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  1. Sep 8, 2023
    10
    Increíble pero cierto, ubisoft acaba de sacar el mejor juego que han hecho hasta la fecha o por lo menos para mi es el mejor, muy buena jugabilidad como tiene que ser en todos los videojuegos de acción y aventura.
  2. 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.
  3. Aug 12, 2023
    5
    Just played 8 hours of this for the free weekend, it has a really weak story, very beautiful English land, super clunky combat, a whole lot of collecting different things for god knows what, super clunky attacking of pots, and the **** blacksmith. The blacksmith does not show up on your map, and he is the only place to upgrade your weapons which you will need because you can die prettyJust played 8 hours of this for the free weekend, it has a really weak story, very beautiful English land, super clunky combat, a whole lot of collecting different things for god knows what, super clunky attacking of pots, and the **** blacksmith. The blacksmith does not show up on your map, and he is the only place to upgrade your weapons which you will need because you can die pretty quick. I finally find the blacksmith in the new land and I can't even talk to him. Audio is constantly glitching, people starting their next sentence before the next begins, it's just sad. And the aurora looks insanely pixelated, how does Skyrim have 100x a better sky???

    *also you cannot zoom in far enough to the map, so symbols can overlap and confuse you, opposite experience of Far Cry 5
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  4. Jul 23, 2023
    7
    Good game, but not a AC game‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎.
  5. Jul 15, 2023
    10
    Its an EPIC game. I like the gameplay and the visuals were fantastic. I would like to play again in future
  6. Jun 28, 2023
    5
    I really wanted to like this game because I love the entire historic setting of vikings and medieval England but this game is just such a chore. You basically have to spend 100 hours of repetitive sidequests that are required to advance the main story line (which imo is actually pretty good) and i just became tired with it halfway through.

    The combat is fine, it doesnt really feel
    I really wanted to like this game because I love the entire historic setting of vikings and medieval England but this game is just such a chore. You basically have to spend 100 hours of repetitive sidequests that are required to advance the main story line (which imo is actually pretty good) and i just became tired with it halfway through.

    The combat is fine, it doesnt really feel challenging nor is there a lot of skill expression.

    The map is beautiful and exploration would be fun if you actually got any meaningful rewards from it but they made loot so rare that you almost never find a cool weapon or armor upgrade.

    Overall not a good game unfortunately and I feel like I wasted a lot of time with it.

