Assassin's Creed Valhalla

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7.5

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  1. Xandl7
    Dec 16, 2020
    0
    another boring game
    and it is again exclusive for epic and ubisoft
    RPG elements are boring
  2. Catchy
    Dec 7, 2020
    7
    I had to google that I actually completed the game because the story just suddenly ended. However, and despite some frustration, in my opinion this game takes the throne out of the past three assassin's creed games.

    When you start in England the game was a lot of fun, combat keeps you engaged with different possibilities to complete quests and the game offers a vast world with lots to    I had to google that I actually completed the game because the story just suddenly ended. However, and despite some frustration, in my opinion this game takes the throne out of the past three assassin's creed games.

    When you start in England the game was a lot of fun, combat keeps you engaged with different possibilities to complete quests and the game offers a vast world with lots to do. The core game-play is not surprisingly your typical Ubisoft grind, after 70 hrs the game became quite repetitive and by 100 hrs I just wanted it to end.

    The game has some serious frustrating bugs and hindering to progress, for example you are forced to play these (in my opinion) boring mini-games to progress the secret order chain (thankfully nothing a homemade trainer wouldn’t fix), and I had to do a few earlier reloads because the game got literally stuck in the story.

    As for side quest, I couldn't stand the Aasgard side-quest, thankfully it was just a side-quest, and I’m not sure why they decided to make 'eliminating the ancient order' a side quest. It baffles me that eliminating the order is not part of the main story, ‘Assassin's creed' is just a corporate branding at this point.    … Expand
  3. dryerlaw
    Nov 14, 2020
    10
    Major improvement from Odyssey. While combat is only slightly improved, the questing & gear progression feel more satisfying now.
  4. fi57yseven
    Dec 7, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have played 102 hours as of writing this review.
    Valhalla is a good game, it is fun and fantastic to explore.
    The story is non existent , you go to each area that you pledge and you play out many short stories, and depending on what you do or where you go effects the outcome of your exchange with NPCs.
    and for no real reason the Assassin which is guiding and helping you for 2% of the story who is supposed to be important TURNS ON YOU, there felt like there was zero explanation as to why other than he is the rebirth of Loki who is still holding a grudge against Eivor and Sigurd for holding his wolf son captive when they were gods who for some reason are reincarnated?, it felt lazy.
    this has to be the buggiest AC game I have ever played, I had to increase my VRam to fix the constant crashing.
    The town you build isn't much of a wow factor and felt kinda pointless, I feel it was overhyped with very little pay off.
    The order of the ancients and the assassin's felt pointless, The order apart from Fulke felt like something of a side quest, and the Assassin's who were the excuse to bring back the hidden blade begrudgingly via Sigurd, and tell you much of what you already knew.
    Going to Asgard felt like a chore, everything was, go and get this then go and get that, then they threw in a boss to take away from the scavenger hunt that is Asgard, then to go back to Asgard ANOTHER SCAVENGER HUNT.

    I know I am ranting and seem like I hated this game, but bare with me, with 102 hours played and every bit of story done, I left the game feeling like I didn't really play it, I felt like I went into side quest simulator and everything including the main story was a side quest.

    The dual wield any weapon annoyed me a lot, you only get a few weapons and it's not a huge variety, you can buy the same 6 or so weapons and shields from the shop in game, and it is the same thing in every shop, making going to a new area thinking you may find a cooler bow a pointless endeavour, so if you like using axes and shields then this will fit you nicely, I was looking forward to going back to the Edward Kenway days and dual wielding me some swords, NOPE, you get two greatswords, one which you buy the other which is in a chest, Excalibur is in the game too but being that you can only really get hold of it end game I never saw the point in even trying to get it, you have completed the game why would I want a bad ass sword now?
    getting money was easy and when you buy your favourite colour horse and upgraded it as much as you could, there was not much point in silver anymore unless you wanted to buy the things rather than find them in the world such as ingots. but it was so easy to get your health up and arrows are literally everywhere.

    anyway I found that to be my biggest gripe with ACV.
    Visually the game is amazing and when you self fix the game it plays amazing with high FPS, the fighting system is the best and the skill tree was a great change, making the weapons not all powerful flaming death monsters was great to me as the previous two games it felt a bit silly to have swords that set people on fire or explosive super saiyen techniques.
    The map was amazing to explore and the game Orlog was addictive as anything (looking forward to the real life release of the game in 2021)

