Assassin's Creed Valhalla

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7.2

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  1. leeseula
    Nov 12, 2020
    0
    Please update the new file for PS players of Asia.
    We are so angry that follow the Japanese law, but we are not Japanese people.
    This is not fair for all Asia people without Japanese.
  2. Nobilis1984
    Nov 11, 2020
    4
    After watchdogs the next botch.

    Oh Ubisoft what are you doing. Bad watchdogs 3 are followed by bad AC. Even if it looks good, it is still sick inside. The game wants to please everyone and thus destroys itself. There is no clear red thread that the game works on. In addition, the characters have hardly any emotions you could see on their faces. That was better with Origins. The story    After watchdogs the next botch.

    Oh Ubisoft what are you doing. Bad watchdogs 3 are followed by bad AC.
    Even if it looks good, it is still sick inside.
    The game wants to please everyone and thus destroys itself. There is no clear red thread that the game works on. In addition, the characters have hardly any emotions you could see on their faces. That was better with Origins.
    The story of the game is barely noticeable and is told in a boring way.
    What remains is a tough game that is boring after 3 hours. The world events are so pointless and remind you of the old Far Cry collecting frenzy.    … Expand
  3. Bone-Thugs
    Nov 11, 2020
    4
    this game drags on and on and on and on. 70 hours is ridiculous, it becomes so damn repetitive and boring. combat is also terrible and clunky
  4. Finnley01
    Nov 11, 2020
    6
    I was really lookig forward to this new Assassins Creed game, because it combines Assassins with Vikings. My two favorite themes combined. I have been a fan from the series since I met Ezio in Assassins Creed 2, but still I have mixed feelings about this game.

    Platform: PS4 Edition: Ultimate Edition The positive about this game is that it looks really stunning. The world is amazing,    I was really lookig forward to this new Assassins Creed game, because it combines Assassins with Vikings. My two favorite themes combined. I have been a fan from the series since I met Ezio in Assassins Creed 2, but still I have mixed feelings about this game.

    Platform: PS4
    Edition: Ultimate Edition

    The positive about this game is that it looks really stunning. The world is amazing, the northern light in the sky, the snow that looks so real, and the sunbeams that fall upon the earth. It is really a marble for the eye. Before you start you will have a short but simple tutorial that shows you the basic commands. And after that you are free to start your journey.

    The reason why I still have mixed feeling about trying to continue this game is because the game does not feel it is finished. There are plenty of bugs to be found. In my game I for example met my brothers wife Randvi, the second time I met her she was invisible. (There was a floating speach bubble though.) I could talk to her but she still remained invisile.
    Also traveling around on horse I find that the game lags a lot, the screen seems to freeze every 30 seconds to render the world. The same world that looks gorgeous, but it also feels empty somehow as it is mostly just snow/mountains.

    The fighting system is okey, however there is a stamina bar on your ability to dodge and fight. If you miss a hit or dodge your stamina will drain fast. As for the viewpoints, you climb up on it only to realize you first need to learn the 'Leap of Faith' skill in order to be able to jump off and not fall to your possible death.

    My conclusion is that this game feels more like a Skyrim RPG, rather then an Assassins Creed game. The game is sure pretty, but it also has many bugs, and it feels it is made more for the PS5 then the PS4. Some bugs you could overcome but there are even story quests that bug out by being unable to activate or start.

    I realise not everyone will have a bugged game, so other players may have other experiences, but in my case the game has some serious issues. It even prevents me from continueing the story line because a quest character does not spawn./cannot interact with him.    … Expand
  5. TheHolyNut
    Nov 25, 2020
    0
    Assassins creed died with Unity. Every game since Origins has been a poor copy paste of tThe Witcher and although Odyssey had a beautiful map and was enjoyable Valhalla just has taken a fat dump in the mouth of everyone who bought this game. The first three hours are deceptively promising with a strong introduction akin to the previous entry but after that point the gane has nothing moreAssassins creed died with Unity. Every game since Origins has been a poor copy paste of tThe Witcher and although Odyssey had a beautiful map and was enjoyable Valhalla just has taken a fat dump in the mouth of everyone who bought this game. The first three hours are deceptively promising with a strong introduction akin to the previous entry but after that point the gane has nothing more to offer and is just repetitive. They have somehow made the loot system worse and the ending is complete trash. You slave away 60 hours of your life and you are left with an ending which makes you regret spending all that time. Please dont buy this game… Expand
  6. belgian_guy
    Nov 14, 2020
    0
    Game breaking bug.

