Assassin’s Creed Odyssey hands-on review

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey hands>>on review
Full disclosure, the game lets you put on a hood should you choose to and like Origin’s you can customise your loadout too. This time Ubisoft has gone a step ahead and added another layer of RPG element to the weapons by giving them a stt  gear become redundant because you got it at a lower level during the starting part of the game. The three tier skill tree branches to range attacks, the usual sword faff and actual Assassin perks.

Here’s where you feel that Assassin’s Creed is not the same as before, offering more RPG elements one after another and building solid on the foundations of Origins. What I am talking about is that now you can map the skills to the face buttos on the controller that can be activated by pressing down the left shoulder buttons.

For instance, holding down theand pressing on the controller will activate a health boost orwill snatch the shield off those pesky guards making them more open for frontal attacks. Best up,ll let you Spartan Kick enemies off cliff and ships. It’s very satisfying tdo and is clearly very similar to Gerard Butler’s kick from 300. There are range weapon button mappings by holding down buttons too.

Naval battles make a return and allow you to roam freely from one island to another without any loading screens ruining your flow. You can recruit anyone from the open world game to join your crew and even customise and upgrade your ship too. This is one of the most awaited features and we didn’t actually get to test it out during our demo session, it’s good to know that it has been confirmed by Ubisoft.

The naval battles themselves are pretty much the same while you have bows and javelins at your disposal rather than broadside cannons that feltmore satisfying in Black flag. You cannot see the the mast of the ship and the whole thing just moves because of your crew’s sweat and tears but don't take them for a cranky bunch. We’re happy to report that sea shanties are back and this time in Greek flavour.