Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (The Official Novelization)

Excellent game-play – but 70+ levels – a bit much. Before I start this review, I wanted to provide some context on my experience with the AC series in general. I’ve completed every AC game from AC II(PS3) – Odyssey, and was a huge fan of the original Ezio trilogy. Eliminating the frequent run to the bank and the doctor to refill the medicine vials was a nice change to the game-play that was persistent through the Ezio/ACII series. AC III was my least favorite game of the Assassins Creed series. Black flag and Rogue were fun to play, but upgrading the ship to maximum values was a tremendous time suck and in the meantime limited your exploration ability to simple map areas. The online add-on to Black flag was a cool idea, but I wasn’t a fan. Unity was painful to level up, since it still required medicine refills and armor repairs that became pricier with each level up, making each next consecutive level further prohibitive to attain. My interest in the AC game series started declining from AC III – Unity and I almost quit the series after Unity, but Syndicate brought me back to the table. Origins and Odyssey continued to improve from Syndicate. Now on to Odyssey..Odyssey plays similar to Origins, with comparable graphics and retains the best part of Black Flag/Rogue ship game play with the re-introduction of a ship. I also noticed that upgrading the ship to maximum in Odyssey was much easier than the PS3 Black Flag and Rogue instances, and the newer graphics are far better and no comparison to the ship games that ran on the previous generation console. Since writing this review, one of the first blade or other game updates added an extra level to each of the ship categories that comes with a steep price to pay for that final upgrade in each area, which is a nagative. The map on Odyssey is massive, and similar to Origins it changes dramatically from flat plains to high mountain areas with a lot of elevation contrast. This was a vast improvement from from the earlier AC titles, where an elevation climb was only available when scaling a building using one of several pre-defined paths of foot-holds to make your way up, even though Syndicate did make the building climbs fun with the rope launcher. I also like the snow capped mountains that were added to Odyssey, and being able to explore underwater caverns (with the right weapon) without running out of oxygen. Another awesome feature in Odyssey is acquiring the skill that allows jumping off any mountain cliff without de-synchronizing. The legendary enemies are improved on Odyssey, whereas in Origins the legendary quests never seem to end. Some of the advanced over-powering skills and enemy-disappearing assassinations in Odyssey make storming a fort a lot easier, without alerting the roaming guards. Origins had some cool after-life maps in the curse of the Pharaohs DLC add-on with the Duat map being my favorite, and that is probably the only category where Origins was ahead of Odyssey for me.Odyssey has been my favorite game of the series with one exception, leveling up. Odyssey requires leveling up to 70(as of Feb-2019), before you’ve maxed out the character (origin was 40 in main game, and 55 with add-ons). The max level was changed again at some point after this initial review, as I encountered new S3 and S4 Mercenary levels, and recently fought a level 73 mercenary as part of this update. When will the level-ups ever end in this game?! The level up time takes a while, and the rest of the map shouldn’t be explored until you’ve reached level 50 with local quests. Once you exceed level 50, the rest of the map will continue to auto-level up, and you’ll never be more than 4 levels higher than your enemy. Ubisoft recently added an update to allow some customization of the enemy level, but the end-result is still a maximum difference of -4 in skill level between you and your enemy. The one upside to this auto-level-up is that your enemy weapons acquired with battles will be worth more since they are roughly the same level as the main character. Aside from the level-up comments in Odyssey, the game graphics and game-play are a 5/5, and my overall rating of the game is 4, due to level-up exhaustion. Still an excellent game overall.

