Assassin's Creed Valhalla

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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 3315 Ratings

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  1. 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
  2. nowayback
    Nov 14, 2020
    10
    Woah, i had no idea Assassin's Creed had so many haters, i guess Assassin's fans need to fight harder than ever this time. Amazing AC game.
  3. gans91
    Nov 14, 2020
    10
    Really good scen, huge and detailed open world. Really nice graphics for a cross-gen game.
    In this world, there are so many interactions to play and control ships, a storyline and side missions, a ton of new cities to arrive and play. This game is addictive and can run for 70 - 100 hours of play in reality.
  4. toservethelight
    Nov 14, 2020
    10
    Graphics - 10/10
    Sound/music - 10/10
    Voice Acting - 10/10
    Open World - 9/10
    Story - 8.7/10
  5. HGT33
    Nov 14, 2020
    10
    ---------------------------------------AMAZING MASTERPIECE-------------------------------------------
  6. FFH
    Nov 14, 2020
    10
    Graphics are better than odyssey, in fact these looks like true next gen. Voice acting is so much better than Odyssey. Missions are more fun than Odyssey. Parkour is million times better than in Odyssey. Basically yeah, it's very good. Don't let these fake zeros distract you.
  7. weworkinshadowz
    Nov 14, 2020
    10
    About million times better Assassin's Creed game than Odyssey. Great comeback Ubisoft!
  8. snowte
    Nov 14, 2020
    4
    Sorry but this game is really bad in mostly all aspects.
    The combat system is really the worst thing in this game it's bad, in animation, physics, and its a little buggy and unrealistic. I was expecting a combat system similar to for honor which would be way better than what it is now.
    The NPCs look kind of dead, its like Ubisoft keep reusing the old classic NPC system of their old games    Sorry but this game is really bad in mostly all aspects.
    The combat system is really the worst thing in this game it's bad, in animation, physics, and its a little buggy and unrealistic. I was expecting a combat system similar to for honor which would be way better than what it is now.
    The NPCs look kind of dead, its like Ubisoft keep reusing the old classic NPC system of their old games with only changing their clothes.
    And of course not to forget to mention the countless bugs in this game.
    The enemies also have a really broken funny A.I system, it's soo bad it makes you laugh.

    There are just a lot of bad and broken things to mention about this game, the game just feels unfinished, I don't know how there could be others who are rating this 10/10, its just ridiculous.
    I'm giving it 4/10 just because of the graphics and soundtrack.    … Expand
  9. Pipolop
    Nov 14, 2020
    10
    Один из лучших ассасинов,юбисофт исправили свои ошибки,добавили кучу побочных квестов,активностей,почти полностью отказались от РПГ системы. Советую всем купить.
  10. tr-uth
    Nov 14, 2020
    10
    Amazing..................................................................................................
  11. Adamaxhu
    Nov 14, 2020
    10
    Very good game, strong recommendation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  12. forver367
    Nov 14, 2020
    10
    Assassin's Creed Valhalla has two big maps for exploring, sailing with your boat on rivers, nice story, good voice acting and decent combat. To me it's one of the best of 2020.
  13. Radi
    Nov 14, 2020
    0
    This game is so bug infested is barely playable. You'll find bugs that ruin your experience every 10 minutes. Game breaking bugs, glitches in every single mission and task of the game. Do not buy this game right now, wait for a sale. Ubisoft got so lucky Cyberpunk got delayed, otherwise I'd have never bought this ****
  14. GalletaSuprema
    Nov 14, 2020
    0
    this is the worst assassins creed i've ever played, this saga is getting more boring by every game they drop, you can't play it more than 2 hours after you get bored, the graphics are disapointing and the story is the worst of everything
  15. Kagg
    Nov 14, 2020
    4
    The game looks nice, the setting is cool but the gameplay is not that great. The combat is somwhat odd or hard to control and the lack of healing just means you'll spend most fights running around looking for flowers and berries to heal the random and many times unavoidable damage. It's very frustrating that a game that focuses on fighting over anything else is 80% about running away fromThe game looks nice, the setting is cool but the gameplay is not that great. The combat is somwhat odd or hard to control and the lack of healing just means you'll spend most fights running around looking for flowers and berries to heal the random and many times unavoidable damage. It's very frustrating that a game that focuses on fighting over anything else is 80% about running away from enemies just to heal back up. Even on the easies of difficulties you die from random arrows that hit you behind walls, ignores your shield, get randomly lit on fire even though there is not a spark in sight and so on.