    After patch 1.02 the story quest "A Seer’s Solace" is unplayable blocking you from progressing in the game. First reports are a week old and there still is no fix. A perfect example of incompetent support end development.
  7. SNOWBOARDR555
    Nov 21, 2020
    0
    Game is unfinished and has multiple bugs. Got 10 hours into the game and now all my data is corrupted. Ubisoft released a work around for the corrupted data that doesn't even work. Now I have a new game I can't even play.
  8. woogychuck
    Nov 25, 2020
    5
    I've been playing AC for a while and this game just doesn't do it for me. Over the past few games, there has been a big move away from stealth and assassinations and pretty much just making a brawler set in the AC universe. For Origins and Odyssey, I at least felt like the setting and story and decent ranged options made them good games, but Valhalla just isn't doing it.

    If you liked    I've been playing AC for a while and this game just doesn't do it for me. Over the past few games, there has been a big move away from stealth and assassinations and pretty much just making a brawler set in the AC universe. For Origins and Odyssey, I at least felt like the setting and story and decent ranged options made them good games, but Valhalla just isn't doing it.

    If you liked the recent entries better than the typical AC games, you will probably like this. If you don't like the direction the franchise is heading, this game turns further in that direction with less likable characters and worse story telling.    … Expand
  9. cagcag
    Nov 16, 2020
    7
    Graphics: simply amazing. Both norway and england have unique landscapes and game presents them throughly.
    Story&Acting: almost 20 hrs of play, main quest is cliche, waiting for a plot twist to make it more interesting. No map marker for side quests is a good idea. Cut scenes acting is bad. Besides unsynced voiceover, characters look dull, unemotional.
    Combat: Combat mechanics are not    Graphics: simply amazing. Both norway and england have unique landscapes and game presents them throughly.
    Story&Acting: almost 20 hrs of play, main quest is cliche, waiting for a plot twist to make it more interesting. No map marker for side quests is a good idea. Cut scenes acting is bad. Besides unsynced voiceover, characters look dull, unemotional.
    Combat: Combat mechanics are not that bad. But AI is dumb. Archers are just waiting for you to get close and kill them. Arrows come incredibly slow at you.Infantry throwing their shield for you to slaughter them. Combat difficulty setting does nothing to ai, just increases recieved damage. Finisher animations are good, but not as good as "The Cursed Crusade"
    Overall: good time killer before Cyberpunk.    … Expand
  10. muttsy13
    Feb 16, 2021
    4
    Utter buggy mess twice ive had to restart first time i got stuck with a bug on heavy is the head second time all my saves where corrupted i was excited for this game i waited till christmas to play it thinking any big bugs should be sorted i was wrong over 50 hrs altogether wasted on this trash if your thinking of buying it dont till all the bugs are fixed
  11. JoeFresh
    Feb 16, 2021
    0
    Game has so many bugs it shouldn’t have been released for another year. Has crashed like 5 times on me. Story line is terrible and very boring long cut scenes that amount to nothing. Graphics are ok not the best. Combat has a finisher cutscene practically every enemy that you kill which completely interrupts combat and ruins the fighting in the game. Some finisher cutscenes are excessivelyGame has so many bugs it shouldn’t have been released for another year. Has crashed like 5 times on me. Story line is terrible and very boring long cut scenes that amount to nothing. Graphics are ok not the best. Combat has a finisher cutscene practically every enemy that you kill which completely interrupts combat and ruins the fighting in the game. Some finisher cutscenes are excessively long and not cool and I have seen them all about 2500 times each. By the end of the game I started avoiding combat because it sucked so bad. Raids are one of the worst parts of the game as you need to wait for a friendly npc to open any door and then wait for another friendly npc to open the chests and sometimes they do not show up for a while. I could go on but don’t want to waste more time. Game is BORING - maybe the worst in all of the Assassins Creed franchise… Expand
  12. Immsy9
    Dec 14, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Found the story to be just OK, but it was a buggy mess that seemed to get worse as the game went on.… Expand
  13. Ruth_23
    Feb 8, 2021
    0
    O jogo está cheio de microtransações (EM UM JOGO SINGLEPLAYER), inúmeros bugs que influenciam diretamente no desempenho do jogo e de longe a saga já perdeu sua essência. Só joguei porque dei de presente para minha irmã, que também não gostou.

