Immortals: Fenyx Rising hands-on — How it stands out from Zelda’s shadow

Immortals: Fenyx Rising is both ambitious and shameless. This Ubisoft title comes out on December 3 for just about every platform you can imagine: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Stadia, and PC. It’s a big open-world action role-playing game with a colorful, Greek mythology-themed land to explore. It also borrows from The Legend of Zelda: A Breath of the Wild with no regrets.

But to be honest, I don’t really care. Because Breath of the Wild rules, and more games should be more like it. Plus, after playing an hour of Immortals: Fenyx Rising through the cloud-streaming service Parsec, I can say that Immortals isn’t a total ripoff. It’s impossible to play the game without thinking of Zelda, but it is adding enough that’s new or different to stand out.