowledge.”<\/p>\n

But will it be fun without the stabby bits?<\/p>\n

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