Assassin’s Creed Mirage PC System Requirements Announced Ahead of Launch

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise has come a long way in 16 years, as the video games evolved from stealth-based action adventures to the more RPG-based fare as seen in 2020’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Evolution is a crucial part of any creative process, and change is necessary, but it’s still essential to stay true to what something is at its core, which is exactly what Assassin’s Creed Mirage does. This isn’t a soft reboot, though, as it slides right into canon, centring on Basim Ibn Ishaq, a character introduced in Valhalla.

Assassin's Creed Mirage, which released yesterday, has taken the series back to its roots in a few ways. Not only has the gameplay returned to a more simplistic stealthy style, but Mirage is set in the Middle-East.

Fazil the Great Scholar is one of your targets to assassinate in , found in a large Symposium that can be difficult to infiltrate without getting caught. This leader of the Order of Abbasiyah has been conducting human experiments to try and control dark magics. The perverted knowledge wielded by Fazil must be stopped, but his actions' insidious and hidden nature makes him hard to find.

October is here and the month brings a non-stop train of game releases. It is perhaps the busiest month in gaming this year, with major titles fighting for space in the tight window of four weeks. Kicking off things on October 5 is Assassin's Creed Mirage, Ubisoft's next chapter in the long-running assassin's saga. This time, the game opts to shrink its scope and return to its roots with a more stealth and assassinations-based approach. The last three AC titles had adhered to a Witcher 3-style expansive RPG style, drawing criticism for open-world bloat.

Following a three-year gap, Assassin's Creed is back, with Mirage taking the series to ninth-century Baghdad as we explore the transition from street thief to full member of the Assassin Brotherhood for Basim Ibn Ishaq.

Since Assassin’s Creed 2, Ubisoft introduced the notoriety system, which adds an even deeper level to the stealth gameplay. Prior, in the first game you could just walk around assassinating guards at a whim. There were consequences, but not enough to stop you from repeating them. In the sequel, if you did something like kill a guard, posters would go up and guards would almost always be on high alert. This system has changed quite a lot throughout the games. In Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, it seems to be overhauled again. To understand how the new notoriety system works in Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, this guide will explain it to you.

The ending of puts a satisfying button on protagonist Basim Ibn Ishaq's coming-of-age story, and further ties him the events of its predecessor,. opens with a young Basim, in his ninth-century days as a petty street thief. Plagued by visions of jinni, Basim sets off on a journey of self-discovery. He tries to join the Hidden Ones, a real-life (with many artistic liberties taken) organization of covert assassins, but is rejected. In an attempt to impress them, Basim and childhood friend Nehal try to steal from the Caliph's palace, but when things go south, Nehal winds up killing the Caliph.

will see the franchise returning to the Middle East with a smaller, more stealth-focused title set in 9th-century Baghdad. Its story follows a 17-year-old Basim Ibn Ishaq long before he appeared as a fully-fledged Master Assassin in In, Basim works alongside his mentor Roshan to take down members of The Order of the Ancients, rising up from being a street thief to a member of The Ancient Ones in the process.

Ubisoft has apparently added Denuvo to Assassin’s Creed: Mirage.

has been a return to the franchise's roots, with a smaller, more stealth-focused title set in a stunning recreation of Baghdad in the year 861. The title tells the origin of Basim Ibn Ishaq, a character who was introduced in the franchise's last title,, by which time he was already a Master Assassin on his travels to Norway​​​​​.

Enigmas are two-part puzzles scattered around Assassin’s Creed Mirage. The first part requires finding a collectible — a cryptic message or drawing — that leads you to the second part — a treasure, like a dye or a talisman.

Assassin’s Creed Mirage is the latest in Ubisoft’s blockbuster series, and a bit of a throwback to an earlier time for the series. Rather than a big overstuffed RPG, Mirage is more of a traditional action-adventure experience, and as such, some folks more used to recent games like Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Valhalla may need to adjust slightly.