Assassin's Creed Valhalla

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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 3315 Ratings

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  1. HonestOpinionzz
    Feb 24, 2021
    10
    Overall it's not best assassins creed, but it's far from worst, like some haters try to pretend. Better than origins and odyssey.
  2. Georgyluvorgy
    Feb 24, 2021
    0
    This game just BORING, STUPID GRIND, there is no gameplay here, game is empty, stupid quests and level system, unbalanced bosses who kill you with one blow and counter every ur things, empty, gray and boring world, boring characters, boring story, boring in every things, I played 70 hours and during this time nothing has changed or improved in the game, the same boring and grinding ****This game just BORING, STUPID GRIND, there is no gameplay here, game is empty, stupid quests and level system, unbalanced bosses who kill you with one blow and counter every ur things, empty, gray and boring world, boring characters, boring story, boring in every things, I played 70 hours and during this time nothing has changed or improved in the game, the same boring and grinding **** just comtinues, this is the worst AC game ever. Origin and Odyssey was more better than this piece of dog ****… Expand
  3. Logicalreviews
    Feb 24, 2021
    10
    Easily one of the best games of 2020. Anyone who says that it's worst game of the year or something is either sad cyberbug2077 fanboy or just troll.
  4. Flybloom
    Feb 24, 2021
    10
    Solid AC, personally i enjoyed it way more than last two entries. Specially from story and map design standpoint. It's just interesting to explore England and Norway. Empty desert in Origins and endless amount of Islands in Odyssey were just meh. But seems like they have almost perfected their idea how to make huge open world maps interesting.
  5. FutureisNow
    Feb 24, 2021
    10
    For the love of god, if anyone from Ubisoft is reading this, just know that i have supported you for years. I love almost all AC games. But you guys know it and i know it that games need to move forward. Just like every other video game series is evolving, so is Assassin's Creed! DO NOT listen this minority who complains and hates new games. Never go back to AC1 or AC3, for the love ofFor the love of god, if anyone from Ubisoft is reading this, just know that i have supported you for years. I love almost all AC games. But you guys know it and i know it that games need to move forward. Just like every other video game series is evolving, so is Assassin's Creed! DO NOT listen this minority who complains and hates new games. Never go back to AC1 or AC3, for the love of god, if you do, i will never buy your games again, i swear. AC Odyssey was weak, everyone knows it, but Valhalla was solid step back to what made AC games good. People seem to forget that Black Flag had huge open world to explore, so many locations. Only games from now on that deserve to be inspiration for future assassin's creed's are following: AC 4 Black Flag, Unity, some parts of Origins and Valhalla. That's it. I really believe in your company, you have made some great games over the years, please listen to your actual fans, who have supported you for years. Don't listen to small minority who just wants attention and wants to whine about your new games. They don't like anything you have made since 2013, there's absolutely zero reason to listen to them.… Expand
  6. Reality_Reviews
    Feb 24, 2021
    10
    Okay that's enough. This is not any kind of attack by the way. This is just my opinion, just like youtuber Luke Stephens had his opinion. Well he is 100% wrong and has absolutely no idea what he is talking about. There's absolutely no question that i'm bigger AC fan that he could ever dream to be. Calling Valhalla garbage is biggest joke in years. Valhalla is easily better than bothOkay that's enough. This is not any kind of attack by the way. This is just my opinion, just like youtuber Luke Stephens had his opinion. Well he is 100% wrong and has absolutely no idea what he is talking about. There's absolutely no question that i'm bigger AC fan that he could ever dream to be. Calling Valhalla garbage is biggest joke in years. Valhalla is easily better than both Origins and specially Odyssey. Valhalla is first AC game in long time where it has been really interesting to finally explore the open world. You mentioned how interesting pyramids were in Origins, well of course. But here the thing, they were one of the few interesting things about Origins. Most of it was boring empty desert. I don't hate Origins, but it wasn't as interesting as Valhalla. Valhalla has way better story, better character and better open world. You said that England doesn't have landmarks or places to explore. Kidding me? London? Stonehenge? Huge castles? Mountains in Norway? There's so much to explore. Valhalla is easily one of the better designed maps Ubisoft has ever done, just behind Black Flag. There you go. You said that you laugh at people who think Origins is meh, well i laugh at you saying that Valhalla is garbage. There's clearly, very clearly more people who like Valhalla than Origins. Valhalla was biggest PC launch for Ubisoft EVER. It had over 2 million players in launch month alone. Jor Raptor gets 100 000s views on almost every Valhalla video he makes. People very clearly like this game and many have said that they absolutely love Valhalla map designs. Showing your "poll" as some evidence is BS, because most people answered that they haven't even played this game, but you said that people agree with you. Hell no. Thankfully you don't get that many views, so i don't really care that much, but this one video made me write this, because it was just too much nonsense. If you can have your BS opinion, then i have every right to have my opinion about your video and point out false things. I have been Assassin's Creed supporter and fan over 10 years and i very likely like games that you don't even like, because you seem like somebody who hops on hype trains. You know very well that people who whine about new games are just nostalgia nerds who hate every game after AC 3. I have always liked Unity and even Syndicate and i strongly doubt you like them. If you do, fair, but my point about Valhalla's map stands.… Expand
  7. ACgames
    Feb 19, 2021
    10
    Overall: While at first it looked really nice graphically, i'm not extremely happy with this game. Water looks kind of weird at times, idk what it is, but some weird graphics effect. Another complaint would be that ocean feels really empty, there's hardly anything in the ocean, compared to Odyssey that had sunken temples and whales,sharks, sunken shipwrecks. Maybe i just haven't lookedOverall: While at first it looked really nice graphically, i'm not extremely happy with this game. Water looks kind of weird at times, idk what it is, but some weird graphics effect. Another complaint would be that ocean feels really empty, there's hardly anything in the ocean, compared to Odyssey that had sunken temples and whales,sharks, sunken shipwrecks. Maybe i just haven't looked enough, but so far it seems that there's nothing to explore in the ocean in Valhalla and that's a shame. I was hoping for giant squids and stuff, because it's the correct region where they actually live in real life, but i guess Ubisoft didn't want to take that risk, because "giant squid too scary, whore cares that it actually exists". But negatives out of the way, it's still really solid Assassin's creed game. Not better than Black Flag, but overall it can be fun. I was just expecting little bit more. Hopefully next game will be this huge leap, but Valhalla is still okay. But it fixes so many things that Odyssey lacked, like solid story, more interesting map, not grindy anymore. There's room for improvement, like adding more legacy outfits, adding something to ocean?? Please Ubisoft?? Unless it was always meant to have empty ocean, but it's just weird idk. But like i said it's still way better than Odyssey, even with it's flaws.
    Ranking: My 4th favorite Ac game.    … Expand
  8. Redden44
    Feb 18, 2021
    5
    If you like AC Odyssey this will feel like a huge step in the wrong direction.

