I didn’t know the 2024 Olympic Games were starting today. Or that they were in France. So I was extra surprised when the opening ceremony looked like a scene out of a classic Assassin’s Creed game.
Apparently everyone else was, too. The opening ceremony for this year’s Games, kicked off in Paris on July 26 and running through August 11, featured everything you need to know about French culture, including soccer star Zinedine Zidane, a beheaded queen, and what appeared to be a mysterious revolutionary-era figure in a hood leaping off rooftops. All it was missing was a giant baguette .
Here is how people reacted to seeing the Halloween Spirit version of an Assassin’s Creed protagonist show up at the international sporting event: Hitman: Absolution (2012) Assassin’s Creed: Unity (2014) #Olympics Video Games pic.twitter.com/Z9wnyU0OPh — Ricardo Juchem (@RicardoJuchem) July 26, 2024 Same Vibes.
#OpeningCeremony #OlympicGames pic.twitter.com/o3mA4y9oUz — David Grashoff (@grasimar) July 26, 2024 not sure why the Olympics has an Assassin’s Creed torchbearer but I dig it pic.
twitter.com/UDkFI0Kgy3 — Kelly Knox (@kelly_knox) July 26, 2024 Who’s that mysterious figure holding the torch? #Paris2024 #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.
com/C2FQBqvJZl — The Olympic Games (@Olympics) July 26, 2024 Assassin’s Creed + Gojira + Ópera ESTUVO BRUTAL 🤘🙌 #Paris2024 #JuegosOlímpicos #CeremoniaDeApertura pic.twitter.com/voIIruwfiz — Victor Chen (@VikthorChen) July 26, 202.