Assassin's Creed Mirage harks back to Ezio's glory days, for better and worse

RPS give their impressions of Assassin's Creed Mirage after spending three hours with three of its opening missions.

September 12, 2023 · 1 min · 69 words · Billy Montes

And honestly, that’s fine.

Slightly less fine is the obvious step back to early AC’s quite terrible combat routines.

Inventory-based stuff, in other words.

A close-up shot of Basim from Assassin’s Creed Mirage in his assassin gear

The only truly interesting new wrinkle is the Air Strike, which is powered by your Assassin Focus bar.

I just kinda wish there was more of this stuff.

In truth, this particular black box mission felt like it was leading me to a single conclusion.

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A young Basim holds a large cat in Assassin’s Creed Mirage

The player runs past a camel at night with the button prompt to ‘Hijack’ it in Assassin’s Creed Mirage

Two assassins talk in front of a large auction house in Assassin’s Creed Mirage

The player enters eagle vision mode in Assassin’s Creed Mirage