    I have played every AC game and I am one of the first to defend them, this is the lowest scoring AC game I have ever reviewed, I want to blame Covid-19 and the difficulty you would expect with developers working from home and it is why no matter how much the game was not my favourite it still gave me much enjoyment.    … Expand
  5. mosessaur
    Dec 18, 2021
    3
    For 3 installments. I think AC had nothing to add except making the make more massive and repetitive.
    I failed to see what's new in this game. The story isn't interesting anymore. It just became more massive. And with being massive. I started to get bored after sometime skipping conversations and just want to get through the game.
    It has some elements of AC III and of course of the    For 3 installments. I think AC had nothing to add except making the make more massive and repetitive.
    I failed to see what's new in this game. The story isn't interesting anymore. It just became more massive. And with being massive. I started to get bored after sometime skipping conversations and just want to get through the game.
    It has some elements of AC III and of course of the previous 2 games AC Origins and AC (Greek) can't even remember the name (that's how forgettable it was).

    I would never recommend purchase of this game. If you get it for free or less than $10 then it could be cover the boredom you'll have while playing it.    … Expand
  6. crawlord
    Dec 7, 2020
    7
    I played this game for 172 hours .I explored first and gathered materials / xp opened the map and negated the storyline till later .BY hour 100 i was op with twin spears .The graphics are phenomenal. Taking over England is repetitive.

    Pros The story when paced and farmed up is compelling. Graphics Some funny world events Soundtracks are phenomenal cons -bloated map dilled with    I played this game for 172 hours .I explored first and gathered materials / xp opened the map and negated the storyline till later .BY hour 100 i was op with twin spears .The graphics are phenomenal. Taking over England is repetitive.

    Pros
    The story when paced and farmed up is compelling.
    Graphics
    Some funny world events
    Soundtracks are phenomenal

    cons
    -bloated map dilled with filler .
    Little innovation after odyssey
    repetitive
    -do towers open map go to all yellow white and blue spots
    -go into hundreds of barred locations
    -jump into hindered of wells
    -bad fishing mechanics unless you melee
    -bugs bugs bugs and frequent crashed (im running an 19k and 2080 card on my Alienware 15 r2)

    Overall i played this game and now im not sure ill play the DLC even though i pre-bought all that. I think i have had my fill of Ubisoft's copy pasta games .Still enjoyable not at a day 1 price point .    … Expand
  7. Razrback16
    Dec 8, 2021
    2
    Pros:

    * Excellent graphics - the water looks particularly well-rendered * Optimization / performance is quite good * Ubisoft brought the Codex back - always quite valuable * They added a feature that allows you to assassinate in one hit regardless of how far above you the enemy is - this fixes the outstanding issues inherent to RPG mechanics * Love the location with the northern    Pros:

    * Excellent graphics - the water looks particularly well-rendered
    * Optimization / performance is quite good
    * Ubisoft brought the Codex back - always quite valuable
    * They added a feature that allows you to assassinate in one hit regardless of how far above you the enemy is - this fixes the outstanding issues inherent to RPG mechanics
    * Love the location with the northern lights in Norway
    * The "World Events" / side quests are well-done
    * Social stealth returns in a limited manner
    * Better pacing when swimming in terms of the animations
    * Much better job on romance animations in this game
    * I liked the roaming music while in Ravensthorpe (basecamp in England), definitely felt like the Viking era for sure
    * I enjoyed the Flyting / Charisma options in conversation, that was a good idea
    * The Assassin bureaus were a nice touch, although woefully underutilized
    * Horses can now swim once upgraded
    * **SPOILER** - Toward the end of the game it looks like they are finally phasing Layla Hassan out of the series, at least to a degree which is fantastic. She is easily the most insufferable character in the entire franchise

    Cons:

    * Combat is downgraded from Odyssey - much more sloppy
    * Horse movement mechanics are downgraded from Odyssey in terms of just movement on terrain
    * Layla "The Bestest Evar" Hassan is still around - easily the most insufferable character I've ever seen in any game I've played. They get rid of Desmond, an actual good character and replace him with this awful Mary Sue.
    * Present day - while it's great to see Rebecca & Shaun return, they don't look even remotely like they have in past games (their rendering is AWFUL), but they at least have the same voice actors - again, it's too bad Layla is in the game and not Desmond - the present day story was so much more enjoyable with him as the protagonist - I hope Layla is killed off at some point as she is just a terrible character. I'd rather see just Shaun & Rebecca with William Miles involved since Desmond is gone. Don't need any feminist wet dream characters shoe-horned into the story for woke talking points
    * No mGPU support
    * Movement system in the game feels very clunky with delayed input (similar to AC Unity)
    * Game is basically Ubisoft's latest copy of Witcher 3 - they've done three in a row now
    * Tying into the above bullet, there is borderline zero stealth / assassination tactics in the game. Where the earlier games the player had to utilize some stealth mechanics to get near a target and kill them without being detected, as well as try to get out of the location undetected, these latest games are just open world combat games, the opposte of what AC games are supposed to be
    * Multiple forms of DRM to ensure you never really own the game, you're just renting it for as long as Denuvo and Ubisoft servers are online. Glad I didn't buy it
    * Like the last two games, the game is WAY too long. About 100 hours too long. In typical Ubisoft fashion, the game has a million side quests that add very little to the game shoe-horned in. Just concentrate on the main quests, Ubi. The problem with the game is if you don't do the side missions, your character will be significantly under-leveled making certain fights incredibly difficult later in the game. These games should be 30-60 hours and focus more on the story and less on a million side quests
    * RPG mechanics - they do not belong in an Assassin's Creed game
    * More Ubisoft over-the-top wokeness being injected into the narrative with way too much homosexuality references during quests and dialogue in areas particularly during a time period where it was not prevalent and would never have been tolerated. Ubisoft has gone so downhill - this is why I don't buy Ubisoft games anymore and play them "somewhere else"
    * Regarding the RPG mechanics - poor leveling placement of enemies that are far above the player's level forcing them to leave and come back later which kills immersion.
    * The "Social Stealth" system in the game is mostly worthless - I really miss the blending of old from AC2 / AC3 that made it feel like you could actually sneak around a bit. Just an awful blending / stealth system. These last 3 games have not been Assassin's Creed games
    * Very unstable game - frequent crashes to desktop
    * **SPOILER** - Regarding the end of the game...not a fan of the way they are handling Sages in the story related to reincarnations of people from the ISU time period. It's making things incredibly convoluted and honestly quite stupid
    * This is, quite frankly, my least favorite of the entire series. It's the least "Assassin's Creed" game of all of the games. Eivor is just some bloke running around doing things that happen to coincide with the Assassins' objectives, sort of like Edward Kenway in AC4, but without a good payoff at the end, and and basically no involvement of the Assassins.

    Game Length: ~130 hrs.

    Overall Rating: 2/10.    … Expand
  8. 4y4
    Dec 29, 2021
    6
    It's an alright game but there are some elements that I didn't like. Some things in the game feel quite repetitive for example and there were some major bugs.
  9. Cobrax657
    Feb 5, 2021
    7
    Good viking game but i wish they start making ac games with ac feel in it....
  10. Manohar
    Jan 13, 2021
    5
    Maaan this game got boring very fast! Is the same copy-paste RPG formula from the last 2 AC, but with a much more depressing world design. I don't really recommend this game to anyone
  11. Nburns
    Jan 5, 2021
    6
    Mediocre open world with little in the way of reasons to explore it. Mechanically rather uninteresting though the plot is decent enough to push through the hack and slash combat.
  12. Adamaxhu
    Nov 14, 2020
    10
    Very good game, strong recommendation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  13. Pinkpontiac
    Dec 14, 2020
    0
    Игра просто не о чем!!!Сюжет-0 , сэттинг не раскрыли, а было столько пространства и возможностей!!!
  14. abdul125a
    Jan 6, 2021
    2
    The only advantages of this game are the atmosphere and the story, the game is full of errors, sometimes making it impossible to complete individual threads. There are problems with catching fish and dying materials. Technical Support provides absurd compensation for the loss of all resources from armor upgrades. The game is in a terrible condition, and I am convinced that I will not buyThe only advantages of this game are the atmosphere and the story, the game is full of errors, sometimes making it impossible to complete individual threads. There are problems with catching fish and dying materials. Technical Support provides absurd compensation for the loss of all resources from armor upgrades. The game is in a terrible condition, and I am convinced that I will not buy another part for the premiere due to the poor technical condition of the entire product.… Expand
  15. realrev
    Jan 23, 2021
    0
    This is a historically illiterate game that I find highly offensive. I suppose it's what I've come to expect from Ubisoft but it really is disgraceful how they are misrepresenting things intentionally in order to mislead a generation of kids.
  16. KAS_113
    Oct 13, 2021
    0
    Its not on Steam therefore I give 0. I wont buy it on some garbage epic games store. And stop making some kind of MMO RPG out of the game, there's only one name left from the Assassins and the hidden blade of the main character, I want to kill enemies with one blow from above, as before, and not spend half a day on it.
  17. GDSM
    Jun 9, 2021
    5
    The game itself is atmospheric, the Viking style is a big plus, but I have a main complaint about women in this game, if you added a lot of main female characters, make them at least beautiful.
  18. NickFok
    Jun 14, 2021
    3
    I GAVE IT A TRY. LIKE A 100 HOURS TRY.

