Assassin's Creed Mirage brings players to Baghdad in 861, during its Golden Age when it was the cultural and technological epicenter of the region. The city feels alive with merchants, townsfolk, guards, palaces, and more. It's vibrant, lively, and, well, looks and sounds like a city. It's painted with hues of desert orange and «Arabian Nights» blue skies, something intentional, according to artistic director Jean-Luc Sala.
Contracts Are Optional In Assassin’s Creed Mirage But I’m Not Skipping Them
06.09.2023 - 19:19 / gameinformer.com / Stéphane Boudon
During my cover story trip to Ubisoft Bordeaux in France, my hands-on time consisted of Baghdad exploration and contracts. The former was good fun – Baghdad feels almost like a 2023 spiritual reimagining of Jerusalem in 2007’s Assassin’s Creed, with plenty of rooftops and parkour paths to hit from objective to objective. But the latter was the highlight of my experience.
I completed three contracts during my hands-on time, each at different levels of progression for protagonist Basim Ibn Is’haq. Contracts are essentially mini-missions that task you with eliminating a target, obtaining an item, or doing something like moving a boat to a specified location. You must scout an area out, find your target, determine the path of least resistance to them or it – Basim is all about stealth and speed, of course – and kill or obtain your mark. The first one I did, early in Basim’s journey, took no more than 10 minutes. But the late game one I completed took nearly half an hour. They feel like miniature assassination vignettes, almost like a smaller version of a level from IO Interactive’s World of Assassination Hitman trilogy.
To complete a contract, you simply pick it up from a Hidden Ones bureau’s contract board and you’re off. Each is linked to a different faction within Baghdad, and completing them is essential to boosting your relationship with each.
“Those factions will help you to gain rewards and also favors,” Mirage creative director Stephane Boudon tells me, noting you also gain special tokens used to bribe city speakers called Munadi, entertainers that can distract guards, and more. “Tokens are used as a sub-economic way to buy services and these services can also be very helpful inside your main quest and mission, so it’s a way to fill up new kinds of progression. But it’s totally optional.”
He says you’re not obliged to complete them, but that doing so might feel essential once you realize what’s on offer. It doesn’t hurt that they’re good fun, too, giving Basim more to do as an Assassin-in-training outside of the main story.
Something I especially like is that you can collect all contracts on the board at once. I asked about this because I’m the kind of player who would like to have them all so that if I’m near one in my exploration and main story journey, I can take a step off the main path to knock it out.
“As soon as you have your board, you can collect them all and then do them when you’re ready,” world and quest director Simon Arseneault says. «Some of them are follow-ups of other contracts. You can do all contracts in parallel, but you can do multiple [and] it’s a good way to explore a little bit more and give you more [things] to do.”
Arseneault says if you grab them all at once,
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