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Ubisoft announced the release date for the Assassin's Creed Valhalla Discovery Tour: Viking Age today. Similar to the two previous Discovery Tours, which covered ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece, the Discovery Tour: Viking Age will be an educational experience within Assassin's Creed Valhalla's in-game world – and will be free for all owners of the game.
Additionally, a standalone version will be available on PC via Ubisoft Connect and the Epic Games Store. The Discovery Tour: Viking Age will also be the first in the series to have a standalone release on consoles – namely, the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X | S. However, these will release at a later time than the PC versions, sometime in early 2022.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Viking Age Discovery Tour Release Date: October 19, 2021
The Discovery Tour for the Viking Age will cover history, culture, and traditions of the era, and was developed in close collaboration with historians and archaeologists. This time, it will also feature a central narrative, allowing players to interact with the world by stepping into the shoes of key Viking and Anglo-Saxon characters of the time. Additionally, several real artefacts from Ubisoft's partners' collections will be featured in the experience.
The official press release offers the following in-depth details about its museum partners:
- Hampshire Cultural Trust (HCT) is Ubisoft’s main partner for Discovery Tour: Viking Age, managing 23 museum and arts attractions across Hampshire and caring for 2.5 million objects relating to Hampshire’s rich and internationally important heritage. The Discovery Tour provides a unique glimpse into the lives of ordinary people in and around Winchester through a selection of rare objects, including the exceptional Winchester Reliquary, the sole surviving holy relic in Britain from the time. In addition to this collaboration with the Discovery Tour: Viking Age, Ubisoft’s strategic partnership with HCT will bring history to life in spring 2022 in Winchester through a unique, immersive cultural experience, which will blend real action with video projection, storytelling and objects from the trust’s collections; the experience will be complemented by an Augmented Reality tour of Winchester in the lore of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla produced by Sugar Creative, one of the UK’s leading creative studios.
- The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It has a vast collection of items including artefacts from every age of written civilization. A partnership with the British Library was key to Ubisoft to give players the best access to medieval manuscripts and illustrations directly linked with the Viking Age.
- The Réunion des Musées Nationaux – Grand Palais photo agency is a public industrial and commercial institution under the authority of the French Ministry of Culture. It has been officially responsible for promoting collections of France’s national museums. Each year, it captures more than 20,000 new on-site shots to further expand the agency’s collection, which is universally available online. They have been an essential partner since the very first Discovery Tour. Their vast collections have been key in supporting Ubisoft’s artefact driven approach to the Discovery Tour: Viking Age, enabling players to look at items such as the Bayeux Tapestry or the Sutton Hoo helmet.
- York Archaeological Trust operates the Jorvik Viking Centre in the UK, which has interpreted the archaeology of York's Coppergate dig for the benefit of all audiences. The Discovery Tour has allowed Ubisoft to present some of these finds in a new medium, adding authentic period detail to the immersive environment of the Discovery Tour and demonstrating the importance of the city during the Viking Age as a commercial, religious and political hub.
- The National Museum of Denmark, Nationalmuseet, consists of a network of 20 museums all over the country with a collection of unique items covering a large part of Danish history. Putting artefacts under the spotlight from the National Museum of Denmark’s collections truly added depth to the Discovery Tour, demonstrating amazing crafting skills and esthetics and a chance to see how reputation, family and social bounds are described as such vital elements.
- Preston Park Museum & Grounds is the local Museum serving the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees. Preston Park Museums & Ground gave the Discovery Tour team the unique opportunity to highlight two key elements from the Viking Era; the new Anglo-Scandinavian culture that emerged from funerary art, and one of only two near-complete Viking era helmets in the world; the Yarm Helmet. Preston Park Museum has a special Viking touring exhibition arriving early 2022 in which there will be events that incorporate the Discovery Tour: Viking Age.
Again, the Assassin's Creed Valhalla Discovery Tour: Viking Age will release for all owners of the game on October 19, 2021. The standalone version for the PC will also release on this date. You may visit the official website for the Discovery Tour series here.
In other Assassin's Creed Valhalla news, you can check out our review of the latest expansion, The Siege of Paris, here.
