Two hours with Ubisoft's love letter to classic Assassin's Creed.
And there he was: the harbormaster I'd snuck through two different compounds to find. Killing this jerk was a big chunk of my two hours with, and I was proud of the route I'd taken to end up high on a ledge with the"assassinate" prompt above his head. My reward was a clean kill: an air assassination ripped straight out of every Assassin's Creed trailer ever. Of course, it wasn't until I stood up from his corpse that I noticed a guard gasping in horror a few feet away.
In the right light, Mirage could be mistaken for a next-gen remake of Assassin's Creed 1. I'm glad it's not, though, because I'm already smitten with Mirage's Animus avatar, the cool-but-kind Basim , andThe city's golden-crisp sunshine, bustling markets, and vibrant decoration reads like a deliberate counterexample to the studio's cold, dour depiction of 12th-century Israel from 2007.
The main story mission I played was mostly snooping, in fact. Basim infiltrates a grand auction to bid on an item that'll grant him access to the target. I didn't have enough money to actually win the bid, so I had to steal it from the guy who bought it. Still, consider me impressed that the series that once encompassed gaming's excessive use of waypoints and handholding is experimenting with wayfinding as gameplay. I hope the rest of Mirage has more opportunities like this . Ubi has upped its stealth game, too. The old AC games' idea of stealth was to place pairs of stationary guards between you and your goal, like bowling pins that have to be knocked down one way or another.
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