Review Game Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

Assassin's Creed is famous for sending players throughout time and around the world to visit everywhere from Ancient Egypt to Colonial America, but each game's open-world segments have been contained to a single time and place. That, however, could be set to change.

In an interview for the Ubisoft blog, Ubisoft Canada's executive vice president of creative Lionel Raynaud said future technologies could enable the developer to create an Assassin's Creed that drops in on different time periods. Other Ubisoft franchises could benefit from this too, with players potentially traveling to multiple countries in the same Far Cry or Watch Dog game.

"We will have technology that will break the [current] limits of memory, for instance, because of new technologies that are arriving. We would be able to – in the same world – have several historical periods, for instance, in Assassin's Creed, and use the Animus to travel from one to the other. Or have different areas of the world linked by travel systems, so that a Far Cry game or a Watch Dogs game could happen in different countries in the same experience, seamlessly."

This content could be part of the core of a game or could arrive as DLC, as in the same breath Raynaud also alluded to a future with "bigger post-launch periods" enabling "longer lives" for each Ubisoft game.

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Some past Assassin's Creed games have sent players to multiple time periods, but the secondary or tertiary periods have always been small, self-contained areas specific to linear missions. Raynaud, however, was responding to a question about open worlds, implying a richer experience in a single game's additional settings.

Though Raynaud didn't use the term "next-gen," the future technologies he mentioned that would enable such experiences are almost certainly tied to new game consoles. The next Xbox is rumored to be codenamed Scarlet and launching in 2020, while Sony has said the PlayStation 4 is entering its final phase.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is the next entry in the long-running series, launching in October for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. While Odyssey looks to be set entirely in Greece, Ubisoft is apparently using it to redefine the series in a different way.