Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has a Black Panther Easter egg

The war-ravaged ancient Greece featured in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is a long way in both space and time from the futuristic Wakanda of Black Panther, but that didn’t stop Ubisoft from adding a pretty obvious nod to the hit film in Odyssey. In Black Panther, there’s a scene in which T’Challa fights a duel for his tribe’s crown against challenger M’Baku at a sacred arena at the top of a waterfall. It’s a brutal fight with high stakes, and at the end, T’Challa - the Black Panther - eventually emerges victorious, convincing M’Baku to admit defeat and recognize his rule. In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, the south-eastern island, Messara (it’s Crete in the real world) has a sync point near its middle called the Gortyn Waterfall. You’ll have to climb them in order to activate the sync point, and in a pool that looks an awful lot like the setting of T’Challa’s duel with M'Baku, a crowd is watching two men duke it out at the edge of the falls. You can climb up and watch - or join in - the fight if you like, or see how it plays out with your eagle, Ikaros.