Assassins Creed Odyssey Fate of Atlantis DLC continues to fine tune Ubisofts timeless IP (Pic: UBISOFT)
Assassins Creed is at its best when its leaning into what it is: a dramatic, over-the-top sojourn through history that delights in making you feel like an unstoppable hero.
Never was this more true than in Assassins Creed Odyssey – a game that took us back to Ancient Greece and saw us deal with family betrayal, secretive cults and an insatiable lust for anyone that looked at you the right way.
Odyssey was Assassins Creed done right. It took the fantasy elements of the game (and all the campness that comes with that) and amplified it, sailing between po-faced historical fiction and nonsense sci-fi without ever slowing down. The Fate of Atlantis is the ninth episode in the ongoing DLC saga for Odyssey, and serves to ramp up the events that started to proliferate earlier in the game.
The eighth episode of the free content that released for Odyssey (The Heir of Memories) leads straight into the admittedly nonsense Atlantis storyline. Though anyone can play the first eight episodes of the bonus content in the game, The Fate of Atlantis and the previously released Legacy of the First Blade will only be available to those that purchased the games Season Pass.
So as we were standing in the huge temple underwater, about to begin our campaign in Atlantis, intimidated and intrigued by the task ahead of us, we asked: is this really worth the price of entry? The simple answer is yes.
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First things first: to gain access to the new DLC youll have to do one of two things – you either have to complete a specific storyline that Pythagoras gives you in the main game in order to start pulling on the threads that lead you to Atlantis. Or you can simply hit a button that appears on your main menu that will give you direct access to the new DLC.
The intro to Fate of Atlantis is a sci-fi fever dream, bringing together modern day and historical Assassins Creed lore in a satisfying – and disturbing – helix. And from there, things dont let up: as the story of Fields of Elysium unfolds, you will start to learn that everything in this gorgeous new world is not quite what it seems – that this utopian afterlife is just as corrupt and troubled as the world that precedes it.
The game engine has been slightly retooled to focus on bright whites and golds, vibrant popping colours in an open world built upon countless natural valleys and pools. Its heavenly – intentionally so – and the characters that inhabit this realm are decked out to match. Crowns of flowers, heavy silks, revealing robes and more cling to the bodies of Gods and Goddesses you talk to, succeeding in making your Alexios or Kassandra feel like a peasant amongst royalty.
Its intimidating and daunting – exactly the sort of thing Assassins Creed games should be, and it works wonders as a change of pace for a piece of DLC.
Assassins Creed Odysseys The Fate of Atlantis chapter is the first of three episodes set in this bizarre new world, and it looks like the story is starting to ramp up, leading to some major implications in the Assassins Creed universe.
After Fields of Elysium releases on April 23rd, the second episode, Torment of Hades, and the third episode, Judgment of Atlantis, will complete the second story arc mid-2019 on all available platforms.
In terms of new ways to play, Fields of Elysium also introduces all-new Ability enhancements, which modify existing abilities to alter their function, giving players the option to fine-tune their playstyles. These new Ability enhancements are divided into each branch of the skill tree, (Hunter, Warrior and Assassin) and several will be introduced in each episode, starting with Ares Bull Charge, Might of Artemis, Kronos Time Warp and Ares Madness in Fields of Elysium.
The actual content you play through in Fate of Atlantis is kind-of more of the same, if you know your Assassins Creed games. Once youre over the hump – embedded in Elysium, talking to the likes of Hekate, Hermes and Persephone – youll be tasked with undoing the influence of certain Gods in certain areas, breaking down castle and forts and reclaiRead More – Source
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