Assassin's Creed Odyssey Season Pass Worth Buying

On the 16th July 2019, Assassin's Creed Odyssey's season pass content came to an end with the release of the final episode in the Atlantis DLC saga. Spread out over the course of more than nine months (Odyssey launched on the 5th October, 2018), the season pass was clearly designed to keep players coming back.

The season pass gave access to three main components: Legacy of the First Blade, The Fate of Atlantis, and Assassin's Creed III Remastered. However, unlike the DLC for Assassin's Creed Origins, Legacy of the First Blade and The Fate of Atlantis were broken up into episodic releases -- both DLC sagas comprising of three episodes each.

But has Assassin's Creed Odyssey's season pass been worth it? Is it worth buying now that we've seen all it has to offer? In this article, we're going to go over everything that you need to know, offering our own thoughts along the way.

Before we get stuck in, though, let's take a look at what the Assassin's Creed Odyssey season pass actually includes, complete with price points:

What's Included In Assassin's Creed Odyssey Season Pass

Assassin's Creed Odyssey Season Pass Overview

Assassin's Creed Odyssey Season Pass

Release Date: 5th October 2018
Price: £32.99/$39.99

Assassin's Creed Odyssey: Legacy of the First Blade

Release Date: 4th December 2018
Standalone Price: £19.99/$24.99

Includes Three Episodes:

  • Legacy of the First Blade - Episode 1: Hunted
    Release Date: 4th December 2018
  • Legacy of the First Blade - Episode 2: Shadow Heritage
    Release Date: 15th January 2019
  • Legacy of the First Blade - Episode 3: Bloodline
    Release Date: 5th March 2019

Assassin's Creed Odyssey: The Fate of Atlantis

Release Date: 23rd April 2019
Standalone Price: £19.99/$24.99

Includes Three Episodes:

  • The Fate of Atlantis - Episode 1: Fields of Elysium
    Release Date: 23rd April 2019
  • The Fate of Atlantis - Episode 2: Torment of Hades
    Release Date: 4th June 2019
  • The Fate of Atlantis - Episode 3: Judgment of Atlantis
    Release Date: 16th July 2019

Assassin's Creed III Remastered

Release Date: 29th March 2019
Standalone Price: £29.99/$39.99

Total Price Without Season Pass: £67.97/$89.97


As you'd expect, it's cheaper to buy the season pass than it is to buy things separately. Even if you ignored Assassin's Creed III Remastered and only splashed your cash on the Odyssey DLC sagas, you'd still be paying over the price of the season pass, at £39.98/$49.98.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey Legacy of the First Blade Season Pass Review

Assassin's Creed Odyssey: Legacy of the First Blade

With the facts out of the way, let's talk about the DLC itself, starting with Legacy of the First Blade.

Made up of three episodes, Legacy of the First Blade is a character-focused chapter in the story of the Eagle Bearer. It's based around the relationship that your character has with an old assassin named Darius, and his daughter or son, depending on whether you're playing as Alexios or Kassandra, respectively. In terms of storytelling, this saga features some of the best written and best performed scenes in the entirety of Odyssey.

However, each episode only lasts around a couple of hours or so -- maybe three or four if you take your time. This is primarily because they don't add a lot of new stuff to the game outside of the key story missions. All three episodes take place in the existing open world of Odyssey, and although they do sprinkle in a few new side quests here and there, none of them are particularly lengthy or engaging.

Again, though, Legacy of the First Blade is very story-driven, and because of this, it feels like it adds some welcome weight to the overall narrative, especially since it's endgame content that can only be accessed after completing the base game. It's got plenty of memorable moments and cool boss fights, too.

It may not add a huge amount of additional content to the game, but Legacy of the First Blade is essentially one of Assassin's Creed Odyssey's best quest lines.

If you want to read about each individual episode included in Legacy of the First Blade, we reviewed all of them:

Assassin's Creed Odyssey The Fate of Atlantis DLC Season Pass Review

Assassin's Creed Odyssey: The Fate of Atlantis

Where Legacy of the First Blade focused on offering an in-depth series of quests, The Fate of Atlantis has a clear emphasis on exploration and adventure.