    Graphics is more realistic but colours are extremely oversaturated with drastic colour changes to the point that turning the camera results in repainting the entire world from green/blue to yellow/red. Also sunlight and beams are so strong to the point the they will hurt your eyes... Every action has been    If you like AC Odyssey this will feel like a huge step in the wrong direction.

    Graphics is more realistic but colours are extremely oversaturated with drastic colour changes to the point that turning the camera results in repainting the entire world from green/blue to yellow/red. Also sunlight and beams are so strong to the point the they will hurt your eyes...

    Every action has been slow down and and received some form of inertia, which makes everything feel slow, heavy and clunky, from simple movement, to changing direction, climbing and fighting, everything feels like a chore.
    To perform some simple actions, like looting a big chest, you now have to call for help and wait until a member of your crew arrives, which is very annoying.
    Opening crates and or harvesting is no longer possible, you have to smash the containers or the mineral nodes, wait for them to be destroyed, wait for the loot to pop up and finally spam the loot button cause you can no longer grab everything nearby with a single action...also hitting a container is a freaking lottery because the aim is completely messed up and your character constantly misses the object that is right in front of him.

    Combat has lost its flow, it's no longer fast paced and has gained a useless stamina bar, also you can no longer craft arrows for whatever reason...!?
    The game constantly take away the control of the camera from you, which could be fine for console but it's extremely annoying for PC; for instance every time you run and call your horse, the camera automatically rotates and show you the freaking ground forcing you to stop and wait for the horse to arrive...and if you try to fix the camera, it automatically turns back in the wrong position...

    The map is a mess, icons that showed locations are now tiny white and yellow lights that you can barely see because the map is also white...genius...

    Exploration is a pain in the ass, every freaking door is barred and you need to find an alternative hidden entrance or you have to find a oil jar to blow a barricade away, too bad the stupid jar is always hundreds of meters away, turning the whole process into an annoying treasure hunt chore.

    Some of the sound effects are very loud and annoying, also some triggers are completely wrong and as you explore you constantly trigger the same sound over and over.

