Assassin's Creed® Odyssey

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a great game that stands out for its rich storytelling, immersive world, and compelling characters. Kassandra's strong personality, combined with exceptional voice acting, makes her a memorable protagonist. (my favorite after Ezio)

Overall, it's a must play for fans of the series and newcomers alike. It successfully blends action RPG elements in ancient Greece, making it one of the best entries in the franchise.

It's a tough one, the game has everything to be great, but there is... so much more repetitive, boring, unnecessary stuff that makes the whole thing a chore. Constant reminder that you can buy shit in the store, a "surprise boxes" mechanic, the greed is seeping through the gameplay. It's quite sad as, again, the game could have been great, but I can't recommend it in the current state

imagine the euphoric utopia we'd be in of ubisoft (& friends) got rid of their app(s). bought the game here, but ended up torrenting it after so it doesnt forget its installed and require a redownload or take 6 clicks of the play button to launch.

also why is family sharing off? if we really wanted to use steam as an easy method cheat you out of sales, we'd just share passwords (which we can do on your app and every other app as well, by the way). family sharing is for when it doesnt make sense to buy it again because your family already has a copy

I might even recommend this game when it's on sale because the world is really beautifully designed, because the story is set in the golden age of ancient Greece and leans heavily on Greek mythology and the mystery of Atlantis. The game also offers a historical mode in which the player can go around the entire map without any challenge and partially get acquainted with the real history that inspired the game. That kept me playing, along with the hope that the story would finally gain momentum and become more interesting. However, I still wouldn't recommend it, because there are too many things I didn't like that are hard to ignore even if you're a big fan of the franchise or the historical era the game is about. Also, while this is an old game, beloved by many, and for me the last tolerable one in the Assassins Creed franchise, I don't want to encourage anyone in any way to think that this is a good example of a game to follow.

* What I like about this game:

- The world design is just great.
- Graphics are excellent
- The game is very well optimized and stable
- Naval battles are dynamic and fun
- The combat animations are generally pretty good, maybe they could just be a little more synchronized but ok.
- Variety of weapons and armor is very rich. I especially like the ability for the player to replace the appearance of a weapon or armor with another one that he has already found.
- The weapon and equipment leveling system is also very intelligently designed, so the player can visit a blacksmith and upgrade their favorite equipment or weapon to their own level (which is a much better solution than say in The Witcher 3 where the first rusty junk you find can be more powerful than the legendary sword because it's higher level and you can't do anything about that).


* So what's wrong then?
(possible minor spoilers)



- The main character will return to the time of the Peloponnesian War through the Animus, choosing whether to revive the memories of Alexios or his sister Kassandra. You'd think that would mean two alternate significantly different experiences, however regardless of character choice your story and origin will be exactly the same. Gender will not affect the world's reaction to your character in any rational and historically known way, so this choice of yours is completely aesthetic and without any significantly different content. The myth of the Amazons - warrior women, would not be so intriguing and interesting if it was a phenomenon that could be encountered every day throughout the Greek world. But in this game, Kassandra is just one of many female mercenaries or soldiers as if she were in the world of The Elder Scrolls and not in ancient Greece. What I'm trying to say is that her journey as the main protagonist could have been far more difficult and a far different and more interesting experience than what Alexios could have had. In that world given the historical context someone like Kassandra could have been like Prometheus, but instead she is just one of many mercenaries just like Alexios. Both are just two sides of the same coin. For example Athena is not just a female Zeus, she has different personal qualities, traits and skills.
- The main story is watered down, with an abundance of boring and shallow characters and situations. It has the plot dynamics of endless 10000 episode long telenovelas.
- Many famous historical figures, who have inspired both scientists and fiction writers, are represented as buffoons. You can't help but wonder how any of those historically notable people got there with so little competence and cunning and what made them famous in the first place even in the ridiculous circumstances of this imagined world.
- Many quests (both main and side quests) usually start out interesting and intriguing, but then almost inevitably turn into the same action repeated countless times and end most often with some meager, seemingly unfinished cut scene (with very rare exceptions) or with more of the same action (fight). When a player is rewarded with a good story, there are never enough quests, but when you do them only to collect enough experience points to continue the main story and avoid buying XP boost through microtransactions, then even one of them is superfluous.
- The dialogues are too often unnatural, too "safe" and stiff, full of fake moral dilemmas.
- The voice acting in general is not bad, but the energies of the actors diverge too often and do not follow the drama of the situation as if they were recorded completely separately.
- Regions have different levels of difficulty and this in itself is not a problem, but unfortunately it is in a toxic relationship with microtransactions and boring side quests that I mentioned earlier.
- Ancient tombs (as well as caves) are almost completely similar to each other, only the corridors are longer, you will find more snakes and a thousand times repeated opponents. There is no boss fight at the end. At best you find a piece of armor or a weapon, earn a skill just because you took the time to go through the same hassle again.
- If you participated in one of the battles you saw them all. There are no unit formations, no strategies. Battles are a chaotic melee in which the player aims to defeat the required number of enemy officers.
- Boss fights differ from other fights only because the bosses are usually larger, often reskinned ordinary opponents and have a longer health bar.
- MTX in a single player game are never a good sign, but selling XP boosts hints at their worst possible impact.

