I didn’t know the 2024 Olympic Video games had been beginning in the present day. Or that they had been in France. So I used to be further stunned when the opening ceremony seemed like a scene out of a basic Murderer’s Creed sport.
Apparently everybody else was, too. The opening ceremony for this yr’s Video games, kicked off in Paris on July 26 and working by way of August 11, featured every little thing it is advisable find out about French tradition, together with soccer star Zinedine Zidane, a beheaded queen, and what seemed to be a mysterious revolutionary-era determine in a hood leaping off rooftops. All it was lacking was an enormous baguette.
Right here is how folks reacted to seeing the Halloween Spirit model of an Murderer’s Creed protagonist present up on the worldwide sporting occasion:
Murderer’s Creed writer Ubisoft—a French firm—appeared to tease the shock cameo of its history-defending killer in a couple of posts earlier in the present day, one winking on the official Olympics account and one other sharing a trailer for Murderer’s Creed Unity, the one which takes place in France through the French Revolution. It’s nonetheless not fully clear how a lot this was a direct homage to the nation’s online game heritage quite than a obscure gesture within the course of a model activation.
“We had been impressed by the opening ceremony and really proud to see that Murderer’s Creed was one of many inspirations for the present’s gifted creators,” a spokesperson for Ubisoft advised Kotaku in an announcement. “It’s a true testomony to video video games’ affect on standard tradition.”
Whereas seeing gaming acknowledged IRL is all the time a neat shock, not everybody was impressed with the opening ceremony extra typically. Finances Olympics started trending on numerous elements of social media, with on-line onlookers critiquing the truth that the occasion wasn’t held in a stadium and felt extra dollar-store Eurovision than Hollywood Tremendous Bowl half-time present.
I’m not ready to guage. Possibly these naysayers would have felt otherwise if the murderer had jumped off a restored Notre Dame Cathedral into an enormous cart of hay.
If the Olympic Video games in France have you ever pining for a getaway you possibly can’t afford, Murderer’s Creed Unity isn’t the worst different. The infamously buggy sport at launch performs nice now and can allow you to discover a few of Paris’ most well-known landmarks in-between many grisly (however obligatory) murders. It’s $30 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, however you may also hire it for a paid month of PS Plus Additional or Ubisoft+, each of that are underneath $20.