Ubisoft Created a Really Fantastic Game. I’ve played a number of Assassin’s Creed titles going back years, and I think this is my favorite of them all. The game pretty faithfully recreates the geographical locations of the ancient Greek world of the 5th century B.C. The attention to detail is remarkable. The game got me so interested in ancient Greece, that I bought a book about it.I sent some videos of the game to a friend who is the chairman of the art department at a large university, and he was really impressed with the recreation of the architecture and artwork. While I also enjoyed AC Origins, the game world in Odyssey seems more alive. The NPCs don’t keep repeating the same phrases all the time, which was one of the few things that annoyed me about Origins.You can choose to play as either Kassandra or Alexios, and the choice doesn’t really affect the development of the story. I chose Kassandra, and I still laugh at some of her mild sarcasm as she interacts with a particularly pompous, conceited character. The voice acting for the main characters in the story is excellent. The pronunciation of names of historical figures and places is different from what I’m accustomed to, and I assume that the Greek pronunciation in the game is more accurate. The main characters are drawn from history, although some literary license has been taken with dates and events. One example is Brasidas, a character you meet in the game. In real life, Brasidas was probably the most famous Spartan general during the Peloponnesian War.The combat offers a mix of styles of melee, ranged and stealth, so you can use whichever you prefer or is best for the situation. The main character doesn’t use shields in Odyssey (although shields were a critical means of protection in ancient Greek combat), but enemies can use shields. Considering that the game takes place around the Aegean Sea, there’s decent naval combat as well. Most of the boss fights are challenging, but a few are repetitive where the difficulty is based mostly on the boss’s large health pool. You have lots of options to spec your character and you can re-spec with minimal cost at any time if you want to change your play style.There’s an enormous amount of content in Odyssey, including lots of optional side quests and exploration of the huge game world. Plus, there’s even more content in the DLC. Ubisoft created an amazing game that’s well worth the cost.

Became my most favourite game. If you wish to visit ancient Greece properly – this is your best ticket,The game involves an immense world, with loads of beautifully arranged details. The story is long but NEVER boring, always interesting quests and developing well, making you laugh and cry, and definitely love the world and Alexios/Kassandra!The DLCs are absolutely crazy! Especially the Fate of Atlantis, however, since they were on a tight schedule there, you can feel, that the dialogues and script-writing there is a bit rushed and definitely not as good as in the main story, all covered in great plot-twists and constantly interesting and enjoyable.The skill-tree is brilliant, armory and weapons too, the way you interact with the world and how your decisions affect the story – overall, a masterpiece! Definitely would not recommend any AC fan to miss it out, especially after you’ll find out what the main story is actually about ;)SMALL SPOILER ALERT, BUT KEEP ON READING, IF YOU NEED FURTHER PERSUASION: you interact and walk in the world of the Isu;

Great game. This really is a great game and can be entertaining for many hours. It is designed very well and keeps the open-world story lines moving forward and engaging. This game has also taught me a lot about the ancient Greek world which was a big plus, in my opinion.There is one complaint I have: the game isn’t optimized for the PS4 Pro. The loading screens are frequent and take a long time. Also, the inventory/menu navigation uses a cursor to select options, which is very slow to navigate with a joystick, difficult to use with the touch-pad, and makes it hard to manage character traits and preferences.This game would be much better on a PC (if you have a decent gaming PC), but overall, I would definitely recommend this game!

A Different View. I purchased this mostly to get a slightly different angle on the story in the game, not as a Assassins Creed superfan. It does deliver on that slightly different angle consistently.First, the book totally eschews the modern day framing segments of the game and stays entirely in ancient Greece. As such there is basically zero mention of Assassins, Templars, or Isu. Second, the book is more real, for lack of a better term. The amount of time passing for travel and communication is significant, as it would actually be in ancient times and provides a nice layer of extra depth that the game lacks with its intensely sped up time scale. The damage that Kassandra takes from fights and incidents is significant in a way that it can’t be in a game, and works to heighten tension. Also, the hero doesn’t do everything or end up killing thousands of people in the book; it’s a much smaller and more reasonable track that a single mercenary could take. Last, the book is surprisingly gorey, moreso than the game even (which didn’t exactly avoid the issue). It again heightens tension and adds some depth, but can get mildly excessive sometimes.As for the main character, I found her significantly different than the game. Less self assured and confident than the virtual version, more stealthy and covert than the video game version, colder and more isolated than the virtual version, and more laconic and less talkative than the video game version. Not necessarily better or worse, but different.Lastly, the Cult is oddly reduced in role during much of the text, with much of the personal vendetta being carried out by others incidentally or in a very short sentence off screen essentially at the very end. Also in that sentence is a major reveal and important explanation to an earlier reveal which is brushed away with a few words. I suppose the book was completed before the DLC stories were finalized, but it was an odd detail to slip in during what would be the conclusion of the Cult arc of the game.Anyway, it’s an alright book. Easy to read, not overly long winded, and might even inspire some further interest in actual ancient Greek topics. Probably not of much interest to non AC fans, but they wouldn’t be lost at all reading this regardless. Give it a chance for a few bucks.

