Assassin's Creed Origins: 10 Promising New Screenshots You Need To See

2. Excavations (& Mines?) To Plunder

Possibly taking a page out of Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry's slave-freeing encampment gameplay, there'll be various slave settlements to explore and overthrow across Egypt.

If you can control these NPCs, if the layouts are randomly generated and if there are any equipment-based rewards remains to be seen, but if nothing else, this shows a remarkable uptick in environmental animation to bring these scenarios to life.

We do know that Origins will feature battles against underground mythological beasts like giant snakes and demons - is this how they're accessed?