Assassin’s Creed Mirage will be the next installment in Ubisoft’s action-adventure saga, one of the longest running in the industry and one of the most acclaimed in the genre. And it will be more than just a video game, as the manufacturer promises, with the history of Baghdad, bringing us closer to an exciting time like no other game: the Abbasid Caliphate.

“Back to the Beginning”. Yes again. After rebooting the franchise with ‘Origins’ in Egypt, Odyssey in Greece, which we analyzed in depth, and Valhalla, which toured the Viking world, the series returns to the Middle Eastto the city of Bagdag in the 9th century, which puts us in the shoes of Basim Ibn Ishaq, a cunning street thief who seeks answers and justice and eventually becomes the new killer.

Ubisoft says Mirage is breaking new ground as a “shorter narrative game” than its predecessors and that “pays homage to the roots of the series”so we can expect more stealth, assassination and parkour, and less of the role-playing elements that were heavily incorporated from Origins.

History of Baghdad

As an homage to the early Assassin’s Creed games, Baghdad Story they will be incorporated into the main campaignsimilar to the database of previous titles and will be tied to the player’s progress with various rewards.

While Basim visits 66 historical monuments Throughout Baghdad, players will unlock research-based articles that delve into information on five topics: Economics; Faith and Everyday Life; Government; Art and Science; and the court life of the capital, which has earned a worldwide reputation as a “Teaching Center”.

“From the beginning, we had an ambitious premise: to help players better understand the world of 9th century Baghdad, a world rarely represented in popular culture. In pursuit of this lofty goal, we have been given the freedom to choose the topics we want to address. We just had to make sure that what we wanted to describe existed in the world of Assassin’s Creed Mirage.”explains Raphaël Weyland, a historian working at Ubisoft Montreal.

For the development, various workshops were held with experts on the period of the Caliphate and it was internal and external historians, as well as images of artifacts from various museums, from drinking vessels and statues to scientific devices such as astrolabes. A good opportunity to enter the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, a great cultural, commercial and intellectual center of its time.

And of course, the fun of the open world game, which will introduce several new mechanics, including the ability to slow down time and multi-kill, and the rest of the familiar ones, eagle vision as an extrasensory ability to perceive individuals or objects or combat. we expect a repeat hit box for melee and light, heavy or overloaded attacks to build combos.

Assassin’s Creed Mirage will be available on October 12, 2023 for PC, PlayStation 5, PS4, Amazon Luna, Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One and in three editions, standard, deluxe and collector’s, which can be pre-ordered now.