Assassin's Creed Origins

Assassin's Creed Origins is a 2017 action role-playing game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the tenth major installment in the Assassin's Creed series and the successor to Assassin's Creed Syndicate (2015). Set in Egypt during the reign of Cleopatra, the story follows a Medjay named Bayek of Siwa and his wife Aya as they seek revenge for the murder of their son, which leads to the founding of the Assassin Brotherhood and their long-running conflict with the Templar Order. The story is followed in the modern day by Layla Hassan, an Abstergo researcher who is inducted into the Assassins through relations. The game's development began following the release of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013). Ubisoft Montreal led its four-year development with help from a team of nearly 700 people from other Ubisoft studios around the world. The team consulted Egyptologists and historians extensively to ensure the setting was authentically represented in the game. In response to the common criticism that the gameplay of the series was getting stale and overly familiar, Ubisoft decided to reinvent the Assassin's Creed formula with Origins. Whereas previous entries were mainly stealth-action games, Origins introduces many elements found in role-playing games and an overhauled "hitbox-based" combat system. While Assassin's Creed had been an annual franchise since Assassin's Creed II (2009), an extra year of development time allowed the team to polish the game further. This was largely a response to the tepid sales of Assassin's Creed Syndicate, and the troubled launch of Assassin's Creed Unity (2014), which was plagued with technical issues when it was released. Announced at E3 2017, Origins was released on October 27, 2017, for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One, and for Stadia on December 15, 2020.

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Developer

Ubisoft Romania, Ubisoft Kyiv, Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft Chengdu, Ubisoft Singapore

Publisher

Ubisoft

First release

October 27, 2017

Series

Assassin's Creed

Cover

Official thumbnail

Record ID

Q30138024