Assassin's Creed Valhalla

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7.2

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  1. RefinedInsights
    Aug 16, 2023
    4
    I was looking forward to this game for a while; upon playing it, I found out that it was a clone of dark souls, had way too many bugs, that prevented me from completing it so I had to quit early due to it not being playable. The story also sucked and was not even close to being historically accurate. Overall this one was a major decline in the series.
  2. AdoMobA
    Mar 18, 2023
    2
    Pros
    - flyting is lit
    - orlov is a lot of fun Cons - the combat is just as mind numbingly boring as Odyssey - the most forgettable main story yet - the most garbage, unreliable stealth in the series - the guaranteed assassination skill is useless when the stealth is this broken - meaningless level system with boring skill trees - the map looks samey - fragmented story beats in    Pros
    - flyting is lit
    - orlov is a lot of fun

    Cons
    - the combat is just as mind numbingly boring as Odyssey
    - the most forgettable main story yet
    - the most garbage, unreliable stealth in the series
    - the guaranteed assassination skill is useless when the stealth is this broken
    - meaningless level system with boring skill trees
    - the map looks samey
    - fragmented story beats in each region bleed together without any iconic moments
    - wet fart of a main villain
    - the game overstays its welcome sixty percent through the joke that is the fragmented story and then... just refuses to end, sodomizing this dead horse of a game
    - progression once again choked by microtransactions
    - more armor sets in the Helix store than in the actual game

    I did not think things could get worse than Odyssey but Valhalla obliterates what it means to release garbage. This game is actually so hilariously bad that it is the first time in all the years of playing this goddamn series I dropped it and didn't come back for any of the dlc.

    The main story… I mean what is the main story? You get individual stories for each of the regions and then the main guy in your village runs away, then you chase him and bring him back and then you do a couple more of these disjointed events around the map, then modern stuff happens, then epilogue then zzzzzzzzzzz….. And it just doesn't end.

    The hilarious attempt at stealth is actually sad when looking at it from any objective direction. Valhalla was not designed for stealth. Like not at all. One enemy sees you, the whole entire map knows about you. So just don't let them see your forehead… yeah right. Every game with awareness meters lets you pull enemies around the map. Valhalla? Ping and you are found.

    You can whistle to pull enemies. Lmao ok. Beyond unreliable. More times than not they walk two steps toward you before returning to their route. The guaranteed assassination insta-kill skill? Not a stealth tool. You get one of those, if that and then you automatically get spotted. And once you do, combat ensues.

    Hey, do you enjoy bullet sponges? I mean sword/ax/spear/whatever you are using sponges? Do you like fights that take five minutes each? Oh then you will love this game. If you are doing the mistake of trying to play this thing, abandon stealth and just treat it as a combat game.

    I have never played a game where I was more bored by leveling up. Just me or is max level 99 the threshold for me caring? Each level feels exciting. In Valhalla, the max level is 400. Do I feel a difference between me being level 50 and level 250? I don't know. What doesn't help is the skill tree.

    Boring passive after borning passive only to get to the actual skills. Wow I leveled up, what do I pick 1% more melee, stealth or assassination damage. Woooow, now I am doing 1% more of the damage type I picked, what an accomplishment.

    How about the monetization? Do you want to suffer less of a grind through those 400 levels? Five bucks for 50% more XP for a limited time please. This game ain't grindy we just care about working people with families

    How about armor sets? There are 9 of them in the base game. The best part of finishing this game was hearing about the grief Ubisoft got two months after I stopped playing it, as the real money Helix store had more paid armor sets than the actual game. Some of them cost upwards of 20 dollars aka one third of the initial price of this game. And that was the final push to never return to this thing.

    How far the series has fallen. The fact that the most fun parts of a game about Vikings are flyting, Viking style rap battles, and orlov, a dice mini game is saying something. Ubisoft succeeded in making an unending experience that will have you considering ending it all.    … Expand
  3. Faxthtax
    Mar 7, 2023
    4
    Assassins Creed is at this point purely an assembly line game. By now you should know EXACTLY what get when you buy an AC or any other sequel of another Ubisoft game for that matter.

    Graphically the game is really not that great. Does not pop out as warm as Origins and feels full scale-palette as Odyssey. Feels a little bland, no matter where on the map you are its just the same    Assassins Creed is at this point purely an assembly line game. By now you should know EXACTLY what get when you buy an AC or any other sequel of another Ubisoft game for that matter.

