| Kotaku - Kirk Hamilton | Unscored ~ Unscored | Assassin’s Creed Origins is ungainly and uneven, beautiful and frustrating, expansive and unexpectedly conservative. It won’t challenge the palate; rather, it is a prime example of video-game comfort food. It’s here to be slowly enjoyed, offering a seemingly endless supply of gorgeous locales and steadily-filling progress bars. If Ubisoft is a digital travel agency, Origins provides one of the most sweeping, enveloping destinations they’ve yet offered. Come for the beautiful recreation of ancient Egypt, stay for the beautiful recreation of ancient Egypt. | |
| VG247 - Brenna Hillier | Unscored ~ Unscored | Assassin’s Creed Origins is not a dramatic departure from the formula as we last saw it, but manages to be much more fun and feel way more fresh than any entry since Brotherhood and Black Flag. It plays to the strengths of a genre Ubisoft helped bring into the mainstream, respects the player and their freedom, and allows them to beat up crocodiles. I’m into it. | |
| Ars Technica - Daniel Starkey | Unscored ~ Unscored | A shining example of what exploration-based games can be, dropping many of its franchise's worst traits even while being sometimes held back by the mundane. Buy it. | PS4 |
| AngryCentaurGaming - Jeremy Penter | Wait for Sale ~ Wait for Sale | This is actually a 'Wait for Sale'. Make no mistake, I loved a good deal of this game and travelling across this world is so frigging awesome-looking. Unfortunately, that's offset by a battle system that just wasn't as slick as say Zelda's, which I think it's trying to crib from, and the bugs that obviously got in the way. The game looks absolutely beautiful at times, but it does have a couple issues with pop-in and so forth. I think this is a title that, with a couple of patches, really could make me enjoy the part of the game that the game wants you to enjoy the most when it comes to change, and that is the battle. It just has some issues right now. | |
| Eurogamer - Christian Donlan | Recommended ~ Recommended | Assassin's Creed returns and its vast and evocative Egypt inspires wonder - even if much in the game remains familiar. | PS4 |
| GamesRadar+ - Louise Blain | 100 ~ 5 / 5 stars | As beautiful as it is deadly, Origins' Egyptian playground is finally everything you wanted the Creed to be. | |
| Saudi Gamer - سندس الخباز - Arabic | 100 ~ 10 / 10 | Assassin's Creed Origins took an amazing new direction with a brand new story, new world, and new hero. The story is quite epic and it presents some of the most important historical events and characters in Egypt. I loved the variety of targets and how each boss has a complete different approach that changes the combat strategy and gameplay. | PS4 |
| GameSpace - GameSpace | 97 ~ 9.7 / 10 | Assassin's Creed Origins is a breathtaking sensorial odyssey. It is the MMO I have been waiting for without the MMO part and boy would my heart skip a beat if it were massively multiplayer online. Ubisoft has won a new superfan. | PC |
| SA Gamer - Garth Holden | 95 ~ 9.5 / 10 | Moving away from the industrial sausage machine to a bespoke creation oozing with attention to detail, history, love and satisfying combat, Ubisoft is back in the ring, ready to take on other open world contenders. | PS4 |
| Oyungezer Online - Utku Çakır - Turkish | 93 ~ 9.3 / 10 | It's a magnificent restart for the Assassin's Creed franchise. Origins slowly but surely follows in the footsteps of The Witcher 3. | PS4 |
| Forbes - Paul Tassi | 93 ~ 9.25 / 10 | Assassin's Creed Origins improves from its past few installments in almost every way, yet it never quite reaches the heights of the games it tries to emulate. | PS4 |
| Hobby Consolas - Álvaro Alonso - Spanish | 92 ~ 92 / 100 | Origins can pretty much be considered one of the best entries in the series (if not the best) for introducing a myriad of changes, all for the best, and making the series advance in the same way Assassin's Creed II did back in the day. Put it into a sarcophagus next to the pharaohs, because this game is worth of the Valley of the Kings. | XB1 |
| IGN Middle East - Islam Ibrahim - Arabic | 92 ~ 9.2 / 10 | Ubisoft has promised that Assassin's Creed Origins will bring the series back to its roots, but it surpassed its roots. It provided amazing RPG system and led us to a journey we would never forget in Ancient Egypt. | PS4 |
