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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla release date, gameplay, and trailersEverything we know about Valhalla
Everything we know about Valhalla
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla finally has a release date and Ubisoft even showed off some actual gameplay! You can now see just how grim the dark ages were in 9th centry England, from viking sieges of Saxon castles to fighting witches in dingy swamps.
Assassin’s Creed games are more than just a setting however, and Valhalla seems to have quite a lot of new features and tweaked stuff from the older games. Here’s everything that we know about Assassin’s Creed Valhalla so far, fromValhalla release date,Valhalla trailers, andValhalla gameplaydetails.
What is Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s release date?
Assassin’s Creed Valhallahas a release dateofNovember 17, 2020.
Can I buy Assassin’s Creed Valhalla on Steam?
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will be available on Ubisoft’s ownUplay store, but it will also be following the trend of Ubisoft games appearing on the Epic Games Store rather than Steam.
This does not mean that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla won’t come to Steam eventually, but so far there is no confirmed Steam release.
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla gameplay
It’s been a rather hectic week, what with theUbisoft Forward stream last nightandthe gameplay leakbefore that. It shows vikings raiding a small village, using stuff looted from those villages to build up viking settlements. The gameplay trailer also shows lots of enemy types, including one that yeets their dead friend at Eivor. Of course, as a viking, Eivor is no stranger to combat, being able to dual wield weapons like a flail and an axe, or even slamming two shields into an opponent’s face. There is also a small stealth segment where you hide in plain sight, though this isn’t emphasised.
Valhalla also has its fair share of secrets hidden throughout the land. One that was shown requires you to align your camera to form a pattern on some rocks. Your settlement also needs food, so hunting and fishing are important side activities.
You could look at the stuff that Ubisoft have in their trailer above, but Video Matthew has spent three hours as a viking, and you really should check out his first impressions in our video below. His video and Alice B’sAssassin’s Creed Valhalla previeware what truly got me excited for Valhalla. As Alice rightly points out, Valhalla is not really an Assassin’s Creed game, but that’s fine because, “…it feels like a really good Viking game where you smash people with axes.”
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Before this though, we didn’t see much of Valhalla. The “gameplay” trailer that wasshown on the Microsoft streamdidn’t show a heck of a lot. Microsoft even admitted that they “set some wrong expectations”, but Alice B did highlightsome of the best bits.
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We did know the vast majority of stuff that was in the trailer though, so here is a summary of what to expect in Valhalla:
Map size and setting
New features
Returning and expanded features
Features confirmed not to be in Valhalla
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla trailers
Assassin’s Creed is a series of games that has been hopping around history since 2007. SinceAssassin’s Creed Origins, the games have changed from their beginnings as a stealth action game. Much like an RPG, there are now multiple dialogue choices and a greater emphasis on improving your gear.Assassin’s Creed Odysseywas the previous game in the series andwas very well received.
Revealed through theart of “BossLogic"during a live stream, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will take place during the Viking invasion of England in 873 AD. Ashraf Ismail - the game’s former director who has sincestepped down following allegations about his personal life- had cited Michael Crichton’s 1976 novel Eaters Of The Dead as a major influence for the setting.
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In a recent interview with theWashington Post, Ismail revealed that Valhalla was first conceptualised when development on Origins was completed. He explains that “The Viking Age is something that I’ve been in love with since I was a kid. So this was an opportunity to bring the nuance of that time period, the culture, the people, in a way that only Assassin’s Creed can.”
Valhalla also looks to move away fromsomeof the RPG elements recently introduced into Assassin’s Creed, such as levelling up, instead relying on theaccumulation of skillsand on scaling enemies to match the skills the game expects you to have when you meet them.
It will also continue the story that has been building up in modern times, following Layla Hassan - an assassin who featured in both Origins and Odyssey - and her connection to an advanced civilisation called the Isu.
Has Covid-19 affected development of Valhalla?
Is there special edition of the game?
Yes, in fact like a lot of Ubisoft’s games, there’s more than one edition. To make it as simple as possible to see what you’re getting for your money, here is what each edition of the game includes:
This concludes everything that we know about Assassin’s Creed Valhalla so far. We will be continually updating this as more information comes to light.
If you can’t wait to slam a Viking axe into Saxon skulls, Alice B compiled an excellent list of8 best Viking games to playbefore Valhalla that should keep you occupied until later in the year.
