Assassin's Creed Valhalla

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  1. 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
  2. Malef
    Jan 7, 2022
    5
    Fail at: story and storytelling, pacing, almost every game mechanics.
    Good at: visual and technical sides.
  3. ischtwan
    Nov 29, 2020
    5
    Too lang, too average, too boring...I'm very disappointed with this game and cannot recommend it to anyone after great games like TLOU2 or Ghost of Rausging in 2020.
  4. Talentino9
    Nov 14, 2020
    5
    Juego que da varios pasos hacia atrás después de Odyssey y Origins. Sistema de combate lento, no parece natural y es pesado. La historia no engancha desde el principio, se la ve coja y sin carisma. Gráficos pasables para un juego de hace 7/8 años, pero para un juego actual no son buenos, solo hay que ver el Ghost Of Tsusima y comparar. Bastante cepcionado la verdad, espero que mejore conJuego que da varios pasos hacia atrás después de Odyssey y Origins. Sistema de combate lento, no parece natural y es pesado. La historia no engancha desde el principio, se la ve coja y sin carisma. Gráficos pasables para un juego de hace 7/8 años, pero para un juego actual no son buenos, solo hay que ver el Ghost Of Tsusima y comparar. Bastante cepcionado la verdad, espero que mejore con horas, pero en las 3 primeras no me resulta un must...… Expand
  5. T0m4550
    Nov 15, 2020
    5
    In short, AC-Valhalla is the worst AC so far. A disgustingly repetitive grind game, with the stupid and embarrassing sidequests the series has ever seen.

    Ubisoft's games are just graphic blenders and pointless occupational therapy that can only be bypassed for an extra charge. This shows Ubisoft's philosophy. Ubisoft bullies single players with pointless and ridiculous tasks to force    In short, AC-Valhalla is the worst AC so far. A disgustingly repetitive grind game, with the stupid and embarrassing sidequests the series has ever seen.

    Ubisoft's games are just graphic blenders and pointless occupational therapy that can only be bypassed for an extra charge.

    This shows Ubisoft's philosophy. Ubisoft bullies single players with pointless and ridiculous tasks to force them to spend money to skip this crappy time-wasting grind.

    The presentation may be ready for a film, but AC Vahalla is a pure waste of time in terms of play. Like every Ubisoft game in recent years.

    The Metascore also proves once again how uncritical the "professional" media are and vote highly for every AAA game. Together with the army of (10er) fake reviews, who deliberately conceal all undesirable developments and the whole pointless time-consuming grind gameplay, it is clear that the voting is being manipulated here.

    I'm done with Ubisoft after this disaster. Three disappointments in a row are enough. I love the Viking setting, but Ubisoft is destroying the entire gaming experience with the repetitive gameplay. After a few hours you realize that you are always doing the same thing. The mass battles, for example, always follow the same pattern. At some point you just run through ...

    AC is dead. Buried by senseless open world gigantism, miserable quest design and completely repetitive gameplay.    … Expand
  6. 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
  7. Geralt123
    Nov 13, 2020
    5
    Basically, it is Odyssey with other landscacpe. Story forgettable, combat spongy, silly side quests, embarrassing dialogues.

