Assassin's Creed Valhalla

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7.5

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  1. whatever523
    Dec 26, 2020
    4
    Ubisoft are so afraid of offending anyone that they act on single Twitter posts and change the game's content. Grow a pair, stand for the content you make and stop changing things because some re**** deems them to be politically incorrect.
  2. Oraakkeli
    Nov 24, 2020
    4
    Positives: It looks pretty good and it has some nice RP elements that break the monotony and present variety in objectives and game play. Combat feels great when it's not infested with bugs like my late grandma's garden.

    Negatives: IT'S SO FULL OF BUGS. This should be a beta release at best. My character died to bugs more than enemies (hard difficulty). Stuck on walls, fences, ground,    Positives: It looks pretty good and it has some nice RP elements that break the monotony and present variety in objectives and game play. Combat feels great when it's not infested with bugs like my late grandma's garden.

    Negatives: IT'S SO FULL OF BUGS. This should be a beta release at best. My character died to bugs more than enemies (hard difficulty). Stuck on walls, fences, ground, stairs, horses. Movement somehow feels worse than previous games. I hate the level progression system. Combat feels good 50% of the time. Decided to just play the main story and then I had to uninstall out of frustration. The story itself is fine, but the main character feels so inconsistent at times. I don't feel like cheering on for him/her.    … Expand
  3. ukrScorpion
    Nov 14, 2020
    4
    + Good optimization
    + Good level design

    - Donate
    - storyline so childish and naive as in all games from Ubi for last 3 years
    - prologue so boring
    - side quests
  4. Camlambelot
    Feb 20, 2022
    4
    Copy and Paste open world: Broken, Boring and Empty.

    I loved the older AC games because of their STEALTH and BEAUTIFUL DESIGN (See Unity or AC2), but this game is just a soulless, repetitive game. It tries so hard to be like other open world RPGS with meaningful choices (See Witcher 3) and tries to copy the combat of (God of War) and loses it's own identity in the process. All stealth    Copy and Paste open world: Broken, Boring and Empty.

    I loved the older AC games because of their STEALTH and BEAUTIFUL DESIGN (See Unity or AC2), but this game is just a soulless, repetitive game. It tries so hard to be like other open world RPGS with meaningful choices (See Witcher 3) and tries to copy the combat of (God of War) and loses it's own identity in the process. All stealth is out the window, get ready to hack and slash your way through a bland world full of fetch quests in a dark, snowy landscape.