even though I will continue this game myself I just cant recommend anyone else wasting their time. The world can be beautiful but really the game doesn't have much else going for it. The music is wildly repetitive, the leveling system makes the game too ridiculous and no matter how much time you spend in this game you don't feel like you get anywhere because it's massive and everything seems to get in your way no matter how much you try to focus on the mission. I've encountered quite a few bugs in parkour that make this the worst game to climb and parkour in. Plus the world doesn't feel like it was built for climbing and parkour. This game while enjoyable to just waste some time in stabbing NPC's is just that. A big world with the same couple buildings and caves you will see repeated over and over. It can be quite frustrating. 5/10

I really liked the beginning, the first island, I really did. Pretty and dense with a personal story and characters and silly in a fun and kind of grounded way. And very Greek. After that it became – for me at least – dull and stupid fast. The map is oppressively large, the story gets dumber and less interesting by the minute and when I realized how many hours it would take to see it through I just could not go on.

Buy it cheap and play the beginning. For that I recommend it, 10-15 great hours maybe. It gets a thumbs down here because I never went that fast from really enjoying a game to not wanting to touch it again ever.

One of the best Story/Rpg i have played in a long while! This is a really solid game that runs great, fun missions and very good combat experience. If you are into Rpg games this i a solid one to pick.

A MMORPG game without being a MMO. Total waste of potential. It is as if a virtual tourism company decided to create a virtual ancient greece and at the last second one of them said out loud, "hey wouldn't be great if we make it a video game?" An absolute work of art open world filled with disgustingly hollow quests. Still playing and play until I finish the game because I can not decide if it is good or bad or mid. To sum up, WASTE OF POTENTIAL.

Malaka this malaka that, couldnt you find any other greek words to spice it up ? + There is japanese dubbing but no greek ? JAPANESE DUBBING??? FOR THIS GAME ? AND NO GREEK ? Malaka ubisoft for sure.

I really liked this game at first, but only fucking GRIND does it get boring. The story is mid as hell, the leveling system is atrocious and needs to fucking die, and the amount of boring side quests rivals the amount of minecraft youtubers that came out as pedophiles in the past 4 years. This game rubs me the wrong way and i fucking despise it. Fuck you ubisoft, FUCK YOU.

Compared to my experience with AC Origins a few months ago I have more to complain about than to praise with this one.

