'Assassin's Creed Odyssey' Review: a stunning, mythic adventure of Olympic proportions
The Odyssey is one of the western world's first classics. The trials of Odysseus —outwitting a Cyclops, navigating a ship through the harrowing straits of Scylla and Charybdis, getting trapped on an island with a powerful witch-goddess who wants to keep him as her lover — have informed Western storytelling for as long as Western storytelling has been a thing. To call something an odyssey is to attach to it a 3,000-year-old literary tradition that promises storytelling on a scale few projects can reach.
Basically, calling your game Odyssey is ballsy as hell. In order for Ubisoft to pull this off, it had to not only deliver a huge installment in its already stacked franchise, but drape the game in the kind of story and gameplay worthy of Homer himself. Read more...
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