The Fate of Atlantis saga is made up of another three episodes, only this time, each episode takes place in its own brand new open world location. Each of these locations is roughly the size of a single region in the base game, and they all come with their own distinct visual style.

The Fate of Atlantis is the final chapter in Odyssey's story, and so it's only playable once you've completed the main game. In terms of narrative, it ties heavily into the overarching lore of Assassin's Creed, adding depth to the series' godlike Isu race, while also allowing Alexios or Kassandra's tale to come full circle.

However, the writing and characters across all three episodes isn't as strong as you'd expect for such a finale. Although you're constantly being peppered with player choice, cutscenes can sometimes feel rough around the edges or anticlimactic. What's more, your actions ultimately have very little impact on how things eventually play out. It's disappointing, but at least you get to further shape your hero's personality in a lot of different ways.

But the storytelling isn't really the main draw of this second DLC saga. As hinted, these new open world locations are gorgeous and a joy to explore. Throw in a number of interesting side quests alongside some super powerful loot, and you've got a rock solid gameplay suite. It also helps that each episode in The Fate of Atlantis takes a reasonable five hours or so to complete -- and you could probably even double that if you really wanted to soak up the atmosphere.

At its core, The Fate of Atlantis is basically just more Assassin's Creed Odyssey, except with its fantastical elements turned up to eleven. If you enjoy the gameplay loop of the base game, then you can't really go wrong, even if the storytelling could be better.

We also reviewed all of the episodes for The Fate of Atlantis, so if you want more in-depth analysis, be sure to check them out:

Assassin's Creed III Remastered Assassin's Creed Odyssey Season Pass

Assassin's Creed III Remastered

Last and, well, kind of least, is Assassin's Creed III Remastered. Also available as a completely standalone game, the remaster came as something of a surprise inclusion in Assassin's Creed Odyssey's season pass.

Assassin's Creed III Remastered also comes with Assassin's Creed III: Liberation Remastered bundled in. Not exactly the best game in the Assassin's Creed franchise, Liberation started life as a Vita title, and while it's got some neat ideas, it's a bit of a weak link. Still, this is a lot of Assassin's Creed to chew through.

If you've never played Assassin's Creed III before, it's important to note that it doesn't actually have much to do with Assassin's Creed Odyssey -- you don't need to play this remaster to better understand Odyssey or anything like that. It's purely a bonus that Ubisoft bolted onto the season pass.

But still, there's no denying that you're getting a decent amount of bang for your buck here. Assassin's Creed III is quite a lengthy game, and although it's always divided opinion, it's still a pretty enjoyable experience, even after all this time (it originally released in 2012). Meanwhile, Liberation, as mentioned, isn't great and it's relatively short, but hey, the more the merrier.

The Assassin's Creed III remaster itself isn't perfect, though. Generally speaking the game looks better than ever, with enhanced lighting effects and an obvious resolution boost, but character models can look weirdly waxy, and a number of graphical bugs can rear their ugly heads at times.

As a standalone game, Assassin's Creed III Remastered is good but not great, and as part of Odyssey's season pass, it's best thought of as an extra. But again, it's a meaty extra, and together with Liberation, represents good value when taking the price of the season pass into account.

You can read our full review of Assassin's Creed III Remastered here:

Assassin's Creed Odyssey Season Pass Worth It Review

Conclusion: Is Assassin's Creed Odyssey's Season Pass Worth It?

So, is Assassin's Creed Odyssey's season pass worth it? Well, for starters, it's actually quite difficult to fault any of the DLC. Each and every episode has added something worthwhile to the game, and both sagas have their own identity and place within an already colossal adventure.

Legacy of the First Blade stands out as an engaging character-driven quest -- one of the best in the whole game -- while The Fate of Atlantis gives players three excellent open world environments to explore. Neither saga brings anything particularly new to the table, at least in terms of gameplay, but at £32.99/$39.99 for the season pass, you're adding hefty chunks of well crafted content to your experience. Alongside all the free updates and quests that Ubisoft has been adding since launch, it's hard not to feel as though you're getting your money's worth.

The bottom line is that if you like playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey, then you're going to enjoy what the season pass has to offer. And if that's the case, then the inclusion of Assassin's Creed III Remastered is just a bonus.


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