    Ubisoft É UM LIXO! NÃO COMPRO MAIS NADA.
  14. Druidas
    Feb 8, 2021
    4
    Story good, but so meny bugs, and it not feeling as some new game, more expancion from origins, disapointed
  15. Sirius1488
    Feb 18, 2021
    0
    Ебучик пидорасы из хуебисофт с своём уебанском хуелси сделали Владимира Красносолнешко.ЧЕРНЫМ НАХУЙ.Ебучим блять нигером.Вы хуесосы блять нету на вас Даждьбога
  16. Darbylb
    Nov 26, 2020
    4
    Honestly this game just is not fun to play. The story is not interesting whatsoever, it makes it a chore to get through. The combat is a step down from Odyssey in my opinion. The changes they made for exploration are interesting, but I think they end up taking away from the game.
  17. Awesomness_27
    Nov 12, 2020
    4
    Valhalla is fun to play and has some good elements to it however it feels too similar to odyssey and at often times feels like Ubisoft reskinned too much of odyssey in this game. All though the game world is beautiful and the soundtrack by Jesper kyd is amazing, the game really suffers from a lack of identity especially in what it says it is versus what it actually is. Norse Gods, magicValhalla is fun to play and has some good elements to it however it feels too similar to odyssey and at often times feels like Ubisoft reskinned too much of odyssey in this game. All though the game world is beautiful and the soundtrack by Jesper kyd is amazing, the game really suffers from a lack of identity especially in what it says it is versus what it actually is. Norse Gods, magic and monsters, riding wolves. This game is not Assassins Creed and since odyssey AC has really lost it’s identity. Bring back the old AC, get rid of the heavy rpg elements, revamp the combat, build a better parkour system, and give us Assassins vs Templar’s. The fact that Ghost of Tsushima felt more like an AC game than Valhalla, really says a lot about what Ubisoft is ignoring and what made this franchise great to begin with.… Expand
  18. nbkplus
    Nov 12, 2020
    0
    My country is not Japan.. but We must follow the censorship of Japan. Are you kidding me? Japan is not the only Asian country. Get a hold of yourself! You're gonna have to do it yourself again. It is building Japan Central Asia like World War II. stupid ubi
    Once again, Japan is not everything in Asia.
  19. GameOverSeer
    Nov 13, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Asian version of Valhalla is a censored version.

    In defiance of each country's review criteria, Ubisoft unified the Asian version into the Japanese version as if the Asian country were only in Japan.

    I don't feel the impact of fighting because of censorship.

    If Ubisoft really cares about its Asian users, it has a duty to revise the censored version.

    Censorship reduces the fun of the game and Ubisoft didn't say anything about it until just before it was released.    … Expand
  20. Jbryan85
    Nov 13, 2020
    5
    Buggy af. Combat is boring, characters aren't interesting. I found the environment underwhelming. You feel like you're just checking boxes as you go. Far cry from Odyssey imo
  21. Mikosevaar
    Dec 17, 2020
    0
    В игру добавили ускорители прокачки, и помели баланс под них. Все старые оценки и обзоры уже не про эту игру.
  22. Galliga
    Nov 24, 2020
    5
    Bug bugs bugs and more bugs. They took out the fun ship battles for a lesser more repetitive raiding system that never changes. Recruiting unique people doesn't matter because they just take away their unique weapons and give them the basic generic raider gear. And if you pick male Eivor? they literally refer to you as SHE multiple times in the game, Ubisoft is so afraid of sticking withBug bugs bugs and more bugs. They took out the fun ship battles for a lesser more repetitive raiding system that never changes. Recruiting unique people doesn't matter because they just take away their unique weapons and give them the basic generic raider gear. And if you pick male Eivor? they literally refer to you as SHE multiple times in the game, Ubisoft is so afraid of sticking with a gender, and so busy trying to appease everyone, male players are now having their immersion broken being called a she the whole game lmao. The "romances" are basically all copy pasted from Odyssey, same ol one night stands and then you never see the character again. Like atleast put effort into it Ubi… Expand
  23. 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
  24. CitizenCane
    Mar 13, 2021
    4
    This is a very disappointing version of Assassin's Creed, to the point that it really doesn't feel like the franchise. The mini games such as stacking cairn stones and anomalies are a frustrating waste of time. After a while the game play and main story get repetitive and you wonder what on earth you're playing this for.
  25. Cha0ticneutral
    Mar 29, 2021
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The old saying "Quality over quantity" sums up the problems of this game. For a game with so much "content" it is incredibly boring almost from start to finish. Having said that I couldn't actually bring myself to finish after I'd already sunk around 70 hours into that damn thing, I wasn't even near finished with it. It is a game that keeps you thinking "any minute now it's going to get better and that switch is going to go off where I'm having fun and locked in" but that moment never comes.

