Where is “Assassin's Creed” at the time of Valhalla and the next gen?

With "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", make a dream come true and become an assa ... a VIKING!

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• Assassin's Creed Valhalla

   has been available since Tuesday on Xbox One, PS4, PC, Stadia and also on the new Xbox Series consoles (and PS5 on November 19)

• The

  Assassin's Creed

  franchise

   was lost along the way, but seems to have found its new credo, between open world and action-RPG, as confirmed by

  Valhalla

  .

• After Egypt and ancient Greece, return to the age of the Vikings.

After its release on PS3 and Xbox 360,

 quickly established itself as a benchmark in action and infiltration games, and as a new safe bet for Ubisoft, alongside

or

.

That was 13 years ago now, and it can't be said that the publisher scrimped to exploit the

brand

.

May be too much.

With one main episode per year, variations and twenty games in total, the franchise has reached saturation point, and its mythology has become a source of confusion.

The costs had to be stopped, especially after the film with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.

Eivor intends to earn his place in Valhalla.

And you ?

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Assassin's Redemption

Redemption came with

in 2017, which as its title suggests went back to the origins of the secret war between the Assassins and the Templars, and above all opened a new page of history (with ancient Egypt) and gameplay, influenced by competition and the advent of

and action-RPG.

A shift confirmed with

, and more and more missions, freedom, open world.

May be too much ?

This is what

had to confirm, or not,

available since Tuesday on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Stadia and on the

Xbox Series and PS5 consoles (November 19).

A new page of history

From the meta-story, the Animus machine and Layla, his new heroine for three episodes, the franchise has only a limited interest in them, a pretext to open a new page of history and has plunged the player or the player in a past, a place, a civilization.

The new formula now seems to be in place, and the episodes can be taken as independent stories.

thus explores the Viking Age, at the end of the 9th century, between Norway and England.

And it is clear that Ubisoft Montreal has put the package on this exploration, not to say immersion.

The reconstruction, the sets, the lights, the details are magnificent, and make

an ideal game to discover the

, or to push the previous one to its limits.

A game for long winter nights

The teams have given so much (everything?) On the universe, that aside, the characters seem a little neglected, in terms of finish and animation.

The player embodies Eivor, either a warrior or a Viking warrior, who originally, according to the developers' wish, was to be only a woman.

Eivor is also a feminine name.

After satisfying a thirst for revenge, Eivor sets out to assault the Heptarchy, the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

Main quest, side missions, mini-games (a small part of Orlog?), Looting of villages and forts, drakkar trips… The players have enough to occupy their long winter nights under the gaze of the Northern Lights, also with a novelty, management of his colony, and a return, infiltration in the mob and * tac * the secret blade.

Maxi best of menu

If the game most often succeeds in finding an organic balance between these different gameplays and objectives, and in avoiding the feeling of filling, impossible not to find a little side menu max best of and to leave the player sometimes with a heavy stomach. .

The story could have helped to digest, but

is ultimately richer in mechanics than in emotions.

Still, the game makes a dream come true, like the Vikings series and the

manga

, to live like a viking: Viking's Creed.

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