| Critical Hit - Noelle Adams | 90 ~ 9 / 10 | Assassin's Creed Origins is a pharaoh's tomb chock-full of shiny treasures for gamers, especially those fascinated with Ancient Egypt. The side quests may feel a little repetitive, but the credible, nuanced characters and diversity of the main plot make up for it. And with so much to explore and do in its jaw-dropping setting, Origins is exceptional. | PS4 |
| Gameblog - Julien Hubert - French | 90 ~ 9 / 10 | If Assassin's Creed Origins is not perfect, it perfectly understood what it had to do to regain the hearts of the players and fans of the series. In addition to delivering the mysterious and fascinating ancient Egypt on a silver plate, in an absolutely gigantic open world, full of activities and secrets to discover, it succeeds in transforming its gameplay by brilliantly integrating RPG elements and completely renewing, with no less talent, its combat system. It will literally absorbs you for dozens and dozens of hours. Assassin's Creed Origins succeeds in taking care of its fans and its fundamentals, while starting its own revolution. We can only hope that the next episodes will keep this momentum. | XB1 |
| Digitally Downloaded - Matt Sainsbury | 90 ~ 4.5 / 5 stars | This is the best game in the Assassin’s Creed series. That extra year of development time has really helped Ubisoft find its creative centre again, and craft something that feels both fresh and energised. I could take or leave the shifts in gameplay to make this more like the loot-grind RPG-likes that dominate blockbuster game development now, but when Ubisoft is playing so beautifully within a fascinating period of history, all I care about is how utterly engrossed I am with the storytelling. | PS4 |
| IGN - Alanah Pearce | 90 ~ 9 / 10 | Assassin's Creed Origins is a deep-dive into a truly stunning realization of ancient Egypt, with a rich series of cultures, genuine characters, and more mission variety than any other game in the series. The combat is challenging and thoughtful, and while the loot system doesn't match up to games like Destiny 2, there are enough different weapon types and enough enemy variety to keep you swapping between weapons, catered to the situation. The RPG elements encourage challenges of their own, and even despite a handful of bugs, I desperately wanted to keep playing. | PS4, XB1, PC |
| Game Revolution - Paul Tamburro | 90 ~ 4.5 / 5 stars | The extra year of development time paid off and ensured that Assassin’s Creed Origins likely wouldn’t underwhelm its audience by repeating its past sins. Instead, it modernized itself by adopting a more open structure and intuitive set of controls and gameplay systems, effectively marking a new chapter in the franchise. It’s fitting that Origins showed the birth of the Assassin’s Creed while also indicating the much-needed rebirth of the Assassin’s Creed series. | XB1 |
| Eurogamer Italy - Lorenzo Mancosu - Italian | 90 ~ 9 / 10 | Assassin’s Creed Origins is one of the best open-world action games of this generation. The setting is quite evocative, the plot is engaging and there are also good endgame activities. The Creed is reborn. | XB1 |
| Press Start - Brodie Gibbons | 90 ~ 9 / 10 | I fell out of love with Assassin's Creed a long time ago, but Origins has recaptured the magic that made the series a powerhouse all those years ago. With its humble protagonist, whose outlook on life is clouded by relateable and crushing heartbreak, and a world so detail-rich, it's hard not to be floored by everything Origins manages to be. Assassin's Creed Origins is the definitive action-adventure game of the year. It's a wild power fantasy that satisfies not only a curious thirst for knowledge but both bloodlust and wanderlust to such lengths it's almost gluttonous. | PS4 |
| IGN Spain - David Soriano - Spanish | 90 ~ 9 / 10 | Assassin's Creed Origins manages to combine familiarity with revolution. Its RPG mechanics, new combat system and equiment management make you feel a fresh enough experience. The map is huge, beautiful and detailed, supported by an outstanding artistic direction. Unfortunately, the narrative fails to captivate us to make it closer to perfection. | XB1 |
