The Discovery Tour By Assassin’s Creed: Ancient Egypt

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The Assassin's Creed franchise is a series of games rated M or higher,
so you won't be seeing them reviewed here on GGSP
but they are well known for their detailed recreations of historical locations!
And now, publisher Ubisoft, has decided to take some of these worlds
- in this case Ancient Egypt -
and turn it into a family friendly exploration experience!
To the pyramids!!
If your family already owns Assassin's Creed Origins on console,
then The Discovery Tour is a free download
so just make sure you check with your grown ups on that one.
However, you can get the expansion pack on PC
as a standalone adventure rated PG!
And there is so much to explore in this, in isn't there Rad?
So much!
Just like main game, the map is huge!
Discovery Tour features over 70 different little tours,
talking about different topics,
like the construction of the pyramids,
or the life and death of Roman gladiators.
There's so much to cover
and I will admit at first I was a little bit intimidated.
Thankfully, each tour is broken down
into small, manageable increments
normally no longer than 10 minutes.
You begin your journey at the entrance
to the great, sprawling city of Alexandria.
From there your tour guide, a disembodied voice,
leads you along a glowing path
that takes you through the construction of the city.
And it was as soon as we entered the city
that immediately stopped paying attention
and started gawking instead.
I've always loved the attention to detail
Ubisoft puts into their environments,
and if anything, that's even more noticeable here
because you're intentionally meant to slow down
and take in all the info.
Yeah, Discovery Tour is a combat and mission free mode,
so your focus is on exploring and learning about actual history.
Although, that's a little hard to do at times...
The narration switches between two tour guides,
but unfortunately, both suffer from
monotone voice acting!
Wake up!
I was just resting my eyes!
Yeah, sure you were.
And that's the problem with this,
the narration is so sleepy at times that
I found myself tuning out to what was being said.
Sometimes I couldn't even work out what WAS being said.
The language used during the tours can be quite advanced,
and a lot of the terminology used is never explained.
For older players I don't think this would be too much of an issue,
but I can see younger gamers getting a bit bored.
I would've liked to see a more hands-on approach,
maybe some puzzles to solve,
but I did like that it wasn't all just
walking from one spot to the next.
Nothing says Assassin's Creed quite like climbing all over everything!
Oh, hello!
Ah it's such a thrill getting to climb through Pyramids.
Oooo and the Sphinxes!
Right, how awesome were they?
I don't know why, but I found the aqueducts really interesting!
Oh and the River Nile, and the Library of Alexandria, and the hippodrome
I have so much left to explore!
Oh me too!
It's important to remember this isn't exactly a game,
it's more of an educational tool
and it's a really good one.
I wish schools had more things like this.
I'm giving it 4 out of 5 rubber chickens.
I agree, it's there to teach and teach it does.
I'm giving it 4 as well.
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