Assassin’s Creed Valhalla allows players to swap between the male and female version of protagonist Eivor at any time in the game, Ubisoft has confirmed.
Damien Leyris, Senior Associate Producer on Valhalla, said:
We give the player the choice to swap between female Eivor and the male Eivor at any time. All the choices that you’re going to have to make — whether it’s narrative choices or romantic choices — it’s going to be up to the player to choose how to approach [them].
In Valhalla, you’re Eivor no matter the choice unlike in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, whereby players had to choose between the male character Alexios or the female character Kassandra.
Leyris continued:
For Valhalla, the narrative team and the creative team decided to approach Eivor as the main character. Leaving the choice to the player to decide whether you want that character to be represented by a male or by a female. Everything has been done to make sure that Eivor is the strongest Assassin’s Creed character so far, and that all the choices and the narrative around the character are adaptive to that.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla heads to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Stadia and Windows PC via Uplay, and Epic Games Store. It’s current-gen release date is set for November 17.