    I don't know what is wrong with Ubisoft but obviously their Copy-Paste-System of game developing works for them. Unfotunately.
  8. Sonofocelot
    Nov 13, 2020
    5
    Review after 30 hours - it's okay. nothing special but not a terrible game either. it's not as good as odyssey. negatives: enemy AI is genuinely one of the worst I've seen in a video game, even on its most difficult settings. just watching an NPC trying to walk 10 yards in a straight line is like pulling fingernails. it's excruciating. there isn't quite as much to do as odyssey, noReview after 30 hours - it's okay. nothing special but not a terrible game either. it's not as good as odyssey. negatives: enemy AI is genuinely one of the worst I've seen in a video game, even on its most difficult settings. just watching an NPC trying to walk 10 yards in a straight line is like pulling fingernails. it's excruciating. there isn't quite as much to do as odyssey, no legendary animals, no mercenaries etc, nowhere near as many weapons or upgrades. positives: quite pretty. dismemberment is fun. timed assassinations are a nice feature. Not much more to say. it's an average game. If you don't have it yet, I wouldn't wait for it to drop in price and then buy. Odyssey was a better game.… Expand
  9. Cska_ael
    Jun 29, 2021
    5
    Man it's cool if you are fan of the AC ,but some of these reviews are ridiculous .
    As all AC games it's long as hell so if you want value for money these games always delivered in this regard ,but A LOT of these tasks you need to do (collecting wealth ,artifacts )there are just waaay too many of them and you need to collect them all if you are hunting Platinum trophy ,and a lot of them    Man it's cool if you are fan of the AC ,but some of these reviews are ridiculous .
    As all AC games it's long as hell so if you want value for money these games always delivered in this regard ,but A LOT of these tasks you need to do (collecting wealth ,artifacts )there are just waaay too many of them and you need to collect them all if you are hunting Platinum trophy ,and a lot of them are repetitive sometimes even just ridiculous giving you a run around, skill tree is done so poorly I didn't even bother making sense of it just go for AUTO option.
    Going away from stealth is another thing which annoyed me a lot considering you still need to do stealth for trophy ,they should have kept Eagle abilities ( Ravan in this case) . There are also bugs even tho I waited on purpose all this time for UBISOFT to fix some of them and yet still in middle of mission sometimes I will have my character just fly up in the sky for no good reason forcing me to reload and do whatever I was doing again.
    I always play AC games for Platinum trophy and as long as they are normally I enjoy them ,this game is just a pain in my ass and story is fairly predictable.
    *If you are hunting platinum trophy there is a nice surprise for you when you get to certain mystery towards the end of the game called Saint Faith which was supposed to be fixed and yet still preventing people from getting Platinum trophy.
    And just to clarify this game is FAR from Garbage as some people call it but it's nothing special either.    … Expand
  10. Pannameen
    Nov 15, 2020
    5
    Well, first of, I had my first major bug early on the game, where I wasnt able to complete a story mission because the quest wouldnt trigger. Found out i was because of the day one patch (1.02) - this had me deleting the entire game and reinstalling. - hopefully this will be fixed so new players wont have to go through the same.

    As for the game it self, is nice to look at, beautiful    Well, first of, I had my first major bug early on the game, where I wasnt able to complete a story mission because the quest wouldnt trigger. Found out i was because of the day one patch (1.02) - this had me deleting the entire game and reinstalling. - hopefully this will be fixed so new players wont have to go through the same.

    As for the game it self, is nice to look at, beautiful settings, but it just feels unfinished, so many little glitches making the game feel "robotic" and not smooth - i feel like its too easy to make wrong jumps during free run and overall the freerunning just dont feel that smooth, but this is not exclusive to Valhalla Ive felt this way for almost every Assassin's creed game.    … Expand
  11. DarthMalak92
    Nov 13, 2020
    5
    Es otro assassins más, mejor que el anterior si, pero otro más, dejen descansar la saga
  12. Wingmanwesty
    Oct 25, 2021
    5
    Huuuuge, big, large. Seems great at first, but unfortunately it's a giant empty map. The first area of map has cool objectives, side questline, single one shot quests, and small treasures to collect. Will take probably 7-10 hours to do. Then you just do that over and over and over again in each new map chunk. Way too repetitive. The story is interspersed in here, so you have huge gapsHuuuuge, big, large. Seems great at first, but unfortunately it's a giant empty map. The first area of map has cool objectives, side questline, single one shot quests, and small treasures to collect. Will take probably 7-10 hours to do. Then you just do that over and over and over again in each new map chunk. Way too repetitive. The story is interspersed in here, so you have huge gaps between story moments that are filled with boring mindless junk. The gameplay doesn't do stealth well for going back to it's Assassin's Creed Routes with hidden blades and hoods, feels tacked on and honestly feels like the wrong way to play. The parkour and traversal also doesn't feel fluid, or real, which is a real step-back for the series.… Expand
  13. BallzyDan
    Jan 14, 2021
    5
    The game is very disappointing in comparison to Odyssey and I like it even slightly less than Origins. The game has loaded me into an infinite sequence of my character falling thru the map, but luckily that went away after a few days before the new year. I find the leveling up more grindy than Odyssey. I would love to level up enough to unlock no fall damage, am level 45, going for 280. Fantastic
  14. DoughLir
    Nov 22, 2020
    5
    For me the game is simply in the middle between bad and good. For every aspect that I like there is something I don‘t like. Also there is nothing that‘s extremily bad or good. So a solit 5/10. If it on sale i would buy it. Have a good day :)
  15. Ellgill
    Nov 12, 2020
    5
    Messy.

