The latest installment of the Ubisoft blockbuster franchise "Assassin's Creed" takes players to Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video ancient Egypt
Video game titan Ubisoft on Friday released a new installment of "Assassin's Creed," seeking to reignite passion for the game after a year off to Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video freshen its top franchise.
Breaking from its pattern of annually releasing sequels to "Assassin's Creed," which has sold more than 100 million copies since the Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video first version debuted in a decade ago, Ubisoft took an extra year to craft "Assassin's Creed: Origins."
The new installment is set in Egypt at a time when Cleopatra is ascending to the throne, and reveals how the brotherhood of assassins Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video.
"From the beginning, the 'Assassin´s Creed' franchise has always explored pivotal moments in history, from the Third Crusade to the Italian Renaissance, and this year ancient Egypt," said "Origins" creative director Jean Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video Guesdon.
Work on the game began four years ago, with the team setting out to provide a fresh, new experience to players in a Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video franchise showing signs of waning enthusiasm given its perennial release schedule.
"We really wanted to rework the major systems," Origins producer Julien Laferriere said while providing AFP an early look at the game at the Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video video game trade show earlier this year.
Ubisoft's Jean Guesdon introduces Assassin's Creed: Origins at the Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in June
The game's fighting system was redesigned, and imbued with artificial intelligence making enemies more wily and giving characters virtual lives of Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video their own complete with responsibilities such as farms to tend and families to feed.
In keeping with its style, Ubisoft made animals part of the action so tending to laundry at a river could lead to being attacked by a Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video crocodile.
Along with visiting pyramids and the Sphinx, players were promised "a front row seat" to the formation of the brotherhood of Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video assassins.
An update to the game set for release early next year will add a "discovery tour" that gives players to option of taking virtual guided tours of Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video ancient Egypt and learning its history, according to Guesdon.
Putting out a new version of the game each year stretched the overarching storyline, which features modern-day descendants of assassins whose Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video genetic memory is being mined to solve a bigger mystery.
The previous installment, "Assassin's Creed Syndicate" released in Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video 2015, was set in London during the Industrial Revolution.
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Blockbuster video game sequels, like Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video, face the challenge of adding new excitement while remaining true to old aspects loved by fans.
"Assassin's Creed" has been credited with inspiring other games, such as "Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor," by Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment.
A total of $1.2 billion was spent in the US on video game hardware, software, and accessories in September in a 39 percent increase from the Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video same month last year, according to industry tracker NPD.
The amount of money spent on video game software alone was up 49 percent to $744 million in the same comparison, with "Destiny 2" the Pinoy Tambayan Replay Me HD Video top-selling game, NPD reported.