10 Ways Assassin's Creed Origins Has Saved The Franchise

4. The Best Protagonist & Story In Years

Though it gets off to a very rushed start - you literally jump into Bayek's skin as he's killing someone and carving a victory line in his skin immediately thereafter - Origins' portrayal of a revenge-driven couple is one of the most engaging Ubi have ever written.

Paired off against the present day happenings of Layla and Abstergo's treasure hunt, Bayek comes across as a good-hearted individual forever patting children's heads and helping the populace with any woes they may have.

However, underneath this positive outlook is a man who's tattooed various symbols onto himself that represent the people who killed his son - symbols he then carves back off his skin as he hunts them down. It's a dark, dark way to show a father manifesting his pain in a very physical way, and then you have wife Aya who's using her stature as one of Cleopatra's trusted advisors to help target those responsible.

Together we have a brilliant mix of surface-level duty from both characters, mixed with their sexual drive to ravish one another at any opportunity, and the disturbing reality of letting such a drive for vengeance seep into that attempted normality.

Bayek might not be as immediately loveable as Ezio, but he's an altogether more complex and memorable beast for reasons Ubisoft haven't dared to approach before.