- Overload of gameplay elements: too many weapons, abilities, skins and collectibles, controls, types of enemies to hunt etc.
- Bugs and glitches galore (especially with horses and the horse-riding automation which worked way better in AC Origins, and with player movement)
- Basically everything in the game and within the story is about violence, killing and dying
- Far too much of the game is about looting, collecting, selling and buying
- Anti-intellectualism: the greatest minds of ancient Greek and Western history are ridiculed in favor of an violence-glorifying "hands-on attitude" of main character
- Again as in AC Origins the opportunity to tell about the mythology and about life in the respective period through the plot is not or rarely used. Instead the sole focus is on the most famous (and of course most violent) events and characters of the respective time. So the history aspect gets reduced to war history instead of cultural history
- The world is grand and beautiful, there are many details about the landscape and architecture that are historically accurate or at least seem that way. But you learn almost nothing about the culture, art, science and everyday life beyond an extremely superficial and under-complex level
- Child murders and violence against children galore (this may be historically correct but still, WTF)
- The world is gigantic but the dimensions get blurred because you can run full speed on your horse through dense forest or up and down a mountain, you can jump from any height without dying and the camera angle while sailing makes everything around somehow smaller
- Too much animal killing and wrong depiction of animal wildlife (wild does not necessarily mean hostile but in AC there are fights with animals just everywhere you go)
- Missions and quests are all the same: go to XY and kill everybody and/or steal something. Considering the high number of missions and side quests this gets really tedious
- Historical mistakes that could have been avoided, e.g. wrong materials for sculptures, wrong motifs on pottery, wrong paintings on or in buildings (e.g. endless repetition of the same motives or only half paintings inside of temples, that mistake was made in AC Origins aswell)
- Music: there are far too few different street musicians in the world, you hear the same three idiots playing their two bars of music all over the whole giant game world. Also the menu music quickly becomes annoying since you have to heavily use the menus

+ Gigantic open world with many historic places
+ Fantastic atmosphere of public places
+ The ability to climb everything, fly with your falcon or go by horse and ship feels like total freedom to explore
+ The sheer beauty of the landscapes and of the desing of the cities and villages
+ Many historically correct details
+ Choice of character (male and female)
+ (superficial) introduction to a lot of figures from Greek mythology
+ The combination of combat and stealth is great fun, especially with the military/bandit camps
+ The sea battles are fun

Maybe I should have waited longer after playing AC Origins, I liked that title way better. Maybe I'm more into Egyptian mythology. And maybe I do not consider enough the extreme amount of money that such a game needs to refinance, so that the willingness to take risks - especially on an substantive level - is probably very low. Still, I'm not the first or only one finding that Ubisoft really are the masters of open world creation and total storytelling failures.

Odyssey is an amazing game. With great combat and wonderful world and an good story. Ancient greek is portrayed beautiful and stunning in this game. The only thing that bugs me is that this game has nothing to do with Assassins Creed. Its an great game, but an bad Assassins Creed. Overhaul 8.5/10

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a game I decided to finish, but after that, I’m taking a break from Ubisoft titles. The game’s storyline is so 'brilliant' that I’m absolutely drained by this masterpiece of writing. Even Assassin's Creed Syndicate, which doesn’t exactly shine in terms of narrative, feels much more engaging than anything that’s come out since.

I’ve spent 108 hours in this game, completing everything except the final DLC. And what meaningful things did I learn from the story? Nothing. Okay, you’re a descendant of an ancient race. That’s it. In the modern-day storyline, the protagonist - is a completely empty and uninspired character, offering no depth or compelling narrative to engage with.

In ancient Greece, the main character manages to crack a funny line about once every ten quests, something like, 'Oh, f***ing Zeus' and that’s about it. One out of ten quests is somewhat decent, the rest are utter nonsense. But very important thing, you can sleep with pretty much anyone.

The main storyline starts after the Persians are defeated by Leonidas and Themistocles, and it’s about the conflict between Sparta’s totalitarian oligarchy and Athens’ democracy. What do we get? Zero Assassins, zero Templars, but there’s some random Cult of Kosmos. In one of the DLCs, there’s a cool character - an old man in a hood with a hidden blade. But since it’s Ubisoft, he barely gets any screen time, appearing for maybe three hours out of the 108 I played.