    Let me tell you this game is not the best assassins creed game or anything close to that category. And i get it, a lot of people like to hate Ubisfot. for the sake of it but in this case, thery are right. First, the basics. Slow, boring, repetitive, effortless, horrible actors, lazy clothings, animation. It really seems like a unfinishied game or    I GAVE IT A TRY. LIKE A 100 HOURS TRY.

    Let me tell you this game is not the best assassins creed game or anything close to that category. And i get it, a lot of people like to hate Ubisfot. for the sake of it but in this case, thery are right.
    First, the basics. Slow, boring, repetitive, effortless, horrible actors, lazy clothings, animation. It really seems like a unfinishied game or that they were to lazy to test it. The cons are a lot in comparisson with the pro in this game. For example, the loot or the rewards. You spend literally an hour trying to find a way to figure out how to enter a cave and the reward is a piece of gold that doesnt do **** Then, the weapons, armor stuff, sucks. You have to seek sea, land N air to find something new and when you find it sucks. like you feel your time has been taken as a joke. I hate almost everyting about it and I played it 100 hours, no blufing. I would pick Odyssey or Origins over this **** **** any **** day. Its my very first time writing a review for a game and it really made mad. And i dont even bogght the game it was a gift so you can image if i would ve bought it.

    Also as a 5.3 tall guy is kind of nice to sea a main character being kind of short, BUT COME THE **** ON, you are talkings about vikings, i want to be like thor not a **** midget from middle earth.

    To sum up, ****ty game. Tries hard to be the witcher, god of war, dark souls, prince of persia and the saddest thign? Tries to be an assassin creed game WHEN YOU CANT EVEN **** ASSASSINATE PEOPLE. It sucks. If you are reading this and get to this so far down, do not buying, or watch a lot gamplay videos on ytb. Is not worth anybodies time. Trust me. Incredible dissapointed. And i could go down to write more stuff of how bad this **** **** is but i dont want to. I cant understand those who liked it and call the best of all time. Is one of the worst games i have ever played. **** ubisoft needs to stop milking games franchieses and start to listetnitg to fans about the game preferences.

    3/10. **** dissapoinment. And that 3 out of 10 is beacuse SOME tattoos looked cool with the beard and all. And thats it...    … Expand
  19. Mr_Gamer
    Jul 3, 2021
    0
    The game costs $ 30-60, and you managed to add microtransactions there ?
  20. Zummernights
    Jul 12, 2021
    10
    graphics 10, characters 10, overall very enjoyable and cool game, not sure what's with this stupid hate towards masterpieces like this.
  21. Vixian
    Aug 28, 2021
    4
    10-20 hours of unique content stretched across 100+ hours of repetition and MMORPG-like progression grinding. Additionally, the "Order of the Ancients" has reached new levels of stupidity in their latest rendition. Some of the writing in this game is at high school levels of plot-making.
  22. Caoth93
    Aug 29, 2021
    0
    usual ubisoft that does things from ubisoft, yet another game that tries to steal a bit from all sides while losing its identity (like the last 2 Assassin's Creed)
    let's start with the most serious things: as always stupid, repetitive side missions, which add nothing to the game or to the main story and which result in a tedious challenge and you can't wait to finish as soon as possible,    usual ubisoft that does things from ubisoft, yet another game that tries to steal a bit from all sides while losing its identity (like the last 2 Assassin's Creed)
    let's start with the most serious things: as always stupid, repetitive side missions, which add nothing to the game or to the main story and which result in a tedious challenge and you can't wait to finish as soon as possible, huge game map full of collectibles (useless as always) just to give a semblance of longevity and justify such an unnecessarily large map
    Let's talk about optimization on pc? ubisoft ridiculous as always, cares about the pc as always, ridiculous framerates even with hardware from thousands of euros and above all cpu often and willingly 100% (I have a 9700k) thanks to denuvo (was it really necessary?)

