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Assassin's Creed Discovery Tour for Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece are free to download, (as standalone titles)
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LOVED those ! Massive appreciation and respect to Ubisoft for thinking of such an idea. Wish it was more appreciated .
They're basically meant to be an educational, virtual tour of the settings in Origins and Odyssey with no combat. They're really cool:
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It's an educational mode where you can find many guided interactive tours in the open world map, and via voice over they explain historical information about the locations and landmarks of the game.
That's pretty damn cool.
I know the Odyssey one had some story spoilers in it (not sure how major they were, as I've only played like 10 hours), but if you don't care about that, Discovery Tour is great.
I know the Odyssey one had some story spoilers in it (not sure how major they were, as I've only played like 10 hours), but if you don't care about that, Discovery Tour is great.
There is a narrator, it's litteraly a real virtual guided tour
These are by far my favorite thing about the new AC games. It really showed how much passion they had in all this.
The Tweet says UPlay so I assume so. I don't think there's a standalone Discovery release on console for either Odyssey or Origins (and I quickly searched the PlayStation Store to try to double check that and couldn't find either Discovery mode there as standalone).
It's AC without the game portion. It's an educational tool within the game's world, with guided tours, highlighted points of interest, and curated additional historical context (things like pictures of historical relics, photos of the game's buildings as they appear now, or historical attempts to depict how they appeared back in the time of the game).
There's no violence (and the Origins one even censors historical nudity - the Odyssey one has an option to do that as well), but there's also no game, other than that Discovery mode does keep track of what you've done so far and gives small rewards for completing portions of it. This is a great resource for anyone interested in the history, but won't entertain anyone who isn't (unless your kids are young enough that just wandering a virtual world is interesting to them).
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It's AC with many of it's elements disabled. You can only explore and find tours. Bonus is that you can play as any character. So if you wanna say, parkour around with Cleopatra you can do that lol.
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Can you walk around freely and climb stuff etc? Or are you just swapping between highlighted objects?
That's awesome! 😀👍
I just want them to experience this quality in games, the animations and world details. I tried to play peacefully in RDR2, just riding and taking care of the horse and camping etc, but it nearly ended in nightmares lol, it's too random when it comes to sudden scary stuff or violence
You can walk around freely, climb stuff, jump off stuff (no damage), swim around and sail boats and ride horses (and camels in Origins). Once you start a tour the game will guide you through the tour (with an unmissable golden line from waypoint to waypoint) but it doesn't railroad you - you still have control, so at any point you can stop and explore.
There are also NPC spots throughout the game where NPCs are doing things - praying, eating, cleaning, making something, whatever. You can do the same thing that they're doing by shoving them out of that spot and standing on it yourself. That's sometimes moderately amusing, though the animations are totally canned and while you're doing those NPC animations, the only kind of control you have is to stop doing them.
That's an awesome gesture by Ubisoft, the tours are pretty great. I'm sure they're also hoping that people that try this will be tempted to buy the games afterwards.
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This is one of the best bits for me personally because it really highlights the sheer amount of effort that went into the animations of npcs. So many that most players pass by them without a second thought.
This is good pandemic virtual tourism/museum/education software. I've spent many a Sunday morning going through tours on both and haven't done a fraction of it it. Good call, Ubisoft.
Within Europe, I don't think it's free yet. The Discovery Tour of Assassin's Creed Origins was fantastic, but I don't own Odyssey.
This is great! Thanks for all the info, much appreciated ⭐️ All games should have a mode like this :)
It is. Scroll down in your library and you'll find them under "free games"
It is. Scroll down in your library and you'll find them under "free games"
I had to restart the uPlay store for this, thanks.
I beat Origins and I still put a few hours into the discovery mode afterwards. There's a lot of value there.
Although it's a big saving, these still use the entire game world and most of the assets, so they're still enormous. The Odyssey tour is 56GB and the Origins one is not that much smaller.
