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ASSASSIN’S CREED VALHALLA

“GAMEPLAYWISE VALHALLA DOESN’T ROCK THE LONGBOAT.”

FORMAT PS4, PS5 / ETA 17 NOV PUB UBISOFT / DEV UBISOFT MONTREAL

East Anglia is delightfully muddy, making a refreshing change of setting from Odyssey’s sunny Greece and Syndicate’s bustling industrial revolution. But gameplay-wise Valhalla doesn’t  rock the Assassin’s Creed longboat. It takes Odyssey’s more RPG-focussed model and tweaks it. It looks different, but doesn’t feel especially new.

Squint at some of the in-game action and you could easily mistake what’s happening on screen for

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