Assassin’s Creed Origins’ review

There’s no such thing as a perfect video game. It’s impossible to make something every single person will love. If you need evidence, Assassin’s Creed Origins — the latest in Ubisoft’s 10-year-old historically minded sci-fantasy saga — is strong proof. By retooling the series’ stealth centric open-world action mechanics to accommodate more combat and an emphasis on simple but pervasive loot, developer Ubisoft has worn the series’ mechanical signature too thin. The new mechanics don’t as work as well as they should, and the stealth gameplay lacks refinement, since the game wasn’t designed with those mechanics in mind.

Masquerading as an RPG, 'Origins' fences the open worlds of Assassin's Creed