    Music is not as good as in Odyssey, but it's ok.
    Voice acting is great.    … Expand
  9. EmirSelcukBW
    Feb 16, 2021
    10
    Game is so good the historical things Viking theme story everything is better than Odyssey.
  10. Mareco98
    Feb 16, 2021
    7
    Sin duda esta muy bien respectos con los otros, como el sistema de ir mejorando la aldea, y como hacer mas natural el encontrar las cosas, pero sigo pensando que debería cuidar mas los juegos, me ha craseado varias veces y algunos bugs que no deberían ocurrir.
  11. Paulystan
    Feb 14, 2021
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This has all the potential of being a good game but it is seriously let down by some high caliber problems.
    1- It simply isn't as good as its predecessor. Odyssey was better in most regards including fighting, ship conflict, style, scaling, characters, story etc.
    2- They have kept that absolute SJW future crap where you totally lose immersion in the actual game by suddenly leaping forward to some irritating American woman wandering about trying to find alien artifacts. I get AC world has this metanarrative woven throughout but I have to be honest, it's a crap narrative and very poorly executed crap at that.
    3- The controls are VERY clunky and unresponsive. In situations where timing is critical, the game totally fails you. I haven't ever become as irritated by a computer game as I have with AC Valhalla... It's worse that Odysseys issues.
    4- The world is filled with treasure but apparently most of them are stupidly hard to get to and require really fiddly little arrow shots or wandering about for 10 minutes until you find a cellar entrance by accident. This is not puzzle solving team, it's just boring crap.
    5- Eivor, the main character, is a nobody who is apparently somebody. He isn't a king, he doesn't have renown, he isn't even a clan chief, he is JUST a warrior. Maybe he is a good one but the character of somebody rolling with the big dogs of the day is nonsense. He is a nobody, he would have not been important enough to become close confidante of the Lothbrocks or kings etc.
    6- In many instances, the Norse and Danes are considered by the game as the defacto good guys. Although I appreciate that Eivor needs to be a good guy in his world, the viking raids and the later Norse/Dane settlers were NOT in anyway good guys. The Saxons, Angles, Celts etc may also have had their dark sides and let's be honest, life in the dark ages was VERY brutal and hard but you cannot in any way write into existence that the fyrd would side with the invaders or that the local people of war torn Mercia would regard the invaders benevolently.
    7- You have once again, like all the post modern age interpretations of faith, shat on Christianity and made paganism that included things like human sacrifice of slaves, legitimised rape and vile actions against Christians because they dared believe something else is just another attack on a Christianity that, regardless of whether you have any faith of any kind now, actually acted as an extremely peaceful and right giving faith. They ensured things like a universal system of laws which made murder wrong and taking a woman against her will illegal. Was it spotless, no of course not but civilisation has somewhat proven that it was a damn site better than the available other options.
    8- The game crashes, regularly. In itself it isn't a huge deal but far out, for a very expensive full price and 'completed' game, it is very trashy.
    9- Silver is useful only for sideline noise stuff like buying a new decoration for your extremely undersized boat. This is dumb. For a leader, jarl, king, lord etc, money was the sinews of war. Vikings particularly ONLY stayed with the man they were sworn to if their leader was a gold giver. Silver and gold should be WAY more critical to success in this game, instead you have put in things like chests full of iron ore and leather (what?) and ingots of metal to be the more important currency. Odyssey did this way better.
    10- Ubisoft have damaged their recent games by being greedy. Making people BUY the game and then trying to sell currency packs or decoration packs etc is absurd. You are becoming dangerously close the EA in your profits first policy. This will be the last Ubisoft game I buy in a very long while, possibly ever.
