Assassin's Creed Valhalla - The siege of Paris in the test: More from the same

Assassin's Creed Origins is a 2017 action-adventure computer game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the tenth significant installation in the Assassin's Creed collection and the follower to 2015's Assassin's Creed Organization. Principally embeded in Egypt, near completion of the Ptolemaic duration (49-- 43 BC), the story complies with a Medjay called Bayek of Siwa and also his spouse Aya, and also discovers the beginnings of the centuries-long conflict between the Hidden Ones-- forerunners to the Assassin Brotherhood-- that combat for tranquility by promoting liberty, and also The Order of the Ancients-- forerunners to the Templar Order-- who desire peace through the forced charge of order. The story likewise includes sequences established throughout the 21st century, which comply with a brand-new character, Layla Hassan. Featuring a big open world, Origins embraced elements from role-playing computer game as well as integrated a revamped hitbox-based combat system. The video game's growth began following the launch of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013 ). Ubisoft Montreal led its four-year development with assistance from a team of virtually 700 individuals from various other Ubisoft studios around the globe. The team spoke with Egyptologists as well as chroniclers extensively to ensure the setup was authentically represented in the video game. While Assassin's Creed had actually been a yearly franchise considering that Assassin's Creed II (2009 ), an extra year of growth time allowed the team to brighten the game better. This was mainly a reaction to the lukewarm sales of Syndicate, and also the troubled launch of Unity, which was pestered with technological concerns when it was launched in 2014. Revealed at E3 2017, Origins was launched on October 27, 2017, for Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It received positive evaluations from movie critics, with numerous calling it an enhancement over previous entries and also commending the story, characters, voice acting, revamped gameplay systems, world layout, historical precision as well as the visuals. The video game drew criticism for its pacing, mission design, and technical concerns. The video game has actually marketed over 10 million systems around the world as well as was nominated for several end-of-year distinctions. Ubisoft sustained the game thoroughly following its launch, releasing two paid growths and Exploration Trip, a series of assisted trips for educational objectives. Origins was adhered to in October 2018 by Assassin's Creed Odyssey, which happens in Old Greece throughout the Peloponnesian War.

Scenario change and big announcements - Ubisoft fagrupted the hope to breathe Assassin's Creed Valhalla with the next major DLC more variety and new life. Unfortunately, that did not succeed.

After more than 100 hours in the medieval England and a short excursion on the Irish island you will long in Assassin's Creed Valhalla after a change of wallpaper, ideally with an exciting new story. In the run-up, it worked as if Ubisoft's next large DLC The Siege of Paris could fulfill exactly this wish. A big drama around a city, intrigue, a crazy king, a great battle and a lot of military and political afterbell. Well, dreams do not always come true.

The starting position in front of Paris

The quest that starts the siege of Paris is found by default in Hraefnathorp. There are two new characters waiting for your or your egg that persists to travel to the former relationships at that time. After an intermediate sequence and a short loading time it takes you to a separate card and thus directly in front of the French capital.

The area around Paris immediately stands out with its graphic splendor. Before you spread wide juicy fields, here and there you can see settlements or small farms. The sight is a welcome change after over 100 hours in swampy and cold England.

Always the same

The first euphoria unfortunately gives way quickly disillusionment and monotony. It quickly becomes clear that, as in Wrath of the Druids, no secondary orders or small stories exists off the main quest. So colorful and impressive Paris and its lands work, so empty these areas are unfortunately also. You can only distribute your time with rebel orders. Unfortunately, however, here is a seemingly endless grind to the maximum rebel level, which brings you up to a few bonuses no significant benefits. The orders of the rebels species also in a monotonous stitching of go and kill that. This is especially better at AAA level today and was well solved in the main game as well as in the first DLC. It is completely incomprehensible for us why Ubisoft goes back here such a big step.

Even in the main quests, you are not always spared from design decisions from hell. Often, you are literally locked doors and have to find the right key. Since the horrible and imprecise key search from the main game was simply taken over unattended, every further closed door chased us a showers over the back. Quite apart from the Schnoden Design all these castles do not fit into the game world. Why are all the doors suddenly locked in Paris, where only treasures behind castles were hidden in England? And if the francs already have a preference for locks, why do they have to be as many?!

The story forms the heart

Fun secondary orders and an Open World, who invites you to explore, do not lure us to Paris. Stay the story about King Karl III. Whose behavior has provoked the siege of Paris. At the story of the DLC we arrived at one of the few highlights. The cinematic staging and the competent written as well as praised dialogues can certainly convince and drive the action with good pacing.

The starting position offers an exciting start. Because egg and follower have no interest in a big carnage with numerous dead on both sides. So you try first, with Kind Karl III. (The for reasons also in the German version Charles is to be negotiated. Histly Valhalla players know how these efforts end.

Cool intermediate sequences, uninvolved eggvor

Unfortunately, the teams at Ubisoft did not learn from the eliminates of the main game. In almost every intermediate sequence, somehow, there is somehow deployed and does not really have to contribute to the progress on the screen. The story is driven by the actual historical protagonists. This weakness is particularly so incomprehensible, as ebor has already occurred much prominent in anger of the Druid than in the main game.

The story is continuously competently set in scene and also to convince the dialogues knowledge. However, the entire action of Paris's siege is in no way embedded in the parent story of Assassin's Creed Valhalla. You will be pulled out of the game, before the gates of Paris thrown, admittedly completes cool story quests and drive home. You do not have to look at the competition to see how DLCs can be better inserted into the main action (we warmly remember the two The Witcher 3 extensions), because even in direct predecessor Assassin's Creed Odyssey became this challenge Better mastered around lengths. The basic conflict between assassins and transducers (rather their predecessor organizations) or the action in the present are not even mentioned in the siege of Paris. The former may be indicated by good will.

Conclusion

Finally, it is difficult to recommend the siege of Paris of a specific player group. Potential newcomers are rather deterred by the underground mission design and the empty world. Ubisoft goes back to many steps with the expansion in many places than that it could be interesting for inventory wikings. Ultimately, the siege of Paris is somewhere between chairs and unfortunately goodly as a short pastime with a competent staged history. Too bad! The historical starting position has much more potential than the teams with Ubisoft have chosen.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla: The siege of Paris

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Atmospheric graphics

Cool, film-reactive intermediate sequences

Exciting historical conflict

Contra

Monotony, as far as the eye is enough

Mission design from the playing time

No good secondary orders

Off the main quest too little to do

Completely detached from the main game

With 25 euros very expensive

2.5 / 5 stars

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