To sum up - boring, empty, lacking any real plot, and a sad reminder of how far Ubisoft has fallen.

Loved it 95+ hrs in it , beautiful landscape and just jump anytime in it and enjoy the gameplay.

My favourite AC game! It's not very Assassin heavy and definitely has more of an open world RPG feel to it, but the combat is great, the characters are likeable, and the world is GORGEOUS.

Highly recommend

If you love ancient Greece and its cities then this instalment is for you. Just don't think of it as an assassin creed game.

Game crashes constantly even on a PC well above the recommended specs. Ubisoft support is non-existent. They dont read ticket notes to see what things have been already tried but instead simply stick to their script to tell you to check the same things over and over again. Eventually they just stopped responding to me after about a month of trying to get the issue resolved.

This game keeps crashing on me. I have a Leigon Pro 7 with an RTX 4080 and it keeps crashing at low settings this game is almost unplayable.

Writing this review at 169 hours played, and game at 100% completion.

WHAT A GAME.

I absolutely adore this game - it's one of the only games that I have come back to time and time again, on both Xbox and PC. I actually cannot get enough of this game. Odyssey is, without a doubt, the BEST instalment in the AC franchise, and Ubisoft have outdone themsevles with how compelling and how bloody brilliant Odyssey is.

I've been a big AC fan ever since the beginning, from the very early Altair and Ezio days, and was always sure Brotherhood would be my favourite, but since playing Odyssey it has very firmly taken the top spot. Not only to be able to pick between a female lead (Kassandra) as apposed to just a male lead (this was never an issue for me, but I loved that in this game we had a choice), the sheer expanse of the map, the loveable characters who help us along the way, and being able to learn about the important icons in Greek Mythology as well as the monsters (which I have to say, have some of the best battles I've ever seen and played in any AC game).

It is so rare for an already incredible and well established game to have two equally incredible DLCs, but The Fate of Atlantis + Legacy of the First Blade are both amazing DLCs that enrich the depth and gameplay of the base game. Personally, Atlantis was by far my favourite of the two, purely because of the beautiful maps we are sent to, such as Elysium and Atlantis. I've seen that this DLC hasn't been received all that well among other players, and yes it can be tedious at times, however the love that I have for this game and the franchise just trumps everything else. These two DLCs are just amazing, and I was so sad to finish the FOA storyline as it is one of my all time favourites within all AC games.

I hope Ubisoft can recognise and see the success of AC Odyssey and continue to create future games with this game in mind. Everything about it was just *no words*, and I'm actually getting a little bit emotional about realising that this game is well and truly finished after playing it on and off for 3 years. Only a handful of games has left me feeling like this, and I'm glad to be able to add this one on the list.

So long, Odyssey x

This game is mid at its best for me.It will work perfectly fine if you're looking for any RPG openworld game but please consider it again if you're looking for 'AC' game.
Pro
-The graphic look beautiful
-Combat is okay-ish
Cons
-Atlastis dlc map is beatiful but feel hollow as hell
- game leght is long but most of the quest are repetitive type of mission
-Legacy of the first blade dlc hands down being one the worst dlc i have ever play in my entire life
-Parkouring is suck in this game
-Phobos feeling so stupid to control the movement
-The story didnt catch me its feel so boring
-some bugs is still happen too me
-the game freezing at some point with no reason even if i playing this game on high end pc
so i'll give this game about 6.5/10 its a good deal at 90% of if you doesn't care much about its being called"AC game" and its story.

I played Odyssey first then origins...and ooooh boy.... origins were so unplayable for me. It looked like whomever made odyssey learned from all the clunkiness of origins and fixed those for this game. Over all good game. This was first time i finished everything in the game since revelations.