    11- It is thin. Odyssey felt, rich, vibrant, energised... fun. Valhalla is thin and very easy to put down and stop playing. I doubt I will be able to drag myself across the finish line, what a let down after Odyssey.
    12- As a final remark, your horse riding is crap.    … Expand
  12. Don_Pasqual
    Feb 14, 2021
    9
    The story gets better and better! And every character from every story arc really is memorable and great
  13. SpringisComing
    Feb 12, 2021
    10
    Assassin's Creed: Valhalla restored my faith in Ubisoft. I was really worried after Ghost Recon Breakpoint. It's actually understandable that all their games can't be hits, because they have so many studios working on different games, so no wonder some of these games are great and some are not.
  14. Jennifer33
    Feb 12, 2021
    10
    Very fun, addicting and beautiful looking game. Would recommend to old and new fans.
  15. Alwaysflyhigh
    Feb 12, 2021
    10
    Better than Odyssey. Overall i was expecting little bit bigger improvement, but i guess that will be next one. But it's basically perfected version of Odyssey with tons of new cool abilities, better looking locations, more variety in locations and so on. Parkour is also better than in Odyssey.
  16. Brave_New_World
    Feb 12, 2021
    10
    Solid Assassin's Creed entry. Way better than Odyssey or Origins. I have a feeling that Ubisoft is back on track, can't wait for Far Cry 6!
  17. Iwillneverdie
    Feb 12, 2021
    10
    Just like with any other game, PC version is best version of AC Valhalla as well. Great game.
  18. Facts_Feelings
    Feb 12, 2021
    10
    It's crazy how evil and tasteless some people can be. Ubisoft takes years to make these amazing game and all they get back is some whining losers who give them 0 out of 10. Great game.
  19. Ubisoft_Forever
    Feb 12, 2021
    10
    I will support Ubisoft until the day i die. I bought AC Valhalla Day 1 and i will do same with Far Cry 6. I want to play Assassin's Creed Unity as last thing i ever do, before i die. Ubisoft (alongside Rockstar Games, Remedy Entertainment and Capcom) is one of my favorite game developers of all time and i mean it. They have got so much undeserved hate from tasteless haters who never evenI will support Ubisoft until the day i die. I bought AC Valhalla Day 1 and i will do same with Far Cry 6. I want to play Assassin's Creed Unity as last thing i ever do, before i die. Ubisoft (alongside Rockstar Games, Remedy Entertainment and Capcom) is one of my favorite game developers of all time and i mean it. They have got so much undeserved hate from tasteless haters who never even cared to play Ubisoft games. Anyway i just wanted to truly thank Ubisoft for every video game they have done and thanks to that made my life so much happier and better in general. Watch Dogs and AC Unity were games that helped me to get over my depression and for that i'm forever thankful for Ubisoft. Thank you.… Expand
  20. I_RateGames
    Feb 12, 2021
    10
    Hopefully next AC will be something completely new, but until that, Valhalla is really solid AC game, easily one of the best games of 2020.
  21. epic_pirate
    Feb 12, 2021
    10
    It's so obvious that all the nerds who are about 37-45 years old are extremely envy that nobody cares about their pointless overrated video game series anymore (examples: mass effect, fallout, cdprojectred in general). They can't deal with it that new and better series like Assassin's Creed, Far Cry , Remedy Entertainment as a whole and many more are taking over. In fact they have alreadyIt's so obvious that all the nerds who are about 37-45 years old are extremely envy that nobody cares about their pointless overrated video game series anymore (examples: mass effect, fallout, cdprojectred in general). They can't deal with it that new and better series like Assassin's Creed, Far Cry , Remedy Entertainment as a whole and many more are taking over. In fact they have already taken over. I just hope these ancient "gamers" will give up eventually and move on with their sad lives and leave video games for people who actually like them.… Expand
  22. andlifegoeson
    Feb 12, 2021
    10
    Very fun game, specially if you like black flag. Reminds me black flag a lot actually, but with 2020 graphics.
