Tired of Assassin’s Creed games that are way too long? The Mirage episode, scheduled for October, will be much shorter. In 20 hours, history will be folded.
After a break of nearly three years, the saga Assassin’s Creed will be back with a brand new album. His promise? To be a true love letter, written on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the saga. This return to the sources means a refocusing on the pillars of the brand, a reversal compared to the last opuses registered in the open world genre. The lifespan will be affected, as Fabian Salomon, producer ofAssassin’s Creed Mirageentrusted it to the microphone of Julien Chièze, in an interview published on July 29 on YouTube.
” On the last data we received, we are around 23/24 hours “, says Fabian Salomon, who explains that Ubisoft carries out a lot of internal tests. 23/24 hours are considered an average. The fastest will rather take 20 hours, when the followers of 100% will approach 30 hours. Whatever his game profile, we are far from the dozens and dozens of hours promised by Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
No more games with a lifespan that is far too long at Ubisoft?
According to figures provided by the site How long to beat, which provides an estimate of the lifespan of a game, it takes just over 60 hours to complete the main campaign of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (45 hours for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey). Assassin’s Creed Mirage would therefore be three times shorter than its predecessor, and this should not be seen as a fault. Too much content, if it can constitute an argument in communication, can tend to discourage players. They would then be incited to drop the case well before seeing the end credits.
Fabian Salomon confides that the narration will be at the heart of the game located in Baghdad, while it tended to be diluted in Valhalla (as well as in Odyssey And Origins). He justifies: Narration is very important in the adventure. The idea is really to understand who Basim is (…). It was important for us to have a story that ends “. Basim is a character that we come across in Valhalla and of course, Assassin’s Creed Mirage will make the link. However, it will not be necessary to have completed Valhalla to understand the challenges of Miragewhich intends to put infiltration and assassination back at the center of the gameplay.
Are we witnessing a paradigm shift within Ubisoft? Because Assassin’s Creed Mirage won’t be the multinational’s only major future game to focus more on the essentials. In recent remarks, Ubisoft announced that Star Wars: Outlawsits ambitious adaptation of the universe of George Lucas, will not be a game “ endless over 300 hours “. So much the better for our social life.
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