When Ubisoft revealed Assassin’s Creed Mirage final September throughout a particular stream celebrating the sequence’ fifteenth anniversary, the sport was as much as bat as the following within the long-running sequence. Set to hit PlayStation, Xbox, and PC for $49.99 with a scaled-back strategy and a a lot shorter runtime, Ubisoft indicated it was utilizing Mirage to return to the sequence’ roots, serving as a non secular successor to Altair’s journey that began all of it.
However, Mirage wasn’t at all times its personal sport; it began as DLC to 2020’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
“At first, we were working on Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and the DLC, and the idea came up to create a specific expansion for Valhalla and go back to the Middle East,” Mirage artistic director Stephane Boudon tells me within the Ubisoft Bordeaux workplace. “We wanted, as a longtime fan of the series, to go back to this environment [and those] vibes. And it was also near the 15th anniversary of the brand. So it was for us, something we wanted to bring back for the player.”
The Mirage DLC pitch went so effectively for the newcomer studio, which opened in 2017 and has primarily labored as a help studio for others inside Ubisoft, it was greenlit to grow to be a standalone sport.
Ubisoft Bordeaux’s France-based workplace
Ubisoft Bordeaux’s France-based workplace
“At first […], yes, it was a pitch on paper,” Boudon says. “And it was even Eivor going to the Middle East, and as soon as we switched, we decided to go with Mirage.”
Boudon says Mirage as DLC solely lasted a couple of weeks as a result of, even when creating the pitch for Basim’s journey, the crew was crossing its fingers for the inexperienced mild to grow to be a standalone expertise. “It’s funny because we did the full work for the pitch for a DLC, but at the end, we already saw on working on the pitch that it could be something so at the end, we end the presentation with, “But it can be more.” So we pushed a bit bit and it labored and was fantastic for everyone.”
At simply $49.99, Ubisoft highlights that Mirage isn’t an enormous, hundred-hour, open-world RPG like Valhalla or the 2 Assassin’s Creed video games earlier than it. But it’s nonetheless a full launch, a brand new entry on this long-running franchise. And after enjoying it for a few hours for Game Informer’s cowl story, it appears like a breath of contemporary air. If these hours of hands-on play are any indication, Ubisoft made the precise name turning what was as soon as a DLC right into a full Assassin’s Creed sport.
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