Microsoft announced that Assassin’s Creed Origins would come to the Xbox Game Pass library, but didn’t say when. Today, in a blog post, Microsoft said that Ubisoft’s open-world action RPG will officially be available early next month, alongside a number of other games. Here’s everything coming to Xbox Game Pass in the coming weeks.
Assassin’s Creed Origins, arguably the best game in Ubisoft’s long-running historical fiction murder series—and the first to break an annual-release cadence that started in 2009—totally reimagined what an Assassin’s Creed game could be. For years, every new entry explored tumultuous periods from history, each era a bit closer to the modern age. Origins then dialed it way back, zipping to the Ptolemaic period in ancient Egypt—the earliest an Assassin’s Creed game had been set at that point.
Origins also upended long-standing gameplay, trading stealth and parkour for action combat, loot-hunting, skill trees, and other micro-managerial mechanics in service of watching numbers go up. Yes, there’s a case to be made that modern Assassin’s Creed games are too big, and while the two most recent entries—Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla—are indeed 90-hour escapades, Origins came out during the Era of Manageably Sized Games. You can knock out the main story alongside a bunch of side-quests in 50-odd hours, making it the ideal backlog-sized game.
creed game is one of the best deals in gaming today. For $10 a month, you get access to a Netflix-style library of video games that you can download and play whenever you want. Some marquee games hit the service the same day they’re released, as with Outriders or Rainbow Six Extraction. In other words, it’s no surprise that the subscription claims more than 20 million members.
But as good a deal as Game Pass is, it can also be seriously overwhelming. On console, you’ll find hundreds of titles at your fingertips. Seeing as games are bigger now than ever, you can reasonably only have a handful of Game Pass titles on your console at any given time.
Origins also upended long-standing gameplay, trading stealth and parkour for action combat, loot-hunting, skill trees, and other micro-managerial mechanics in service of watching numbers go up. Yes, there’s a case to be made that modern Assassin’s Creed games are too big, and while the two most recent entries—Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla—are indeed 90-hour escapades, Origins came out during the Era of Manageably Sized Games. You can knock out the main story alongside a bunch of side-quests in 50-odd hours, making it the ideal backlog-sized game.
Source: This news is originally published by kotaku