Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey Sparks Assassin's Creed: Odyssey Player Count Spike, Gives Ubisoft 'Great Ammunition' for a Remake

Ubisoft's fantabulous Assassin's Creed Odyssey is enjoying a large spike successful progressive players, pursuing the motorboat of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.

Nolan's Ancient Greek blockbuster is connected way to marque a cardinal dollars astatine the container office, and has intelligibly sparked further involvement successful its setting. Indeed, engagement statistic published by Alinea Analytics expert Rhys Elliot amusement that the film's motorboat has besides driven thousands of players backmost to Ubisoft's 2018 epic.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey has astir doubled its progressive userbase implicit the past week crossed a operation of PlayStation, Xbox and PC via Steam. Xbox engagement was peculiarly strong, up from 36,000 to 84,000 regular progressive users, a leap of 134%.

In what seems to beryllium a canny move, Ubisoft presently has Assassin's Creed Odyssey disposable via Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus — allowing The Odyssey fans who ain a console subscription to footwear up the crippled without immoderate further charge.

"Software income moved modestly astatine astir 400,000 copies year-to-date, but the existent [benefit] present is axenic subordinate engagement," Elliot wrote, going connected to suggest the figures bode good for a aboriginal Odyssey remake akin to the recently-launched Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced.

"The movie didn't marque millions bargain an eight-year-old game, but it got a monolithic cohort playing it again," Elliot continued. "That information gives Ubisoft large ammunition for an eventual AC Odyssey Resynced.

"Credit to Ubisoft for leaning into the momentum. They ran timed societal campaigns alongside Nolan’s merchandise and resurfaced Discovery Tour (the guided, combat-free acquisition mode), positioning it arsenic an interactive companion portion for anyone falling down a past rabbit spread aft leaving the cinema."

Ancient Greece awaits, misthios.
Time to statesman an Odyssey (again). pic.twitter.com/VKFlTOJrVq

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is an epic, standout introduction successful Ubisoft's long-lived humanities escapade series, and 1 that's good worthy experiencing (or revisiting, if you played it backmost successful the day). It features an tremendous satellite to explore, filled with a sprawling acceptable of stories taking successful the setting's humanities characters, myths and legends. Odyssey besides saw the bid leaning its furthest into afloat RPG territory, to the delight of galore (though the chagrin of others who preferred the franchise successful its much humbler rooftop-set origins).

With much than 10 cardinal copies sold during its archetypal 2 years, Odyssey remains 1 of the astir palmy entries successful the Assassin's Creed series, portion its protagonist Kassandra continues to beryllium 1 of its astir popular, and 1 of the fewer to popular up again successful consequent games.

Just don't expect the events of either The Odyssey oregon Assassin's Creed Odyssey to overlap. While immoderate elements volition beryllium familiar, the erstwhile is acceptable astir 800 years earlier — though it intelligibly inspired Ubisoft's game. Both stories travel an outcast navigating the Greek islands connected a ship, battling armies and different monstrous forces arsenic they effort to reclaim their family. Not played Assassin's Creed Odyssey yet? Now's the time.

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