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Creed is good

Aren’t you tired of Doesn’t it just remind you of being 18 again and doing your Duke Of Edinburgh Gold Award, stuck on a Welsh hillside in January with a rickety tent and a compass that you have no idea how to read? Well, I might have just the game for you. Not only is it a breath of fresh air, I think it could even be the future of open-world games after FromSoft nearly ruined them. It’s by a little-known but up-and-coming studio called Ubisoft (the better ‘soft’, in my opinion), and the game in question is called Instead of bizarre and oblique lore that sounds like the mad mutterings of an opium addict, you get a clear story, good voice acting, and a world that draws credibly on real historical sources. Instead of gloomy rain-soaked landscapes, you get sumptuous, inviting vistas

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