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Assassin's Creed Odyssey Review - Wonder And Glory | GameSpot

With Assassin's Creed Odyssey on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, Ubisoft continues the series' expansion into a broader open world, offering an impressive follow-up to Origins.

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Profchaos2430d ago (Edited 2430d ago )

Gamespot killing it with the realistic review and scores. I've always been suspicious about others like ign getting paid off as there are way to many 9s

mandingo2429d ago

Gamespot gives a lot of 9's to sony games

Profchaos2429d ago

Not saying all games should be 8 but the rinse and repeat ubi and ea games though are solid 8s.

Games like fc5 were promoted as amazing and got overall glowing reviews but imo they were good games just not great games solid 8 ratings

ps3rider2430d ago

Playing origins right now .. its good but like the reviewer says .. its so big a detailed in way it kills the enjoying

playnice2429d ago

Hmmm no one said that about the Witcher 3 I guess CD Projekt does an open world better?

ps3rider2429d ago

Oh my god ... never felt boring from start till end ... u ??

playnice2428d ago (Edited 2428d ago )

I haven't had time to play more than a couple hrs but I keep hearing how there are 200 hrs of content and that seemed a bit daunting 😆 I did play the Witcher 2 and loved it. I gotta say though I am getting less and less time to play games and as such I tend to get discouraged more and more by open world games. I end up playing a couple hrs and never touching it again :(

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Assassin’s Creed Is Coming To Reverse: 1999

In an unusual pairing, Assassin’s Creed Is Coming To Reverse: 1999.

Seth_hun23d ago

What the hell is Reverse 1999? :)

goken23d ago

Apparently it’s some Gacha thingy…

Kekewei23d ago

Why is it listed as today's hottest, nobody cares about it here...

Servbot4123d ago

Ubisoft buying their way to the top. They always have the shittiest advertisement ideas, like flooding videos and comment sections with obvious bots.

Garethvk23d ago (Edited 23d ago )

I think it is more of a global appeal versus a U.S. market.

Garethvk23d ago (Edited 23d ago )

Obviously they do or there would not be the hits on it. Even Google picked it up for their news feed.

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The Open-World Genre In Gaming Has A Quantity Over Quality Problem

More developers need to focus on what makes open-world games like Elden Ring and RDR2 pop, instead of focusing on needless map expansions.

KyRo270d ago

Open world games need a overhaul in general.

Go here - kill this target
Go here - fetch this
Clear this camp
Add dozens of filler side quests
Tack on a RPG skill tree
Finish up with a couple of hundred collectables

98 percent of open world games follow this game design and it's boring now after nearly a decade of following this same design.

anast270d ago

Maybe they know what it takes to make an engaging open-world, but they won't. For most publishers, managers probably get bonuses for finding ways to cut corners.

IAMRealHooman270d ago

yes. Every ubisoft like is overly large map. just to say it's huge with nothing in it.
Love'em or hate'em a yakuza game is a significantly smaller map, with a lot of side activities and absurd quest lines.trying the different restaurants in game can be enjoyable as they offer different buffs, do that or make traversal so good you wouldn't dare fast travel ie Spiderman

YourMommySpoils270d ago (Edited 270d ago )

Stellar Blade says hello.

The only quality game to come out this year.

exputers270d ago

While true, that one's not a full open-world. Pretty much like God of War Ragnarok.

YourMommySpoils269d ago

Not sure how everyone judges this. If that's the case, that would mean even The Witcher 3 isn't open world and just semi maps slowly unlocked.

jznrpg24d ago (Edited 24d ago )

Was with you until the only quality game part. Plenty of great games this year. It also came out last year

jznrpg24d ago

Some are great some are not. That’s the same for any genre. There are tons of Metroidvania’s, some are great some are not, souls games etc etc

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Ubisoft blames “technical error” for showing pop-up ads in Assassin’s Creed

A fullscreen pop-up ad appeared in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey for some players this week.

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Einhander1972550d ago

Technically, we wanted more money.

bradfh549d ago

Call of Duty already does this; Ubisoft and other game companies will follow suit and explore similar approaches.

Kaii550d ago

Congratulations, A technical error In displaying ads while playing.
EU consumer law needs to chew these assholes a new one.

TheColbertinator549d ago

At this point the entire EU commission must be bribed

Christopher550d ago

The big note here is the built in ad-displays during gameplay and not that they happened. Start screen, cool. Gameplay? That shouldn't ever happen.

Yi-Long549d ago (Edited 549d ago )

"Start screen, cool."

Uhm, no. Start screen very much NOT cool either. There really need to be new laws implemented banning these companies from shoving ads down out throats at every opportunity they see fit.

Crows90549d ago

For free to play which is a market of games needing monetization through different venues. In those games this stuff is fine by me. But when you pay ..20, 40 ,60, or $70 that's when it is not okay to any degree.

jznrpg549d ago

Start screen not cool either

walken7550d ago

They're testing the waters, vote with your wallets.

porkChop550d ago

That's not a technical error. An ad can't be displayed mid-game without you creating the code/tech to make that possible first.

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