Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok is fun and rich but shallow expansion. The mythic take on Assassin's Creed adventure could have been great thanks to a nice setting and the new powers, but it feels just another skin of the same structure, which works, yes, but after more than 100 hours, it probably needed something more.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök2022
Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök
2022 Ubisoft Entertainment70Good
Playtime
ModerateIt typically takes about 15 hours to finish the game.
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Available on
- $39.99
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Details
- Launch
- March 10, 2022
- Developer
- Ubisoft Montreal
- Publisher
- Ubisoft Entertainment
Overview
Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök is a story expansion for Assassin's Creed Valhalla that focuses on Eivor's visions of Odin. Set in the dwarven realm of Svartalfheim, it follows Odin as they attempt to rescue their son Baldr from the fire giant Surtr while the realm is occupied by forces from Muspelheim and Jotunheim. The expansion adds a new open-world region and the Hugr-Rip, an artifact that lets Odin absorb and use powers from defeated enemies. Players use these abilities in combat, traversal, and exploration as they progress through a storyline tied to the events leading up to Ragnarök.
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Press73
Players68
GoodWorthwhile- Metacritic71from 33 reviews
- OpenCritic75from 43 reviews
Now, the bloat of “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla” and its DLC releases make plain that developers need to seriously consider the value of making games longer — if anything, just to save gamers from dying on the inside.
Dawn of Ragnarok is a bit shallow and nothing more of a "more of the same". Still a decent content for the Assassin's Creed Valhalla fans, but it could have been much more.
Ubisoft takes us by the hand and slowly leads us towards Ragnarok, in an expansion that reserves few flashes in terms of narration and staging.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla - Dawn of Ragnarok is a sizeable expansion offering a gorgeous new realm to explore, memorable characters, while new abilities such as the Hugr-Rip adds a new dimension to combat and traversal. Beyond that it's more of the same however, so that'll determine whether or not you'll want to dive back into Valhalla once again.