Nothing like an assassin game, you aren't even able to 1 shot most enemy captains with your assassin ability

---{ Graphics }---
☑ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☑ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☑ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
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☑ 10

It's basically AC Origins with Black Flag adjacent ship gameplay, overall pretty fun and worth picking up if it's on sale.

Never have I ever played a game so bland that after continued diminished returns trying to get a bigger high from progressing with the story, that after repeated tries I have finally thrown in the towel and admitted defeat. As my first AC game of the franchise (yes I'm late but not sorry), I have decided that perhaps I should have made better life choices 40 hours ago after uninstalling this.

Quantity is not quality.

The landscapes of ancient Greece are beautiful in this game, and the demigod protagonist is very powerful. The weapon system is quite extensive, and you get to explore the world of Greek mythology.
However, in my opinion, the architecture of ancient Greece doesn't feel as authentic or majestic as in Assassin's Creed Origins.
Furthermore, places like Atlantis, Elysium, and the Underworld feel too artificial; they don't seem particularly faithful to the original myths and legends.
Also, to enter these mythical realms from Greece, you have to use a teleportation system, which feels less immersive than, for example, just entering directly into a Pharaoh's tomb in Origins.
All in all, I still prefer playing Assassin's Creed Origins. Nevertheless, the scenery in Odyssey is truly beautiful, and I highly recommend you give this game a try

Decent level gated main story that constantly forces you to do super boring side quests to grind xp for hours on end. Clearly designed this way so you buy the xp booster in the microtransaction shop.

The world is huge and very impressive, but since the devs had to reuse the same art assets to fill it, most locations outside Athens and Sparta are very forgettable.

As I played this game I found myself feeling as if something was off. Something was missing. It took a while to figure it out, but this isn't an assassin's creed game. Not really. In Assassin's creed games you can sneak around and assassinate people. Kill them silently and quickly and avoid detection. Sure, if you get caught there's a robust combat system, but that system is essentially a way of recovering from failed stealth. Assassin's Creed Oddysey wants to be an RPG and, weirdly, it wants to be Shadow of Morder/Shadow of War. Now your enemies have levels and you have levels and you have to level up to become competent enough to fight enemies of a given level. There are enemies that the game just won't let you assassinate. Like it doesn't work and you have to engage them in a protracted melee fight. There's a system of bounty hunters which will periodically be hired to hunt you and they seem procedurally generated and there's a pause screen where you can see the ones that outlevel you and it's basically the Nemessis system only not as good. And that's the problem with this game. As I was playing it I kept thinking "I'd rather be playing Black Flag" or "I'd rather be playing Shadow of Mordor". So I stopped and played Shadow of Morder instead.

I have mixed feelings about the game.

What I Liked

- Quick Save Feature: The ability to quickly save progress is a significant plus. The old save system would have made things worse.

- World Design: The game boasts an impressive world design in terms of visuals, and the vast map to explore.

- Stunning Graphics: The visuals are truly remarkable, better than Assassin's Creed Origins in my opinion.

What I Didn't Like

- Sloppy Gameplay: I encountered moments during the game that showed a total lack of polish. For example, during the final boss battle, a mercenary appeared but was unable to enter the arena due to invisible walls which shows that the game has not been properly play tested.

- Goofy Combat Mechanics: The movement system of Assassin's Creed makes some sections of the combat feel awkward and silly.

- Repetitive Gameplay: The game suffers from a lack of variety, with noticeable copy-pasted assets that make exploration feel monotonous.

- Boring Storyline: The narrative failed to engage me, and the acting in the cut scenes was subpar, making it difficult to sit through the cut scenes. I skipped most of them towards the end.

- Disappointing Final Boss Battle: This encounter was poorly designed, featuring a steep difficulty spike and an unnecessarily long cut scene before the fight. The absence of a save point afterward meant that dying would force me to replay the same choices repeatedly.

