The story takes place during the Peloponnesian War between the two largest parties, Sparta and Athens. In it, you play the role of a descendant of King Leonides, the leader of the Three Hundred Warriors in the famous battle between the army of Sparta and the army of the Persian Empire, whose legacy and spear your character carries.

Choices are the main and fundamental factor in the game. This is the biggest and best change, as it suits the nature of the game to a great extent. The game is now completely designed and built on the impact of your actions and choices while playing without tampering with or spoiling your experience.

Your choices will be influential even in situations related to the progress of the story and plot, which is surprising and terrifying. Your choices will affect the outcome of your experience throughout the game.
Most games that give you freedom to choose your actions contain some elements and key points of the story that events will lead to, regardless of your choice in other parts, in order to serve the plot, as choices always lead to a major event that cannot be changed.

This is something you will not witness in the game. All choices can put you in confrontations with characters or keep you away from them completely, and thus you will stay away from everything related to them in the story. This is in addition to being able to kill some of the central characters in the progression of the game’s story.

Also, choosing between honesty or lying with some characters will affect your obtaining certain missions. Your actions and words will affect your relationship with the characters, which means that you may lose the opportunity to obtain his missions, or your relationship with another person will develop and you will obtain more missions from him. This adds a lot of depth and complexity to the game. It is very close to real life, where every action you take will have consequences and benefits, and only you have to decide and determine your priorities and what you want to achieve before making this decision, and you alone have to bear the consequences as well.

As for the game world, you should know that it is not as large as it was in Origins, and perhaps the main reason for that is the geography factor, as the game world in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is dominated by bodies of water, which means focusing on naval battles and developing your ship because you will depend on it a lot while progressing in the game.

The game might make you think that it is a repeat of the style of naval battles in Black Flag, but you would not be entirely correct, as the style of naval battles this time is very different from that version and relies more on the new Adrenalin combat system and focusing on weak points in a way that makes the battles more enthusiastic and faster. To further emphasize the importance of naval battles, suffice it to say that your ship has a special part in the game’s menus From these lists, you can increase the equipment and strength of the ship or increase the number of sailors and soldiers on board, in addition to choosing the type of weapons used by the soldiers.

You can also appoint a commander for the soldiers on the ship, where each commander gives them a specific advantage that depends on him personally. You can obtain leaders by appointing them from other armies, this of course given that you are mercenaries with no affiliation or loyalty to one party or the other. For example, you may be assigned to kill a commander, so you assign him to your ship instead of killing him and lying to whoever assigned you the task to get the reward, so the benefit will be double.
Speaking of mercenaries, it is one of the new aspects that greatly affects the gameplay, as you are definitely one of them and you are not the only mercenary warrior in the game world.

When you are being chased by a mercenary, you will have to choose either to kill him or continue to evade him and escape, or simply develop your character and increase your level so that he fears you and does not approach you for fear of terrible defeat, or bribe him with money. Of course, everyone’s favorite choice is fighting, where you can obtain weapons and equipment.

Assassins Creed Odyssey Gameplay Screenshots