    Graphically the game is really not that great. Does not pop out as warm as Origins and feels full scale-palette as Odyssey. Feels a little bland, no matter where on the map you are its just the same everywhere.
    Wading trough snow is not technically as great as say, RDR2. face animation and textures is not very fluid. And since when was hipster hair fashion a thing in the Viking age?
    Also the kill-animations are cool ONCE. Here they are happening over and over all the time on big brutes and you have to watch them every time until you just want to puke. Let us turn it OFF please Ubisoft.

    The Assassins mechanic is pretty much non-existent in this game. Just don´t bother trying using stealth for garrison infiltrations. It´s broken and corrupted, completely decimated from the game. Stealth is cooked down to only hiding in the bushes. Not ONCE could i do a mission completely stealth. Impossible as i can guarantee you that you will be spotted after 10 seconds.
    The assassins formula is simply not there anymore, which is sad.

    Ubisoft has been very good at designing maps, but here it all feels generic, no wow-factor areas to speak of.
    Instead they make a map to annoy you. The have placed rock fences ALL around the map to kill any fluidity of rising horseback, as to believe if vikings really built so many rock fences. But all in all I was hoping for huge mythical places, temples and norse fables tales areas. This is just whack.
    To be honest, the further out in game you came, the more detached from feeling a Viking era game it became. Thanks to technical stuff and large society cities & villages.

    Audio: Music model follows same suit as previous. The same goes for voice acting that is just as bad as it always have been. accents terrible, comedic at point.

    By far the worst part of AC Valhalla is the combat. God knows what they were thinking designing it. The amount of sluggish feel and lag in response and button registration is the worst i have seen in any game. Gone is fluidity, in comes stagnation and rage. Your protagonist at often just stands there stupid while you mash buttons to counter attacks. It is TOTALLY broken. Blocking only works when it wants to.
    Absolute crap.

    Story is abysmal at best, i was hoping for more mysticism and norse fable episodes as i said. But again the story is the prime motivator here to even complete the game. But the story just dilutes into nothing. So many missions consists of you just riding long paths just to talk to a guy, for then to return to you came from and talk to another. And at the same time, devoid of any action. On another note: Im in England and i do not really know what my main goal in this game is? Make alliance with the brits? I just seem to make alliance in one area after another and it just never ends.
    The side quest must be some of the most sloppiest written and hastily made rubbish by far. Some are borderline no more than map & game fillers. You get a quest to fetch something, yeah its just around the house from here. Play hide and seek with some kids. Burn down a house. One mission i simply just talked to a man, Mission complete, here is 500 exp. I mean come on. No challenge, no frills. Just utter crock of nonsense that ridicules any valid seriousness in this game.

    I was grinding this game hard to begin with. With a slow and uninspiring intro in Norway, England does boost your morale to explore when you get there. But it is too BIG. But after the usual explore, hoard and collect in massive doses, i got tired. Since 60% of all loot is somewhat underground or locked in, you have to spend many boring hours just trying to find the entrance, or the key. Yawn..... Never has hoarding been so boring.

    Bugs.. plenty. Even game breaking ones. Blue-screen of death happens ever so often.

    Nope, sorry Ubisoft. Not only is this game awfully long, but boring storyline in the process. A wasted opportunity of what could have been an epic tale.    … Expand
  4. Sekur
    Feb 13, 2023
    0
    Worst game I've ever played in my whole life.....................................
  5. blk_mamba
    Dec 8, 2022
    1
    Boring story. Repetitive gameplay. Uninteresting characters. It only gets 1 point for visual.
  6. Hobojobes
    Dec 5, 2022
    4
    No idea why people are giving this a 10, it's pretty basic, most of the combat animations are on repeat, the map is large but devoid of anything interesting (much of it seemingly randomly generated), random quests lack imagination (burn this down, collect X number of Y or answer a riddle), the map is locked down via power bloat rather than increasing challenge in the enemies move setsNo idea why people are giving this a 10, it's pretty basic, most of the combat animations are on repeat, the map is large but devoid of anything interesting (much of it seemingly randomly generated), random quests lack imagination (burn this down, collect X number of Y or answer a riddle), the map is locked down via power bloat rather than increasing challenge in the enemies move sets (Random footman in X territory does 100 damage while his clone elsewhere does 1000).