- Poor Animations: Enemy dodging animations felt rushed and unrealistic, with characters appearing to teleport rather than move fluidly.

- Unsatisfactory Music: The soundtrack did not resonate with me. No where near as good as Black Flag, and even worse than Origins.

I paid $11.99 for this game and feel that I got my money's worth; however, it's clear that it lacks polish. Given my experiences with this title and previous entries like Origins, I will be passing on Assassin's Creed Valhalla, as I suspect it will follow a similar formula that I find increasingly unappealing.

Apart from old AC, This is a masterpiece for an rpg openworld and its had a great story and so many myth stories and i love it

After seeing "?" marker cluttering the map, "Ah i will never finish this game" But here i am, 60+ hours later. While the main story is somewhat lacking, the world itself is very beautiful. Combat is fun, it's failed to capture the assassin's aspect like the old games, but knowing that i'm going to fight a Minotaur, Cyclops etc, i don't care anymore.

TLDR; Maybe not the Assassins's Creed game you're looking for, but it's a realy good Spartan Open World RPG.

BEST Assassins Creed Game After Ezio Saga. Of course very different gameplay aspects, this one plays more like a RPG but really good game, much better than origins and valhalla for me

World is very large and beautiful and in 10 hours seems like i have just scratched the surface. Does not feel like an assassins creed game so much at least in the beginning and the ship combat from black flag is there also. If your game keeps crashing to the desktop every 15 minutes disabling vsync and enabling ingame fps limiter to 90 fixed the problem for me and no more crashing.

Fun game but the retarded bounty hunter system makes it absolutely unplayable. The money is way too hard to earn to pay 15k for DOING YOUR FUCKING DOGSHIT MISSIONS. Not to mention everything you fucking do in this game makes mercenaries come after you. The best part is, they follow you to the ends of the earth. Leader house? They're his fucking bodyguard now apparently. What literal dogshit

For me the best game of all AC series. Made 100% in basic and also in all DLC. It took me 93.8 hours but you can finish it faster. (100%, every single task, every place on a map etc.). Love perfection. Cheers!

For as many hours I put into this game, I am reminded of how repetitive a lot of the game play can be. I mainly kept playing as I wanted to fully get all of the achievements and the story was fun. However, then the Fate of Atlantis DLC struck. I cannot play it on my PC without the game crashing. And from what I can tell, there is no fix for those with AMD GPUs. I am trying to play it on another PC that is not AMD, but not sure if I will have the patience to get across the finish line.

Wanted to love it cause the setting is one of my favorite time periods but the game feels pretty basic with things like completely arbitrary item drops, equipment that you quickly realize barely matters, copy and pasted battles, a story that starts out with promise but doesn't go anywhere and becomes increasingly tedious dragging out things way more than it has substance for and for some reason despite clearly including a few fantastical elements the game refuses to commit to it fully and what little magically elements there are feel out of place with most things going completely unacknowledged by characters. Only get this if it's on sale or you're super into the AC franchise I guess.

I found this game amazing except for a few things that made my experience horrible:

1: Mercenaries shouldn't be able to follow you inside of missions, it's so annoying when a mercenary appears and starts teaming up with the person you were already fighting

2: Mercenaries shouldn't be allowed to enter restricted areas. the MC is a mercenary so why am I not allowed in but some random ass lower tier mercenary is??

3: The level scaling is horrible specifically in nightmare, if my opponent is 1 level above me he can pretty much one tap me for some reasons. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong but that was my nightmare experience.

4: Enemies keep ganging up on you in conquest battles and your teammates don't give a flying fuck.

but other than that the game was amazing. I loved hunting down cultists to upgrade my spear and fighting the different greek myths to unlock Atlantis was an amazing experience I don't know how the DLC has mixed reviews to me it was awesome. The story was also amazing, the only part I didn't like was when Brasidas died because his dumbass decided to fight Deimos alone.

Overall an 8/10, in my opinion the 2nd best assassin's creed game behind black flag.

