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Baghdad will be “one of the main characters” in a “more intimate” Assassin’s Creed Mirage, say UbisoftSounds good to me

Sounds good to me

Promotional art of Alamut, the fortress of the Hidden Ones in Assassin’s Creed Mirage, with the main character atop a camel in the foreground.

I’m playingAssassin’s Creed Valhallaright now, and it’s too bloody big. This is my second stint, jumping back in after playing for 14 hours when it came out in 2020 then abandoning it - and I’m beginning to remember why. It’s a pretty but largely empty-feeling time, with woefully repetitive mission design and characters I only have a passive interest in. It’s good, therefore, to seeAssassin’s Creed Miragecreative director Stéphane Boudon make more noises about how the next Creed game will be smaller and “more intimate”.

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She also talks about how new tech and greater experience allows them to do a better, more thorough job of simulating a smaller city, with “a richer and denser map compared to the first ACs”. They’re treating Baghdad “as one of the main characters of Mirage”, she says.

We did already know this is what Ubisoft were going for, thanks to Alice Bee’sAssassin’s Creed Mirage previewfrom last September.

Shohreh Aghdashloo! Her brief,recently added appearance in Valhallaas Roshan was fun. She sends you on a mission where you have to sneak into a fortress, as if she’s forgotten she’s come from a game that’s better built for it.

If you’re after more details before Mirage releases on an as yet unannounced date this year, here’s Ollie’s round up ofeverything we know about the new Assassin’s Creed.