The new 'Assassin's Creed' looks like the series' best entry in years

The new "Assassin's Creed" game looks like the best entry in years.

It's called "Assassin's Creed Origins," and it's set during one of history's most fascinating periods: Ptolemaic Egypt. That's the era when Egypt's millennia-spanning empire began to fall, while Rome - led by Julius Caesar - conquered more and more of Western civilization.

It's also, according to "Assassin's Creed Origins," the period when the "Assassin's Brotherhood" was conceived. That alternative history is what you'll play when the game arrives this October. Here's what we know so far!