    Effectively everything is given just enough polish to make it seem passable at first glance, however once you play it for more than a few hours you'll note how little respect the game has for your time.    … Expand
  7. noobdown
    Nov 27, 2022
    4
    Jogo enjoativo e repetitivo demais! Com uma historia mediana o jogo esta longe de ser bom como seu antecessor.
  8. fredrodi
    Nov 22, 2022
    4
    the game even after 2 years is unplayable due to glitches, had to leave it halfway through.
  9. Oaiturriaga
    Nov 4, 2022
    4
    It's hard for me to understand the fuss about this game. While it's fun to be a viking, the story and specially the main character are probably the most boring and least compelling of the whole saga. The ending? Underwhelming would be a generous way to put it.

    I fully realized this with the DLC that involved Kassandra -what a fun and complex character she seemed compared to Eivor! Or if    It's hard for me to understand the fuss about this game. While it's fun to be a viking, the story and specially the main character are probably the most boring and least compelling of the whole saga. The ending? Underwhelming would be a generous way to put it.

    I fully realized this with the DLC that involved Kassandra -what a fun and complex character she seemed compared to Eivor!

    Or if you play Origins again after Valhalla, you'll see how Bayek's journey seems much more important and intense than Eivor's. Yes, Valhalla has some interesting new features compared to its predecessors, but storywise, it's totally underwhelming. Eivor is little more than a Viking seeking to conquer Britain for the sake of it.
    I really think the fuss about this game has more to do with the current interest in Norse culture than anything else. For a game that takes 100+ hours to beat, spending all that time with a boring, plain character feels a bit like a waste of time.    … Expand
  10. Azeemo99
    Oct 23, 2022
    0
    Horrendous game from start to finish, just an excuse to get rich off of poor men and women with their unashamed use of micro transactions.
  11. Mindurbidniss
    Oct 14, 2022
    0
    Mandatory Ubiconnect login for an offline game? No thanks. If I purchase a product, I should be able to engage in it without submitting privacy violating information just to experience it. All that aside the game itself isn't bad, but it's not good either. Very generic and forgettable, also incredibly bloated. Throw in a bunch of whole propaganda and you have more of that good ol' UbiMandatory Ubiconnect login for an offline game? No thanks. If I purchase a product, I should be able to engage in it without submitting privacy violating information just to experience it. All that aside the game itself isn't bad, but it's not good either. Very generic and forgettable, also incredibly bloated. Throw in a bunch of whole propaganda and you have more of that good ol' Ubi cocktail of forgettableness. It's not very good looking either but the combat can be fun sometimes.… Expand
  12. noleme
    Sep 27, 2022
    4
    I feel like I played a different game than the other reviewers because this game sucks. It feels like a pathetic attempt at a Witcher game. Firstly, it is not an assassin's creed game. I don't care that it isn't assassins vs templars but it should at least be a stealth game and this isn't. The game actually discourages stealth. In raids you need your crew to open doors and chests so youI feel like I played a different game than the other reviewers because this game sucks. It feels like a pathetic attempt at a Witcher game. Firstly, it is not an assassin's creed game. I don't care that it isn't assassins vs templars but it should at least be a stealth game and this isn't. The game actually discourages stealth. In raids you need your crew to open doors and chests so you can't be stealthy and in the main missions you often siege a fortress rather than stealthily infiltrate it. Stealth is hard when you try to be stealthy because guards are always looking at each other and instantly become alerted as soon as they glimpse you. Stealth is useless. You can't even assassinate the zealots. In an assassins game you can't assassinate an enemy!

    The game is too long. The length wouldn't be a problem if the game was full of fun and interesting content but it isn't. The main story has you going to each region of England to get an alliance. All regions are required to complete the story and only some of them are fun and interesting. After you've done a few they become boring and repetitive. First you go talk to someone, then you follow them slowly somewhere, where you get in a small fight. Talk to them again. Go more places to talk to more people or get in small fights. Talk some more. Fight a siege. Repeat for next region, unless it is a city. In a city you'll track down three order members and kill them. This game is very dialogue heavy. There is so much following people and talking. It's not interesting or fun, just a chore. It is clear the devs bit off more than they can chew and were forced to copy and paste content.