    I conclude by saying that we are now in 2021 and that if there are still people who defend this stuff, which is by far, without a doubt the worst gaming company, it means that we deserve this crap, to see a company that percolates in this way its customers, which uses the exact same graphics engine and the exact same animations in 3 different games within 3 years (adding tiny things from title to title just to pretend it's a new game) just to save in production and taking as much money as possible from your customers makes me sick

    stop letting these charlatans steal your money    … Expand
  23. mpalczew
    Aug 30, 2021
    4
    So the first thing that happened is I needed an Ubisoft account for my ps5 game. When trying to skip it the game wouldn't even work, so a big fu from Ubisoft. Then there's the game play. Playing this game is 50% getting to a destination, walking, climbing, or sailing, no puzzle, just set your market on a map, push forward on your controller and ask yourself if this is fun. 30% of theSo the first thing that happened is I needed an Ubisoft account for my ps5 game. When trying to skip it the game wouldn't even work, so a big fu from Ubisoft. Then there's the game play. Playing this game is 50% getting to a destination, walking, climbing, or sailing, no puzzle, just set your market on a map, push forward on your controller and ask yourself if this is fun. 30% of the game is fighting, no not assassinations like previous games, rather just a beat em up game with poor fighting mechanics. The rest is cut scenes and load times. They forgot to add the fun.… Expand
  24. StarkAgentos
    Feb 25, 2022
    6
    Поиграл 2 часа. В принципе игра неплохая, если закрыть глаза на то, что это очередной миллиардный ассасин. Прогресс, по сравнению с истоками есть. Больше не обязательно проходить побочки, чтобы играть в сюжетку. Графон улучшился, что очень логично. На моё удивление, улучшилась и оптимизация. Нынешний сеттинг мне больше нравится. Также можно включить автоматическое управление кораблём. НаПоиграл 2 часа. В принципе игра неплохая, если закрыть глаза на то, что это очередной миллиардный ассасин. Прогресс, по сравнению с истоками есть. Больше не обязательно проходить побочки, чтобы играть в сюжетку. Графон улучшился, что очень логично. На моё удивление, улучшилась и оптимизация. Нынешний сеттинг мне больше нравится. Также можно включить автоматическое управление кораблём. На этом плюсы заканчиваются, дальше идут минусы. Управление с прилипанием к любой поверхности во время паркура, при чём таким, что хрен отлипнешь. Сюжет, что логично бледный и неинтересный. Куча гринда, даже, если считать сюжетку. Игра скучная. Также, в этой игре куча багов, например, я просто хожу по лесу, и тут бац, и на меня с неба падает нпс. Ну и, естественно, самый главный минус - то, что это по сути предыдущий ассасин с минимальными улучшениями.… Expand
  25. CRodrig57
    Aug 6, 2022
    3
    I don't understand where all these great reviews are coming from. This is by far the worse Assassin Creed in the entire line-up when it comes to overall gameplay. The story writing is lackluster and extremely boring and it doesn't help that most of the game mechanics from previous titles like Origins and Odyssey that were contreversial litterally got worse in this title than that of theI don't understand where all these great reviews are coming from. This is by far the worse Assassin Creed in the entire line-up when it comes to overall gameplay. The story writing is lackluster and extremely boring and it doesn't help that most of the game mechanics from previous titles like Origins and Odyssey that were contreversial litterally got worse in this title than that of the previous titles.
    When I'm talking about game mechanics, I'm talking about the RPG looter aspect, combat mechanics, and story progression.

    As a RPG looter, the whole skill tree idea that is utilized in many RPG games is embarrassing in Valhalla. Litterally google the skill tree in this game and be amazed on how bad they ruined the RPG aspect of this game. Additionally, the looting aspect is for some reason scaled back in Valhalla compaired to the previous titles. I litterally played for 20+ hours and found one piece of armor.

