The God statues in particular provide a great launching point, enabling you to cover vast distances with ease, while also taking in some spectacular views. You can tame some of the animals to use as your mount, which can then be summoned at will, and once you unlock Daedalus’s wings you’ve got enough tools to navigate the map at a good pace. I’d have liked to just ignore it and find things organically through exploration, but there’s so much to find and much of it is necessary to get the resources needed to upgrade your character so you can tackle the harder encounters and make progress. Scouring the environment for the umpteenth time, slowly scanning every inch of the world, quickly becomes tiring. You have to activate your Far Sight and physically move your cursor over the landscape until the controller vibrates, then move it about until you can press RT to reveal the secret.Īt first, I thought this was a unique way of discovering everything, but Immortals is crammed full of chests, vaults, myth challenges, ambrosia and more. Unlike Assassin’s Creed, though, simply climbing these peaks doesn’t reveal anything. Ascending the statues of the Gods in each area lifts the veil and gives you a good vantage point to find the various points of interest and provides a very useful fast-travel point. The regions of the map are shrouded in fog, to begin with, but you are not restricted from visiting any of the areas apart from the very centre of the world, which unlocks in the end game. With biomes ranging from lush green forests and Mediterranean sun-kissed shores to barren craggy outcrops or snow-covered frosty peaks, Immortals always has something new to show you, which keeps the game feeling fresh as you progress. The environments of Immortals: Fenyx Rising are simply beautiful, and each region has its own distinct style, blending seamlessly from one area to the next. They are both divided into regions, with environments crammed full of collectables, puzzles and similar mission structuring, but Immortals: Fenyx Rising does more than enough to distinguish itself from Valhalla. Immortals and Valhalla are both sprawling and beautiful open worlds, released within weeks of each other, and it’s hard not to draw comparisons. While I’m talking about Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, I’m going to address the elephant in the room. I’ll admit, it threw me for a curve as it wasn’t expected, but it’s all the better for it, especially coming off the back of 100 hours of the much more serious tone of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. I found myself continually chuckling away to myself and occasionally even laughing out loud. Whether it’s the comedic exposition provided by Prometheus and Zeus, or the over-the-top animations when you upgrade your character, Immortals has its tongue firmly planted in its cheek. When you think of an open-world game from Ubisoft, set in ancient Greece, the last thing you are probably expecting is humour, but Immortals: Fenyx Rising constantly delivers. ![]() Each of the Gods has its own set of quests and side-quests to complete, along with loads of hidden quests to discover and Myths (puzzles) to complete. She (or he, you can choose) must assist the Gods, whose essences have been captured by the evil lord Typhon. They’ve done a great job at bringing the characters to life, humanising them and bringing humorous takes on events.įenyx, the story’s protagonist, is a shield-bearer, who is the only survivor when her fleet’s ships are wrecked and all of the humans are turned to stone. Even though it’s set in ancient Greece, the scriptwriting and dialogue are very modern. ![]() Even if you aren’t familiar with the mythology, the back and forth banter and larger-than-life caricatures of the Gods will draw you in, but if you have a working knowledge of the history it’s even more entertaining, with lots of references and jokes that may go over your head without that familiarity. With such a rich source of mythology to draw its material from, it should come as no surprise that the story in Immortals: Fenyx Rising is very entertaining, but it’s the way it puts a modern spin on the classic tales that is most interesting.
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