| EGM - Ray Carsillo | 90 ~ 9 / 10 | Assassin's Creed: Origins delivers a robust experience that mixes up the traditional Assassin's Creed formula in a way that's fresh and fun to play—but which also harkens back to the series' roots in some welcome ways, too. It marks an evolution fans might not have even known they were waiting for, delivering one of the best overall experiences we've seen yet from the series. | PS4 |
| Twinfinite - Ishmael Romero | 90 ~ 4.5 / 5 | What we have here is a game that is more than it seems. Origins is a fitting title because there are a lot of beginnings to witness, many of which will pique the interest of lore aficionados. | PS4 |
| Cheat Code Central - Sean Engemann | 90 ~ 4.5 / 5 stars | Assassin’s Creed is one the greatest action-adventure franchises out there, though its hidden blades have been dulled of late from overexposure. After its brief sabbatical, Assassin’s Creed: Origins enters the arena glistening in the Egyptian sun with quality and quantity. Whether you’re a devout member of the Creed, someone who’s fallen off the hay wagon, or even a prospective new member of the Brotherhood, this is the time to dig your blade deep into a succulent new Assassin’s Creed. | |
| We Got This Covered - Jon Hueber | 90 ~ 4.5 / 5 stars | Assassin's Creed Origins is a triumph, taking the series back to the beginning and allowing players to partake in the genesis of the war between the Templars and the Brotherhood of Assassins. | PS4 |
| GameSkinny - Sergey_3847 | 90 ~ 9 / 10 stars | Assassin's Creed: Origins takes all the best elements of the action-RPG genre, and gives you a complete freedom to use them all in the gorgeous setting of the Ancient Egypt. | PC |
| Gamestar - Dimitry Halley - German | 89 ~ 89 / 100 | Although Assassin's Creed: Origins doesn't overcome the Ubisoft-formula, it perfects it into an excellent open-world adventure. | PC |
| Pure Playstation - Kyle Durant | 88 ~ 8.8 / 10 | Ubisoft needed to recapture the magic that made the series great in the first place, and it seems it has done so. It's just all the quintessential problems within said magic tag along for the ride. | PS4 |
| GamePro - Linda Sprenger - German | 88 ~ 88 / 100 | Assassin's Creed: Origins is formulated, but because of the great story and the motivating RPG system it is the best part in a long time. | PS4 |
| Areajugones - Christian López - Spanish | 87 ~ 8.7 / 10 | Assassin's Creed Origins performs remarkably in every aspect and shows a final and finished product, leaving behind the ghosts that had this franchise. It's a title that every fan of the series should play, because it correctly maintains the essence and implements fresh and fun elements to the series. To sum up, Assassin's Creed Origins is the renewal that the saga needed. | PS4 |
| Atomix - Pamela Lima - Spanish | 87 ~ 87 / 100 | Besides some minor technical and A.I. issues, Assassin's Creed Origins merges up as an astonishing, dynamic world where Bayek begins the history of the franchise. It surely represents a great way to celebrate 10 years of Assassin's Creed and a redemption chance for Ubisoft as a developer. | PS4 |
| COGconnected - Erin Soares | 86 ~ 86 / 100 | If you’ve been a fan of the series since the very beginning, let your faith in the series be restored, because Assassin’s Creed Origins is definitely the best title to come out of the popular series in a long time, if not ever. While there are still a few issues to be found within the game, the majority of problems found within the last few iterations in the Assassin’s Creed series have been replaced with nothing but beauty and adventure. Ubisoft has brought us a not only a captivating story in the perfect setting of Ancient Egypt but also a graphical masterpiece that is nothing short of breathtaking. | PS4 |
| DualShockers - Noah Buttner | 85 ~ 8.5 / 10 | Assassin’s Creed: Origins may not be as revolutionary of a release in the open-world, action adventure RPG genre as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt or The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but it does provide an expansive single-player experience, filled with hours of memorable content without having to purchase anything extra. Assassin’s Creed: Origins is the most memorable entry in the series in years, answering age-old questions like “why are assassins missing their ring fingers?” and is an excellent game to start with if you’re a newcomer. While the story wasn’t consistent in quality throughout the entire game — and I didn’t know what was going on or what the stakes were at times — it culminates in a payoff that any fan of the Assassin’s Creed franchise will nerd out about for a long time. | XB1 |