    In its current state, this is a huge disappointment and not at all at the level of the last two AC games.    … Expand
  16. DamienArax
    Nov 14, 2020
    9
    Overall this is a nice and decent game.
    One thing, they should get rid of all this "assassins creed" staff and make totally separate franchise.
    Something which represents open-world games in a purely historical setting without a sci-fi/assassin theme.
    Something without this annoying stitching too unfitting "assassins" theme.
  17. 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.
  18. Onixxx95
    Nov 14, 2020
    10
    I hope that people try the game themselves before giving bad marks. The game is good, atmospheric, just try it yourself without listening to haters
  19. Fiete1991
    Nov 14, 2020
    9
    Visually a feast for the eyes! Playfully excellent! One of the highlights of games this 2020.
  20. DmitryKochurov
    Nov 14, 2020
    10
    Мне игра понравилась в целом. Есть и косяки в плане боевки или оптимизации, но в целом это лучшая игра от Ubisoft за последнее время. К сожалению, давайте будем честными, игроки уже избалованы и мы на право и на лево осуждаем чуть ли не каждую игру. Потому призываю всех более объективно оценивать игры, а не по принципу: мне не понравилось, что небо "небесно голубого" цвета, а я хотелМне игра понравилась в целом. Есть и косяки в плане боевки или оптимизации, но в целом это лучшая игра от Ubisoft за последнее время. К сожалению, давайте будем честными, игроки уже избалованы и мы на право и на лево осуждаем чуть ли не каждую игру. Потому призываю всех более объективно оценивать игры, а не по принципу: мне не понравилось, что небо "небесно голубого" цвета, а я хотел "норвежско голубого" цвета и за это получайте 0 из 10...… Expand
  21. Calebc131
    Nov 13, 2020
    10
    I've been having a lot of fun with this game, about 10 hours in so far and it's been a good story and the exploration is great how they encourage and reward it. The combat could have used a bit more time developing to give it more weight but still pretty fun. Playing on an RTX 3080 and 10900k on 1440p with about 80 fps+ maxed out the game looks AMAZING! really made a beautiful world toI've been having a lot of fun with this game, about 10 hours in so far and it's been a good story and the exploration is great how they encourage and reward it. The combat could have used a bit more time developing to give it more weight but still pretty fun. Playing on an RTX 3080 and 10900k on 1440p with about 80 fps+ maxed out the game looks AMAZING! really made a beautiful world to play in.Does a great job of making you feel like a viking also when you ride your long ship up to a village and start a raid and run it burning the city down killing the guards and looting is awesome! I would definitely recommend at least paying for ubisoft + for a month and getting the whole game and the pre order bonuses with it for 15dollars… Expand
  22. IsamiKoto
    Nov 13, 2020
    10
    What a great game.Ubisoft you're the BEST!!!Thanks a lot! Waiting for a DLC's pack
  23. BiIlBrasky
    Nov 13, 2020
    0
    What a slitshow. Between the hammered wolf bussy that's Ubisoft and the lackluster Epic Games it's just an absolute clusterduck. Spent two hours just trying to unfudge it all. It's astounding how many people trash AC Odyssey and some other games in the franchise but prostrate to ones like this. Don't buy into the hype and save your money.
  24. Radio78
    Nov 13, 2020
    10
    Very good game, combat system, voice acting, graphics, no grinding, huge open world, good story.
  25. ifeelsogood
    Nov 13, 2020
    10
    One of the best Assassin's Creed games in long time, about time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  26. CFF78
    Nov 13, 2020
    10
    This one took my by surprise. Odyssey was so much weaker from basically every aspect.
  27. EyesofWrath
    Nov 13, 2020
    6
    It struck me as interesting that 7/10 reviews have dozens of downvotes while a one-line 10/10 review has several dozen upvotes pushing it to the top. And given that the reviews labeled 'unhelpful' by corporate shills are uniformly the ones that match my own experience with the game, I've decided to write a substantive review that those treating the game like the second coming of Christ canIt struck me as interesting that 7/10 reviews have dozens of downvotes while a one-line 10/10 review has several dozen upvotes pushing it to the top. And given that the reviews labeled 'unhelpful' by corporate shills are uniformly the ones that match my own experience with the game, I've decided to write a substantive review that those treating the game like the second coming of Christ can band together and downvote to their heart's content. Because to a discerning buyer, that seems to be a tick of approval.

