Reverse: 1999 Brings Assassin’s Creed Legacy Characters and Story Content in Its First Globally Synced Collaboration

Free-to-play time-traveling strategical RPG Reverse: 1999 conscionable launched its biggest collaboration yet, its archetypal to ever motorboat simultaneously worldwide, and it teamed up with different time-jumping franchise to bash it: Assassin’s Creed. The collab adds caller communicative chapters and fashionable characters Ezio, Kassandra, and Alexios, each 3 of whom volition beryllium playable.

Reverse: 1999 archetypal launched successful 2023 and has seen planetary occurrence successful the clip since. It’s been downloaded much than 30 cardinal times worldwide and stands astatine “very positive” with much than 2,500 reviews connected Steam. Those fans person been clamoring for this collab since it was archetypal announced earlier this year, and there’s been peculiar excitement astir the summation of Ezio — arsenic you tin spot from the 270,000 views and hundreds of comments connected his authoritative trailer.

While the characters and communicative contented mightiness beryllium the headliners of this collab, there’s a batch much to it than that. You tin spot Assassin’s Creed inspirations successful the UI, music, and garments that person been added. Plus, determination are escaped goodies being fixed distant (including Alexios), other prizes successful the gacha strategy designed to marque it easier to propulsion the caller characters, and some online and offline events to celebrate.

Let’s get into the details, shall we?

Familiar Faces successful a Journey Through History

Reverse: 1999’s communicative takes you done antithetic eras of history, and that inclination continues with this crossover, whose caller contented volition beryllium released successful 2 phases. Phase 1 is unrecorded close present and volition tally until September 18. It adds a communicative section that brings you to Florence, Italy, wherever you’ll conscionable the legendary Ezio Auditore da Firenze from Assassin’s Creed II.

The collaboration trailer hints astatine however the communicative of Phase 1 volition bring you into interaction with Ezio. Mr. APPLe, 1 of the important characters of Reverse: 1999, is mistaken for a fabled Apple of Eden and indispensable beryllium protected. He’s astir dissected by Leonardo da Vinci, different quality from Assassin’s Creed II who plays a important relation successful the Phase 1 story.

Ezio’s quality trailer shows immoderate of the memories from his travel successful Assassin’s Creed II — his assassinations, gathering feathers for his brother, the tragic execution of his household — materializing into antithetic weapons, which references the unsocial quality helium brings into Reverse: 1999. He tin wield respective antithetic superior and secondary weapons and tin swap them retired arsenic needed, truthful he’s ever acceptable for immoderate situation.

Like each different 6-star characters, Ezio comes with 2 garments, the 2nd of which is unlocked aft expanding his Insight level. His archetypal garment is the assassins’ classical achromatic robe, and his 2nd (featured successful the photograph of him above) is the Armor of Altair from Assassin’s Creed II, which was built by and named aft the leader of the archetypal Assassin’s Creed.

Kassandra and Alexios volition articulation successful connected the amusive erstwhile the communicative shifts to Ancient Greece successful Phase 2 of the collab, which volition tally from August 28 to September 18. Like Ezio, Kassandra volition get a unsocial quality designed to marque her adaptable: She has 3 accomplishment trees (Hunter, Warrior, and Assassin) and tin power betwixt them.

Beyond the characters and plot, Assassin’s Creed fans volition announcement different references. The level enactment interface adopts the familial series plan of the Animus, and euphony — including the acquainted opus “Ezio’s Family” — has been pulled from the Assassin’s Creed series. The Into the Shadows mode volition fto you spot the villa successful Monteriggioni and implicit events successful Florence and Venice to acquisition the Renaissance assassin beingness similar Ezio.

Dress Up for the Special Collab

It wouldn’t beryllium a Reverse: 1999 update without caller garments, and this collab is nary exception. Four characters person caller garments inspired by Assassin’s Creed and Greek mythology (pictured below). Hissabeth’s caller look is inspired by Medusa, the celebrated snake-haired Gorgon from Greek story who enactment up a hellhole of a combat successful Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. The creation showing disconnected her caller garment shows her dancing betwixt Medusa’s 2 sisters frozen successful stone, the crown she wears pays homage to Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey’s Medusa design, and the artifact she’s holding resembles an Apple of Eden.

Marcus’s caller garment draws from the story of the instrumentalist Orpheus, who traveled to the underworld and utilized his euphony to person Hades to fto him instrumentality backmost his deceased woman Eurydice, connected the information that helium not look backmost astatine her until they reached the surface. During their ascension, Orpheus was flooded with uncertainty and couldn’t assistance looking back, and Eurydice was taken from him forever. Marcus’s creation recalls this infinitesimal of legend, arsenic she glances backmost and offers her manus to usher her fallen friends to the gates of the underworld.

Vila gets a caller garment inspired by the Sirens of Homer’s Odyssey who would lure sailors to their deaths with their beauteous song. Her artwork shows her lasting among violet waves and singing arsenic storms stitchery astir her, and the Poseidon statue beside her is pulled straight from Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey.

Last but surely not least, APPLe’s caller garment turns him gold, and you tin spot however Leonardo da Vinci and different characters successful Florence would mistake him for an Apple of Eden, the awesome of tendency and temptation. And champion of all, APPLe’s caller garment is escaped for each players during the collaboration event.

A Celebration with Free Goodies

APPLe’s caller garment isn’t the lone happening that’s free. In this collab version, each subordinate tin get a escaped monthly walk that allows them to get 2,700 Clear Drops successful total, which is 15 escaped gacha pulls. Additionally, escaped resources fixed retired during the collaboration volition marque it imaginable to person astatine slightest 43 pulls connected the lawsuit banners.

During Phase 2, everyone tin enlistee Alexios for escaped by taking portion successful the collaboration’s events. Plus, to observe the concern with Assassin’s Creed, players tin person further collaboration characters aft 100/160/220/280 pulls. And determination are different log-in and lawsuit rewards that you tin spot successful the representation below.

There’s Always More to Learn

You tin download Reverse: 1999 for escaped close present connected Steam, the iOS App Store, Google Play and Windows PC. The Assassin’s Creed collaboration is unrecorded now, and with each the goodies being fixed distant for free, there’s ne'er been a amended clip to leap in.

If you privation much info astir the existing characters of Reverse: 1999, you tin cheque retired the authoritative website for details. You tin besides travel the crippled and articulation the assemblage connected Twitter, TikTok, Discord, Facebook, oregon YouTube.