Ubisoft makes Assassin's Creed's educational 'Discovery Tours' free
Ubisoft makes Assassin's Creed's educational 'Discovery Tours' free
Ubisoft makes Assassin's Creed's educational 'Discovery Tours' free
By Rachel Kaser
May 15, 2020
Summary
Ubisoft today announced it's giving away two games to help get us through the pandemic.
More specifically, it's giving away the Discovery Tours, two educational offshoots of its Assassin's Creed series that depict Ancient Greece or Ancient Egypt.
Take a historic journey from home with Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece & Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt FREE to download and keep #PlayApartTogether.
The Discovery Tours were originally part of the Assassin's Creed games - namely, AC Origins and Odyssey.
The series has always been known for its attempts to capture historical time periods with some degree of accuracy, the antics of the Assassin Brotherhood and Knights Templar being the obvious exception.
I'm sure we're going to see a similar Tour in the upcoming Valhalla.
Read: Please don't let Assassin's Creed Valhalla be too much like Odyssey.
If you'll remember, the story of AC Odyssey gave me reason to doubt its historical accuracy, at least with regards to its depiction of Spartan warfare, but the Discovery Tour is almost a completely separate entity from the single-player game itself.
I know if Assassin's Creed had come out when I was a schoolchild, and someone had told me you could use it to learn about Ancient Greece and Egypt, I'd have been all over it.
You can download them from Uplay, or from Ubisoft's free games page.
Reference
Kaser, R. (2020, May 15). Ubisoft makes Assassin's Creed's educational 'Discovery Tours' free. Retrieved May 16, 2020, from https://thenextweb.com/gaming/2020/05/15/ubisoft-assassins-creed-educational-discovery-tours-free/