Assassin’s Creed: Mirage — Ubisoft pulls the veils on the latest adventure | Preview

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Ubisoft pulled the veils back on its Assassin’s Creed: Mirage title, which is coming out on October 12, 2023.

I’ll fill you in on my preview ahead of the Ubisoft Forward event, but first I’ll note that Ubisoft unveiled its new Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR title coming for the Meta Quest VR headsets. In the VR title, you can hold your controllers like knives and make lunging moves to take out targets.

It shows that Ubisoft still believes in the immersiveness of VR, though it was a bit surprising that the title isn’t yet being announced for the Sony PlayStation VR 2 headset. Ubisoft is also working on Assassin’s Creed Project Jade for release as a mobile game. That title is an Unreal Engine game set in the warring states of the Qin dynasty in the third century.

But the big title coming this year on October 12 is Assassin’s Creed Mirage, which is being built by a team led by Ubisoft Bordeaux, which has grown to more than 400 employees. Overall, more than 500 people around the world are working on the title, which will debut on the consoles and the PC and Luna.

The game reflects the same struggle between the Templars and the Assassins that has spanned centuries. Your job is to grow from a street thief to a master assassin.

The game is set in ninth-century Baghdad at the peak of its Golden Age. The narrative-driven action-adventure has a coming-of-age storyline, a majestic open city, and modernized legacy gameplay focusing on parkour, stealth and assassinations.

The new hero is Basim Ibn Is’haq, a thief with a mysterious path who will join the Hidden Ones in Alamut on a quest for answers. Basim’s mentor, Roshan, is