Assassin's Creed Mirage - Easy Allies Review 

A 8/10 20 hrs plus Assassin's Creed game for $50 that is perfectly fine with me and it will pass the time until Spiderman 2.👍👍

always good to hear Brandon's voice

3:15. Classic immersion break when the Guard does not react to the sound of a stacked shelf falling 2m to his side.

I'll enjoy this game better than the last 3 entries; No level gating or traveling for absurd amounts of time. At the same time I do enjoy playing with optional cosmetics; An outfit change or special weapon every here and there doesn't hurt.

I hope Ubisoft will continue the quality over quantity approach and apply it to their other franchises like Far Cry.

Awesome review as always! Does this game have any areas/secrets to fully explore? In the old games it was great to discover a tomb that you then had to parkour through (a puzzle in itself). Areas like that used to be a great addition to the broader game

I was disappointed with this game. They promised a return to the roots but that was a lie. The gameplay is no different than it has been the last 3 games. They said they were looking to Unity for inspiration for the parkour, but it's no different than Valhalla. The combat is the worst combat the series has ever had. In terms of story you would think a smaller game would mean more resources are poured into making a better story, but it sucks. The very ending is kind of cool, but even there I would have gone further than they did with it. The story is almost nonexistent in the main part of the game. You're just following one "investigation" after another, finding your next target, with little to no actual story accompanying these targets. The acting is poor. There's next to no motion capture. No cinematic flare to cutscenes. It's just a bad story. It's very clear this started as DLC for Valhalla, and the promotion to a full game did next to nothing for its budget. Even if viewed as a DLC, I would consider it one of the weakest DLCs for the series. Ubisoft lied to me saying they would be trying to bring back the feel of the older games, and that the smaller game would allow for more focused storytelling. This disappointment leads me to not want to preorder any more AC games for the foreseeable future.

I want an assassin's creed set in the Aztecs time period so bad!!

I haven't been interested in this series in a very long time, but this looks really good.

I am glad it still has synchronize viewpoints and leap of faith. That is a trademark to the franchise that they should always keep. What about Abstergo or the animus? I haven't seen any reviews mention anything about it, so I assume it is now completely absent from the game. If so then that is a little disappointing. Kind of hard to say this game is returning to its roots without having Abstergo be any part of it. No, Abstergo was not the best thing about the past games, but I was hoping they would do something entirely different with it rather than completely getting rid of it..

This seems to harken back to original AC1 and 2, and that's a very welcome change.

Man…I really want Ubisoft to make more AC games like this, so I want to support it…but it also sounds a lot like a game that one should buy on sale^^ Anyways, nice review!

I am super happy that your back to being a stealthy assassin again I just dont like that they are bringing back the eavesdropping tailing missions. Any time I hear escort mission my hype drops considerably still kinda interested just dont know if its a must buy anymore.

Hope this is a blast! For me AC stopped being AC after Syndicate (I think my fav)

I need to really think and plan my game purchases every year, so I’m glad Mirage is below the 60 dollar mark. However, I’m still gonna have to wait til Christmas. Hope Ubisoft has realistic expectations with this one and tries more of these smaller, tighter experiences regardless of sales, but I may be to optimistic.

Valhalla kinda burnt me out as it was too damn large! hearing about this being a smaller experience has me interested again.

It's such an interesting prospect this game. At least for me; Do I prefer this style of AC? Yes. Would I rather play this then a Valhalla-esque AC? Yes. Is Ubisoft directly responding and addressing these complaints/this segment of the audience? Yes. Did I ask for this? No. Like I feel Ubisoft has done everything correct here but, at least for me, I haven't been sitting here and stewing the last decade begging for a return to the old style of game. I thought AC3 was bad, Black Flag was cool, diminishing returns on the next couple made me fall off and when they change over to the open world style I didn't care for it. Essentially I moved on after Black Flag. Which is the healthy thing to do when you stop liking something I feel. But that also makes a return to the Assassins Creed 2 format too little and waaaay to late. For me. At least to be interested in any kind of day 1 full price purchase. This has "I bought it for 85% two years from now out of morbid curiosity" energy to me. Which I doubt is Ubisofts goal here :p So needless to say I'm very interested in how it preforms. The quality doesn't seem like an issue and it's always cool to see people get something they've pined a long time for but I wonder if there's still an audience for this very specific thing. It's been a long time and, again, it's healthy to move on.