    The side content is mostly useless and also not fun. Gear stats have little effect so once you've found a weapon type you like there is no reason to get more gear. You find ingots to upgrade your gear so finding them can be useful but there is more than enough ingots in the game. Annoyingly, these things are almost always behind a locked or barred door so it can turn into a chore to find them.
    Artifacts and tattoo/hair designs are completely useless and also often a chore to get.
    The mysteries can be interesting and I did a lot of them early game but the game started feeling long and drawn out so I just stopped doing them. You get more than enough skill points doing the main story anyway.

    Parkour is clumsy. It can be a chore to get through a window.
    Loading times are very long and the game loads a lot.

    Overall, this game's problem is there is a huge map with a ton of content but so much of it is completely useless and repetitive this game feels like a chore to play. Took me 75 hours to beat.    … Expand
  13. MickeyFinn
    Sep 20, 2022
    0
    Technically it's a blast, yet it's the one i played the least in the series. Microtransactions are a big NO for me. They started those slowly, in Odyssey it was still farmable, but no more. U have a store full of op and nice looking stuff on top of paying the game and the dlc. If i want to play like a boomer i play mmos for free with much more content. Yeah sure u want money, u reallyTechnically it's a blast, yet it's the one i played the least in the series. Microtransactions are a big NO for me. They started those slowly, in Odyssey it was still farmable, but no more. U have a store full of op and nice looking stuff on top of paying the game and the dlc. If i want to play like a boomer i play mmos for free with much more content. Yeah sure u want money, u really really like it. Get a real job or go do mobile games… Expand
  14. Pun1sher
    Sep 7, 2022
    0
    The game is **** The sound in the game is so disgusting that my ears can not stand this bucket. Donate in single player? Seriously? I downloaded this game from a torrent and immediately deleted it. This is simply impossible to play! 0 / 10 .
  15. nfs7379
    Sep 4, 2022
    4
    4/10.......................................................................
  16. Phuz
    Aug 24, 2022
    0
    Why are people hell bent on ruining gaming.

    I took a break from games for a while whilst my cock took priority over games. Now I have lived, I am catching up a bit and what a **** load of **** Watch cut scene with some attempt at shock factor. Add some terrible voice acting. Make me run across a big vast space of boringness. Mash a few baddies, spend ages in a big crappy 3D world,    Why are people hell bent on ruining gaming.

    I took a break from games for a while whilst my cock took priority over games.

    Now I have lived, I am catching up a bit and what a **** load of ****

    Watch cut scene with some attempt at shock factor. Add some terrible voice acting. Make me run across a big vast space of boringness. Mash a few baddies, spend ages in a big crappy 3D world, listen to more crap acting, repeat.

    Now any game that is good looking is considered a masterpiece. All it really is, is a long, slow, badly written, drawn out film. Like some shoddy Hollywood flop.

    Maybe a few gay millennials are shocked by some of the scenes. Personally, I find them predictable and pointless.

    These aren't games anymore, they are just **** films.

    No wonder Cobra Kai was so popular. You people seem to love 2 hrs worth of content dragged out over 40 hours. Even at 2 hours it would be mediocre at best.

    These 3D open world games are a gaming disaster. 9 times out of 10, they're ****

    All these 10/10 scores saying hater this, hater that. I'm not a hater. Ubisoft have a massive centre near me. They help the local economy. I have no hate for the company. I don't dislike them. I actually really like some of their other games. I played Ghost of Tsushima recently, which was the same but even worse but bad for the same reasons.

    I feel I would have to be around 13 years old to find this even remotely entertaining. I am not discrediting any quality of graphics, or sound here but to me this is just that - just graphics and sound with bad acting.    … Expand
  17. Godudu
    Aug 16, 2022
    3
    Just, too, long. Too much **** too much uninteresting plots. Combat is junky af, you dodge and its like your jumping 30 meters. Combat has no depth. Exploration is not rewarding which is sad with the size of the map. Everything you get and do is a disappointment. Im not a history professor but im sure that vikings werent stealthy.
  18. Alfanume1991
    Jul 28, 2022
    3
    It's amazing how in a few years a series that was something unprecedented and original lost its uniqueness at its own request. The fact is that money contributed to it, as it usually does when we are dealing with the demise of something great. Graphics, animations, credibility of the world, details, etc. are topics for separate posts, because it's downright reprehensible that a game fromIt's amazing how in a few years a series that was something unprecedented and original lost its uniqueness at its own request. The fact is that money contributed to it, as it usually does when we are dealing with the demise of something great. Graphics, animations, credibility of the world, details, etc. are topics for separate posts, because it's downright reprehensible that a game from 2021 looks worse in every way than, for example, Unity (Which, if it weren't for its flaws, would probably be one of the best assassins ever). Very sad this, and I fear that the days of good games in the Assassin's Creed series are gone forever.… Expand
  19. Waulk
    Jul 15, 2022
    4
    I am unbearably disappointed after buying and waiting for an opportunity to finally play AC Valhalla. besides all the FAKE Ubisoft reviews, I refuse to believe people who gave 10-point reviews played any video game before.

