Assassin's Creed: Valhalla Product Context Flashcards

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  • Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla a historically set - action/ role playing third person open world (sandbox) video game with some limited online functionality (although NOT multi-player in the strictest sense of the term)
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  • The Assassin’s Creed franchise is a long running video game franchise
    that is developed by Ubisoft. The first game was released in 2007
    (Assassin’s Creed) and the last was released in 2020 (Valhalla).
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  • Later games in the franchise introduced a wider open world system (sandbox), (sometimes) multi-player and persistent world environments (courtesy of increasing internet, and later, wi-fi speeds), strategy / team building components, and alternative / branching narrative outcomes.
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Where can AC: Valhalla be bought?

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The Assassin’s Creed games are normally brought out on the most popular generation of consoles at the time of release (predominantly PlayStation & Xbox) and PC formats too.

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  • The franchise has also experimented with exclusive releases on hand held devices (such as the PS Vita or Nintendo DS) and mobile game apps.
  • Many exclusive ‘chapters’ released in this fashion, have later been
    ‘remastered’ and released on the mainstream console formats to cater for demand in the more popular market.
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Typography and Brand Identity in AC:Valhalla

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  • All game packaging are branded with the Assassin’s Creed Title (in a recognisable font) and the famous Logo (based on the lower part of an eagle’s skull).
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All Assassin’s Creed games offers familiar pleasures to existing fans (narrative situation of the Assassins versus the Templars, open world game-play, free-running, etc.) along with new elements to target a wider audience (e.g. The use of different protagonists, surroundings, weapons, side-quests, etc.)

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