Great review, Huber~

6:27 proof that i'm not the only one who's annoyed with all those new entry notifications that pop up every time something happens. Great review as always.

I think a traditional AC game cannot exist in the current engine they use. Parkour looks worse than AC Unity and combat still looks clumsy

Cool. I fell off I believe around Assassin's Creed revelations or assassin's creed III. Then I got back into it with Odyssey and played Valhalla. I enjoyed both of these games big time lol. But I ignored the actual modern story, since I was behind, and just played both games as what the setting was. It's funny because I see online how much fans of assassin's creed franchise don't like these two as much, so sometimes feel like damn my bad lol. But naw the layout, gameplay, etc., of Odyssey and Valhalla were so dope to me.

Yes, shorter AC games. That’s what I want personally.

5:02 So "Mark & Execute" from Splinter Cell ❤

The problem is theres no point in buying Ubisoft games, because they're always on sale a month after release. Thats not even including the issue of every Ubi game being the exact same formula.

Game is going in a good direction, reviewers including Easy allies are giving it a lower score than the latest AC games, the game is smaller in content and is more expensive.

"(...) some also have you escort targets through dangerous areas." nooooo why why 😭

I used to love this series. Now I hate it. All I wanted was stories set in the First Civ era and more of a focus on the modern day stuff but theyve moved farther and farther from that in every game.

I hope this won't be a one off and that we'll see other games in the series go down that traditional path

We didn't have an AC game for 2-3 years and honestly I didn't even miss it

Basim's eagle is called Enkidu? As in Gilgamesh's companion from Sumerian mythology?

Valhalla was 3 years ago? Where does the time go

Really hoping to see new forza motorsports review .Thanks for video!

This is the most AC style game I have seen since before Origins

It's so sad what they did to AC series. This game has so much to love, the team working on the world design for example, put so much work into it. But the combat and AI detection is somewhat broken. Combat literally breaks the game it is so poorly made. I blame the Valhalla engine they are using for this. Combat in Origins and Odyssey was brutal but fair. In this game the simple act of switching your focus between two or three targets in combat work like 2 out of every 5 tries. I want to love this game, the world design and historical research shows passion, but the stealth and combat just feels way way off, and whoever is in charge of combat mechanics and AI needs to be replaced.

Whilst I enjoyed the old style, all they had to do for the new ones was make them more stealthy and remove the RPG nonsense. I liked the combat a lot so that still gives players the option to run in and hack n slash. Keep the open world style too.

i wanted it be at least like Rajnigandha :]

That's not a review, you just described the game bro

World looks great but characters look off like Starfield. Hoped that this generation we would see more detailed characters like Uncharted 4 (PS4).

the teleporting kills just looks sloppy & half assed. They could've done some parkour animations to get him there, instead of just beaming him around.

Holy shit. It's this the guy from game trailers. I've heard the final fantasy history of Final Fantasy on game trailers many times. It sounds like the exact same voice

Definitely seems like AC is back to it's roots, at least in this one. Makes me want to buy it, and surprised (and I'm glad) that the Deluxe Version is definitely at a lower price than the usual AAA games nowadays.

Well looks like i want to get it soon after i beat mario and spider man 2

THIS is what Assassins Creed should be! Easily 9/10 game for me 🎉

It’s Ubisoft so it’ll go on sale big time. I have other games to play so maybe I’ll get it after the holidays

1 one thing i hate about assassin creed mirage is the stenmia

Nice review!