    Combat mechanics feel empty, pointless and also unresponsive. it doesn't make me feel like a Viking. it isn't even half inspiring. I don't feel the bloodlust I am    I am unbearably disappointed after buying and waiting for an opportunity to finally play AC Valhalla. besides all the FAKE Ubisoft reviews, I refuse to believe people who gave 10-point reviews played any video game before.

    Combat mechanics feel empty, pointless and also unresponsive. it doesn't make me feel like a Viking. it isn't even half inspiring. I don't feel the bloodlust I am supposed to feel slashing enemies. instead, it feels like I am cutting a pile of paper, even slashing sounds are underwhelming with all those whooshy-whooshy sound fx. Running feels like eivor floats on some clouds, not interacting with the ground one bit. Even WoW, probably, has more camera shake.
    The game is so plain and simple, almost like an alpha version. Sadly if AC Valhalla were a food, it would be cereal with water.

    This game left me so dissatisfied that I'm almost sad. I am going to give it another shot after a while and hopefully manage to like it this time.    … Expand
  20. daryl83
    Jun 25, 2022
    0
    This game is a buggy, unfinished mess with boring repetitive quests. I fell asleep and did not bother to finish the game. I have sold it since, and will not bother with it again...
  21. itsamirooo
    May 6, 2022
    0
    An other Assassin's Creed game that I fell in love with but that **** ending pissed me offfffff. WHAT THE HELL! From first meeting with Basim I hated him, through the game my hate to him increased so much and the ending. I can't believe it. They just ruined all my experience in Valhalla. Now I'm really mad at Ubisoft. They ignored Layla so easily and now I must go in animus with theAn other Assassin's Creed game that I fell in love with but that **** ending pissed me offfffff. WHAT THE HELL! From first meeting with Basim I hated him, through the game my hate to him increased so much and the ending. I can't believe it. They just ruined all my experience in Valhalla. Now I'm really mad at Ubisoft. They ignored Layla so easily and now I must go in animus with the bastard Basim?????? Really??? Hell no. I will no longer play Assassin's Creed. Shame on you Ubisoft.… Expand
  22. Wadayahno
    Apr 16, 2022
    0
    You'll probably buy the game based on these reviews but understand that the ps4 ver doesn’t hold a candle to odyssey, it’s a stripped down asset flip, when you have bought the game and have reached England go to the top of anything tall and take a look at the trees … spoiler … now you can’t un-see the ps1 mesh and perspective trick they used, ruined the game for me and now you too
  23. shmukk
    Mar 27, 2022
    0
    Альтаир, прости, мы всё просрали...

    Это игра - посредственность. Её графика это жидкое мыло, её геймплей это пластмассовый конвеер одних и тех же действий как убей, подай, найди. Система паркура просто ужасна, персонаж перемещается как старая бабка. Персонажи этой игры все как один одинаковые, а именно, скучные дегенераты. Мне было абсолютно насрать на каждого персонажа этой игры,    Альтаир, прости, мы всё просрали...

    Это игра - посредственность. Её графика это жидкое мыло, её геймплей это пластмассовый конвеер одних и тех же действий как убей, подай, найди. Система паркура просто ужасна, персонаж перемещается как старая бабка.

    Персонажи этой игры все как один одинаковые, а именно, скучные дегенераты. Мне было абсолютно насрать на каждого персонажа этой игры, мне было насрать на их роль в сюжете потому что это не персонажи, это игровые куклы, с которыми ты играешь и выбрасываешь.
    Эта игра встречает игрока ОТВРАТИТЕЛЬНОЙ работой со звуком. Звуки сжаты, на них наложен какой-то стрёмный фильтр и всё звучит ужасным эхом из бочки. Игру с таким звуком нельзя выпускать в 2020-м году, это позор.