    Valhalla is fun and entertaining but only on a surface level. It’s far too bloated and long winded considering the lack of depth to characters and story arcs. The biggest blunder by far is the combat.... this is the simplest most unimaginative button mash combat system I’ve seen in a long time. And it’s only more embarrassing and laughable coming off the back of ghost of Tsushimas    Messy.

    Valhalla is fun and entertaining but only on a surface level. It’s far too bloated and long winded considering the lack of depth to characters and story arcs.

    The biggest blunder by far is the combat.... this is the simplest most unimaginative button mash combat system I’ve seen in a long time. And it’s only more embarrassing and laughable coming off the back of ghost of Tsushimas phenomenal combat system of stances and tactics.

    They’ve fluffed the maps and quests and completely diluted the skill set, the apparel, weapons and runes etc... it all feels completely redundant to the point I was purposely fighting bare fisted and nude just to make it interesting. Might sound like a joke, but it was genuinely the only way to make combat any form of challenge.

    You can sink hours away in a Viking land, but you will walk away feeling pretty empty handed. For a much better experience in the same environment, I would recommend god of war.    … Expand
  16. Ignises
    Jan 3, 2021
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. too many chests to open. too much gathering at all. shi..y fights with bosses (zeolites And all the rest with fenrir at the head, on which I just have no words how they screwed it up). Keep it up and you will dissolve in the fog of Niflheim.

    Ps. Bug bug bug    … Expand
  17. Drollzico
    Apr 25, 2021
    5
    The weakest one in the RPG trilogy (Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla). I really expected more from this game, but it disappointed me so much. The story is the best part of this game, definitely better than Origins' and Odyssey's, it is nothing awesome, but it's a good and solid story, especially the ending. However, the characters are very uninteresting, bland and not a little charismatic, whatThe weakest one in the RPG trilogy (Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla). I really expected more from this game, but it disappointed me so much. The story is the best part of this game, definitely better than Origins' and Odyssey's, it is nothing awesome, but it's a good and solid story, especially the ending. However, the characters are very uninteresting, bland and not a little charismatic, what makes them pretty much forgettable. Also, all the characters in this game, viking, english or from anywhere else, can speak the same language and understand each other, what totally breaks the immersion of the game. The graphics are good in current gen, nothing to complain. The soundtrack is good too, the only thing i didn't like is that there's no soundtrack in the custcenes, just the character's voices. The minigames are cool as well. Now, let's talk about what i didn't like at all in this game. The combat has many, many problems. When you attack an enemy, sometimes the enemy doesn't feel your punchs and just take damage and attack you in the middle of your combo. Also, some enemies attacks have a strange red effect like they had superpowers in a game that tries to be realistic. The enemy AI is pretty dumb too, the archers are simply blind and the enemies are very predictable. But the main problem is that the game is extremely easy. I played this in the highest difficulty and, even so, the combat was so easy that the stealth became useless. The missions in the game are overwhelming boring and repetitive. Making alliances is the most boring, tedious and dull thing in the world. Every quest you have to kill a bunch of guys, do annoying and generic stuff for someone that you don't care about only to bring this dude to your side, and that lasts for hours and hours. The sidequest are very **** too but at least they're short. But seems like Ubisoft made the game how it is on purpose, because the game is infested with microtransactions that accelerate your progress in the game, it's really disgusting to see a 70$ Single Player Game having microtransactions, so imagine having a bunch of it, just like the previous ones, what a greedy and disgusting company. Really, that's the last time i'm buying an Assassin's Creed game, i'm done of playing 60 hours of an average 70$ game that begs me to pay even more to have a "good experience".… Expand
  18. IvanGeorgiev
    Nov 16, 2020
    5
    The game has a great story. The concept and the idea behind it are actually really immersive and well thought-through. Scenery is also amazingly beautiful. And that is the extend of everything great about this game. The interaction with between the characters and the environment is extremely bad. All movement is choppy and unauthentic. Archers that sheet at you and moving backwards areThe game has a great story. The concept and the idea behind it are actually really immersive and well thought-through. Scenery is also amazingly beautiful. And that is the extend of everything great about this game. The interaction with between the characters and the environment is extremely bad. All movement is choppy and unauthentic. Archers that sheet at you and moving backwards are faster than you while running. 300 pounds bosses move like a the agents from the Matrix - just skip time. They are on top of you in less than a second. All NPCs during cutscenes look like they are crying - they have tears in their eyes. Every interaction between you and the NPCs is flat and unbelievable. It was painful to experience, especially after spending so much money for this game.