A treasure-trove of ancient Greek adventure. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: $27.29 at the time of reviewThis was my first foray into the Assassin’s Creed franchise. Honestly, I wasn’t going to get it until a buddy recommended it. Little did I know that this would become one of my favorite games of the last 10 years.*What I liked*:The world is a *beautiful* and faithful recreation of ancient Greece. There were moments (sunsets over the fields of wheat, for example) where I just sat there and watched the sunset. Just an amazing world to be in.The story is fun and engaging. I won’t mention any specifics for fear of spoilers (even now, three years after it came out), but it’s pretty good writing for a video game.The questing/world exploration incentive model is fantastic. You explore the many smaller Greek islands and each one has a number of objectives that can be completed in order to “complete” the storyline of that island. It’s a perfect break up of objective-based gameplay that lets me feel like I got something done in my gaming session.There is a bounty system (think the star system from Grand Theft Auto) where increasingly tough bounty hunters come after you. I LOVE this! You can fight & kill them to work your way up the prestige ladder and become #1.The skill tree and combat have been a polarizing thing in this game. But for me personally, it is amazing. You can really dial in on sneaking around and being stabby (my preference), being shooty (my second favorite), or being an outright brawler. There’s a little more weight on being a brawler due to a number of large battlefield type fights which basically render your sneaking null. But they are still doable (and even easy be sparing a few skill points to the melee tree).The loot system is something closer to a Blizzard game with color-based rarity and randomized stats, another thing I LOVE. This makes getting a new piece of equipment potentially very exciting! Also, if you like the thing you have, you can just upgrade it. I used the same weapon for something like 40 hours of gameplay this way.Speaking of gameplay, there is *so much* to do here. I spent over 150 hours in the game and I never got the DLCs. But the best part is that if you just want to focus on the story you can. You don’t have to get lost in the world, but you can if you want to!*What I didn’t like*:So, this game isn’t perfect. There are some quality of life skills (*cough* no fall damage *cough*) that come later in the game than they should. I’m not a fan of forcing players to choose between a quality of life skill and combat skills and you do have to do that here.There are some frustrating times where I think I should be stealthed but the AI seems to see me through walls.The ship combat is… there. It’s pretty fun at first, but even with later boat and skill upgrades it becomes tedious. I ended up maxing it out my boat so that I could just face roll the ship fights.*The Bottom Line:*As I mentioned above, AC: Odyssey is one of my favorite games of the last 10 years. I know it’s not the typical AC game (in fact, it’s below average from that perspective) but as an open world roleplaying game it is amazing. It is five stars out of five all day long. I wish I could go back and play it again without knowing anything about it. I would absolutely buy this again. For $27 bucks?! Oh yeah!

Great Combo Pack. Each installment of Assassin’s Creed gets better and better. This combo pack is no different. I love movies and video games that are period pieces and I love that AC Origins (Ancient Egypt) and AC Odyssey (Ancient Greece) details my favorite time periods in human history. The detail in the scenery can be breath taking at times.

É o mais longo da saga, acho que o jogo mais longo que já joguei na verdade. Msm padrão de qualidade já esperado em Assassin’s

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Just Brilliant. Another absolutely terrifically well written year of times gone by. The characters all springing to life in such way that you will find totally enthralling.And now what will the next chapter be and when?

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Pienso que si te gustó el assassin’s creed origins te gustará este, puede sentirse muy similar pero pulieron muchos aspectos. La recreación histórica y la campaña son muy buenas y entretenidas, gráficamente luce excelente (incluso en la actual generación), el principal pero es que todo el contenido secundario es muy repetitivo. El juego no viene con ningún dlc o contenido extra (al menos en mi caso).