Trivia / Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

• Actor-Shared Background: The respective voice actors for Alexios and Kassandra, Michael Antonakos and Melissanthi Mahut, are of Greek descent just like their characters.
• Follow the Leader:
  • Several game mechanics - generation of endless random mercenaries, ability to recruit your opponents, occasional fight over the region, ability to "teleport" from opponent to opponent and an attack that fills your special move meter - are almost direct lifts from Monolith Games' 2017 game Middle-earth: Shadow of War. As Assassin's Creed Syndicate borrowed from series' first game Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor^note The ability to zoom at distant targets and using a violent attack to scare enemies, Ubisoft seems to be a fan.
  • The ability to recruit pretty much any common mook in the game by taking them down non-lethally to work for you was also a notable mechanic in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker before that). The fact that the main characters of both Odyssey and MGSV are famous mercenaries who seemingly can recruit on reputation alone only reinforces the similarities.
• He Also Did: Dai Tabuchi, the voice actor for Kiyoshi Takakura had previously voiced the aide-de-camp of Total War: Shogun 2.
• Role Reprise:
  • In a surprising reprise in the Japanese dub, Joji Nakata, who voices Leonidas, already voiced that same historical character in the dub of 300, a fact he personally lampshaded in his Twitter account.
  • The same applies to the Russian dub, where Vladimir Antonik has also previously voiced Leonidas in 300 and was picked specifically because of that.
  • Even better, in the Spanish Dub, Jordi Boixaderas voices Leonidas, who voiced him in 300, after voicing Bayek in the previous game, making the Eagle Bearer's predecesor being both the previous game's protagonist as well as their Grandfather.
• Voice-Only Cameo: Dai Tabuchi voices Kiyoshi Takakura, a Japanese Assassin in the Altair II cell who fends off Abstergo's Sigma Team and works closely with Layla Hassan.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The game was originally intended to be a Rogue One-style spin-off titled Odyssey: An Assassin’s Creed Adventure before being made into a main installment.
  • Kassandra was meant to be the only playable character, but Ubisoft marketing directors were adamant that "women wouldn't sell," despite some successful contemporaries like Horizon Zero Dawn disproving that argument.

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