E3 2018: Assassin's Creed Odyssey - 7 Ways It Changes The Franchise Forever
3. You're Not Really An Assassin (Yet)
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Although all the alterations to the classic AC formula are really interesting, it's the narrative departure that's actually Odyssey's most interesting element.
The aforementioned four-hundred year shift from Origins brings with it its own challenges, and while both that game and Assassin's Creed: Black Flag featured sections where the protagonist wasn't an actual Assassin, it's possible that Odyssey will lack the order entirely up until the last third.
Depending on how much you like the Assassins, this could prove to be an issue. Black Flag was rightly lauded for its reinvigorating take on the mythos, but some of the hardcore AC audience didn't take to the fact that Edward Kenway never officially joined the Assassins.
Odyssey obviously has an excuse for that, but it'll be interesting to see if fans rally behind a title that could potentially lack the iconic white garments of the franchise.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
