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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Final Paid Expansion Is Terrific If You Like The Weird Stuff

The most dedicated players of 2009’s Assassin’s Creed II could stray from the Italian Renaissance adventures of Ezio Auditore to solve puzzles that unlocked a 37-second video of a naked Adam and Eve running through a high-tech city in some unknown year BC. That’s the kind of stuff they used to put in Assassin’s Creed games, and how wonderful it is to see a new Assassin’s Creed finally go that wild again. The sixth and final paid expansion to 2018’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is the deepest of dives into the series’ weird lore. Dubbed the “Judgment of Atlantis,” it’s part three of the game’s “Fate of Atlantis” add-on that takes players into otherworldly realms set apart from the main game’s largely realistic ancient Greece. In “Judgment,” you do indeed go to Atlantis, where you talk to, fight with, and read text logs from the Isu, or First Civilization, the high-tech precursor race that, according to AC lore, preceded the rise of humanity. It’s a delight for any AC players who miss the we...