Are you ready to steal bird eggs at the risk of having your stomach torn out by an eagle?
I have seen Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey and it looks freaking cool.
Gameplay footage of
the new game from Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Desiletswas shown
at Reboot Develop today, behind locked doors and with mobile phones off. The place was on lockdown.
Desilets hit play on a video project called “Experiences”, built using the engine, art and assets for
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
It began with a vulture soaring over the jungle, before cutting to an ape – presumably the player in third-person – exploring the trees, rivers and rocks around it.
The ape lept through trees, climbed up trunks and launched itself from the very highest branch, in a similar way to the classic parkour of Assassin’s Creed. That ape could move quickly too, from branch to branch like a spider-monkey.
We also saw an ape attacked by a crocodile and killed. The crocodile then met its own grisly end at the jaws of a sabre-tooth tiger. That tiger? Crushed to death by a giant snake. Nature is brutal and Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey isn’t shying away from that.
Although Desilets has said previously that Ancestors is not episodic, the footage we saw was labelled Volume One, and Desilets was on screen with an anthropologist discussing “Volume One” focusing on “Africa, 10 million years ago”.
We saw a shrewdness of apes interacting, with the player character grooming another ape. Expect to go online and pick fleas from fellow players, we reckon.
Wenn die da wirklich die verschiedenen Epochen nachbauen wollen, um darin als irgendwer irgendwas zu machen, wäre das richtig Klasse.
