We now have advance word on the download size of Assassin’s Creed Mirage on PlayStation 5.
As shared on Reddit via a screenshot from a PlayStation 5 itself, it will be a 31,678 GB download, or close to 32 TB. That isn’t really all that bad for a newer game, and it certainly reflects on what Ubisoft has promised is a smaller open world for Assassin’s Creed Mirage.
Ubisoft promised to make a smaller open world this time, as fans were actively turned off by the incredibly larger and ambitious worlds in other recent games, such as Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Fans are not that happy with how Ubisoft scales their open worlds. In particular, their games do not feel rewarding or engaging enough on an hour to hour instance, for players to want to play through their games that long. Ubisoft’s style simply does not lend itself to making bigger worlds.
In a recent interview, Ubisoft promised that their Baghdad will be a dense open world, even if it isn’t that big. If they come through with that promise, it should also solve that complaint that Ubisoft’s open worlds don’t provide players enough engagement.
More recently, Ubisoft revealed that they squeezed in the Alamut to the game. In the lore of the franchise, the Alamut is in the right setting, but not quite at the right time for players to experience the tower when it was in its height.
But Ubisoft has changed the story up a bit so that players will find Alamut tower in the middle of construction. In the franchise’s lore, the tower is itself being built atop a temple, and the player will have many opportunities to explore this structure in progress, and along the way, discover and learn new things about the world of the Assassins, Templars, and Hidden Ones.
The complaint with Ubisoft’s recent Assassin’s Creed games is that they have merely been padding the world with more things to do that don’t feel rewarding. Perhaps this change in design will come with truly meaningful changes to how players experience Baghdad. If Ubisoft did this right, they could have come up with a game that takes as long for completists as those other games.
Assassin’s Creed Mirage will be released on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Windows via Epic Games Store and Ubisoft Connect, on October 5, 2023. It will not be available on Steam.
