{"id":85772,"date":"2026-07-11T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85772"},"modified":"2026-07-11T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:36:37","slug":"ryse-son-of-rome-had-plans-to-be-xboxs-assassins-creed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85772","title":{"rendered":"Ryse: Son of Rome Had Plans To Be Xbox\u2019s Assassin\u2019s Creed"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>What are some of the best-looking games of all time? Many examples that come to my mind are not from this generation, but rather the early 2010s: Metal Gear Solid 5, The Witcher 3, and Batman: Arkham Knight all looked stunning upon release, and still do today. <\/p>\n<p>To this list I would also add <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/ryse-son-of-rome\">Ryse: Son of Rome<\/a>, German developer Crytek\u2019s ill-fated Xbox One launch title in which you play as a Roman centurion seeking to avenge his dead family. It is gloriously, mouth-wateringly cinematic, more so than many actual works of cinema.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it\u2019s also rather short, taking only around 6 hours to complete. Former employees say as much as two thirds of planned content had to be cut in the race to make launch day. The crunch was brutal, but many of the game\u2019s creators took comfort in the knowledge they were laying the foundations for not just a sequel, but an entire franchise \u2013 one that would take us far beyond Rome. <\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"ryse-son-of-rome-story-trailer\" data-loop=\"\"><strong>How Empires Fall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While work on the original game was wrapping up, four concept artists, a historical researcher, and the key leadership team of Ryse: Son of Rome got together to figure out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are some of the best-looking games of all time? Many examples that come to my mind are not from this generation, but rather the early 2010s: Metal Gear Solid 5, The Witcher 3, and Batman: Arkham Knight all looked stunning upon release, and still do today. To this list I would also add Ryse:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":85774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85776,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85772\/revisions\/85776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}