New entry in a franchise in decline, Assassin’s Creed Mirage would have seen its release date leaked on the web.
[Mis à jour le 27 janvier 2023 à 15h58] Three episodes in an open-world as ambitious as they are insipid will have got the better of Ubisoft’s desire to adapt its star franchise to the open-world RPG genre. The French studio, in difficulty for a few years due to inglorious releases and disturbing internal scandals, is counting on its hen with the golden eggs, Assassin’s Creed, to raise its head. This redemption takes the form of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the next installment in the legendary game series that will take up the format of the first Assassin’s Creeds by offering more scripted gameplay in more modest but also more detailed environments. The news of the day is that the release date of this little wonder would have leaked.
What is the release date of Assassin’s Creed Mirage?
It is on a Polish online sales site that the information would have leaked. The retailer posted a release date for Assassin’s Creed Mirage for a few hours, mentioning the June 30, 2023. Of course, this information was quickly taken up by many Internet users, and is currently making the rounds on social networks. But beware, where some see an impressive leak from Ubisoft and its partners, it could also be that this date was chosen completely by mistake by Allegro. Case to follow. Officially, the game is still set for “2023” by Ubisoft.
Assassin’s Creed Mirage trailer
Gameplay
It is a complete return to the sources that Assassin’s Creed Mirage wants to offer us. The formula so effective Assassin’s Creed games missed a certain part of its community since the release of Assassin’s Creed: Origins. Indeed, the license had leaned into the open-world genre, diluting its acclaimed script and storytelling into large, admittedly beautiful, but relatively empty and flavorless worlds. For Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, Ubisoft is backtracking, and intends to take up the elements that made the first Assassin’s Creed games such huge successes. More emphasis will be placed on infiltration, script, dialogues and story, for an adventure that will remain within certain limits an open world, but which will undoubtedly be more linear.
We will find many elements that made the strength of the first Assassin’s Creed, in particular the eagle vision, which will rub shoulders with the most recent “drone” that we could find in Odyssey, Origins and Valhalla. The story will mainly focus on the life of Basim, although the Animus will retain a large part in the storyline. On the other hand, it is also the RPG accents that will disappear in this new release. There is talk of a total absence of a leveling and leveling system, although the improvement of tools and weapons has been kept.
We can therefore find this impression of being part of an epic historical fresco, immersed in the life of a Baghdad of the 9th century more vibrant than ever. Because if Ubisoft does one thing well, it is also to offer gargantuan work in terms of research and historical reconstruction. And the Ubisoft Anvil graphics engine offers great opportunities to fully immerse us in an unknown universe. And this universe is that of Basim Ibn Ishaq, a character we know from Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and who will tell us about his youth in the order of the Assassins, under the direction of his mentor Roshan.
Beyond Baghdad, you can also visit other places like the fortress of Alamut, the one that housed the order of Assassins according to the stories of previous games. Although the game is not entirely open world, you will still have the opportunity to visit the city as you see fit, and meet different NPCs. Thus, Mirage intends to bring together the advantages of a more confined, more intimate and more centered storytelling world, with the freedom of action and movement offered by the more recent Assassin’s Creed formula.