The map of Damascus in the first Assassin’s Creed was 0.13km². Since then, the map in each successive game has been bigger than the one before. Based on that history, we can expect the map for the upcoming AC: Odyssey to be bigger than last year’s brilliant AC: Origins. But is it?
Dimitras Galatas put together a short video comparing maps from several of the Assassin’s Creed games. The map of Greece for Odyssey is shown at 130km², a substantial increase over the tiny map of Damascus and more than 2.5 times as large as AC: Origin’s 80km² map of Egypt. One caveat to consider is that Galatas calculated the size of the Odyssey map from in-game footage. Ubisoft hasn’t confirmed his 130km² estimate.
The Odyssey map may be bigger than the map in Origins but it’s not clear which game has the greater landmass. Take a look at the two maps in the video and you’ll see that almost all of the map of Egypt is dry land while the Aegean Sea covers a considerable portion of the map of Greece. Fortunately, Assassin’s Creed Rogue demonstrated that Ubisoft knows how to make adventuring at sea as good or better than adventuring on land.
If you like Galatas’ video, check out some of the size comparison videos from Metal Ball Studios. They’ve compared maps and monsters and NPCs from a variety of games. Is the map for Red Dead Redemption larger than Grand Theft Auto V? How big is Minecraft? Is Ratchet taller than one of Halo's grunts or a murloc from World of Warcraft? The Metal Ball videos have the answers.
Enjoy the videos, think about the games you’ve played, the maps you’ve traversed, the monsters you’ve defeated, and then ask yourself the age-old question. Does size matter?
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