| Game Informer - Suriel Vazquez | 85 ~ 8.5 / 10 | Expanded progression, open-world freedom, and a fascinating backdrop make for an enticing origin story. | XB1 |
| Spaziogames - Yuri Polverino - Italian | 85 ~ 8.5 / 10 | Assassin's Creed Origins is a beautiful open world action-adventure game, a real reborn for the Ubisoft saga made possible by a fresh new combat and quest system. The story is passionate and the character of Aya is very cool. Perhaps the game is not perfect and had some trouble of game design, but we can surely say that is very good and a perfect way to follow for the next chapter. | |
| PlayStation LifeStyle - Ahmed Mohamed | 85 ~ 8.5 / 10 | Assassin’s Creed Origins blew my expectations away in so many areas, but there’s still something missing that made the likes of Assassin’s Creed II and Brotherhood so special. However, this is most definitely the best title since then, and one that I’ll be jumping back into very soon. The new combat system makes for some incredibly satisfying moments, while the design of the world is only matched by the likes of The Witcher III. Ubisoft Montreal can be proud knowing that they’ve delivered a level of AAA-production that likely won’t be seen again until Cyberpunk 2077 rolls around, but there’s just that last leap of faith that needs to be made to once again deliver a generation defining game. | PS4 |
| SegmentNext - Omar Majeed | 85 ~ 8.5 / 10 | Assassin’s Creed Origins is a step forward but not a complete overhaul of the franchise. | |
| Polygon - Colin Campbell | 85 ~ 8.5 / 10 | In essence, Assassin’s Creed Origins is much the same game as the original Assassin’s Creed, which came out a decade ago. It’s a formula that people like to play, and it’s certainly been honed and improved over the years. Origins is, then, undoubtedly the best iteration of this formula yet. But I yearn for a fresh approach and new ideas, something that astounds the senses as much as the wondrous world this game inhabits. | XB1 |
| IGN Italy - Gianluca Loggio - Italian | 85 ~ 8.5 / 10 | A new beginning for Assassin's Creed, with a lot of new elements. Not a perfect game, but a good open world with marvellous locations. | PS4 |
| GearNuke - Khurram Imtiaz | 85 ~ 8.5 / 10 | Assassin's Creed Origins manages to rejuvenate the series with a solid foundation built on a fun combat system. | PS4 |
| GamingTrend - Hunter Wolfe | 85 ~ 85 / 100 | Assassin's Creed: Origins is as much a departure as it is a homecoming. Revamped combat mechanics defibrillate the series with much-needed challenge. The guided open-world design encourages and rewards exploration unlike any Assassin's Creed game before it, and takes place in one of the series’ most memorable settings. But at the end of the day, and despite some growing pains, Origins is a culmination of the best aspects of the series. And for that, some hiccups in the transition to full-fledged RPG are a fair trade. | XB1 |
| Stevivor - Jay Ball | 85 ~ 8.5 / 10 | The best in the series, by far. | PS4 |
| Player.One - Zulai Serrano | 85 ~ 8.5 / 10 | Assassin's Creed Origins is a much-needed reboot for the franchise. Its massive areas to explore not only look better than ever, but will keep you entertained for for a long time. | |
| Reno Gazette-Journal - Jaosn Hidalgo | 85 ~ 8.5 / 10 | Assassin’s Creed returns with a polished take on the franchise’s mechanics as well as stunning visuals and vistas that will make you feel like a virtual tourist of Ancient Egypt. The gameplay itself doesn’t stray much from the classic formula, which can be good or bad depending on your view of the series’ gameplay. Improved combat, however, combined with a nicely crafted world and an intriguing protagonist make Assassin’s Creed Origins a worthy entry in the long-standing franchise. | XB1 |
| PC Gamer - Christopher Livingston | 84 ~ 84 / 100 | A brilliant setting, new systems, and familiar features blend together for a strong prequel to the Assassin's Creed series. | PC |
