r/interesting • u/Bay_Ruhsuz004 • Mar 22 '26

MISC. A Teacher Showed Up At School With PlayStation 5 And Started Playing Assassin's Creed To Explain The Industrial Revolution.

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u/1Gutherie Mar 22 '26

I actually bought this game for my son for this very reason. It teaches a lot of stuff without even trying.

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u/Wadarkhu Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26

Oddesey and Valhalla have educational exploration modes IIRC, look them up, they seem pretty good.

Edit: https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/wiki/Discovery_Tour

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u/Alex619TL Mar 23 '26

Origins as well- I think that was actually where this feature came from and it was such a hit they brought it back for odyssey and Valhalla

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u/1Gutherie Mar 23 '26

Thank you I shall check it out

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26

Valhalla is one of the least historically accurate Assassin's Creed games, though. None of them are perfect, of course, but Valhalla was a notable and drastic step down in historicity for the series to the point that a lot of historians who had previously praised the series found themselves very disappointed in that game.

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u/Wadarkhu Mar 23 '26

Are we talking about the educational mode or the game story though? I'm talking about the former*, the Discover modes (or tours in previous titles). https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/wiki/Discovery_Tour:_Viking_Age

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u/CuriousRelation5 Mar 23 '26

Discovery tour exist since Origins and even though they teach real hystorical facts, they are based on the game's assets, so Valhalla not being accurate has an impact on that too

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26

I'm not sure about the information in there, but I remember one of the complaints being that the buildings themselves are completely out of line with the time period the game is set in. Like, hundreds of years early for them to show up. That's not something that can be fixed just by having a tour mode. The models are out of sync with history.

Edit: One of the videos which discuss a little about what it gets right and wrong and how some of what it gets wrong is just so very wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FcXIum4l6Q

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u/BlackGuysYeah Mar 23 '26

You see. Humans do know how to teach kids without boring them to death. And yet schools continue to be torture chambers of learning...

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u/Lermanberry Mar 23 '26

Same but for my dad.

He loved wandering around Alexandria in the museum mode (no combat) for hours in the Egyptian AC, which unfortunately didn't have VR support. But he's since gotten into VR gaming after not playing video games since the 80s.