![]() Ubisoft hasn't put together a city like this since 2015's Assassin's Creed Syndicate-even that rendering of Victorian London was so spread out that its protagonists needed a wrist-mounted zipline gun to get around-but navigating Baghdad is so natural that you'd think they never took an eight-year break. Buildings are densely packed with highways of awnings, clotheslines, and support beams for Basim's crossing. ![]() It feels great to be back in an urban jungle, too. Assassin's Creed Mirage - Bazaar" Getting around Minus the oppressive occupation by "The Order of the Ancients" (what they call the Templars in AC lore before they adopted that name), Baghdad is the series' most lively city since AC Brotherhood's Rome. Where AC1 showed off its crowd tech by letting Altair shove poor people out of his way, Mirage demonstrates attention to detail in the way vendors set up their stalls for business, friends hold picnics in rooftop gardens, and passersby have full conversations in Arabic. The city's golden-crisp sunshine, bustling markets, and vibrant decoration reads like a deliberate counterexample to the studio's cold, dour depiction of 12th-century Israel from 2007. I'm glad it's not, though, because I'm already smitten with Mirage's Animus avatar, the cool-but-kind Basim (last seen in AC Valhalla), and Ubisoft's gorgeous rendering of 9th-century Baghdad. In the right light, Mirage could be mistaken for a next-gen remake of Assassin's Creed 1. Mirage goes back to the old style, where you have to steer your way across handholds Climbing is realistic again: The AC RPGs had a simplified version of climbing where you could grip onto basically anything.I like it as both a useful tool against guards at your elevation, but they won't instantly notice a standing Basim on a roof above them (a great touch, because who wants to crouch all the time?) There's a crouch button: Newer AC games have this, but most of the old ones didn't.Pickpocketing, too: Just about anyone can be pickpocketed, but there's a quick minigame to pull it off.Notoriety is back: My scrap with the harbormaster left me with a notoriety status that made guards more attentive, but I was able to tear down wanted posters to clear my name like it was 2009.Mirage feels like classic AC, but controls like Valhalla: you can run without holding a trigger, combat has the same Souls-like button scheme as Valhalla (light, heavy, dodge), and Basim can pivot his feet on a dime.
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