Weeks after Assassin's Creed Valhalla proposed that Norwich in the dark ages was an ideal place to pass the time during a global pandemic, Ubisoft is back with a much sunnier escapade in Greek mythology. Immortals Fenyx Rising may sound like a chewed-up heavy metal tape your dad found at a car boot sale, but it's actually a charming open-world adventure where you bounce around the heavens solving problems for the gods. The idea for Immortals struck the developers when they were researching ancient Greece for Assassin's Creed Odyssey, but they evidently found time for a few study breaks in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, too. Clambering over mountains while keeping an eye on your stamina meter, gathering fruit and flowers to cook potions, delving into vaults to solve physics puzzles; let's just say there are a few nods. There's even a big red ethereal foe towering ominously over the centre of the map, waiting for you to save a quartet of far-flung deities before confronting him.

The show began with a look at "Immortals Fenyx Rising," previously known as "Gods & Monsters," which is an open-world game where you battle Greek gods and explore a world ripe with Greek mythology. The lengthy teaser showed off its gorgeous world -- reminiscent of "Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" -- as well as its character creation features. You play as a young woman named Fenyx who gets shipwrecked on the Golden Isle, which is overrun by beasts from the underworld. "Immortals Fenyx Rising" arrives Dec. 3 for current and next-gen consoles.

So we've come full circle. After Ubisoft carried the torch from Rockstar and helped shape the template for open world games (for better or worse), Nintendo perfected it with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Now, the team behind Assassin's Creed Origins is attempting to mimic some of Nintendo's innovation. The result is Immortals: Fenyx Rising (formerly Gods and Monsters), an open world adventure title steeped in Greek mythology. One look at the game makes it clear this isn't another Assassin's Creed, though.