https://wccftech.com/assassins-creed-odyssey-now-a-true-rpg/

You can consider Assassin’s Creed Odyssey a “true RPG”, as Ubisoft now does too. In an interview with VG247, Senior Producer Marc-Alexis Côté said:

Odyssey is this final transformation of Assassin’s Creed into an RPG. It feels like the true 2.0 version of Assassin’s Creed. We always planned this to be a two-step transformation and this one takes the final step. I feel like it can now truly be called an RPG.