Assassin's Creed Valhalla leak teases PS5 and Xbox Series X power

(Prototype credit: Ubisoft)

Early on game footage of Assasin'south Creed Valhalla has leaked, showing what the game could look similar running on the Xbox Serial X and PS5.

Some xxx minutes of in-game footage of Ubisoft's upcoming Assassinator's Creed game popped up on Reddit, revealing what the game will await like and how it will play. Ubisoft has moved to become the videos taken down, but at the time of writing a trio of videos posted by Reddit user Deathlycz are live; best movement quickly if you want an early glance at the game.

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The videos prove what'south thought to be footage of Assassinator'due south Creed Valhalla running on what could be an Xbox Series X or PS5. Nosotros'd hazard a guess that information technology could be running on Xbox Serial X hardware, given the game was teased at the May 7 Xbox games event. However, Valhalla is besides slated to come to the current-gen PS4 and Xbox One consoles as well as PC and Google Stadia, and so it's possible that this footage is from one of those platforms and not the new panel.

We get to see the player character Eivor, who can be male or female, riding around on a horse to navigate villages, castles and the countryside of what is now Britain. And we also got a good wait at combat from a costal landing and siege to a boss battle.

In some ways, the non-combat sections are a footling reminiscent of The Witcher 3, specially when it comes to trotting on horseback through somewhat dirty Viking-era villages. Whereas the gainsay sections wait similar to those in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, with sword and axe swinging action backed up by RPG-similar stats and hitpoint damage numbers popping out of an enemy every fourth dimension they are slashed or bludgeoned. Effectively, the game looks like an evolution of the Assassin's Creed formula, which itself has been slowly changing and getting more than in-depth with each game in the serial.

What was difficult to tell was how big a stride-up in graphics Assassin's Creed Valhalla will have over its predecessor, peculiarly given information technology'll have 12 teraflops of ability to tap into with the Xbox Series Ten. The footage we saw was at 720p resolution, and so there'southward a adventure that some of the graphical effects might have been obscured through compression.

But nosotros didn't run into any indication of ray-tracing in action or any particularly impressive graphics features. That'due south non to say the game didn't look very attractive, it simply didn't scream 'next-generation gaming.'

Just the footage does potentially showcase how many things the adjacent-generation consoles could handle at once, with big battles between multiple non-player characters. And the seamless transition between action hints at the benefits of the PS5 and Xbox Series X using SSD storage rather than spinning disk drives.

Nosotros're expecting to see a proper showcase of Assassin's Creed Valhalla this month at the Ubisoft Forward event, which will showcase the publisher's games on July 12. We're besides expecting to see more of the game at the upcoming Xbox twenty/20 event slated for July 23, likewise as game footage of Halo Infinite.

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