Assassin's Creed Origins: 10 Things It Needs To Deliver
4. Weaponised Hippos
Gameplay footage of Assassin's Creed: Origins has shown the way caged lions can be stealthily freed to maul Bayek's enemies to death, Far Cry-style.
Lions are all very well but these indolent carrion-feeders are hardly the most dangerous animals to be found by the Nile. Even the Nile Crocodile must relinquish its crown as top death machine to the true king of the killers: the majestic hippopotamus.
The portly, jovial appearance of the hippopotamus conceals its astonishingly high slaughter capacity. It can run faster than a man, bite him clean in two like it ain't no thing, and has Axminster-thick skin impervious to the bow-fire of terrified victims-to-be.
A hippo's favourite trick is to lurk underwater until some unsuspecting fool sails over them, then erupt like a vengeful fleshy volcano to upend the boat and kill everyone on board.
If Bayek wants to really get killing using Mother Nature's murder weapons, he needs to weaponise those hippos. Goading them into attacking, riding them, luring targets into the hippo kill-zone - all these would make for exceptionally satisfying ways for Bayek to use the only thing in Egypt deadlier than him.