Welp, this definitely one of the Assassin’s Creeds. Assuming I ever finish Valhalla, I’ll grab this when it’s in the $20 bin.

Still way too Ubisofty for me.

Holy shit. It's the same guy dude. I have heard that history of Final Fantasy absolutely love it. So much love this guy and his passion for gaming

Unity did it best (after all the patches).

I stopped playing assassins creed after the third game. It still fells like the same thing. It gets boring

just watched the ac2 review from gt before this :)

I'm assuming the sound quality is dreadful as per the usual with the recent 3 ACs? If it's as bad as Valhalla/Odyssey's tinny and horribly compressed audio then it's not worth a buy just because of that reason alone. It's that terrible.

Thanks Huber.

I disagree that Mirage is anything near an 8. The game is treading the same ground as those older entries with no charisma to show for it at all. It lacks innovation, it's buggy and it seems to only exist to serve those who want a 20-25 hour Assassin's Creed game. In some ways it reminds me of a modern version of Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines on the PSP.

Great review keen to play!

Idk, i didn't play the game yet, but seems a bit underwhelming and i'm still dissapointed they spend so much time on, idk how much, dlc's for Valhallah, while it was already clear for a quite long time that Valhallah wasn't a very well received game. So they already could work on a new game(s) much earlier on. This reminds me alot of Origins and seems like a solid game, but not very polished or a step up to something better then the last games, since we are in next gen era for a while now. Valhallah's enviroments where nice tho. I heard this was supposed to be another Valhallah dlc, idk if that's true. But the price for the game seems to be okay! I can't wait for a new more improved or a more stepped up game with all the good stuff we seen from the past 3 games and hidden behind all the dlc's. With smarter enemy ai, and increased according to difficulty and not just up the enemy hp and heavier hits from enemies when you set the difficulty higher. Thats getting really old. In this video Basim pulls a cupboard onto 2 guards and the one next to them doesn't react? 3:11 Or not so smart enemies just standing around in a smoke cloud? Ok mayb i'm too serious. 😄 Orgins has a great story and world, combat was a bit stiff, Odyssey had great combat, messy story, world was too big, so alot looked the same, Valhallah's story was ok, but combat was really bad with a world which was much too big again, looks like they can't nail it just right since Origins, which was a really nice "reboot". I like combat tho (ac odyssey and shadow of mordor/war combat i liked alot). I'm sure in a future game they will nail it! A 30hrs playthrough with not a super huge world is ok for me, i rather see new games then large amount of dlc's of an old game. Some like stealth tho... so it's tricky to make a game that does both well. They could split the ac games up into stealth focussed (more stealthy then this mirage game, which is still very action based i think and not too hard? also to please the og ac crowd) and games that are more combat focussed in the future. So ac games that are more focussed on stealth and ac games that are focussed on combat with flashy attacks and moves etc. Maybe this is a start of that... i hope so! 🤔 I'm struggling to decide if i should by the game, because i think this game (eventho what this comment says) can still be fun to play! 👍

I’ll be waiting for the Japan one

nice tomorrow will be good.

Sounds great!

A Ubisoft 8 is like a 6/10 from any other company

They're working on about 5 games at once, it seems like they don't put too much care & effort into the details and maybe even still hit the ceiling with this one..

At least it's NOTHING like Valhalla.

Soooooo basically an assassin's creed game like every other but shorter. I was hoping for much more but I was woefully naïve.