    The game is ugly, glitchy and full of generic quests, locations and characters.    … Expand
  5. Wolfstooth
    Dec 12, 2020
    4
    I dislike this game. Played like 2 hours. The combat is just joke when comparing for example with Ghost of Tsushima. AI is completely dumb. The world looks nice, thats all. UBI won't refund my money and I feel like they robbed me! UBISOFT only through pirating! Then maybe in few years for money when the game will cost few bucks!
  6. Robobob
    Jul 20, 2022
    4
    I'm a Assassin's Creed fan. I've been playing since AC1. I played 1-3 then took a break for awhile (mostly because I didn't have a console during those years) and picked it back up with AC: Origins. I really like how immersive and detailed these worlds are and are like take a walk through history. Origins I 100%ed. Odyssey I played continuously so much that I reconquered territoriesI'm a Assassin's Creed fan. I've been playing since AC1. I played 1-3 then took a break for awhile (mostly because I didn't have a console during those years) and picked it back up with AC: Origins. I really like how immersive and detailed these worlds are and are like take a walk through history. Origins I 100%ed. Odyssey I played continuously so much that I reconquered territories because the battlefield combat was so much fun.
    So what do I think about Valhalla? Valhalla seems to take every single aspect of every past AC game and shoves it into one game but in a diminished aspect. Then they fill they game with so much bloat it is overwhelming. Examples: your eagle from past games is back as a raven but is completely useless except for finding ONLY iron ore deposits. The ship mechanic from Black Flag and Odyssey is back but with zero combat and acts a giant horse for transporting your raiding crew. The hierarchy hit list is back but is crammed with, I kid you not, 48!!!! targets. Skills trees are back in the form of Skyrim's constellation but with, no joke, over 500 skill nodes! The problem is is that they are mostly just small stat buffs that you need to plow through to get to the occasional actual skill. There are maybe 40 abilities but I've found only 2 that are useful, like the Leap Attack and the Dog attack.
    There is some good stuff to find here. The mini games are some of the best I've played recently. All of them are fun and never get boring. The world is still pretty beautiful but the engine is starting to show it's age. On PC the game has crashed more on me than any game I've played on my current rig. Raids are great. It's a blast to storm castles with your viking crew and tear through the opposition.
    But the negatives outweigh the positives here. It seems that Ubisoft concentrated on quantity over quality. The map is huge with little POIs all over the place. But 90% are simple treasure chests with the same repetitive loot of iron, leathers and/or goods. To get to these chests you usually have a mini puzzle that involves finding your way past a barred or locked door. I think it would be more rewarding to have fewer puzzles that are longer/more difficult but with greater and more special rewards.
    Here's the list of krap that has been crammed into this game Village building, hunting, fishing, raiding, hit lists, assassin missions, Asgard storyline, mini-games, and I'm sure there's lots I'm forgetting. A lot of stuff with very little of it interesting.
    TLDR: It's just too much. I'm at power level 200 with half of the map unlocked and I feel like the game isn't showing me anything new at this point.
    Now I want to address the obvious campaign by Ubisoft to boost their user score with hundreds of 10 ratings. Accounts that only review Valhalla... on all platforms with the same written review. When I read the negative reviews by real players they all state some flaw that I've seen in the game, which is a way I can tell it's a real review. Review bombing by corporations is disgusting. Just make a better game and the reviews take care of themselves.    … Expand
  7. yosh92i
    Dec 2, 2020
    4
    Such a deception. After spending so much time in Odyssey.
    90% of the side quest are boring as **** side story are write with a plot of 2 sentences.
    You just need them, because this is the way, you'll gain the EXP. Fight a guard ? 15exp Give 69 silvers to 2 childs so they can eat : 1500exp The main quests seems good , i mean enough to be played. But everything around, is empty or    Such a deception. After spending so much time in Odyssey.
    90% of the side quest are boring as **** side story are write with a plot of 2 sentences.
    You just need them, because this is the way, you'll gain the EXP.
    Fight a guard ? 15exp
    Give 69 silvers to 2 childs so they can eat : 1500exp

    The main quests seems good , i mean enough to be played.
    But everything around, is empty or boring.
    Forget about going Steal, you'll end up spotted by a random guard behind a wall or more.
    Fight them all straight forward, you'll win time overall.
    IA seems a bit broken right now.
    you have blinded guard, sniper guard able to hit you at 300meters,
    Infinite aggro, Guard running like Usain Bolt...

    The disappointment is huge...
    After 30 hours, i think i'm gonna quit the game, that's all.    … Expand
  8. Gurrdin
    Dec 24, 2020
    4
    It's another post-Syndicate Assassin's Creed, so bloated, tedious, and overlong. That's the new standard for the Assassin's Creed experience, and that in itself isn't a miserable thing, even if the games become closer to chore lists than actual enjoyable challenge. After Odyssey, I expected the repetitive action game with RPG elements to come back, but I wasn't expecting the horrendousIt's another post-Syndicate Assassin's Creed, so bloated, tedious, and overlong. That's the new standard for the Assassin's Creed experience, and that in itself isn't a miserable thing, even if the games become closer to chore lists than actual enjoyable challenge. After Odyssey, I expected the repetitive action game with RPG elements to come back, but I wasn't expecting the horrendous bugs and random performance issues to still be present in the game well over a month after launch.

    Visual bugs and minor gameplay ones I can handle, so long as they aren't debilitating. What starts to test my patience are the bugs where an NPC stops walking, preventing me from completing her quest, which is followed by a bug where I can't speak to anyone at Ravensthorpe. No amount of reloading past save files or progressing with the main story helped, so I'm stuck being unable to do much of anything at the main camp. Since I'm over twenty hours in, this really took me out of the entire experience.

    Then there are the random performance drops. My laptop isn't exactly a top of the line, $5,000 beast that can run brand new games at 240 FPS in 4k resolution, but it's more than enough to handle Valhalla when the game is behaving. After fast traveling, I'd randomly drop to a max of 25 FPS, and that was when I was looking at a featureless area with no NPCs around. That would always require a full restart of the game, and when it can happen multiple times per play session, I started to think that maybe I don't even want to bother.