    Bottom line, do not buy the game now. Wait until is reaches at least 50% off. Then it will be more or less justified to spend you hard earn cash.    … Expand
  19. khaderIQ
    Nov 13, 2020
    5
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  20. Tacitus_Gaming
    Nov 11, 2021
    5
    A slog to get through and the world is filled with pointless things and every single door is a puzzle to unlock for some reason. I love AC but this current open world formula with nearly infinite uninspired side content to do just isn't fun. It's a chore. Odyssey was at least faster and smoother in doing things. Stealth in Odyssey was also much better and natural. Stealth in Valhalla justA slog to get through and the world is filled with pointless things and every single door is a puzzle to unlock for some reason. I love AC but this current open world formula with nearly infinite uninspired side content to do just isn't fun. It's a chore. Odyssey was at least faster and smoother in doing things. Stealth in Odyssey was also much better and natural. Stealth in Valhalla just didn't feel right in terms of mechanics and lore. The only reason this gets a 5 from me is because of all the references from other better AC games.… Expand
  21. ceeunxttuesday
    Nov 12, 2020
    5
    So many flaws in an otherwise good game. Can't get away from all the bugs. Which leaves the game good, but constantly annoying to play. Its unrefined, unpolished, premature in its release and otherwise clumsy. It is good, and arden fans should get it. For those who don't. You will not miss anything
  22. Dem0nhuntr
    Nov 17, 2020
    5
    This game suffers from a very serious delay in inputs and timing in combat. I booted up odyssey just to compare, and for sure combat is absolute **** in this game. The story is awesome so far, but the terrible combat is killing the game for me. Put a pin in it and buy it later on sale
  23. koyot
    Nov 11, 2020
    5
    I need to slap ubisoft at this one. There is nothing new. Engine is same just different story. And for now this is average
  24. alextorge
    Apr 3, 2021
    5
    Good:
    - graphics - story
    - setting

