Assassin's Creed Odyssey Standard Edition - Xbox One [Digital]

I love Greek mythology, so I have to say in my opinion, best game this generation. If you're into Troy, 300 Hercules or witcher 3 wild hunt, get this you won't be disappointed.

Got this for $10 on Thanksgiving day. And I'm very happy with my purchase. If you love all the other Creed games you will like this as well.

I have been playing this game for about 2 years (the assassians creed series) this one is just as good. I have read the ending is bad so I hope I am not disappointed

Having not played an Assassin's Creed game since Black Flag and the ho-hum Unity, I was a little skeptical when a relative who is a die hard AC fan told me to get this one. I am really glad I listened. The combat and much of the overall gameplay has been overhauled. If memory serves, past AC games ramped up the difficulty by giving you more enemies to deal with and ones with better weapons, but most could be taken down in one stealth attack. Not this one. If they're too far above you in level, you'll only be able to slightly damage them with a stealth attack. There are now several classes of weapons at all ranging from the fast, but weak to the slow, but powerful. There's also a bow. Sailing is back from Black Flag and better, IMO. A nice departure from the past games. The game also has far more sub-games than I remember other entries having. There's now ship improving. mercenaries to hunt, cultists to hunt. engravings to find to improve your gear, the main story, legendary animals to hunt, and conquest battles. All of them yield different rewards to level your character and ship. Makes for a deep and rewarding game to play. Really it's a lot like the Witcher 3, so if you were a fan of that, you'll likely enjoy this game (though I don't think the writing and voice acting is as good in this). The cons are few and not too severe. The game can be a bit repetitive as most of these subgames involve you finding something and fighting it, but then again, what else is there to do? I suppose they could've added non-violent minigames like Witcher 3 had like horse racing, but I'm not left wishing they had. The game, while mostly beautiful does have some of that "jank" that's typical of sprawling open world games, but nothing game breaking so far. I think I was spoiled by Red Dead 2 in that regard and in the regard that the voice acting doesn't live up to the insanely high bar RDR2 also set. Honestly my biggest gripe is that I hate the parry button choice. RB and LB are tough to press together so sometimes when I mean to parry, my character does what either LB or RB do on their own. It's cost me a lot of health. I wish it was Y like it used to be. Ant any rate though, this is a welcome refresh and if you have any interest in ancient Greece and haven't played AC in a long time, i'd say pick it up. Especially if you can get it for $20 like I did.

I bought this game a few months ago for $20.00 on sale and it is the best 20 bucks I have spent in some time. I will not be able to leave a review as long and detailed as I want so not to contain any spoilers, but this game is AWESOME. Warning, if you are a huge fan of the early Assassin's Creed games and that is your ideal play style this game might not be exactly what you are looking for. However, if you are a fan of open world RPG's that require some grinding but don't get too repetitive or boring, then you will love this game. This game has an open world that is one of, if not the most beautiful world I have ever explored in a console game. It is not just huge for the sake of being huge, there are tons of things to do within the world. You can climb the peaks of just about any structure in the game (for some reason you can't climb trees) and you can swim to the bottom of the sea and navigate your way through different caves, shipwrecks etc. The combat is addictive and fun. As you progress (level up) you will gain experience points that you can spend on different traits, styles of battle (ranged, stealth, warrior) so there are tons of different moves, skills that you can learn. Therefore you can customize your player to fight to whatever style is best for you. There are also numerous different types of weapons with different strengths/weaknesses and awesome animations that also play a part in your style of battle. There are infinite mercenaries (much stronger enemies than most) that will chase you throughout the game if you have a bounty on you or that you can chase down throughout the game to collect one on them. They all drop special gear that you can equip or break down for materials to upgrade weapons that you prefer to use. There are around 20 or so legendary armor sets in the game that you get from completing objectives or finding in the game world. There are dozens of legendary weapons as well. You can earn special stat bonus' from completing tasks (slayer deed, kill 100 of this or that etc.) or from actually obtaining a weapon i.e. when you collect Poseidon's Trident you can engrave (add) the ability to breathe under water to the weapon you prefer to use if you want. Without going into too much detail. you will go on a long, eventful, non-linear open world journey in which your choices throughout the game will determine the outcome of the story. There are hundreds of locations with unique objectives to fulfill all of which reap rewards of some sort. You will find yourself hunting legendary animals, mythological creatures, cult members, etc. You also get a ship that doubles as a home (fast travel and storage) for naval battles that you can upgrade and recruit enemies or friends throughout the game world to join as lieutenants (all of which have unique naval battle upgrades). I played this game for over 220 hours, I am still not completely done with everything, there are still daily and weekly quests to do as even after all of the main content and DLC is done, there are randomly generated bounties and other objectives that I believe is infinite. There are so many stats, deeds, quests, skills, weapons, armor sets which enable you to fine tune the game that this is heaven on earth for an open world RPG fan. There is an arena you can fast travel to after you discover it to partake in hand to hand combat against some of the stronger enemies in the game for special rewards. There are around 100 fast track landmarks that you can discover. Many of them are very realistic reproductions of real landmarks in Ancient Greece. Many of them lead you to being perched atop some of the highest natural points in the game with some breathtaking views. You will move across the map as the story progresses and weaken different regions within the game world until you trigger a conquest battle (battle of 300) or you will trigger a naval battle. You will be helping either the Spartans or Athenians gain control of certain regions in another seemingly endless objective that will continue to advance with or without you. I NEVER ONCE GOT BORED playing this game! Obviously, I would recommend this game to others. :) Pick it up on Black Friday or on sale for 20-25 dollars (there is also some awesome DLC that goes on sale quite often that would require another couple paragraphs by me to do justice to.)