    Another disappointment is how visually dull everything is. With ancient Greece, even if it wasn't 100% accurate to the time period, the development team could make these grand structures of shining white marble. I know you lose some of that with 9th century England, but the core of Assassin's Creed has always been exploring interesting historical areas using its freerunning system to scale magnificent architecture of the time. Mud huts and longhouses just aren't visually stimulating. When you do get the odd tower, they're all in some state of ruin and completely identical to the next tower.

    The entire experience isn't all bad, though. The gameplay is enjoyable at its core, even if it doesn't evolve enough to justify the forty+ hours of runtime. It's still satisfying to chop everything in your path, and the skill tree system they implemented isn't entirely unwelcome. It's more for show, since there's so much overlap in each one, but the idea was cute enough to be worth a try. It's always a bit of a rush to blow your horn and start a raid, even if that diminishes over time.

    Another positive in the game's favor is the slightly tighter story focus. It reminded me of Assassin's Creed II in that way, and the series could really use a return to a strong character like Ezio. Eivor isn't unlikeable really, but you're always going to sacrifice narrative focus when your game is full open world. Odyssey at least had an engaging enough protagonist AND a visually spectacular world, so Valhalla feels like a step back as an entire package.

    As a whole, the game wasn't ready to be released. Even a month after release, the game still isn't ready. I've played Assassin's Creed games on launch before, and while buggy to an extent, I've never been walled off from significant chunks of those games because of the bugs. It'll probably be in a much better state by the end or January, but I'm really disappointed with this entry in the series.    … Expand
  9. GiZmoNiSmo
    Dec 9, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. just trash, having played 105 hours Ubisoft release patch 1.0.4 that rendered saved games unplayable crashing instantly to desktop. After finding a workaround i continued through the story and have just got to the Fenrir mission only to find i cant complete the story line because its bugged whereby the wolf stays underground. Ive now deleted this from my system, its my first and last AC game, and i will avoid Ubisoft in general… Expand
  10. BelcrowHD
    Jul 13, 2021
    4
    El peor AC de las últimas que son RPG, lo único buenos era su historia hasta que llegas a ver el final mediocre que tiene, no brilla en nada, un combate tratando de imitar a los juegos souls, un mapa con todo muy repetitivo, un sistema de armas que te orilla a usar el arma inicial hasta que lo terminas y un sistema de loot eliminado, la progresión sin nivel y la rama de habilidadesEl peor AC de las últimas que son RPG, lo único buenos era su historia hasta que llegas a ver el final mediocre que tiene, no brilla en nada, un combate tratando de imitar a los juegos souls, un mapa con todo muy repetitivo, un sistema de armas que te orilla a usar el arma inicial hasta que lo terminas y un sistema de loot eliminado, la progresión sin nivel y la rama de habilidades decadente te vuelve el juego tedioso y lo pero es que completas curiosidades y mapas de tesoros y te dan una recompensa que decepciona y no quieres buscar más eso…… Expand
  11. RavenGeret
    Aug 17, 2021
    4
    From the last 3 AC games this is the worst. Everything it does Origins or Odyssey done better.
  12. louis2257
    Dec 28, 2020
    4
    It’s just a rehash of odyssey with vikings. Unless you want an unrealistic Viking experience with a pinch (literally a pinch) of assassins creed then go for it. I would highly recommend you wait for a big sale before investing in this mediocre 50 hour repatriate grind. Other notes I have to mention; combat is clunky and weightless, side missions are way better than previous titles, worldIt’s just a rehash of odyssey with vikings. Unless you want an unrealistic Viking experience with a pinch (literally a pinch) of assassins creed then go for it. I would highly recommend you wait for a big sale before investing in this mediocre 50 hour repatriate grind. Other notes I have to mention; combat is clunky and weightless, side missions are way better than previous titles, world is gorgeous but not much has improved graphically, anyone loving this game either lives mediocrity or doesn’t play many games. All be it, if you’re looking for a game to keep you busy it may be worth a shot but it’s defiantly not worth more than $40/£30… Expand
  13. Spudsii
    Dec 1, 2020
    4
    Played all the assassins creed games up to this one was a big fan of the series but this is by far the worst in the series for me, the god awful combat in this game and janky graphic glitches that happen like hanging from thin air to getting stuck in the ground while crouching, never mind the CTD's that happen.
  14. Duckers_McQuack
    Jul 15, 2022
    4
    Performance: Valhalla takes the combat of assassins creed odyssey to the next level, visuals has been upgraded, and the AVX instructions needed in odyssey for the immense amount of code and worldly liveliness the game had which ate up any cpu of the time, has been transferred to the gpu, which means you need a pretty hefty gpu for good performance. I could for instance not play in 1440p onPerformance: Valhalla takes the combat of assassins creed odyssey to the next level, visuals has been upgraded, and the AVX instructions needed in odyssey for the immense amount of code and worldly liveliness the game had which ate up any cpu of the time, has been transferred to the gpu, which means you need a pretty hefty gpu for good performance. I could for instance not play in 1440p on lowest without dipping below 60 fps. Now i have a 3090, and i can finally not only have memory enough to not play on lowest, but also performance needed to be anywhere with at least 60 fps.

