Assassin’s Creed Mirage delves into Arabic and Muslim mythology

Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, the Ubisoft stealth game spin-off from Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, will include some key elements of Arabic and Muslim mythology

[BigBosss]

Assyrians are the indigenous people of modern day Iraq which is what I am. What the heck Ubisoft?! Why are we not included in this game...

[awiseman]

Westerners are not educated about ancient mesopotamia. It's terrorist land and nothing else in the eyes of westerners.

[shinoff2183]

Not all of us. Im from and live in the u.s.

Unfortunately its probably 40 percent of the country.

[TheColbertinator]

@GraniteT

We are at least partially responsible for what is occurring in the Middle East. We (The US and Britain) supported the Shah's regime to suppress dissent with terror tactics like violent crackdowns and torture. Most of the Arab peninsula is armed with weapons (explosives and bombs) created by the US and the West.

We support or have supported most brutal dictatorships/terrorism cells in the Levant and Central Asia for decades including Iraq, Egypt, Afghan Mujahideen and at one point Iran.

France, Russia(former Soviet Union) and Turkey also have had involvement in stoking violence in those regions that often spiral out of control.

[Christopher]

It's actually more apt to say that we are taught about Mesopotamia when we're young (elementary/junior high) but then we're re-educated by the media in high school and beyond.

[S2Killinit]

@Colbertinator
The Shah was not the wrong guy to back up. It was the west’s overthrowing of Mossadegh (democratically elected prime minister of Iran) that paved the way for the current regime there.

On topic of Assassins creed, mesopotamia, babylon, whats modern day Iraq was not just “Arab”, it was closer to Persian, and Assyrian cultures of the time. Modern day Iraq is an Arab mostly Shiite nation though.

The post Islamic Iraq was either under the control of the Caliphate empire, or one of the Persian empires (Sassanid empire, or Partinian empire)

[MASTER_RAIDEN]

Bless you brotha they never mention us 😭😭

[-Foxtrot]

Just hopefully no over the top mythical creature bullshit

[Christopher]

I like the over-the-top mythical bullshit myself. *shrugs*

[Demetrius]

Ikr

[Inverno]

Judging by the ending of the trailer is safe to say it'll probably be over the top. I just hope they tie it to that advanced civ that created the pieces of Eden. Genuinely curious how this'll turn out, really hope it's an evolution of where Infinite and left off gameplay wise

[-Foxtrot]

I can get my head around the Sci-Fi first civilisation aspect, I liked that but they seemed to ditch it for mystical, mystic shit where it had no place

Pick either Sci-Fi or Fantasy…don’t try and do both when you built up the former first

[Christopher]

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

And, honestly, I'm guessing they will have stuff about the primordial kings.

[Chexs1990]

If it's happening around year 900-1000, wouldn't it be Persian culture?

[ChubbyBlade]

Can we just stop with the mythical crap? It’s so uninteresting and that development time can be used for improving the already tired and buggy systems that already exist.

[Christopher]

Play a different game? Mythical crap has been in there since the first game. Pieces of Eden. Why are we asking them to change what has been in the game since the first one instead of you just finding a different series that does what you want?

[Samonuske]

pretty sure he's referring to the mythological stuff like fights with the pantheon of whatever time they tackle. not the Isu and Eden stuff. Fighting frost giants and Anubis, Giant snakes or Medusa. wasn't what made Assassin's Creed interesting.

[Christopher]

@Somonuske they're all related. Different Isu based on region. They're all mythological representations from various sources of history.

[PhillyDillyDee]

My last assassins creed was odyssey and i felt the mythical fights were used sparingly but effectively. Im definitely glad they didnt end up having basic enemies become mythical, but i guess that would ruin said mythical status right? Anyway i cant speak for valhalla as i havent played it.

[ROCKY28]

Tired old franchise - kinda like Ubisoft !

[Orchard]

Good. Seems like that’ll be something new & refreshing - barely any games have explored Arabic culture & history.

[StarkR3ality]

Regardless of the quality of the game, this would be nice, I like learning about other cultures especially in the format of a video game! I'm glad when other people's get represented.

False representation is killing media on the otherhand sick of people being pushed into roles just to be a box ticker. Rings of power for example, Lenny Henry as a hobbit? Black elves and middle aged to old aged (supposed to be fair and timeless). I would have liked to have learned more about the Haradhrim and Umbar, the peoples of middle earth who are more culturally similar to people of colour and mix African and Asian cultures within that setting to make it their own.

Way off topic I know, but as I said, it's nice to see all cultures have representation in media whatever the format.

[northpaws]

The theme doesn't matter, they need to fix the gameplay and remove microtransactions.