Another day, another Assassin’s Creed Origins trailer. Today’s trailer has us seeing the power players that are vying for the throne in Ancient Egypt. Assassin’s Creed Origins takes place in 49 BCE, and the uncertain and dangerous times make for a perfect setting for the game. As siblings fight for power and the Roman Empire becomes involved, the story of the Assassin Brotherhood’s beginnings will be told.
Here’s the Game of Power trailer:
The Ubiblog reveals a lot more about the development process too, including how Origins portrays Ancient Egypt:
“When we started saying ‘let’s do Ancient Egypt,’ it was going to be [the entire] country,” says Ashraf Ismail, game director of Assassin’s Creed Origins. “Ancient Egypt meant many things for us; it meant cities, but also wilderness, and we wanted to show the diversity of this wilderness. And people, as they play the game and get into hours and hours of it, they’re constantly seeing new stuff from the world and the environment.”
Assassin’s Creed Origins’ version of Faiyum, for example, is an area that had seen a relatively recent population explosion thanks to the Ptolemies expanding its irrigation system. This led to a huge influx of both Greeks and Egyptians, whose coexistence created a landscape where Greek villas and pavilions bump up against Egyptian temples and statuary. Other areas will have their own distinct character; Memphis, the old capital of the pharaohs, was about as traditionally Egyptian an example as you can get, a place where few Greeks lived and the country’s ancient religious traditions were closely guarded by Egyptian high priests. Alexandria, meanwhile, was the relatively new capital of the Ptolemies, and as such was where most of Egypt’s Greek population lived. Rather than being a bastion of Greek customs, however, Alexandria was the center of a new Greco-Egyptian culture that combined both traditions to create something unique to Egypt.
To represent these areas in the game, Durand says, the developers consulted Egyptologists and studied a wide variety of materials on ancient Egypt, including movies and comic books as well as historical texts and documentaries. Their research helped them move beyond clichéd depictions of Egypt, even going so far as to shape the unique topographies of the game’s vast deserts.
Assassin’s Creed Origins will release October 27 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
[Source: Ubiblog]
