The Confession mission, for example, allowed you to bypass a tricky infiltration by stealing the keys to Notre Dame, and when in the cathedral you could kill your target by waiting for him in a confessional booth. Unity’s main assassination missions had an almost Hitman-like approach each one could be completed in a few different ways using a number of different opportunities. But this whole scenario tells us that we’ll have a choice in how we approach our missions, something that was pioneered by Assassin’s Creed Unity.

Mid-way through, Basim’s accomplice says “We need to find a way to get you inside without being seen, you could bribe the guards to look the other way.” Basim ignores that advice, choosing to stick blades into the guards’ necks instead.

It’s not just the original Assassin’s Creed game that Mirage tips its hat to in this trailer, though. Let’s just hope that we don’t have to do them on an ever-repeating loop this time… Choose Your Own Assassination Or perhaps he’s eavesdropping? Long-time series fans will remember that tailing, thieving, and eavesdropping formed the core of the first Assassin’s Creed’s preparation missions, and so it’s great to see them returning. We later see Basim sitting and waiting on a bench. There's a sequence in which he silently tails an enemy and pickpockets a key from them, which is then used to unlock a door. In the trailer we can see Basim employ several techniques that we’ve not seen in the series for several years. Stealth ToolsĪfter six years of RPG combat design, it’s great to see Mirage put a huge emphasis on stealth. Basim has even undergone the original Assassin’s ritual of cutting off his finger to make way for his Hidden Blade. This is properly classic Assassin’s Creed. Streets, roofs, and towers create a labyrinth of parkour routes, and there’s not a single open field in sight. Mirage is set in ninth-century Baghdad, and we can see that it provides an urban city map with a design philosophy drawn directly from the original games. While much of the narrative framing draws on the modern RPG era of Assassin’s Creed, it looks like the gameplay is distinctly old-school AC. You’ll be working with the original Assassins, the Hidden Ones, under the mentorship of Roshan, voiced by Emmy award-winning actor Shohreh Aghdashloo. These events play out two decades before he meets Eivor, though, and so Mirage is something of a prequel. In Mirage you take on the role of Basim, a character who played a pivotal role in the story of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.

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