Assassins Creed Valhalla

The third installment in the successful reboot of the franchise.

I have played both Assassins Creed Origins and Odyssey and spent over 150 hours with the games.

So of course I looked forward to playing the third title and as a Nordic person I was delighted that it was set in the Viking age.  

As with Odyssey you get to choose between a male and female protagonist and your story starts with the destruction of your family. 

I found the story in Odyssey more interesting but the story in Valhalla still wanted me to get revenge and kill the perpetrators.

You start the game in Norway but the scenery quickly changes to England where you have to establish a settlement and gain allies.

The game follows the well known recipe where you do quests to conquer an area. In Valhalla the quests are organized in arcs  that typically lead to an shire being allied to you. 

You can then use these allies in later quests.

The game looks and feels stunning. The landscapes are gorgeous and you find yourself pausing for moments to enjoy a viewpoint. The different shires vary in climate and landscape so the games feel less repetitive than the previous ones.   

The game has a lot more content than the previous games had. Outside the main story you can go raiding to gain treasures , travel to Asgard in dreams and experience Nordic mythology firsthand, travel to Niflheim and bring back the dead.

So there should be something for everybody but personally I think the game has too much content. Of Course you can skip the parts that do not appeal to you and complete the main story in about 40 hours.

Death stranding

You can play many different games and we are spoon feed with first person games.
But once in while there are titles that are just on another level and makes you go wow in ave.

Such a title is Death stranding. You really only need to se the intro to the game to know that this game is different and I loved for it.
Never have I seen such an immersive intro to a game which such good acting. Visuals and audio is just fantastic and you could be forgiven for thinking you were watching a movie.
And here comes my only concern for this game. Being two hours in the game I am in doubt if the game play will be captive or if this is more a linear game where my choices does not really matter.

I have already seen a lot of memorable scenes but so far little action. So this is a demanding game that you should be willing to invest time in.

Rise of the Tomb raider

Screenshot from the game. All rights belongs to the publishers

As an old fan of the action adventure genre and a fan of the Tom Raider genre this game was on my bucket list for a long time.

I really liked the reboot of the series (before it was really silly) and played the 2013 game (Tomb Raider) which I found to be great.

So in a sense this is the difficult part two where the game developers hopefully found out which way to go forward.

From my point of view they did not. The game is solid but I was to much a sequel to the 2013 game with little new ideas.

Yes the story is catching and the scenery is second to none. I enjoyed just watching and wanted to find all the audio bits because they were interesting.

I also liked the voice acting Camilla Luddington is doing a great job as voice for Laura.

FarCry5

Screenshot from the game. All rights belongs to the publishers

As a new player in the Far Cry series I primarily got interested in this title because of the villain. It seems to me that this series invest a lot of effort in the villain and the setting for the game.

So even though this is a well proven and tired concept of open worlds shooters where you as a player have to conquer different areas in an open world this tittle is a bit different.

In my play through I enjoyed the scenery and the combats as in Ghost recon and may other games.

The characters in the game was mainly uninteresting and I could not really give a damn about them.

The worst thing about this game was those battles after cut scenes that you had to do. I really hate those and I was about to give up on this game because of them.

The best thing about this game is the different endings really dark and something out of the ordinary.
I only wish the you choices could impact the game more than just the three different endings.