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Assassin's Creed Odyssey is the eleventh major and twentieth overall installment of the Assassin's Creed series of video games. It is set in the year 431 BCE and follows a fictional history of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. The game was released worldwide for Windows, Playstation 4, Xbox One, and for the Nintendo Switch in Japan.

History

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a direct sequel to Assassin's Creed Origins.[1] It was developed by Ubisoft Quebec and published by Ubisoft. It was directed by Jonathan Dumont and Scott Phillips. The player can decide which side they take in their game, as well as their gender. They can also elect to enter romantic relationships with characters regardless of their chosen gender. The game was announced at E3 2018 (trailer shown below) and released worldwide on October 5th, 2018.


Reception

Assassin's Creed Odyssey received positive reviews, gaining aggregate scores of 83 for the PS4, 87 for the XboxOne, and 90 for Windows on Metacritic.[2] Critics praised the game's large open world, characters and graphics. PC Games[3] called it an RPG in scale to match The Witcher 3. IGN gave the game a score of 9.2 in their review, which was posted to YouTube and gained over 1.3 million views (shown below, left). Gamespot gave the game an 8/10 "great" rating (shown below, right).


Online Presence

The game developed a strong online presence. The game has a dedicated Wiki,[4] and several megathreads on /r/assassinscreed with hundreds of points.[5][6][7] The game has over 75,000 likes on Facebook.[8] Two Twitter Moment pages were compiled about amusing and interesting things about the game, including examples taken of pictures taken in the game's photo mode (shown below)[9] and tweets about the game's chickens, which attack the player.[10]


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