In an interview with Ausgamers.com, lead director Ashraf Ismail gave some insight on the locations, the mythology and some story elements of Origins.
Origins will explore deserts areas such as the Great Sand Sea, the White Desert, the Black Desert, the Eastern Mountains. In addition, Bayek will explore the Libyan Plateau, the Faiyoum, and the Qattra Depression.
Alexandria will be a more metropolitan, organized and an educated urban area, ancient Memphis is old, and there will be vast caverns under the city, a whole Labyrinth underneath it where you can carry out numerous quests and story driven missions, as well.
Director Ashraf Ismail stated that the game will question matters such as why some of the ancient Egyptian gods were animal-headed, as well as the identity of these masked figures, what’s beneath the pyramids and the Sphinx?
While director Ashraf Ismail did not comment on the present day of Origins, yet he said: “You’ve seen it in the demo that there is an Animus. And the menu system is a representation of that. That’s all there is to say for today.”
Regarding underwater exploration and occurrences, Ashraf Ismail stated: “So at some point, a hippo comes to attack the boat I was on. It attacks, does some damage. I’m trying to shoot it. I dive out of the boat to try and go under it so I can come up because it’s really doing damage to the boat. The boat starts sinking and I’m under it, so it was dragging me down. So I have to swim away from it. And I have this moment where I have a hippo swimming in front of me coming, the ship I was on just crashing, and you know, I know this is what we have in the game because this is our game, but it was a moment of okay, okay, okay everybody. Bravo. Well done.”
