The ESRB has posted up a detailed rating of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, revealing a bunch of interesting details on the upcoming stealth-action title.
Chiefly, combat will feature the ability to decapitate your enemies with certain weapons, while your character can also get pretty drunk while taking part in drinking games. Oh, and there’s plenty of swearing too, as you would imagine. These are vikings, after all.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla ESRB Rating
This is an action-adventure game in which players assume the role of a Viking mercenary (Eivor) who travels through England to forge alliances, lead raids, and defeat rival clans/rulers. Players explore open-world environments, perform missions (e.g., hunting for items, battling enemies), and use stealth to discreetly kill human targets. Players also use swords, axes, arrows, and siege weapons to kill multiple enemies (e.g., soldiers, mythic boss characters) in frenetic melee-style combat.
Combat is highlighted by screams of pain and frequent blood-splatter effects. Some weapons allow players to decapitate enemies; zoomed-in sequences depict victims’ bones, organs, and muscles getting damaged by players’ blade.
The game contains some sexual material: a mission taking place in a brothel; topless women straddling men; a character agreeing to “lay with” a man (kissing is depicted before the scene fades to black). A handful of sequences depict screen distortion/discoloration and impaired movements after players’ character consumes mushrooms or inhales mushroom-based fumes (dialogue states, “I may still be buzzing from these mushrooms.”).
Players’ character can also engage in a drinking contests; later sequences depict the character stumbling as the screen tilts and blurs. The words “f**k” and “c*nt” appear in the dialogue.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is scheduled for release on PS5, PS4, PC, Xbox Series X and Xbox One, with current-generation versions rolling out on November 17.
[Source – ESRB]