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Assassin's Creed Mirage's comparatively tiny map is great news for a series that needs more focus

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Baghdad will be closer to Revelation’s Constantinople and Unity’s Paris, Ubisoft says.
I’ve really enjoyed Assassin’s Creed’s transformation into a massive RPG series, but after spending hundreds of hours hoofing it across Norway, England, Ireland and France in Valhalla, I’m really looking forward to just chilling in Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed Mirage. 
Like Morgan wrote after the Mirage presentation, it’s exciting to see the return of the classic Assassin’s Creed approach, but it’s not just the return to sneaky shenanigans that’s piqued my interest. The reduction in scale also sounds like it can only be a good thing. Speaking to Easy Allies last week, Ubisoft compared the scale of Mirage to Revelation’s Constantinople and Unity’s Paris, which feels like a welcome departure from the country-sized escapades of the last few entries. 
Now, Paris is more than double the size of Constantinople, and we’re not sure where Mirage fits in that spectrum, but it’s reasonable to assume we’re looking at around 2km2, which is by no means a tiny space for a game.

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