Discovery Tour Update Turns Assassin's Creed Origins Into an Interactive Museum

[Chino]

Ubisoft's Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt is a new educational and entertainment tool, which lets anyone explore the entire interactive 3D recreation of Ancient Egypt in Assassin's Creed Origins, free of conflict, time pressure or gameplay constraints. The Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt releases on February 20th, 2018 on PS4, Xbox and PC, at no cost for all owners of the Assassin's Creed Origins game, and it will also be available independently from the game on PC via the Uplay and Steam platforms for £15.99.

From Alexandria to Memphis, the Nile Delta to the Sand Sea, the Giza plateau to the Faiyum Oasis, the Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt lets visitors either explore the rich world of Ancient Egypt at their will or follow the 75 themed tours devised by Ubisoft's creative teams in collaboration with History experts and Egyptologists.


"With the Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt, we give everyone interested in Ancient Egypt the chance to enjoy its beauty and the realisation that video games can be a source of inspiring knowledge," explains Jean Guesdon, Creative Director of Assassin's Creed Origins and the Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt.

Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt is a unique experience at the intersection of entertainment and learning. Interactivity, specific to the world of videogames, is at the heart of the experience, creating strong engagement with the content. This makes the Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt a completely new type of edutainment tool.

"We've been in touch with teachers from the very first instalment of Assassin's Creed games. Many of them already used the games during their History classes but soon came to realise that what they needed was an easily accessible educative tool based in our historical reconstructions," explains Maxime Durand, in-house Historian at Ubisoft Montreal. "With the Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt, you can visualise and understand thousands of things from Egyptian history in their actual context. As both a game and a learning tool, it is quite a unique asset for teachers to integrate as part of their history classes."

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[RejZoR]

This almost interests me more than the game itself. I was always fascinated by Egypt and its mythology.

 

[natr0n]

Realization is just about everyone in Egypt was a slave for the Pharaohs.

You'd spend all your time building things until you died of old age.

 

[Space Lynx]

This almost interests me more than the game itself. I was always fascinated by Egypt and its mythology.

Yeah, I am looking forward to doing this with my 8 year old niece. Got the 34" 120hz VA 3440x1440, and some nice speakers, and just having an education tour maybe once or twice every weekend until we finish all of them. I remember when I was her age that stuff just fascinated me, so this is going to be really cool for us to do together. ^^

 

[R-T-B]

Realization is just about everyone in Egypt was a slave for the Pharaohs.

You'd spend all your time building things until you died of old age.

Actually, last I read they found that to be way less the case than expected. The workers who built the pyramids for example were not exactly slaves, but more a worker caste.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt

Also, the idea of everyone being a slave is simply not sustainable, as there is no one to stop all the slaves from suddenly saying "screw this" and leaving.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Actually, last I read they found that to be way less the case than expected. The workers who built the pyramids for example were not exactly slaves, but more a worker caste.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt

Also, the idea of everyone being a slave is simply not sustainable, as there is no one to stop all the slaves from suddenly saying "screw this" and leaving.

And on top of this, in late Ptolemaic Egypt, when the game is set, there is a strong middle-class as well. Even before the Greeks took over they had a large pool of skilled artisans, who very likely were also middle class.

 

[Space Lynx]

And on top of this, in late Ptolemaic Egypt, when the game is set, there is a strong middle-class as well. Even before the Greeks took over they had a large pool of skilled artisans, who very likely were also middle class.

Don't forget the Egyptian ladies my friend. Oh sweet mama ~

If all I had was a piece of bread and some water every day, but could gaze at those ladies, life wouldn't have been so bad at all mates not at all ~

 

[Prima.Vera]

milking, milking, milkin'....