    Combat mechanics for some reason in this title took a whole 5 steps backwards. It's clunky and has way too much going on, in addition; it's just so bad compared to the other games. There's barely any stealth aspects in the game.. seriously. You're forced to find "scrolls" all over the world to unlock special skills that you use in combat, where in Odyssey; you would unlock them by progressively leveling up.

    As of the story progression, it''s repetitive and boring. You go spend hours on hours sailing around and riding on your horse looking for places to Raid with your vikings to build your village. Yes, it's cool but it's not cool to do over and over again and then you're forced to do so to move forward in the story. There's no stealth involved when it comes to doing the raids either.. which defeats the whole Assassin Creed aspect.

    The only thing that made the game worth playing was the world in which you play in. It's a pretty, detailed world; I like how the snow would leave tracks when you treked through it. It was definitely nowehre near Red Dead Remdemption 2 however. I have no idea what the developers where thinking with this game this time around. Everything they did in Origins and Odyssey progressive got better with each title and then we come to Valhalla and they litterally ruined it. I would definitely pass up on this game and I'm quite let down with this title that I uninstalled halfway through.    … Expand
  26. Kikkeli007
    Aug 6, 2022
    2
    I was in love with the game at first: Somewhere mid-adventure the repeat mechanics became noticeably grindy and seeing the experience boosts sold in game made me wonder, if they created a problem to sell me the solution later. Another thing I started to notice was the many "moral teachings" in the games narrative. The story makes much effort to justify the assassins' victims alwaysI was in love with the game at first: Somewhere mid-adventure the repeat mechanics became noticeably grindy and seeing the experience boosts sold in game made me wonder, if they created a problem to sell me the solution later. Another thing I started to notice was the many "moral teachings" in the games narrative. The story makes much effort to justify the assassins' victims always deserving some 2020 poetic justice. So, to sum it up: The predatory monetization and tribal messaging turn a otherwise beautiful, imperfect world into a soulless ikea.… Expand
  27. aes23
    Nov 11, 2020
    1
    Valhalla is a very bad game.

    The problem comes from Ubisoft, this company shows games after games that they don’t know how to make games and/or that they employ people with very very very bad design ideas to make their games. So let’s try to start with some positive : Eivor puts the secret blade on the outside, finally someone clever, since the first AC I always found the way they    Valhalla is a very bad game.

    The problem comes from Ubisoft, this company shows games after games that they don’t know how to make games and/or that they employ people with very very very bad design ideas to make their games.

    So let’s try to start with some positive : Eivor puts the secret blade on the outside, finally someone clever, since the first AC I always found the way they put their blade inside the arm to be completely stupid and counter intuitive.

    Now, once we have talked about the positive, let’s talk about the negative.

    The environment are good but like I said for RDR2, nowadays, a junior environment artist is capable of creating those so it’s not impressive anymore. Next.

    Sound design is bad, really bad, unacceptable for this level of budget, sound attenuation is not correct most of the time. Music is inexistant or if you prefer, absolutely not epic.

    Music from Hellblade was epic, there is no epicness here. Worse, the music for the skill tree menu is very very very (did I said VERY ?) much similar to the one in the Witcher 3 for the Skellige theme. So Ubisoft, you’ve been trying to copy the Witcher 3 for how many years now without being able to create a game as good as it ? Pathetic.

    The horse and its animations are unacceptable, pure and simple, there are the same as in Odyssey and they were already bad at that time because of the Witcher 3 and RDR2. Now, there is Ghost of Tsushima also to remind Ubisoft how to properly design a horse and its animation.

    The camera is so far away in some combats that I thought I was playing a top down game and not a TPP game anymore. I do want to see my surroundings, but I want to see my character too.

    The combat is hard to read. Because of the camera and also because sometimes of the general mess. Sometimes, you will fight against ennemies with spears that have the same color as the ground so you can’t see them approaching you. What a great idea Ubisoft !

    The person that designed the menu map needs to be fired. When you summon the map, the character won’t be center on the map. When you zoom in or out, it won’t stay on center or on the position you were last, would it be your character or else. Unacceptable.

    Even though you can change it, the general inertia of some keys like tab or A is enraging, especially since you can diminish it but can’t completely get rid of it. Unacceptable.

