Ubisoft has revealed details regarding Discovery Tour in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Origins. Discovery Tour is separate from the main game, and annotates the game world with a number of interactive tours with information from historians and Egyptologists.
These will focus on all areas of interest, including the life of Cleopatra, the Great Pyramids, mummification and more. Creative director Jean Guesdon stated that this is a feature that the team have been keen to bring in: “This is something we’ve wanted to do for a long time, that we’ve been asked to do by teachers, by institutions. Discovery Tour is another way to enjoy the beauty of the world we’ve recreated. It’s a more educative mode, so it’s clearly focused on education and on bringing to people actual facts, more academic knowledge.”
He continued: “We spent years recreating Ancient Egypt, documenting ourselves, validating the content with historians, with consultants, and we feel that many more people than just the players can benefit from that.”
Also, the tours allow players to explore the world without the threat of enemies, where you will traverse across the likes of the Giza Plateau, the Sand Sea, Memphis and Alexandria. This feature will arrive in early 2018 as a free update for Assassin’s Creed Origins, which launches on Xbox One, PS4 and PC on October 27th.