    Combat: The combat however doesn't entirely feel right. It has too much emphasis on open and large combats. Assassins Creed franchise is more about subtly assassinations in the shadows, but this game opens up to full raids. which is what occurred during the Viking raids.

    Theme of the game: The game also isn't about an assassin, but Eivor, a Viking that meets an assassin and shares a common cause, so they work together, and Eivor does an assassin's work.

    Theme of the story: The game is quite based around drama, and for me at least, i have not been able to come more than 50% story wise. But that doesn't mean it's bad by any means. Just less appealing for us who doesn't like over the top drama

    The gear: This is the part that truly burned me out on open world games for a good while. There's way too much artificial inflation of how long it takes to gear properly up, with several micro materials needed to upgrade a gear piece at least once. So i cheated my way to get "infinite" resources to max out every gear.

    So overall, i either think Ubisoft needs to make a choice and either have Assassins Creed split it's game up to 2 parts. One which focuses on assassins, and a second franchise that takes over where Valhalla started. Be a history telling game. And perhaps have the split series still relevant to each other, where you play as whoever future character will be involved and collaborating with the assassins, and the main franchise that focuses on the proper descendants of the ISU, Eivor might have been a reincarnation, but focus more of the assassins creed itself with direct descendants of the ISU for the main characters to delve much deeper into the history/prophecy of the ISU.

    So overall score is not good, but not bad either. It has great entertainment value, but falls short of it's premise, combat to some extent, the way too much microgrid and replayability.    … Expand
  15. Hoomanff
    Jun 3, 2021
    4
    Very. Bad fight. This game and. This game very. Repeated works previous series I think. Should. This game finished I hate this ****
  16. Shimmeywill
    Aug 21, 2021
    4
    Rough writing, mindless combat/gameplay and an unappealing open world design.
  17. OverratedGames
    Nov 15, 2020
    4
    I find it absolutely amazing how Ubisoft managed to make the viking age, probably one if the most exciting (and controversial) ages in history, BORING AS HELL.

    "How do you do that?" you ask? Let me tell you: Let's start with the raids - you know, the thing where vikings pillaged hundreds of monasteries, towns and villages across England, slaughtering, raping and torturing thousands    I find it absolutely amazing how Ubisoft managed to make the viking age, probably one if the most exciting (and controversial) ages in history, BORING AS HELL.

    "How do you do that?" you ask? Let me tell you:

    Let's start with the raids - you know, the thing where vikings pillaged hundreds of monasteries, towns and villages across England, slaughtering, raping and torturing thousands of innocent people while stealing everything in sight. Well Ubisoft, for good reason, decided that those raids probably wouldn't sit well with too many people, and I get that. I do. I don't want to rape or torture anyone, not even in a video game, so I expected the raids to be a bit more tame. I just didn't realise how tame. Kill a civilian? DESYNCHRONIZED. Loot a monastery filled with gilded treasure? +1 CARBON INGOT. Ransack an entire village? 400+ SUPPLIES. Rinse, and repeat. New raid, same deal. After 2 raids, you've seen it all. There's nothing new to do, to get or to see. I'd rather not.