    Bad (and quite horrible)
    - gameplay / combat (sluggish)
    - horrible animations - voices & motion capture
  25. sethdean0
    Nov 16, 2020
    5
    Well what can i say... I was excited for the game.. But then i played 8 hours and i cant play anymore. Its dull and boring. Combat doesnt feel as good as previous titles. Very DISSAPOINTING
  26. VictorKrop
    Dec 20, 2020
    5
    Good game but bugs. Some missions never ends. Some never starts. But still is interesting game.
  27. Chriztian
    Nov 25, 2020
    5
    I enjoy the game, but it's clearly under-baked, riddled with too many bugs, and frequent crashes, I've had the game crash 3 times in one hour. The combat is different, not better than Origins or Odyssey, but they tried something different. The loot system is improved, making each piece of gear unique, instead of showering you with a multitude of useless loot. The game just lacks polish. IfI enjoy the game, but it's clearly under-baked, riddled with too many bugs, and frequent crashes, I've had the game crash 3 times in one hour. The combat is different, not better than Origins or Odyssey, but they tried something different. The loot system is improved, making each piece of gear unique, instead of showering you with a multitude of useless loot. The game just lacks polish. If you compare it to Ghost of Tsushima, which is a similar type of game, is visually more impressive, it runs smoother, load times are significantly faster, than what AC Valhalla offers, load times are abysmal in Valhalla. The game doesn't have the quality a triple A game should have. I love Assassin's Creed games, and I've played all of them. This one had the potential to be good, but the lack of quality makes it a disappointment. Maybe six months from now the game will be polished and in a much better state. But as it stands, it's worse than AC Unity. AC Unity was in a much better state in comparison. Do better Ubisoft.… Expand
  28. rogal23
    Apr 24, 2022
    5
    Grałem na PS4 PRO.
    Porzuciłem tytuł po ok. 10h. Historia bez emocji, powtarzalny gameplay, walka - czyli serce gry - woła o pomstę do nieba - sztywna jak nieszczęście. Klimat ratuje lekko sprawę, ale na końcu to typowy średniak. Plus jak to w Ubisoftcie, miałem wrażenie, że moja postać nic nie waży, jest z papieru. Czekam na rewolucję w serii.
  29. Nickm1412
    Nov 12, 2020
    5
    A game unsure of itself. Ubisoft comes with the next AC title following the rpg approach introduced by Origins and continues the gradual decline of these games. Once again the world design is great, the world is large and looks fantastic. But this is almost everything positive i can say about this game. The story is almost non existent. It is written in "episodic" parts, which in realityA game unsure of itself. Ubisoft comes with the next AC title following the rpg approach introduced by Origins and continues the gradual decline of these games. Once again the world design is great, the world is large and looks fantastic. But this is almost everything positive i can say about this game. The story is almost non existent. It is written in "episodic" parts, which in reality feels like you are constantly thrown into these huge worlds without really knowing what your motivation is. The main character is always what the current story needs him to be, sometimes a little angry, sometimes a little smart, but never consistent nor interesting. He or she( which is a whole problem in itself, that ubisoft keeps making the main characters sex interchangable, because it takes away any identity of said charcater) walks by everything happening in the world without any individual opinion. AC needs a strong and interesting main character not just a blank projection surface. The worst part of this game is, that it not only coninues the franchises loss of identiy it increased it even more. In the past two games they kept the "supernatural" mythology stuff in the DLCs, so you could say " Ok now im in the bonus content and it gets a little crazy". In this game this is embedded heavily into the main game and it takes AC from a historical drama with hooded assassins set in the big events of our past, into a fantasy rpg inspired by mythology with hooded vikings. All the stealth and "assassinesque" parts of the game feel forced and more alibi than anything else. The franchise keeps losing its identity and the devs know this but instead of going back to this identiy they just put in alibi oldschool mechanics like one-hit assasinations and a badly implemented social stealth system to silence the fans that want assassins creed to be assassins creed. The fighting system feels like a step back, it is close to the one in odyssey and origins but feels less controllable and very delayed. Animations and cutscenes are nowhere near the level they were in origins( odyssey was already a step back imo). Generally a lot of things in the game feel like they still need polishing and are more in a beta state than already released. Ultimatly this is a product made by thousands of people for millions of dollars over the course of years. This is by no means a "trash" game its obviously a AAA-product and you can undoubtedly have fun exploring the beautifull world as a viking, building your city with your own crew, but as an AC fan from the first hour it hurts to see where the franchise went and what they are doing with these games. With a story the writers actually cared about, with a main character with an actual character and with a little more respect and love for what assassins creed really is, this game could have been so much more than just a large, beautifull world. I hope they find people that actually love the AC games to make the decisions for the future games, so this franchise can have a soul again.… Expand
  30. Ragnarocek
    Nov 12, 2020
    5
    - repetitive
    - monotonous
    - bugs and glitches
    - low RPG factor

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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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