Ubisoft Connect is literally a humilation.

It doesn't like my username, password and also they can't make titles don't overlap each others. Imagine if poor multi billion company could make a signle button auth with google or (can't even imagine that) simply removed that bloatware from the face of earth since we already got steam to handle that.

Should have just pirated it, way less stress and pain than dealing with this mess.

A big fan of the series and loved this entry as well, but game has somewhat moved away from its roots. Loved the graphics but still miss the old gameplay

The game is probably overall the best game I have played for single player fun. The game was educational developing the time frame of the Spartan and Trojan era of history and very very detailed. I have played single player and MMO games since 1996 so that says alot about the game. I have played EQ, EQ2, Star Wars the Old Republic, all of the Diablo except IV, Elder Scrolls Online, Assassins Creed Valhalla, Origins and Mirage and the list goes on. So I do not say this lightly. HOWEVER, they game started crashing/locking up about a year ago. I have attempted to try to get UBISOFT to help the figure out what happened. I am 80 years old and all this webpages and links and go here and do this and do that is quite overwhelming to an old man. I have even ask them to all me (a solid customer) and I cant even get them to do that. So no due to customer support of this game and anything else marked UBISOFT I really cannot suggest to anyone to spend their money and play games of UBISOFT. Sorry guys.

Odyssey is not really “an AC game”, but honestly, it is still an absolute master class of an RPG and the best "AC game" since the Ezio trilogy. The game feels like going on a long holiday to Greece, where you want to return every year. I recommend choosing Kassandra as the playable character, since she is the canon Eagle Bearer.

A Beautiful World, But Lacking Depth

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is undeniably a stunning game in terms of visuals, with its vast open world of ancient Greece offering breathtaking views and a rich, historically-inspired setting. However, despite its impressive scale, the game falls short in several key areas that ultimately hinder its potential as a truly great RPG.

First, the gameplay can feel repetitive. While the world is large and full of activities, many of them feel like filler rather than meaningful content. The side quests often lack variety, with numerous fetch quests and repetitive objectives that make the exploration feel tedious. The sheer number of quests also becomes overwhelming, and it's easy to get lost in a sea of tasks that feel more like chores than exciting adventures.

The combat, while visually flashy, can feel mindless at times. The skill tree offers many different abilities, but most of them don't feel all that impactful in battle. It quickly becomes a game of spamming abilities rather than engaging in tactical, strategic combat. The game also leans heavily into grindy mechanics, especially when it comes to leveling up and upgrading gear, which can be frustrating for players who are just looking to enjoy the story.

Another downside is the narrative. While the main story has potential, it feels disconnected and unfocused. The plot is bogged down by unnecessary choices that don't feel as meaningful as the game would like you to believe. The protagonist, while voiced well, feels more like a blank slate rather than a compelling character with a defined personality.

Finally, the RPG elements, while expanded, sometimes detract from the core experience of Assassin's Creed. The shift to a more loot-based, level-up system feels like it clashes with the series' roots in stealth and parkour. The open-world design, though expansive, loses the tight focus and immersive narrative that earlier entries in the series excelled at.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a game that has great potential, but it gets lost in its own vastness. The world is beautiful, but the gameplay can be repetitive, the story lacking, and the RPG elements feel out of place in the franchise. It’s a game for those who enjoy open-world exploration but falls short for anyone looking for a more focused, meaningful experience.

ACO with improvement version(ACO DLC)

buy it when discount, it worth your prize

Barely runs on a RTX 2080ti and 9700k paired with 32gb of ram. Actual trash.

I do not like to write bad reviews but this game has been a severe disappointment. i have an nvidia rtx 4060 intel i7 13700. The game wont launch. it crashes every time. I have numerous other games including ubisoft games that run every time. This is the only game that wont run. I have configured settings to run on the nvidia card as well as every other possible setting. I contacted ubisoft support. this is a major disappointment.