    Well, how about the gameplay at least? Fun? No. Unless pressing less than three buttons gets you going, the combat in Valhalla is absolutely laughable. No challenge at all, no rewarding 'UMPH' when you wack an enemy between the eyes with your two-feet long greatsword. That goes for climbing as well. Press 'A' and move foward and watch as Eivor climbs mountain-sides as smooth as marble with ease and jumps sixty feet from the top of a building, only to land safely and unharmed. Oh wait, sometimes he limps for about three seconds berfore he can sprint again. I'm not saying that parkour should be hard, it is an AC game after all, but there is no challenge to climbing AT ALL. Back in AC2, you needed to do different combos to reach certain places, and it could be a bit tricky sometimes, but it felt REWARDING. Also, you couldn't climb **** mountains. In Valhalla, if they added a building made entirely out of giant sheets of mirrors, I bet Eivor could climb it while scratching his ass at the same time. Yawn

    While Unity had its flaws, it did one thing right. Combat was hard. For an Assassin's Creed game at least. If you were outnumbered, you'd better get the hell out of there or buckle up, cause you'd be in for a hell of an ass kicking. It forced you to think like, oh I don't know, an ASSASSIN?

    Okay, well, the story has been the strong point of AC, except for the last few maybe - how is it in this? I'll tell you. There isn't much. It starts of great, with a strong opening that really has you longing to get to England. Once you get there, you start recruiting allies. And then you recruit more allies. And then a few more. And a few more. Currently, I have made alliances with 4 kings and two armies - how many alliences does my podunk in the middle of nowhere need? It's not like they've taken the time to add any meaningful trading with other cities, so what's the **** point of these damn alliances?

    Through all of my time playing Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, I kept thinking 'What's the point?'.

    Why do I need to weaken someones army, when I can run through their entire city unscathed and open the door for my useless battering ram and the rest of my men, who for some reason cannot die? Why do I need to upgrade the village beyond the blacksmith, when all I get is an increase to a 'Feast' buff that I don't need to use? Why do I need a Jomsviking when it has no effect on my crew at all? Why do I need to change my crew when none of them are different from each other?

    There's no threat, no sense of urgency to any of it. So, what's the point Ubisoft? I can live with you not making Assassin's Creed games be about assassins, but you better have a good reason for it. This game is a BORE from start to finish, and now I'm really scared, because if you managed to make vikings boring, there's no telling what you'll ruin next.    … Expand
  18. AlexFko
    Nov 14, 2020
    4
    The first 2-3 hours are good, but then the grinding starts again and the central plot disappears.
    The animation of movement and battles has become worse.
  19. Guido_OldSchool
    Dec 8, 2020
    4
    So many bugs, glitches,(lost my save, game crashed sooo many times) This game need more time before released
  20. FoxForce
    Jun 8, 2021
    4
    Ubisoft's game design philosophy mimics that of mobile game designers. They have made a very basic foundation for a game and in each iteration they update or redesign the art by using software that employ procedural content generation(Houdini for example) to automate the process as much as possible.
    The core concepts of gameplay could be described as a very short and average main campaign    Ubisoft's game design philosophy mimics that of mobile game designers. They have made a very basic foundation for a game and in each iteration they update or redesign the art by using software that employ procedural content generation(Houdini for example) to automate the process as much as possible.
    The core concepts of gameplay could be described as a very short and average main campaign that is slowed and hindered to a halt by artificial and unintuitive grinds to keep the player invested and sometimes to encourage purchase of boosters to pass these forced limitations. This review as far as I know could be attributed to all of modern Ubisoft games    … Expand
  21. dExperTb
    Feb 18, 2023
    4
    Что за дичь по сюжету всё слили в унитаз. Боги переродились, но оно им по сути и нах не надо, а потом через 1000 лет вдруг надо, катастрофа каждые 5 лет (условно) уже... поймали дно
  22. JonathanFD
    Sep 28, 2021
    4
    Sound is so compressed and low quality I'm gonna lose my mind. They still haven't fixed it and probably never will. Oh speaking of never fixing it- BUGS lots of bugs
  23. tdl
    Dec 20, 2020
    4
    So this is the play now from Ubisoft? Release a game, get the reviews without the bad press from microtransactions then release the parasite mechanics? Can't say i'm totally surprised given this is pretty much what they've done since AC:Origins.

