10 Ways Assassin's Creed Origins Has Already Saved The Franchise

7. A Genuinely Interesting & Mysterious Time Period

Part of Assassin's Creed appeal that you realise most in retrospect, comes from visiting historical time periods you'd rarely seen in film or in other games. As the franchise continued to move forward in time, visiting the likes of the French Revolution, the American Civil War, a World War II section and most recently, Victorian England, it lost that quintessential draw.

Now, even back when AC Origins was nothing but a leak (which we actually reported on - go us!), one of the major draws of heading to Egypt was down to it being something of a 'blank slate'. Yes, there's the romanticised, Hollywood-ised version with pharaohs, sphinxes and pyramids, but no game has ever let you explore what it was like to exist within that context.

If nothing else, Ubisoft's research team are second to none, and as they've applied their craft to a recreation of Egypt, yes we're getting all the recognisable elements I mentioned, but there are also power struggles between renegade underground factions, tombs full of loot to plunder, illuminations on how mercenaries like the Medjay operated and much more.

From the get-go there's a far more 'untapped' feel to everything when compared to the past few AC locations, and although they're hundreds of years apart, a welcome similarity in the sense of smaller populaces peppering the landscape, to AC1's setting of the Crusades.