Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

So many great moments – is it possible to pick just one?

Choosing one defining moment from Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is a thankless task. Having put in over 100 hours into this epic adventure I’ve seen everything.

There’s Layla Hassan’s revelation that Evie and Jacob Frye from AC Syndicate joined the Ghost Club with Charles Dickens to battle paranormal silliness. I found the sword in the stone, visited the cave of Kratos, and plunged down into Atlantis; I fought the Minotaur, and gawped at a time-twist I never saw coming. Yet, of all the moments that make Odyssey great, the one I’d single out is riding slowly into the Petrified Valley, where crumbling buildings poke through the mist before old gives way to older and the gleaming, black obelisks of the Isu temple rise from the fog. Stone ‘statues’ linger in the haze. I’m getting chills.

Inside lurks Medusa, the famed Gorgon whose gaze can turn people to stone. It’s here that Odyssey proves itself, walking a fine line between fantasy and reality, history and myth. The game manages to sell legends as lore, grounded in the rules of the Assassin’s Creed universe. It’s a deft stroke of genius that perfectly sums up why Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is my game of the year, and your No. 4.