| TheSixthAxis - Gareth Chadwick | 80 ~ 8 / 10 | After taking a year off, Assassin's Creed is going through a transitional period and taking players back to the very founding of the Brotherhood in Ancient Egypt is symbolic of that. The vast new setting, the improved combat system and moving the series towards being a real action RPG have injected this series with a new life. | PS4 |
| Gaming Nexus - Randy Kalista | 80 ~ 8 / 10 | Origins was worth taking the year off. Egypt will be hard to top as a location. The series' dry, ironic, corporate sense of humor is still dull. But nobody can beat Assassin's Creed's architectural history lessons, even if you're still just stabbing folks and jumping out the window while you're sightseeing the entire timeline. | PS4 |
| GamingBolt - Pramath | 80 ~ 8 / 10 | Almost at the cusp of true greatness, but not quite there, Assassin's Creed Origins is nonetheless a rousing adventure that truly manages to reverse the franchise's momentum after the double whammy of Unity and Syndicate. | PS4 |
| Hardcore Gamer - Adam Beck | 80 ~ 4 / 5 | The extra year of development has helped Assassin's Creed as a whole, as Origins is the next level for the series. | XB1 |
| Worth Playing - Chris "Atom" DeAngelus | 80 ~ 8 / 10 | Assassin's Creed: Origins manages to be both experimental and safe. It tries a lot of new things, but it never ventures too far from the Assassin's Creed formula. There's a lot of potential in Origins, and it'll be exciting to see how the new features evolve in future games. Fans of Assassin's Creed should find a lot to like, and it may be time to revisit the battle between the Assassins and the Templars. | PS4 |
| Gadgets 360 - Rishi Alwani | 80 ~ 8 / 10 | All in all, there's more than enough to give Assassin's Creed Origins a go. Revamped combat, a fantastic representation of ancient Egypt, and a world crammed with things to do, Assassin's Creed Origins is a return to form of the franchise that has us optimistic on what to expect next. | PS4 |
| TrustedReviews - Jordan King | 80 ~ 4 / 5 stars | Assassin’s Creed Origins is the revitalisation I was desperately hoping for. My cautious optimism has been rewarded by an excellent open-world adventure that could lead to an exciting future for Ubisoft’s blockbuster franchise. While it lifts its finer ideas from other open-world titles, it executes them well enough to form a whole that entertained me for hours and hours. It’s a shame the narrative eventually jumps the shark, or this could have been something truly special. | |
| Destructoid - Chris Carter | 80 ~ 8 / 10 | I was really torn in assessing Assassin's Creed Origins, as it hits several of the same lows as the rest of the series, with its sometimes uneven mission structure and janky physics. But given that they now have the formula down to a science and didn't rush it out the door, all of that is a little easier to deal with than its predecessors. It was a big risk trying so many new things at once, but it worked, and the setting carries it. | PS4 |
| Shacknews - Chris Jarrard | 80 ~ 8 / 10 | ACO has almost everything going against it, and somehow managed to win me over. Just moving along in the game world is rewarding on its own. | PC |
| Attack of the Fanboy - William Schwartz | 80 ~ 4 / 5 stars | Not completely back to the drawing board, Ubisoft takes some of their better old ideas and blends them with new ones to make one of the best Assassin's Creed games to date in Assassin's Creed Origins. | XB1 |
| Leadergamer - Alper Dalan - Turkish | 80 ~ 8 / 10 | That's how you surpass your roots. | PC |
| VideoGamer - Alice Bell | 80 ~ 8 / 10 | Assassin's Creed Origins has vastly improved combat and an astoundingly beautiful world to explore, but it felt a little afraid of going all in with its new direction. | PS4 |
| TrueGaming - خالد العيسى - Arabic | 75 ~ 7.5 / 10 | Assassin's Creed: Origins is a good gaming experience with a lot of content but the story failed to impress, and while the game changed a lot of thing, it didn't bring anything new for the open world genre. | PS4 |
