Assassin's Creed: Valhalla Product Context

Answer 1

• 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)

Answer 2

• 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).

Answer 3

• 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.

Question 4

Where can AC: Valhalla be bought?

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

• 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.

Question 6

Typography and Brand Identity in AC:Valhalla

Answer 6

• 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).

Answer 7

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.)