{"id":13593,"date":"2021-01-21T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/assassins-creed-valhalla-review\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:52:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:52:46","slug":"assassins-creed-valhalla-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/assassins-creed-valhalla-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Valhalla Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19343\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Valhalla<br>Ubisoft Montreal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open-world games have become quite the rage in recent times. Part of their allure is that they are considered anti-\u201con-the-rails\u201d experiences. In other words, as opposed to games that focus on driving the player through a series of rigid, scripted events, with little (or no) opportunity for deviation from the game\u2019s central \u201ctrack,\u201d you get to run around and explore the world in a much more open way. This allows for more spontaneous encounters and opportunities for rich, emergent experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the flip side, many game developers have lofty goals when it comes to open-world games, but their actual product comes up short. This is usually due to either poor game design decisions, or more likely, a lack of budget. Sadly, that is what happens when a developer\u2019s scope exceeds their capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Assassin&#039;s Creed Valhalla - Official Trailer\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ssrNcwxALS4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As a triple-A developer, Ubisoft has been killing it in recent years when it comes to open-world games (there is definitely no lack of budget here). Some of their recent titles, such as the Ghost Recon and Far Cry franchises, have really upped the ante when it comes to the genre. Some of the most fun I\u2019ve had in gaming has to be getting into random firefights in both Ghost Recon &#8211; Wildlands and Ghost Recon -Breakpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of their other flagship franchises is the Assassin\u2019s Creed series of games, which were always (in my humble opinion), tailor-made to be open-world experiences. Ubisoft\u2019s first real attempt at offering an open-world experience in this series was with 2013\u2019s Assassin&#8217;s Creed IV: Black Flag. But it wasn\u2019t until they released Assassin&#8217;s Creed Odyssey in 2018 that they really hit their \u201copen-world\u201d stride. The sheer breadth of the game\u2019s world enabled players to almost get lost in its gigantic world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Assassins-Creed-Valhalla-XP-Boost-Gone-1185598145.jpg\" alt=\"Assassin's Creed Valhalla Missing Achievements On PC, Dev ...\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just when I didn\u2019t think that Ubisoft could top that herculean achievement, Ubisoft Montreal dropped the Nordic-themed Assassin&#8217;s Creed Valhalla on the gaming masses like the MOAB of MOABs. Valhalla represents the pinnacle of what the studio has been attempting to achieve, ever since Blackflag\u2014a truly massive open-world extravaganza with excellent role-playing elements, where your choices actually matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Valhalla, you play as a Viking badass named Eivor. The first act within the game starts you off in the cold reaches of Norway, where Eivor will learn all of his moves, including combat maneuvers, attacking and defending, and the like. There\u2019s not a lot that is new here, so if you\u2019ve played an Assassin\u2019s Creed game before, you\u2019ll be right at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon, Eivor and his jolly bunch of Vikings will set sail for England in order to land and start killing the local denizens, who have grown complacent on their eastern shores. But this will soon raise the ire of the powerful Saxons of Southern England. Pretty soon, they\u2019ll begin sending increasingly powerful waves of enemies at your innocent little Viking pillagers, which of course, will lead to literal bucket-fulls of bloodshed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/assassins-creed-valhalla-eivor-battlefield-553595986.jpg\" alt=\"Fan Notices Incredible Detail In Assassin's Creed Valhalla ...\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the fun to be had in Valhalla (besides the aforementioned spilling of gratuitous amounts of blood) includes raising and maintaining armies, challenging your fellow Vikings to bouts of manly drinking contests, creating settlements and helping them grow, and hunting ancient legends through the Fens (to name a few). Valhalla almost feels as though is an amalgam of different games, which definitely helps with its replayability since no two play-throughs will ever be alike. But of course, the meat of the game (no pun intended) revolves around hacking through swaths of evil Saxons with you and your ever-so-charming Viking pals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As it stands, the beautifully brutal experience that is <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Valhalla <\/em>is a sprawling triumph of open-world nirvana. It is sure to please fans of epic adventure games and is pretty much a must-have for those who appreciate Nordic and Viking lore. Try it out for yourself\u2014your longship awaits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RATING: 8.7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Valhalla <\/em>some pretty amazing graphics that make its open-world gameplay truly shine. However, you want to have a pretty beefy gaming PC or gaming laptop in order to play it at a decent framerate. So, you may just want to invest in a decent gaming rig:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowerpc.com\/system\/Winter-Special-II\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CS-450-138_400.png\" alt=\"Winter Special II Gaming  PC \" width=\"850\" height=\"850\"\/><\/a><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowerpc.com\/system\/Winter-Special-II\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WINTER SPECIAL II<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpowerpc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CyberpowerPC\u2019s website<\/a> to check out all of the other great deals as well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assassin&#8217;s Creed: ValhallaUbisoft Montreal Open-world games have become quite the rage in recent times. Part of their allure is that they are considered anti-\u201con-the-rails\u201d experiences. In other words, as opposed to games that focus on driving the player through a series of rigid, scripted events, with little (or no) opportunity for deviation from the game\u2019s&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/assassins-creed-valhalla-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Valhalla Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":12547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2724],"tags":[2520,741,2488,1225,67,2486,2548],"class_list":["post-13593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4k-gaming","tag-cyberpower-pc","tag-game-review","tag-gaming-laptop","tag-gaming-pc","tag-ian-kane","tag-open-world-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17570,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593\/revisions\/17570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}