Asssassin Creed Valhalla AC Lover #1Q

Asssassin Creed Valhalla AC Lover #1Q

The Assassin’s Creed series has taken us to numerous historical settings since its 2007 debut, including Ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy, and Revolutionary War-era America. The newest installment, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla,
details the Viking invasion of 9th Century England from the perspective of history’s most notorious raiders. Though Valhalla doesn’t introduce anything wholly new to the series,
it's an excellent PC game that follows in the footsteps of its equally exceptional predecessors, Origins and Odyssey.


To Greener Pastures

In Valhalla, you play as a male or female Viking warrior named Eivor, and travel with your clan from your ancestral Norwegian home to conquer and settle England's fertile fields. Though more temperate than frigid Norway,
England is no less perilous. Whether it’s Anglo-Saxon barbarians, trained soldiers under a king’s command, or untamed wildlife,
England has many trials to challenge your Viking crew. In order to survive, Eivor and the clan must forge alliances with other Vikings and Anglo-Saxon allies.Establishing and growing your settlement is one of Valhalla’s main features.
By building and expanding structures, such as a stable, forge, granary, barracks, and item shop, you’ll gain access to additional weapons, gear, warriors, horses, and other items. Unlocking and upgrading your settlement also opens up new missions.
These, in turn, reward you with experience points, weapons, lore, and a chance to get to know your settlers better.

You’ll need sufficient supplies and raw materials to upgrade buildings, but the process is as simple as walking up to a structure and selecting “upgrade.” Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and Assassin's Creed:
Revelations featured a similar base-building mechanic. However, those games' settlement mechanics didn’t feel as intimate as Valhalla's because you upgraded buildings from a bird’s eye view similar to real-time strategy games.
In Valhalla, you live inside your settlement, and see it and its inhabitants mature over time.


Berserker Rage


Good old-fashioned raiding is the best method for finding settlement materials. If you’re near a monastery, military fort, or enemy-controlled town while sailing down a river, the game prompts you to raid them.
Running into a village with a horde of Vikings at your back makes you feel as powerful as an Asgardian. Battles are incredibly frantic affairs as enemy and friendly forces clash. During the slaughter,
you can ransack churches for precious building materials, silver, weapons, and other items. You can only attack soldiers or warriors, which somewhat diminishes the feeling of being a blood-thirsty Viking who indiscriminately kills.
Still, lopping off enemy limbs and heads is a joy.


The New (Old) World
Assassin’s Creed games are known for their vibrant and detailed open-world environments. Valhalla is no exception. Early medieval England’s grass-covered rolling hills, winding rivers, and settlements come to life in vivid detail.
You can almost smell the manure coming from pigsties or feel the wind as you sail downstream. Many environments look like recreations of The Lord of the Rings’ Shire, which itself was inspired by old England.
You’re free to visit Norway if you fancy, checking out snow-covered mountains and gargantuan ice lakes. Though Norway is large, it doesn’t compare to England, where the bulk of the game occurs.
The map is massive, but not overwhelming like the one in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. What it trades in size it makes up for with density, which adds to its believability. You can tell the development team spent many years researching the England of old.
This truly is one of the finest worlds seen in a video game.