| GameZone - Daniel R. Miller | 75 ~ 7.5 / 10 | Assassin’s Creed: Origins is truly unique compared to its predecessors, though as an Action RPG, it replicates many of the same mechanics you will find in its contemporaries. Regardless, it is a lovingly crafted world worth exploring. | PS4 |
| CGMagazine - Cole Watson | 75 ~ 7.5 / 10 | Assassin’s Creed Origins brings Ancient Egypt back to life with the best sandbox world Ubisoft has made to date. However, a half-baked combat system and poor RPG mechanics sour parts of the experience. | PS4 |
| GamesBeat - Stephanie Chan | 75 ~ 75 / 100 | Assassin’s Creed: Origins offers a rich world and a compelling story at first, but it’s waylaid in part by the repetitive side quests and a weaker second half. If you’re hoping to learn more about the Animus and Abstergo, then you’ll be disappointed because you’ll spend most of the game in ancient Egypt. But if you just wanted to show up and kill some dudes while touring the pyramids and gawking at the splendor of Alexandria at the height of its glory, then you’ll come away satisfied. | PC |
| New Game Network - Alex Varankou | 73 ~ 73 / 100 | Assassin's Creed Origins does enough things differently to warrant a look, but there is still something left to be desired. It's a lengthy game in a huge and varied open world that provides a foundation for what's to come, but it doesn't quite offer the breakthrough that the series was probably looking for. | XB1 |
| Easy Allies - Michael Huber | 70 ~ 3.5 / 5 stars | Assassin’s Creed Origins isn’t the reinvention of the prolific franchise that many had hoped for. Instead, it refines the formula put in place a decade ago while telling an important story about the Assassins. Ancient Egypt is a compelling playground to explore, and the RPG elements make it easy to stay engaged. If you love the franchise, Origins is an easy recommendation. Just don’t except much change. Written | XB1 |
| GameSpot - Alessandro Fillari | 70 ~ 7 / 10 | In charting out a new storyline and the largest setting for the series yet, Assassin's Creed Origins makes a few stumbles along the way. | PS4, XB1, PC |
| Paste Magazine - Garrett Martin | 70 ~ 7 / 10 | Like real life, this game will overwhelm you. The key is to find your own way through it as best as you can, whether it's beelining straight to the next key milestone or taking the time to wander and discover both your neighbors and yourself. It's a familiar adventure, but not a forgettable one. | |
| Slant Magazine - Justin Clark | 70 ~ 4.5 / 5 stars | Assassin’s Creed has been reinvented, and while Origins doesn’t necessarily push the envelope, it does set a strong stage upon which future titles are better equipped to do so than its predecessors ever were. | PS4 |
| M3 - Viktor Eriksson - Swedish | 70 ~ 7 / 10 | With Origins Assassin's Creed is better looking and bigger than ever, but the series still has a long way to go in things like story telling and mission design. | PS4 |
| PC World - Hayden Dingman | 70 ~ 7 / 10 | There’s a wondrous world to discover (or at least a wonderful Egypt), an enormous sandbox with plenty of forward-thinking systems to build upon. Now Ubisoft just needs to find a protagonist to make the next journey worth it. | PC |
| RPG Site - Kazuma Hashimoto | 60 ~ 6 / 10 | Embracing a more RPG approach, Origins's engrossing open world experience is marred by persistent glitches and a narrative that suffers from poor pacing. | PS4 |
| Digital Trends - Mike Epstein | 60 ~ 3 / 5 stars | Assassin’s Creed Origins is what happens when you make a game without a vision for how players are supposed to engage with it. So many of the changes made to the game feel as if they were made in a vacuum, without a question as to whether they make sense together in the context of a long-running series. Not all games need loot. Not all games need RPG mechanics. As this franchise turns the corner into a new chapter of its never-ending tale, its developers would be wise to keep in mind (and pay a certain reverence) to what made the series special in the first place. While Origins keeps alive its narrative, the series’ most important component, there are certain mechanical elements of the series that deserve the same unequivocal respect. | |
| Metro GameCentral - GameCentral | 60 ~ 6 / 10 | A missed opportunity to reinvent the Assassin’s Creed franchise, which offers only incremental improvement and too many old problems. | PS4 |
