Assassin’s Creed Mirage looks to be a throwback to the golden age of the series – something the franchise is in desperate need of. From shots of the confined Baghdad’s urban sprawl, the emphasis on social stealth and parkour, this upcoming entry looks to fix the modern Assassin’s Creed’s major flaw: its lack of mechanical identity.
If you asked me a decade ago what my favorite game series was, I would have swiftly replied: Assassin’s Creed. When I first played the second game in the series, Assassin’s Creed 2 in 2009, I was hooked. There was everything you could ever want in an open-world game: an excellent story, compelling characters, exciting gameplay, and effective stealth which learned from the playbook of the Hitman series.
For as much as I loved the Ezio trilogy (spanning from Assassin’s Creed 2 to Revelations), I found that the series had begun to lose its way by going bigger and bolder. The cracks began to show with Assassin’s Creed 3; an ambitious yet flawed title that was set during the American Revolution of 1754 to 1783. It attempted to do too much and buckled under the weight of its ambition with under-baked mechanics and an unfocused main narrative that was far from the franchise’s best.
