Assassin's Creed Mirage Map Size: How Big Is AC 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.
's story brings the series back by returning to the Middle East. Many years before Altair's story in the first, which took place during the Third Crusade in the Holy Land (modern-day Israel, Palestine, and Syria), a 17-year-old Basim worked alongside his mentor, Roshan. He would go on to grow from being a common street thief in Baghdad to a fully-fledged member of the Hidden Ones by taking down members of The Order of the Ancients.
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's developers compared the game's map to previous entries in the long-running series during 2023's Summer Game Fest. During this interview, Ubisoft stated that 's depiction of Baghdad would be similar in scale to Constantinople in 2011's and Paris in 2014's. However, these maps varied quite significantly in size. The Constantinople map was 0.94 km², whereas took advantage of the improved hardware available with the release of the PS4 and Xbox One and offered a hugely detailed Paris map more than twice as large at 2.40 km².
This comparison was presumably intended to point out a difference between the scale of and the massive maps of the franchise's last three mainline entries,, and. After years of the franchise using a similar formula with annual releases, Ubisoft opted to change the direction of the series by adding more ARPG elements and showcasing huge open-world maps consisting of
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