    It's a lesson to gamers to seriously reconsider buying a game either by pre-order or even post-order because the bad stuff appears to come    So this is the play now from Ubisoft? Release a game, get the reviews without the bad press from microtransactions then release the parasite mechanics? Can't say i'm totally surprised given this is pretty much what they've done since AC:Origins.

    It's a lesson to gamers to seriously reconsider buying a game either by pre-order or even post-order because the bad stuff appears to come after the review cycle.

    Is it as bad as they say though? Well try restarting the game now they are selling XP boosters and see if its even more grindier than when it released and you'll have your answer.    … Expand
  24. Relkad
    Dec 15, 2020
    4
    Like most of the AC games, this one also has a good beginning and ending.
    And like the last 2 games, it has an almost dead and soulless open world which gets extremely boring as you feel like you're killing puppets while you're killing guards as the game progresses.
    Combat is a bit better than odyssey but the AI needs a LOT of work.
  25. ritas666
    Apr 5, 2021
    4
    I don't know why this game is so praised and said to be closer to the original Assassin's Creed. In my opinion, it is no different from Odyssey and Origins - the same game engine, the same game mechanics, just in a new design wrapper. It is still RPG with regions and enemies levels. Its graphics are beautiful, the gameplay has become a little more pleasant, but in general, we are sold theI don't know why this game is so praised and said to be closer to the original Assassin's Creed. In my opinion, it is no different from Odyssey and Origins - the same game engine, the same game mechanics, just in a new design wrapper. It is still RPG with regions and enemies levels. Its graphics are beautiful, the gameplay has become a little more pleasant, but in general, we are sold the same game. A parody of gwent, raids, leveling up a settlement and presence of the assassins as secondary characters - this is insufficient to be called a new game. Have you played Odyssey? You've played Vallhalla then.… Expand
  26. Rhad3
    Nov 15, 2020
    4
    Good points:
    Main hero feels good and has nice writing for whole of the game.
    Some of the stories are well done. Optimization, bright contrast to Watch Dogs that barely run and look ugly, that is one of nice points of seeing nice England. Now the bad points: Receptiveness at its worst Some stories are B- at best Bugs, never did I play game that had more game breaking bugs, amongst    Good points:
    Main hero feels good and has nice writing for whole of the game.
    Some of the stories are well done.
    Optimization, bright contrast to Watch Dogs that barely run and look ugly, that is one of nice points of seeing nice England.

    Now the bad points:
    Receptiveness at its worst
    Some stories are B- at best
    Bugs, never did I play game that had more game breaking bugs, amongst which were frequent crashes, broken quests, whole save crumbled apart and worst one - main story broke once which was 30 hours of playtime lost.

    Considering the state the game is and lack of clear engaging story puts it at 4/10.    … Expand
  27. Ragnarocek
    Nov 12, 2020
    4
    recycled Odyssey/Origins with less RPG factor and with many bugs and glitches
  28. wifeaggro13
    Nov 12, 2020
    4
    Good lord where do i start. First off the game really is obviously rushed to the point of maybe 70 percent finished. With Odyssey they really hit it out of the park . combat was fluid understandable and finished. this is far from that combat is clunky and so pointedly broken it makes the skill tree and build completely and utterly pointless. Your story arc so unengaging you almost getGood lord where do i start. First off the game really is obviously rushed to the point of maybe 70 percent finished. With Odyssey they really hit it out of the park . combat was fluid understandable and finished. this is far from that combat is clunky and so pointedly broken it makes the skill tree and build completely and utterly pointless. Your story arc so unengaging you almost get lost .Add in the no levels which is not a game enhancement it seems it was a development cost thing it makes progression horrible. It is painfully obvious from looking at Ubi softs forums the game is not matching up with the paid rag reviews . how meta critic is giving this an 8.0 after Odyssey is mind blowing. Developers should strive to make their franchise better not 2 steps down in all directions. this was an obvious cash grab on the success of Odyssey . this franchise has been ruined for me if i could get a refund i would .… Expand
  29. Aciz
    Nov 22, 2020
    4
    Im now done with the main story and it was a real pain.

    Con: - many quests bugged, i skipped the mysterys after ~15 bugs where i needed to reload (completed like ~50) - the sound is awful, i never had any swimming sounds and the echo is a pain - boring combat, after you killed some with every weapon its all in all just boring. the npcs are just stupid (even on hardest difficulty) and    Im now done with the main story and it was a real pain.

