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Assassin's Creed Valhalla lets you swap between male and female Eivor at any time

Assassin's Creed Valhalla will let you swap between the male and female version of protagonist Eivor at any point in the game, Ubisoft has confirmed with Stevivor.

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Darkborn1758d ago

That's pretty interesting. I also heard the executions are different based on which version you play of the main character.

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-Foxtrot1758d ago

Just grow some balls Ubisoft and stick to one gender, regardless what it is so you can fully develop and flesh them out while making the overall story more personal to them.

Army_of_Darkness1758d ago

Maybe they just want to change it up a bit because Assassin's Creed is getting kind of stale to be honest...

yay1111757d ago

So they brought back a feature from Syndicate....? The most stale AC game

spicelicka1757d ago

A change of character skin and voice changes essentially nothing. It literally has no impact on gameplay or the story much.

Christopher1757d ago

Players: leave gender politics out of it!

Ubisoft: here's a story having nothing to do with gender, where you can play male or female

Players: c'mon, stick to one gender, and write a story reflecting that gender because that makes it better!

No winning here. None.

Toonge1758d ago

So I can identify as what I want depending on what I feel like on that particular day (sarcasm)

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Gamerking821758d ago

That’s fine by me as long as you keep it too them. I like to get into the story and development of characters , that’a why the idea of anyone, anytime watch dogs 3 does not at all interest me at all.

ForwardDude1758d ago

Your team is the character in Watchdog 3.

Gamerking821758d ago

I might have to wait and see more about watch dogs 3 then. I did enjoy my time with the first 2. But I had the impression that 3 was going to be more like Ubisofts Zombi . Where once dead , dead move on to someone else. That personally is not for me .

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Assassin’s Creeds' Cutscenes And Voicelines Have Digressed Over Time

Assassin’s Creed has always been a staple for good cutscenes that engage the audience. However, it's grown lacking of the latter now.

Chocoburger285d ago

The story was at its most interesting early in the series, but has eventually ended up spinning its wheels going nowhere. The games don't feel linked together anymore. This is to make it easier to constantly churn out endless sequels.

gold_drake283d ago

absolutely agree.

it was so interesting and then ..

montebristo283d ago

The smaller more intimate maps and historic references are lost. The setting used to be a character in AC. Now it’s just a massive empty shell of its former self.

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Almost every Assassin's Creed game is $12 or less — get them cheap

There's never been a better time to get into Assassin's Creed thanks to these deals.

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CobraKai292d ago

Im so behind on AC. I gotta start up Brotherhood 😄

anast292d ago

I got Odyssey and Mirage to play still.

CobraKai292d ago (Edited 292d ago )

Ha. At least youre in the more current side of AC.

The_Hooligan291d ago

Last one i played was origin. I am also behind on AC games.

anast291d ago

@Cobra

The older ones are kind of a chore. I did enjoy Syndicate and Unity, though.

@Hoologan

I had a good time with Origins for the most part.

anast292d ago (Edited 292d ago )

If they are all Gold versions, it's definitely worth it.

Chocoburger291d ago (Edited 291d ago )

Waste of money, after the Desmond story arch, but even worse is that its a waste of time. The franchise is just spinning its wheels going nowhere. The further you progress through the series, the more 'corporate' it begins to feel, until its nothing but an empty husk, begging for you to spend money on its micro-trash-action store. There are loading screens in Origins informing you that if you spend money on "fun costumes" you'll feel better! Despicable.

Save your time for something better. Modern day Ubisoft is garbage.

MeatyUrologist291d ago

To each their own I guess? I really enjoyed them up until odyssey and valhalla was decent. I still really enjoy exploring the massive detailed worlds and the characters, stories, gear, and combat.

I have never once been swayed by a loading screen trying to get me to buy DLC as these games have 10x more content than you would ever see anyway. I do agree the series seems to be going the wrong direction at the moment, but would still highly recommend origins, odyssey, and to a lesser extent, valhalla if you enjoy adventure and exploration games.

gold_drake291d ago

not every AC game is worth playing tho ha.

i feel like it stopped being good after 3. and 3 was even a stretch.

1 and 2 tho? amazing.

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Modern Games Are Getting Too Long

While there’s a lot to love about modern video games, there is one trend — particularly in the AAA space — that tends to grate: their length.

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GoodGuy09404d ago (Edited 404d ago )

Games are coming out with too much fluff and side activities that are horribly dull. That's my main issue with all these open world games. Open world should be about exploration, discovery and wonder, not have some stupid 10s or 100s of boring activities spread throughout.

IAMRealHooman403d ago

100% agree
All these ubisoft titles, Farcry, AC, Ghost recon, boast huge maps, but with the same, 3 missions or the same base to clear 100s of times. Hour 1 of any of those titles is the same as hour 100, there big for the sake of being big, with the illusion of player freedom, where we really want depth and player expression.

Ninver402d ago

Give me a solid 15-20 hour engaging single player driven IP any day. Life's too short you dig.

isarai403d ago

I stopped buying overfluffed games like a decade ago. Cant stand games with the Ubisoft mindset of just filling maps with uselss collectibles and fodder. Make it mean something. Ill gladly take 1/4 size of the map and 1/10th the "content" if it all meant more, were more unique and greater affect on your progression.

Abnor_Mal403d ago (Edited 403d ago )

Well people complained like the world was ending when a few games were six to ten hours of gameplay. Developers listened and started making longer games full of repetitive gameplay, time wasting fetch quest and other forms of bloat. In doing so they were able to justify the high cost of a game being sold to the customers at seventy dollars or more.

H9403d ago

Filler, it's like a 80 episodes show where only the first and last episodes actually matter

Inverno403d ago

It's been a problem with pretty much every modern AAA game all through last gen and this gen. God forbid you point it out tho because all these big games are masterpieces and people lose their minds if you criticize them. Death Stranding is a fetch quest fest, but people will die defending it cause it's a "masterpiece".

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