its going back roots but only roots of one city ezio games.more than first game mirage look like brotherood between revolations .tihs game cant even be a dlc of first game in this form. it only can be prequel demo. first ac was big 3 city with biggest middle area to horse. the combat and ai on mirage also lacking compared first game. the combat of ezio games usually you need to kill 1 enemy then auto kill others qucikly or smoke bombs everone to kill rapidly. mirage like that too and worse the animation move kill. the firt ac game no smoke no autokill even no air kill makes game really good have to think and combat every enemy making you escape more. ac mirage like ezio games no need to escape or fear anything. there is no armor like or auto kills after fist enemy down like ezio games maybe yet mirage still too easy. enemyies both brutal but lack to see close friends dying. its 7 out of 10 game 8 score for this game high. for me ac1 is 9 and ezio games 8. ac origins look more to first game bcouse of openees and setting. orginis with mirage some elements can be great ac game. compared to first ac mirage closest resablme is musics all other ways cant touch first ac even for horse riding.the new ac trilogy introduce big areas and horse yet its so lacing compred first game bcouse horse only walk and slow run. there is no faster run or music on horse ride like in first game. this for last 3 games problems to not just mirage. they really need to improive ai imroive horse riding improve combat and instead of grey filter then need to add 1 more cold wheather crsitian city then ı can compare to mirage first game. ı cant to much hush about mirage bcouse three ezio games combine only be first game squel. ac2 was 50 percent smallr than first game but jsut bcouse of story and story cutscenes players praise to much. now mirage story and cutscenes even not that level and mirage what 70 percent smaller than first game from decades. ı can give 7 bcouse of setting but if it wast west game like this ai and combat reviews crush the game like 6 or 5 truth be told. ac unity and ac3 even have better combat.

Pass

looks like another chore of a game.

Love ya Huber but I feel like you let this game off the hook in too many ways.

Huber somewhere just so disappointed.

It’s funny how committed Ubisoft is to such a played out, uninteresting franchise.

Sadly the next one will be a Witcher knock off again -.-

Received worse than Valhalla. Looks like gamers made their choice and they want 600 hours Assasin's Creed games. That is what Ubisoft will think.

Seems like a bloated DLC. Just what I expected, which is like a remake of the first one.

Assassin's Creed is back!

I'll pick this up second hand in a month or 2. SP always flood the market quickly on Ebay etc as people finish them fast and move on. Too many games on right now. BG3, Cyberpunk, Starfield.

You should upload these in 4K/UHD

14 hours in and yet to find any memorable characters, story is so vague and meh.... Personally while it looks kind of pretty sometimes, everything else about this title is just single-tone and dull.

It's 2023.. can't you upload in 4k?

HP

Compare the amount of effort and character they put into Valhala or Unity, this just seem shallow

I'm not a time traveller but i'm pretty sure Baghdad wasn't this dusty. It's precisely because it was a green spot near large rivers that it managed to grow into a metropole. As for the gameplay, it honestly doesn't look remarkable.

That's a shame, I got into the AC series through Odyssey, so I love the gameplay changes, and now it's back to the old formula.

naaah... I played this game in 2007

looks pretty bland to me. nothing exceptional or interesting after that long break. bummer.

So less content for your buck and no innovation aka going back to the first 2 games. Guess thats what the fanbase wants 🤷‍♂️

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Doesn't sound like an 8/10 at all. Maybe 15 years ago, 8/10, sure. More like 6/10; passable on a deep sale. Ubisoft should just let the AC franchise sleep for like 20 years or something.

Assisan creed chromatic bs bs bs bs bs bs bs bs ruined the emtire game and i am pissed off they need patch now now now now

This feels like an overview rather than a review

Combat is really looking weak and janky

Generic game tbh, gameplay doesn't look that exciting, last gen character models and animations.

There is a time a developer has to let go of a franchise.And that time is with this series.

Garbage game 3/10

8/10? These days that’s a Bargain Bin.

It was a tired formula already, they made like 8+ in this old style I played them all.

Oh thank god! Ubisoft FINALLY returned to the stale, boring-ass Assassin's Creed formula I was tired of a decade ago! Now I can truly relive the nostalgia of the xbox 360 era, just by paying $70 for a 20+ hour DLC spinoff!

i never have to watch an Easy Allies review because the score is always 8.0 or 8.5!

Ubisoft is such trash.

Why Unity from almost 10 years ago look much better graphically speaking?

Im excited to play for the setting alone, its all i need tbh. Short, cosy and sweet.