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Though he’s been in the video game industry for more than 20 years, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla director Eric Baptizat still experienced immense challenges in developing an authentic viking world for players to inhabit in the upcoming action-adventure game set in England and Norway.

One of his first steps was moving away from the barbaric caricature images that people often have of vikings and really looking into the journey of a viking and what that entailed — including indulging in exploration. “When you are speaking about vikings, it comes with a level of freedom that you expect,” Baptizat ...

Though he’s been in the video game industry for more than 20 years, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla director Eric Baptizat still experienced immense challenges in developing an authentic viking world for players to inhabit in the upcoming action-adventure game set in England and Norway.

One of his first steps was moving away from the barbaric caricature images that people often have of vikings and really looking into the journey of a viking and what that entailed — including indulging in exploration. “When you are speaking about vikings, it comes with a level of freedom that you expect,” Baptizat ...

If you’re like me, you’re probably still busy sinking hours into 2018’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, because I never get tired of murdering people with parkour throughout antiquity. One of the best features of the game was finally being able to choose the gender of your character (Kassandra rips and I will hear no argument otherwise). We already knew that this option would once again be available to players in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, but game director Eric Baptizat recently confirmed that you won’t be locked into a decision at the beginning of the …...

Ubisoft has confirmed that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will let you change the gender of protagonist Eivor at any time.

“You can decide to play male or female, [but] you are allowed to change, at any time, your skill tree or the gender of your character—you can swap at any time.” game director Eric Baptizat says in an interview with GamesRadar. “It was important to make this option available for the player. It’s something that the player can decide for the way they want to play, because it has some impact on the narrative—but it’s not two different stories. It’s the same story of the character—whatever options your character decides.”

That last part of the quote is worth expanding upon. You may recall that Assassin’s Creed Odyssey also featured playable male and female protagonists. However, those two protagonists were different characters. In fact, they were siblings.