Assassin's Creed Valhalla isn't really an AC game, but it's still great

3 years 10 months ago

Playing a big ol’ chunk of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla made me realise how much the series has changed since the first game in 2007. If you played Altaïr’s first adventure and then skipped straight to Valhalla, where big buff blonde viking Eivor is running around 9th century England, you probably wouldn’t realise they were in the same series. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla doesn’t feel like an Assassin’s Creed game, then, but I’m okay with that. Because it instead it feels like a really good Viking game where you smash people with axes.

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Alice Bell