Assassin's Creed Origins: 14 Most Promising New Features

10. Animal Taming

Though there are many new features built just for AC Origins, Ubisoft have always been ones to bring across gameplay tropes from their other franchises, too.

One is the Far Cry-style hunting and gathering crafting system, letting you build better ammo pouches or weapons - but also cribbed from Far Cry Primal is animal taming. Information is thin on the ground as to how this works, but like Primal's protagonist Takkar, Bayek also possesses the ability to somewhat 'mind control' animals, demonstrated by how he can pilot the eagle Senu around the map.

Perhaps over the course of Origins, will we then unlock the ability to control other animals and steer them into enemy encampments too? Ex-Ubi developer Michel Ancel is working on a wildlife-commanding open-world game called WiLD, which would be beaten to the punch if Ubi get there first.