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This isn’t a documentary, it’s a game about stabbing people in the neck. Throughout Assassin’s Creed games I always remember that I shouldn’t take anything I see in them at face value and that they’re essentially the historical equivalent of a theme park ride.

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The game is stuffed full of interesting moments in which the competing cultures overlap, clash and influence one another, and it’s a nerdy, academic kinda fun to compare and contrast the architecture and fashions of the different biomes.

On the macro-level there’s a fascinating (and very relevant) sociopolitical story about two colonizing powers (Rome and Greece) influencing and distorting the Egyptian way of life.

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Each had bespoke animations for their individual task and though they obviously loop eventually, it felt more real than anything I’d seen in this series before. I paused the game, read the Wikipedia article about it, then spent about 20 minutes following NPCs about and watching them do their jobs. For example, while exploring the foothills outside Memphis I came across a town dedicated to producing natron. Ubisoft have created some stunning worlds before, but Origins felt leagues more plausible than anything that’s come before. Origins impeccably detailed and well-researched world got its teeth into me, and now I’m hoovering up articles and books about life in the Ptolemaic era (as well as dipping in and out of the amazing in-game Discovery mode). For example, when playing Assassin’s Creed: Revelations I started to read Wikipedia articles about the Byzantines, which progressed to listening to a multi-part podcast series about the Byzantine emperors, which then ended up with me booking a flight to Istanbul and having a wander around the Hagia Sophia.Īnd right now I’m fully into researching a trip to Egypt and hope to see the pyramids with my own eyes by the end of 2020. I have, however, figured out that what I really enjoy is using these games a springboard to learn more about history. Any review you read will wax lyrical about the way Ubisoft cleverly evolved the franchise’s core gameplay, the inspirations they took from The Witcher 3 and Dark Souls, the gorgeous graphics and the top-quality writing. Now I have and (I’m sure to absolutely nobody’s surprise) it’s great. As such, despite having Assassin’s Creed Origins in my Steam library for about two years, I never got round to playing it. But we’ve had a fractious relationship over the years, with the dizzying highs ( Brotherhood & Syndicate) offset by the crushing lows ( 3 and Rogue). As someone who really likes both history and video games, Assassin’s Creed and I should be best buds.

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