Assassin’s Creed Mirage’s latest in-game footage confirms a return to the series' roots
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Assassin’s Creed Miragehas been shown off in detail at the Ubisoft Forward event and it brings back many classic tropes of the series that have long since been dormant.
Highlighted in the most recent in-engine footage forAssassin’s Creed Mirageconfirms the appearance of tools used for assassinations, such as blow darts and smoke bombs. What’s more, assassinations are confirmed to be one-hit, much like with the older pre-RPG titles from before the mid-2010s.
That’s not to say that there’s nothing new added to the established formula, because Assassin’s Creed Mirage borrows from the latter Splinter Cell games with a similar feature to mark and execute. It sees Basim, returning from Valhalla, quickly kill targets at the press of a button.
More exciting is the fact that you’ll have to plan your own entry and exit points when going after targets as the black box style of open-ended missions fromAssassin’s Creed Unityreturn. We see Basim interact with NPCs to create a distraction, throwing a colored smoke bomb to create a distraction, as well as a return to the Unity-era parkour system. Colour us excited!
It really is a return to form for Assassin’s Creed which has been an established RPG staple ever since the release ofAssassin’s Creed Originsback in 2017. For over six years, and two concurrent sequels, the direction of Ubisoft’s flagship franchise has been to go bigger with vast worlds to discover and to be vast but, consequently, less detailed overall.Mirageseeks to buck the trend and even pays homage to the originalAssassin’s Creedfrom 2007 with the assassin bureaus that you literally drop into - a neat touch. We can’t wait to see what comes next.
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Aleksha McLoughlin is an experienced hardware writer. She was previously the Hardware Editor for TechRadar Gaming until September 2023. During this time, she looked after buying guides and wrote hardware reviews, news, and features. She has also contributed hardware content to the likes of PC Gamer, Trusted Reviews, Dexerto, Expert Reviews, and Android Central. When she isn’t working, you’ll often find her in mosh pits at metal gigs and festivals or listening to whatever new black and death metal has debuted that week.
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