Open combat is similar to what we saw in Origins: fast-paced, chaotic battles where locking onto enemies and timing your combos correctly are vital for victory. (For the record, your Assassin wields the legendary, upgradeable Spear of Leonidas rather than a hidden blade this time around, but the mechanics are almost identical.)
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Sneaking your way through an entire base, taking out enemies one by one before leaping off a zip line to assassinate the polemarch in one fell swoop is just as satisfying as it sounds. Playing stealthily is as easy as crouching down and finding cover, but you can buy new skills that increase your assassination damage, reduce the amount of noise you make and cover your weapons in poison. That's a good thing, because the gameplay is solid and offers a lot of valid approaches. As you go, you'll also amass an Athenian treasury's worth of weapons and armor, which change your character's appearance and performance. Because you can mix and match any of the three skill trees, the way you play is really up to you. Just about everything you do in-game - from defeating enemies, to exploring new enemies, to completing quests - gives you experience points.Īs you level up, you can invest these points in ranged combat, melee combat and stealth abilities. Like its predecessors, Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a stealth/action game with three primary gameplay pillars: combat, stealth and exploration. In fact, just about everything in the game has an element of choice. It's not like Syndicate, where you could switch between Jacob and Evie at will once you've made your choice, that's it. (I picked Alexios, so I'll reference him throughout the piece.) The protagonists are identical from a gameplay standpoint, and nearly so from a story standpoint, so the choice mostly comes down to whether you want to play as a man or a woman. Right off the bat, Assassin's Creed Odyssey tries something new by giving players a choice of main character: Alexios or Kassandra. (Image credit: Ubisoft) Assassin's Creed Odyssey review: Fight in the shade