    The UI is bad, it seems the designers at Ubisoft don’t know **** about tunnel vision that happens when you fight both in real life and in games. Otherwise they would not have put a life bar. Have they noticed how many game replaced the life bar by a desaturation of the screen ? Maybe other did that for a reason ?……

    The stamina mechanic is the worst idea ever, combined with the fact that you just can’t monitor it during combat as it is humanly impossible, you have here a huge source of frustration for hours to come. When you are out of stamina, you can’t do nothing. Great !
    In the Witcher 3, lack of stamina could be overcome by potion and rage. That’s good game design.

    Mysteries Quest are cryptic to say the least, the game won’t tell you what to do, so it’s a matter or whether or not you consider having the patience to fulfill this useless crap. They don’t add anything in term of storytelling.

    Fortress and Raids are…..boring and combat there is a huge mess that is unreadable, I had lost track of Eivor many times there.

    I’ve only succeeded one raid, the first one you do.

    On my second and third attempt, I was one shot by an enemy that was way above my power level.
    In the first zone of the game, the low level zone of the game, in the nearest abbeys of the first one where the first raid took place…..

    Only after I died did the game tell me that these nearby abbeys were power level 90 when I was only 20.
    This is bad design, this is unacceptable, why put such high level zones near the one the player is starting at ? The game shows you a new mechanic but you can’t then use it by yourself as all nearby spot are too high level, this is really really really bad.

    An obese elephant has less inertia than the boat.

    At some point early in the game, you’ll have to kill a NPC, you can choose to tell him the truth about something and spare him or lie to him and kill him.

    There are no reasons whatsoever that forbids you to tell him the truth and then kill him except Ubisoft bad design decision. It’s absurd and immersion breaking.

    For many years, players have complained about the compass. Why can’t Ubisoft just admit its bad and bring back a mini map ? The compass is unreadable.

    The lack of polish of the game shows every time, for instance, when you finish cleaning a place, after a raid or whatever, the place stills shows as forbidden and dangerous and Eivor will still have his voice over telling you to be careful    … Expand
  28. bndop
    Apr 26, 2021
    0
    The worst assassin's Creed I've ever played and arguably the worst game I've ever played. Clunky and boring combat, Eivor is incredibly weak no matter how much you power him up and boss/legendary animal fights just consist of the enemy spamming its special the whole time. Next time I'm definitely not paying full price for an assassin's creed game. I'll wait until it goes on sale
  29. Szaman
    Apr 27, 2021
    0
    Its not on Steam therefore I give 0. I wont buy it on some garbage epic games store or uplay
  30. Kite
    Dec 17, 2020
    0
    Classic dick move to add xp and money boosters in to the game after it has been released and reviewed. Such a great way to make people trust you.

    This is a singleplayer game that you've paid full price to play. It shouldn't require more money, not to buy skins and definitely not to buy boosters. If your game is so long and grindy that people need boosters to play it, then **** include    Classic dick move to add xp and money boosters in to the game after it has been released and reviewed. Such a great way to make people trust you.

    This is a singleplayer game that you've paid full price to play. It shouldn't require more money, not to buy skins and definitely not to buy boosters. If your game is so long and grindy that people need boosters to play it, then **** include the boosters in the game so people can put them on if they want to.

    This is such **** It never stops baffling me how people think this is ok. You use your money to buy entertainment for you and then you use more money so you can be done quicker with the entertainment you bought. Man these are some stupid times I need to live in.    … Expand
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#42 Best PC Game of 2020
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#5 Most Discussed PC Game of 2020

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. RPG Site
    Apr 5, 2021
    60
    Assassin's Creed Valhalla is a great-looking open-world game with impressive landscapes and cinematography. However, the checklist collectible open-world still needs some work to feel truly engaging, and combat is too tedious and too frequent to be compelling. As a lapsed fan of Assassin's Creed trying to see if I can click with the series once again, Valhalla didn't quite hook me as I was hoping it would.
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  2. Game Debate
    Jan 11, 2021
    80
    Assassins Creed Valhalla is a lot of fun and easy to sink dozens of hours into. It is the best entry in the more recent trilogy and genuinely elevates the gameplay mechanics. Content could be considered somewhat bloated still, but it is diverse enough and the setting and story is solid most of the way through.
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  3. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 4, 2021
    80
    Sneaking is fun, fighting is fun, walking through the great outdoors is so much fun. Sightseeing too! Valhalla is free minded and could be innovative, but lacks skills to persuade its players about that. [Issue#308]
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