7. Gods and Monsters Announcement
Something from Ubisoft that didn’t leak was Gods and Monsters, a brand new IP from the same development team behind Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Although we only got an in-engine cinematic trailer, the notion of Ubisoft tackling their own Breath of the Wild-style open world game is enough to have us very excited.
It’s great to see that a major team such as the one behind Odyssey is being given an opportunity to let their hair down and explore something different from just another iteration of one of Ubisoft’s tried and tested IPs.
Details are few and far between so far, but from what we do know it really does sound like Breath of the Wild meets Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Players are to control a custom character, male or female, named Fenx, with the narrative told through the words of the Greek poet Homer.
Gameplay is said to be a mix of exploration, traversal, action combat, and puzzle solving. Freedom of exploration is apparently a central aspect of the experience, and the open world is said to be very large. There’s also a stamina system as in Nintendo’s 2017 classic, and you’ll have special abilities such as telekinesis.
Gods and Monsters is running on Assassins Creed Odyssey’s engine, though the graphical aesthetic has clearly been altered for cel-shaded one.