    "Найди, убей, принеси, подай. Иди нахуй, не мешай" - тезис всей игры.

    Сюжет очень затянут и он просто уничтожает тебя. Я чуть с ума не сошёл выполняя все эти однотипные идиотские сюжетные задания, которые никак не влияют на сюжет. Да, всё, что вы сделаете в процессе своего пути, никак вам не аукнется. Эта игра и этот сюжет - это издевательство над игроком.
    "Навыки" в игре это отдельный пример того, что в этой игре всё сделано просто для галочки. В игре суммарно 402 "навыка". Почему в кавычках? Потому что это не навыки, как раньше, например, было, двойное убийство, нет, это просто поделенные на кучу частей бафы к текущей статистике игрока. Где-то плюс к урону топором, где-то плюс к урону луком, это бесполезная система, которая не делает твоего персонажа сильнее или уникальнее, она нужна просто для того чтобы ты качал свой уровень и шёл дальше по сюжету.
    За всю сюжетную линию игроку предлагается 4 романтических опции: 3 из низ с мужчиной. Я играл за мужского персонажа. Это выглядит как навязывание своих специфических ценностей и это за гранью нормы. Вы не имете права никому ничего навязывать. Вы не имете права заступать за личные границы человека.
    У меня ни одна игра не вылетала столько, сколько вылетает это говнище. У меня ни одна игра не выдавала столько тупых багов, сколько выдаёт это говнище. Бывает, что персонаж неудачно спустился, застрял в текстурах и спустя время просто сдох. Вы считаете, что это нормально? Ubisoft, алё?

    Время когда Ubisoft делали хорошие и серьёзные игры уже прошло. Сейчас это компания импотент, которая делает пластмассовые family-friendly игрушки для маленьких деток. В их играх нет серьёзности, нет драмы, нет качества, нет оптимизации, нет прикосновения человеческой руки. Игры этой компании делаются очень тупым искусственным интеллектом, а не людьми, на этом у меня всё. Мне очень жаль людей, которые потратили на эту игру деньги.    … Expand
  24. Sbenesh
    Mar 9, 2022
    1
    Of the many games I've played over the years, this is my most hated game. Everything about this game is bad.
  25. JW_FAT
    Mar 7, 2022
    0
    I liked the game, but than you cancel me and all my nation...

    So it will be 0 now
  26. Simonyan4ik
    Mar 7, 2022
    0
    Awful, disgusting game. I tried, but I threw up. Well, All the games of Ubisoft are terrible, so it's not surprising
  27. Recklessrami
    Mar 3, 2022
    3
    Just big open world, boring quest, like really boring, they put noric mithology in this, its basiclly viking game not Assassin's Creed. I love this long massive games but this is just boring
  28. readysetshoot
    Feb 25, 2022
    0
    So many bugs even two years later unfixed. Randomly appearing next to the raven and dropping to your death, unable to complete storyline quests and the best part, the customer service is trash. Save your money. Storyline would be great if I could actually play it
  29. 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
  30. Chain_Affinity
    Feb 19, 2022
    0
    Game-breaking bugs make this game literally unplayable. I have nothing else to say.
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#43 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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#6 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2020

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 50 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 42 out of 50
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 50
  3. Negative: 0 out of 50
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Dec 25, 2020
    80
    There are far fewer cookie-cutter outposts than in previous AC’s, and most sidequests now offer an interesting story, sometimes even with a less-than-obvious solution. While some anti-grind measures have backfired, Ubisoft is on the right track. [Issue#250, page 56]
  2. KeenGamer
    Dec 17, 2020
    82
    Assassins Creed Valhalla is a wonderful addition to the AC franchise. It manages to avoid the tropes that became overplayed and focuses on a small well structured story. The fighting mechanics are enjoyable and offer many choices to fit different playing styles. There are a significant amount of bugs and the AI is underwhelming at times. But it's still another step in the right direction for Ubisoft.
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  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Dec 14, 2020
    80
    When Valhalla is at its best, it evolves series mechanics. And when you’re cruising down river, about to blow your raiding horn, there’s nothing quite like it. [Issue#183, p.71]
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