    Also there were alot of bugs, one which forced me to restart.
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  7. Jun 26, 2023
    7
    Overall - 3/5
    The gameplay was enjoyable at first, but not deep or complex enough to hold up over the extraordinary length of the game. Combat was good, but became repetitive. Visual were stunning in my opinion.
  8. May 28, 2023
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Valhalla była czymś, na co byłem mega zajarany, kiedy wyszedł pierwszy trailer. Po 6 miesiącach czekania w moje ręce w końcu trafiła ta gra i po odpaleniu nie zawiodłem się. Gra była czymś, co sprzyjało moim zainteresowaniom. Piękny świat, a przede wszystkim ogromny. Twórcy znowu nie zawiedli nas w kwestii świata. Norwegia to było cudowne miejsce gdzie rozpoczęliśmy naszą przygodę, a właściwie prolog. Kiedy wypłynąłem z niej moim oczom ukazała się Anglia w czasach 9 wieku. Od razu wiedziałem, że mi się tu spodoba. O tej produkcji można by dużo mówić, ale streszczając, jest to genialna gra o wikingach, no i właśnie, o wikingach. Temat Asasynów jest tu trochę pominięty, chociaż jacyś ukryci się tam pojawiają, to nasza postać nie jest ukrytym, natomiast w porównaniu do poprzedniej części, mamy tu z nimi do czynienia, oraz mamy w swoim wyposażeniu ukryte (tym razem tylko z nazwy) ostrze. Z postacią Eivora dosyć szybko się utożsamiamy i płynnie poznajemy ten rozległy świat, pomagając innym terytoriom. Do tej pory najdłuższa część w jaką przyszło mi grać, nie sądziłem, że po Odyssei może być coś jeszcze dłuższego. Bardzo miło wspominam tę grę. Expand
  9. Dec 11, 2020
    10
    Le premier jeu AC auquel je joue, car je n'ai jamais vraiment était attiré par cette série et la j'ai étais séduite par ce titre qui est une très belle aventure. La richesse de l'histoire principale est superbe et on y plonge la tête baissée. Les graphismes sont fabuleux et vivants.
  10. Nov 14, 2020
    8
    A great AC game. Combat is a bit clunky, but it still feels great, could have been better though. Love the story and music. Lack of naval combat is a bit letdown, and the crew is kinda useless outside raids. Stealth gameplay is almost useless and non-existent. In conclusion, a great game with a rough release with same old Ubisoft buggy notoriety.
  11. 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.
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  12. 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.
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  13. Feb 13, 2023
    0
    Worst game I've ever played in my whole life.....................................
  14. Dec 8, 2022
    1
    Boring story. Repetitive gameplay. Uninteresting characters. It only gets 1 point for visual.
  15. 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.
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  16. Dec 5, 2022
    10
    Talvez o melhor jogo da franquia. Pode não ser o melhor, mas fica entre os melhores. Sensacional!
  17. Dec 4, 2022
    8
    Wow, my love for Vikings has a game. And a long one at that, allowing me to bathe in what I desire. A fan of both Assassin’s Creed and Ubisoft in general molds one of the perfect love letters to me possible. I platinumed the game over 180hrs and do not regret a single second. Ok I regret balancing all rocks in the game, that was a chore. If you like Vikings, Ubisoft mechanics, andWow, my love for Vikings has a game. And a long one at that, allowing me to bathe in what I desire. A fan of both Assassin’s Creed and Ubisoft in general molds one of the perfect love letters to me possible. I platinumed the game over 180hrs and do not regret a single second. Ok I regret balancing all rocks in the game, that was a chore. If you like Vikings, Ubisoft mechanics, and Assassin’s Creed please buy. If you don’t like just one of those mentioned, I can’t recommend the money. You have to be in all three categories to not feel like you wasted money. Expand
  18. Nov 27, 2022
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A good game, but the loading is too long, the game orientation has changed slightly from a stealth game to an MMO game, the story is interesting, but the world of Asgard is bad as if it were bad dreams, the game in general is worth playing. Expand
  19. Nov 27, 2022
    4
    Jogo enjoativo e repetitivo demais! Com uma historia mediana o jogo esta longe de ser bom como seu antecessor.
  20. Nov 22, 2022
    4
    the game even after 2 years is unplayable due to glitches, had to leave it halfway through.
  21. Nov 11, 2022
    5
    Blatantly boring. After playing it for more than 160 hours, I feel empty. Nothing to say to its predecessors, much better games than Valhalla.
  22. 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.
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  23. May 30, 2021
    7
    As always: if you don't expect too much of Ubisoft you won't be dissapointet. It is not a masterpiece but you can have some fun for a huge amount of hours. Nevertheless this is far too much off from what AC should be. It would be a more or less good Vikings game but it is not an Assasins Creed game. Biggest problem is the crap Ubisoft tries to strech the playtime with like the 20 differentAs always: if you don't expect too much of Ubisoft you won't be dissapointet. It is not a masterpiece but you can have some fun for a huge amount of hours. Nevertheless this is far too much off from what AC should be. It would be a more or less good Vikings game but it is not an Assasins Creed game. Biggest problem is the crap Ubisoft tries to strech the playtime with like the 20 different kinds of collecting stuff. I never met anybody who says "oh man there are 300 little hidden whatevers to collect. This is so much fun." Expand
  24. Oct 23, 2022
    8
    -story 8/10 good story with likeable character
    -Graphics 8/10 very stunning
    -parkour 3/10 with very small area for parkour it was dissapointed
    -combat 7/10 it was good

    Overall its still a good game but i do hope next game would have more complex area map so you can do more parkour
  25. 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.
  26. 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
  27. Oct 14, 2022
    8
    Build your own Viking Legend. Become Eivor, a Viking raider raised to be a fearless warrior, and lead your clan from icy desolation in Norway to a new home amid the lush farmlands of ninth-century England. Find your settlement and conquer this hostile land by any means to earn a place in Valhalla.
  28. Oct 10, 2022
    10
    Good game, ignore the haters as usual with Ubisoft games. Haters are just pissed, because Ubisoft isn't some beta company that does everything that "fans" want and these "fans" want to control everything. Pathetic. In other news, i don't hate old games, i like both old and new and i'm happy that Ubisoft is doing Mirage for a change. I just really hate when people are not able to adapt toGood game, ignore the haters as usual with Ubisoft games. Haters are just pissed, because Ubisoft isn't some beta company that does everything that "fans" want and these "fans" want to control everything. Pathetic. In other news, i don't hate old games, i like both old and new and i'm happy that Ubisoft is doing Mirage for a change. I just really hate when people are not able to adapt to new things (Valhalla/Origins) and just are stuck in their "muh old days" lol. Many of them even hate Unity and Syndicate (both great games), some even hate Black Flag (one of the best games ever made). They just want their Ezio nonsense back, even tho those games are outdated af. I tried to play Revelations and AC III and i almost died of boredom. Expand
  29. 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.
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  30. 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
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 50 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 42 out of 50
  2. 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. 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.
  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]