Assassin’s Creed Origins is due for release on PC, PS4 and Xbox One this coming Friday, 27th October. Ahead of the release Ubisoft has been busy generating news-flow with trailers, details of the season pass, bundle deals, and so on. Importantly, over the weekend, we learned of the game’s minimum and recommended PC specs and heard some encouraging sounds from the developers responsible for the PC version.
Ubisoft says that “optimizing the game for PC play has been very important,” with Assassin’s Creed Origins, reports GameSpot. Interestingly, the minimum system requirements are the same as Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, which was released two years ago.
The main Ubisoft Montreal team, behind the new game, worked in parallel with the PC-dedicated team at Ubisoft Kiev, said Assassin’s Creed Origins coordinating producer Jose Araiza. “This approach was adopted while the game features were being designed, making PC and mouse-and-keyboard controls a full part of the equation from the get-go,” Araiza explained.
Assassin’s Creed Origins is, as hinted by the name, a game that goes back to the origins of the story, the origins of the centuries-long conflict between the Brotherhood of Assassins, who fight for peace by promoting liberty and The Order of the Ancients—forerunners to the Templar Order—who desire peace through the forceful imposition of order.
Players take on the role of the first ever such Assassin, Bayek, as he works to protect the people of the Ptolemaic Kingdom during a time of widespread upheaval in ancient Egypt (during, approximately, the Cleopatra and Julius Caesar eras). It remains, in gameplay terms, an action-adventure stealth game played from a third-person perspective and features an open world environment, crafting and a whole new combat system.
| Minimum | Recommended |
| Os: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only)
Processor: Intel Core i5-2400s @ 2.5 GHz or AMD FX-6350 @ 3.9 GHz or equivalent Memory: 6GB Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 or AMD R9 270 (2048 MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better) Resolution: 720p Video Preset: Lowest |
Os: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only)
Processor: Intel Core i7- 3770 @ 3.5 GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz Memory: 8GB Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 or AMD R9 280X (3GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better) Resolution: 1080p Video Preset: High |