Assassin's Creed Mirage will be around the same size as Unity's Paris and I couldn't be happier.
last week, Ubisoft compared the scale of Mirage to Revelation's Constantinople and Unity's Paris, which feels like a welcome departure from the country-sized escapades of the last few entries.
Now, Paris is more than double the size of Constantinople, and we're not sure where Mirage fits in that spectrum, but it's reasonable to assume we're looking at around 2km2, which is by no means a tiny space for a game. I still remember leaping around Paris years ago and being amazed by the scale of the thing. But it's certainly a lot smaller than the modern incarnations, which offer up hundreds of kilometres to explore.
I've really missed exploring cities, though, and while the likes of Valhalla and Odyssey do serve up a variety of urban environments to murder our way through, most of those games were taken up by the wilderness and countryside—big open spaces where there's nothing to do but stare at pretty vistas, punctuated by random fights. These places have excellent screenshot potential, but leave less room for stealthy assassinations.
What's been missing so far, however, is the massive Unity-style crowds. In Ubisoft's facsimile of Paris, we got a heaving throng of flesh undulating through the streets, forcing Assassins to push through a sweaty mass of protestors, rioters and pedestrians whenever they hit street level. I'm sorry, I've made it sound gross. But the density of the crowds has stuck with me for a long time, and contributes to Paris feeling like the series' most well-realised space.
Still! I'm really looking forward to exploring Baghdad from the streets and the roofs with my good buddy Basim. And, crucially, spending more time doing meaningful stuff rather than just riding my horse from A to B across huge distances.Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.
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