    In brief: if you liked Odyssey, then you'll likely like the skeleton of this game. It feeds from exactly the same trough, in typical Ubisoft fashion, and essentailly makes some small, less significant tweaks to the previous release that change the feeling of the game slightly, but unfortunately not enough to make it feel fresh. If you carry with you a sense of fatigue at the expansive and often-repetitive nature of Odyssey's content, then you might find yourself starting this game with that fatigue hanging over you as I did. To be clear - I loved Odyssey. It was the only AC game released in the last decade that didn't eventually bore me. But it was huge and tiring, there can be no skirting around that fact. So the understanding that you're not playing a fundamentally different game sets in very quickly, and so does the exhaustion that Odyssey eventually gave way to, despite how fun it was.

    Those feelings are more or less identical here - Valhalla is fun, and it's a tweaked version of its predecessor, but it never, ever diverges enough to feel like much other than the exact same formula, and while I find that formula less worn-out than that of, say, the formula of the later 'old-style' AC games like Syndicate or Unity, it's still worn-out nonetheless.

    Ubisoft is up to their old tricks, of course, and Valhalla feels like another step slightly too far down the same road. This is exactly why Syndicate tanked in sales and forced the company to revamp for Origins. But because we're 20-something games deep in the series, whatever minor changes Ubisoft make to their releases hold a far-more-quickly diminishing set of returns for long-time players.

    So while I was, for once, excited for what I thought might be something honestly different, Valhalla has ultimately been the game to convince me that the series has reached its natural end. It simply cannot be iterated anymore. Each new release needs to a wild revamp, because there's just not enough 'new' game here for a 90 dollar release. It's one of two dozen other games that all kind of feel the same, and one of three RPG-style games that already feel like they're being spat out of the Ubisoft-open-world-Build-O-Matic 2000 pipeline.

    Which, y'know, if you're not tired of the other games, might be appealing. I must admit that I like the safe and often mindless gameplay loop of the series, and Valhalla offers a beautiful new setting with some fairly engaging story and gory combat. Combat stamina has been introduced to remove the button-mashing of Odyssey, but the combat controls themselves are pretty clunky and lack the finesse needed to maintain a nice flow. You'll often find yourself getting struck simply because you hit the button one-too-many times. On lesser difficulties this is not so much a problem, but when you're one-shotted because you hit the attack button one single time too many it can be enraging. You can dodge to cancel actions, which gives the combat a welcome learning curve - you can get better in-game by improving as a player - but it isn't enough for the fighting to feel less shallow, and the aged engine struggles to meet the demands of the system they've designed. And honestly, that's a pretty good summation of the whole beast - what little they tried to change only works half as well as you'd hope, and it's very likely because the developers suffered horribly at the hands of company management during production.

    It's devastating to know that you're playing a game that *feels* like it was made by overworked people. The reported crunch is worn on Valhalla's sleeve more clearly than ever in the bugs, the glitches, the slapdash animations, the lack of innovation, and the clunky mechanics. This game was forced out before Christmas and could easily have benefitted from, among other things, months of extra development time. But there's no saving a game made simply to make money by a company infamously cruel to its employees, with the tightest possible development schedule and the slimmest allowable window for innovation. It's a deep scar given context by a knowledge of how the game was produced.

    So why am I here? Because you may find yourself uncertain, or willing to compromise your stated values out of curiosity, or, like me, a long-standing enjoyment of the series. But honestly I don't think this product is worth the money. It's not that different from Odyssey, and all things considered, I honestly don't even think it's 'better'    … Expand
  28. AceAscendus
    Nov 13, 2020
    0
    Extremely bad performance, massive fps drops. The game is also extremely boring, melee combat is garbage.
  29. DefinetheLine
    Nov 13, 2020
    10
    Reminds me launch of AC 4 Black Flag, then it also came to both current and next gen consoles. Both are very good AC games.
  30. Yaj78
    Nov 13, 2020
    10
    One of the best games of 2020 and overall one of the best AC games ever made. If you have ever cared about this series i would strongly recommend trying this.
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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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