  23. ThePunisher_
    Feb 12, 2021
    10
    So much better game than Witcher 3. In Witcher 3 you just randomly kill some pointless goblins and dragons. Assassin's Creed has all the cool historical locations and places, so it makes you care so much more. Anyone can come up with some random fantasy world, "Runescape" is good example. That's not fun. Fun is when you can free roam in old locations, like London, Climb on Stonehenge andSo much better game than Witcher 3. In Witcher 3 you just randomly kill some pointless goblins and dragons. Assassin's Creed has all the cool historical locations and places, so it makes you care so much more. Anyone can come up with some random fantasy world, "Runescape" is good example. That's not fun. Fun is when you can free roam in old locations, like London, Climb on Stonehenge and much, much more.… Expand
  24. BuBBleGUm1000
    Feb 12, 2021
    10
    Assassin's Creed is back, better than ever! Well, okay it's not best AC game (that would be AC 4), but it's still great and way better than Odyssey. I'm not able to understand why someone would say that they like Odyssey more. I guess these people don't like actual Assassin's Creed? Either way it seems like they are slowly moving back to what AC used to be and that's amazing. I have readAssassin's Creed is back, better than ever! Well, okay it's not best AC game (that would be AC 4), but it's still great and way better than Odyssey. I'm not able to understand why someone would say that they like Odyssey more. I guess these people don't like actual Assassin's Creed? Either way it seems like they are slowly moving back to what AC used to be and that's amazing. I have read that some people want fall damage to be removed. To me that's BS. Why remove fall damage? AC games have ALWAYS had fall damage, because it makes parkouring more risky/interesting. If you know that you gonna fall and nothing happens, then where's the fun?… Expand
  25. Daigo19
    Feb 10, 2021
    8
    Un obligado y entretenido entre los Assasin´s mejor que sus antecesores Odyssey y Origins
  26. TosciQ76
    Feb 10, 2021
    1
    The game is fine, nice gameplay, graphics BUT UPLAY (launcher) IS **** ****
  27. ZombiCoon
    Feb 9, 2021
    0
    Microtransactions are getting worse and worse after the game is released. Unacceptable.
  28. Czeslav
    Feb 9, 2021
    7
    Great visual effects and design but quite a boring gameplay and totaly tiresome crashes I meet regularly playing it. It worth to be played but with reservations.
  29. Raven666
    Feb 7, 2021
    0
    Никакого доната в одиночных платных играх априори быть не должно, люди уже заплатили за продукт и должны пользоваться всем его контентом который только в него заложен

    Дальше с нас за что будут дергать деньги? За возможность сохранять игровой процесс? За возможность повысить/понизить сложность прохождения? За вариативные диалоги и концовки? Здесь речь идет не о FTP проекте    Никакого доната в одиночных платных играх априори быть не должно, люди уже заплатили за продукт и должны пользоваться всем его контентом который только в него заложен

    Дальше с нас за что будут дергать деньги? За возможность сохранять игровой процесс? За возможность повысить/понизить сложность прохождения? За вариативные диалоги и концовки?

    Здесь речь идет не о FTP проекте
  30. Nordavind
    Feb 7, 2021
    5
    The game looks great and the storyline is interesting enough. However, the game suffers from serious game-breaking bugs, which still haven't been fixed after 4 months of launch. If you take a look at the game forums you can see that they are filled with reports of the game crashing and players being unable to progress in the game. It also appears that these bugs occur in every platform.The game looks great and the storyline is interesting enough. However, the game suffers from serious game-breaking bugs, which still haven't been fixed after 4 months of launch. If you take a look at the game forums you can see that they are filled with reports of the game crashing and players being unable to progress in the game. It also appears that these bugs occur in every platform. Don't buy this game until it's fixed.… Expand
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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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