    Most if not nearly all of the optional content on the map is absolutely not worth finding and players will learn this very quickly. There are a handful out of the 100s of markers that are interesting but it really does feel like filler to pad out the experience. The story is incredibly boring, dreary, and drawn out beyond comprehension. Once you've taken one region you've taken them all and by the 4th or 5th you're just done with it. You don't care about any of the characters like you might have done in Odyssey say with Kassandra, and as such there is little to no personal investment in any of it.

    If you like running around dreary English fields for 70 - 100 hours doing nothing that matters then try it out. I was warned not to but I took a chance and I feel like I wasted 70 hours.    … Expand
  26. kirill_dorokh
    Dec 9, 2020
    0
    Bad game with nothing. **** from ubisoft. Gameplay bad, graphic bad, world bad. It's bored.
  27. Oliverjared
    Oct 12, 2021
    10
    Excelente para ser mi primer assassins creed, tiene mucho que explorar y sobre todo accion por doquier, lo unico que no me gusto es que el personaje tiene una barra de resistencia como si fuese un dark souls, lo que aveces frustra un poco
  28. UnstableEnd
    Dec 9, 2020
    6
    I've played this game for nearly 80hours and i'm surprised at how much there is to do in this game, but that doesn't mean to say it's up there with the best. The storyline dragged on after about 50 hours, you seem to go to one county, do 4-6 missions there, ending with a massive fight then go back to base, pick another county... rinse and repeat.

    There are plenty of bugs throughout the    I've played this game for nearly 80hours and i'm surprised at how much there is to do in this game, but that doesn't mean to say it's up there with the best. The storyline dragged on after about 50 hours, you seem to go to one county, do 4-6 missions there, ending with a massive fight then go back to base, pick another county... rinse and repeat.

    There are plenty of bugs throughout the game, some which stop you from completing missions, others that make you go wtf? But when I think about how big the game is they couldve scaled that back by 20% and spent the time rectifying a lot of the problems.

    The graphics are great (PS4 version played on PS5), soundtrack get's a bit repetitive when doing raids, playability is good too. Combat system took a little time to get used to but soon found weapons and tactics I was happy with.

    The main problem I have with this game/Ubisoft is although they have spent a lot of time producing this, it still feels like a re-skin of the previous games and the bugs from them still exist. I always feel that they will never reach the heights of Rockstar because they are too concerned with hitting deadlines/profits then making a game a work of art.    … Expand
  29. tiobald
    Nov 11, 2020
    3
    Kinda Mediocre game. Was hyped but it feels just wrong and rushed in some points. Combat is a complete disaster. Enemies feel like paper, sound design(speaking about the fights) is awful and everything looks stupid IMO. The story is so boring, Conversations feel dull, movement feels wrong.... Yeah there is so much more to add but i think you get it.

    The game just feels wrong and besides    Kinda Mediocre game. Was hyped but it feels just wrong and rushed in some points. Combat is a complete disaster. Enemies feel like paper, sound design(speaking about the fights) is awful and everything looks stupid IMO. The story is so boring, Conversations feel dull, movement feels wrong.... Yeah there is so much more to add but i think you get it.

    The game just feels wrong and besides the Sountrack and Visuals i coulnt tell you whats good about this game.

    Try it with uplay + or whatever its called. In one month you can get it for 45 used or from amazon if you still want to play it then.    … Expand
  30. Doke9912bic
    Nov 12, 2020
    0
    Asian ps version Dont see they try to solve censorship problem
    Just want to ignore until them gone
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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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