Assassin's Creed Origins Will Let Players Tame Crocodiles And Other Animals

08/04/2017 06:45 pm EDT

In addition to relying on their own combat prowess, Assassin's Creed Origins players will also have the chance to enlist the help of the wildlife in Egypt, animals that include birds that scout and even crocodiles that'll fight alongside you.

The protagonist of the upcoming Assassin's Creed game, Bayek, definitely has a way with animals, and he uses that to his advantage when it comes to his adventures. In an interview that Assassin's Creed Origins creative director Ashraf Ismail conducted with OPM, he expanded on what it was like to train animals in Assassin's Creed Origins to do your bidding.

"Taming animals is awesome, I've had some really amazing moments with it," Ismail said about the animal-training feature. "I'll give you a little story: at some point when we were testing the feature out, I had tamed the crocodile, and I ran off somewhere, and the crocs are pretty slow, they are not able to stay at your pace. Lions can, leopards can, hyenas can, and so on, but the crocodiles are a bit slower. So I left and I actually thought it bugged out and that the crocodile had lost its connection to me."

Ismail finished his account of the early stages of training animals by saying how surprised he was that the crocodile stuck with him for such a long time.

"So anyway, I continued playing and I was doing a quest," he continued. "I was in the middle of a camp and I was actually getting in trouble, I was dying, effectively, my health was super low, and out of nowhere this giant croc just leaps out of the grass and takes out some of the guys I was fighting with. It was a really amazing moment, it felt so cool."

The crocodile had no problem staying connected to Bayek, but without the mobility that the assassin has, it simply took a bit longer to get to its destination. Ismail said that it took "like 15 minutes" for the crocodile to show up, but it did so when he needed his animal companion the most.

Ismail closed his comments by saying that almost every predator in the game can be tamed, something that sounds quite promising given how exotic and expansive the wildlife of Egypt will likely be in the game.

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