Produced by the same team behind the brilliant “Black Flag” who would have worked on this game since then, “Assassin’s Creed: Origins” is an undeniably ambitious game. It was widely believed that taking a year off from the holiday season of 2016 was a good idea, and we hoped the series would come back creatively revitalized. Great game in this series, “Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag” from 2013. “Assassin’s Creed: Unity” and “Assassin’s Creed: Rogue” from 2014 and “Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate” from 2015 were critical disappointments, each having elements that worked but each also failed to live up to the challenge. It got to a point where the games were coming in so quickly – a major release every year from 2009 to 2015 – that one started to feel fatigue in the creative drive of the franchise. The “Assassin’s Creed” series has been a staple of the PS3 and PS4 for a decade now, gaining high praise for the first release in 2007, then simply flooding the market with sequels and spinoffs. For that reason alone, it’s one of the must-haves of 2017. It can be overwhelming to a degree that it feels like a chore at times, but it can also be breathtaking in its scope and setting. Or has it just been that the expansive storytelling has been moved to a different medium? “Origins,” the first “AC” game since the disappointing “Syndicate” of 2015 is undeniably epic – it feels like a game bigger than any other game released on modern consoles. (“Gravity”, “Interstellar”, “The Martian”) and, of course, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Just two decades ago, we were getting Oscar-winning “swords and sandals” movies like “Gladiator” and “Braveheart,” but it’s a genre that seems to have given way to the wave of recent “science-fiction”. Sure, we get an “Exodus: Gods and Kings” and “Gods of Egypt” every now and then, but those movies haven’t exactly set the world on fire like movies like “Cleopatra” and “Ben-Hur” did. As you play through Ubisoft’s huge and beautiful “Assassin’s Creed: Origins”, one can’t help but remember an epic golden age of Hollywood that they don’t really do often anymore, at least not with success.
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