This game was designed to be frustrating slow to progress and to force you to grind for XP in order to see more of the story. Which is why when you boot it up, they prominently flash a cash shop in front of your face to sell you XP / gold boosters for 1500 helix credits which you can only buy in increments of 900/1000.

Did they think their consumers wouldn’t notice or that we were that dumb? It’s no wonder Ubisoft is a flaming train wreck right now. Hopefully they don’t do the same BS with Shadows or else that will fail as well.

Fortunately there’s a mod on Nexus (for PC players only), where you can build the 50% boosts in your exe file for free. But I can’t recommend any game / company that uses sleazy mobile tactics like this on a single player experience.

One of my favorite Assassin's Creed games, I played this one on xbox first and i loved it so much that it got me into the rest of the franchise. Like any other AC games, its strongest aspect is the historical setting (although in this one there are some pretty a-historical things, such as Sparta having a navy...) and the combat is also wonderful. The main story itself is also nothing to sneeze at, either. Complicated family dynamics as well as Ancient Greek political intrigue are its main aspects, and I do believe the game does them well. While not for everyone, its definitely worth a try if you like open-world games, historical settings and intruiging main stories.

Although this games soundtrack is simply amazing and the parkour is super good, and the visuals are stunning, the gameplay is pretty bad a lot of the time.
The AI is braindead, there are constant bugs and the swords, at least at the start of the game are basically just retextured pillows.

There is the argument that this helps make the player want to progress, but there is also the point that the game progression is simply shit, and the game devs were to lazy to implement actually interesting game progression.

Overall the game is pretty 50/50 Wether it's enjoyable or not, considering both the quite bad gameplay and the great and stunning open world.

I loved this games so much that i wanted to have it on Steam as well (not a big fan of Uplay you might say), so the hours i've played here don't match the real ones!

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is aptly named. It is an enormous, meandering journey through ancient Greece at the beginning of the Peloponnesian war as the struggle between Sparta and Athens begins to reshape the Greek world. It will shock you with its breadth and depth: the sea hides sunken ruins, the detail of temple paintings is impeccable, authentically clothed characters wander enormous cities whilst chatting in Greek, soldiers clash on roads as citizens scatter.

You play a mercenary, choosing between the equally statuesque and self-assured Kassandra or Alexios. There is an element of family drama that propels the story forward in counterpart to the overarching historical drama of the setting. The script is exactly the same for both characters.

Decisions play a prominent role, and optional romance has been introduced for the first time, though it’s underdeveloped. It’s fun to see Alexios flirt with a confidence that would make Aphrodite blush, but perhaps “romance” is too strong a word for these throwaway flings. Oddly, some "objects" of your (very fleeting) desire can occasionally be recruited as lieutenants on your ship, where they stand around in silence, gazing at nothing until a battle breaks out.

Odyssey’s writing is good, skillfully navigating humor and emotion, though it would benefit the game if it trusted its writing more instead of throwing combat into situations that don’t need it.

At the beginning, the game feels too slow, teasing you with a range of combat abilities but then making you painstakingly unlock each of them. The “spartan kick” ability deserves especial acclaim: kicking enemies off cliffs, boats and battlements never diminishes in satisfaction. This isn’t a game for people who like to speed through a story; after 50 no-nonsense hours the end is still nowhere in sight and if you add the DLC's to it....trust me it will be a loooong playtrough!

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is satisfyingly authentic. The sunlight and baked earth of Crete with it's STUNNING views (all maxed out and in 4K it's a PURE JOY), and the buzz of conversation in Athens made it feel alive. It is not a direct re-creation of ancient Greece, but an entertaining world of Ubisoft’s invention, and you get to stride through this place as a capable and instantly likable character. Not everything that Odyssey ambitiously attempts is successful, and it greedily consumes your time, but I’ve relished the many hours I’ve spent with it. One of the best, if not the best Assassin's Creed to date.