valhalla
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Actually, I Will Ride The Giant Pig In Assassin’s Creed’s New DLC
Yesterday, Ubisoft released Dawn of Ragnarok, the latest and biggest DLC expansion for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. And as has become tradition, it includes a new, unrealistic animal mount for players to ride. This time, it’s a huge armoured boar. But unlike before, on this occasion I broke. I gave up. I rode that big pig.
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Assassin’s Creed Almost Wound Up Going to Space
Over the years, Ubisoft’s explored plenty of time periods and locations for the Assassin’s Creed franchise, from ancient Egypt and Greece to the Italian Renaissance and the American and French Revolutions. (Still no Wild West or Japan, though.) The sci-fi conceit of present day characters using a machine to relive the memories of ancestors genetic…
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s New DLC Adds Cavalry Units That Keep Kicking My Arse
I really enjoyed the new Assassin’s Creed Valhalla DLC, Siege of Paris. Exploring the new map was great and the storyline was perfectly paced. Good stuff! But there is one part of the DLC that sucks shit: The cavalry soldiers. They are annoying and because of how Valhalla works these arseholes aren’t fun to deal…
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12 Hours With 2021’s Latest Big Viking Game
I wanted to like Tribes of Midgard. It has great style, with wonderful visuals that feel ripped out of an ancient painting. The combat is fun and responsive. But it also incorporates some of the worst parts of roguelikes and survival games and quickly becomes repetitive, with little payoff or progression.