    Con:
    - many quests bugged, i skipped the mysterys after ~15 bugs where i needed to reload (completed like ~50)
    - the sound is awful, i never had any swimming sounds and the echo is a pain
    - boring combat, after you killed some with every weapon its all in all just boring. the npcs are just stupid (even on hardest difficulty) and the execute animations are just frustrating after time
    - nearly no rewarding loot or any interesting stuff to get (was bay better in the last AC's)
    - follow quests (please just stop it ubisoft, its boring if you spend the first half of the way with boring dialogues and half speed and then rush the rest of the way)
    - climbing/mount is on some points just a real pain in the a**. your mount swings randomly in any directions on stairs; wont stop after calling him twice because he wont spawn so you cant place a knocked npc on your mount; climbing in general is just awful on some surroundings
    - story is meh at some points
    - skilltree is a joke in my eyes
    - lack of stuff to spend silver on
    - and again: bugfest! fix it ubisoft! no fix since 2 weeks!

    pro:
    - setting overall is just beautiful
    - some hidden stuff is nice to explore
    - voice of eivor is really good
    - music is good
    - interesting ending

    all in all i dont know why i kept playing this bad version of assassins creed....    … Expand
  30. Strongbone
    Nov 13, 2020
    4
    Whenever I start loving this game, it's faults hurts me like an axe to the face.

    This is everything I wanted from an Assassin's Creed viking game, and contains a lot of things i love in games. Large skill trees where I can put points, Base that can be built and upgraded, and running around doing tasks as I explore the open world. It's nothing new from the core gameplay of Origins or    Whenever I start loving this game, it's faults hurts me like an axe to the face.

    This is everything I wanted from an Assassin's Creed viking game, and contains a lot of things i love in games. Large skill trees where I can put points, Base that can be built and upgraded, and running around doing tasks as I explore the open world.
    It's nothing new from the core gameplay of Origins or Odyssey, except for a new twist on a few mechanics. And if you didn't like those games, then this won't be any change to that.

    So far I have completed two first areas in England, in terms of collecting and story. The game so far is great in terms of world building, great sound design, and I find the story both fun and engaging, it's what I expect from an Assassin's Creed game, and a bit more. Sadly all this greatness disappears behind bugs and bad game design.

    The new combat feature that Valhalla brings is stamina. A system that is supposed to bring more excitement and challenge to combat, but instead reveals all the flaws the system has. Compared to Origins and Odyssey if the enemy AI or combat bugged out you could always dodge back, and try again without being punished. With the Stamina system this feels extra punishing and unfair as a player. They have however tried to fix the issue where dodging was far superior to parry by having a stun bar that is chipped away when you parry certain attacks.
    On that note, these attacks are color telegraphed, something that is nice, except for the seemingly different amounts of time before the attack lands and that if you parry to soon, as a response, you fail and take damage. Have you first suffered a blow you get staggered and are having a hard time getting out unless you spend some stamina getting out, something it seems the AI does not have to do as they can get out of the stagger with relative ease, turning the player from a fierce viking to a cautious warrior.

    The other thing that makes this game frustrating beyond the gates of hell is the wall climb. Something I never gave a second thought in Odyssey, maybe because it worked or because those times it failed I knew I wouldn't die. In Valhalla the story takes a different turn, and not the turn many of us wanted. The wall climb is bad and buggy in most scenarios, with the character jumping to the wrong ledge or jumping off instead of up.

    On the side of gameplay, there are some terrible design choices made through the game in terms of level design. On the bright side, there are some good there, as one should expect from this type of game.

    The accessibility features of the game is amazing, and it starts out by giving you a lot of options so you can tailor the game to your needs, be it color options, text to speech or simply removing any nudity or gore.

    In the end Assassins Creed Valhalla is an amazing game, it tries to deliver what it promises, but the many bugs turn this experience into a sour one. It should have spent a couple of more months being polished.
    And if you are thinking of buying the game note this. It's the same gameplay loop as Odyssey and Origins. As of November 2020 it's buggy, if the bugs aren't being fixed, buy it at a sale. If you don't like the gameplay loop, don't waste your money.    … Expand
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Awards & Rankings

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#42 Best PC Game of 2020
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#5 Most Discussed PC Game of 2020

Critic Reviews

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82

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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