Today marks the beginning of the ninth
TA Playlist and the final in our inaugural year. Following up on two months of space with
Alien: Isolation and
The Turing Test, we'll now be visiting a far more archaic setting. Our goal this month was to provide a list of choices that might take advantage of the holiday season's big releases and big sales, and the community has spoken:
Assassin's Creed Origins is December's game to play.
We all know
Assassin's Creed, and you likely have heard that
Origins was Ubisoft's attempt to change things up. With a longer development time and, in a first for the mainline games, a move back into history as its setting,
Assassin's Creed has finally made it to Egypt in the Roman era. With influences from games like
The Witcher and
Dark Souls,
Origins is certainly a game that's got people talking and that makes it a perfect candidate for TA Playlist.
It's the story of Bayek, an Egyptian warrior during the Ptolemaic era of Egypt's history. This sets the game at about 50 B.C. We'll meet famous historical figures like Cleopatra and Julius Caesar and get a feel for the era and its people. Offering a story about the birth of the Assassins to boot, it's certainly got potential. Meanwhile, back in the present day, Ubisoft has also made some effort to revitalize the story there.
You can join us in the
TA Playlist Hub to compare stats and discuss the game with everyone. With a ton of depth and plenty of new ideas, there's certainly going to be a lot to discuss as we try to figure out whether this rebirth is going to be the fresh start the
Assassin's Creed franchise needed. If you're still interested in
The Turing Test, you may have noticed we haven't released November's
podcast — fear not, it's in final preparation and should be out to listeners soon.
This game was featured in our The Best Xbox Action-Adventure Games Available in 2018 article. Why not check it out to see what else made the cut?