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Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories is a crossover between the video games Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (2018) and Assassin's Creed: Valhalla (2020) featuring each games' main protagonists, Kassandra and Eivor Varinsdottir, respectively. Released on 14 December 2021, it was first unveiled by Ubisoft on the Assassin's Creed Youtube channel alongside Valhalla's new Dawn of Ragnarök expansion announcement on 13 December 2021.
The crossover saw both games receive a new free story arc update, with "Those Who Are Treasured" in Odyssey that had Kassandra travel to the island of Korfu to explore the consequences of obtaining the immortality-granting Staff of Hermes Trismegistus, while "A Fated Encounter" in Valhalla had Eivor travel to the Isle of Skye, where she encounters Kassandra.[1]
This expansion was only made possible due to coincidental timings because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As Marc-Alexis Côté revealed to Eurogamer in September 2022, developers at Ubisoft's Montreal headquarters usually had a closing process after a game and any expansions were completed, where the computers that worked on art, animation, models, etc. would be boxed up, taped shut, and put in storage, from where the teams actually hoped to never have to reopen them. However, when staff left their offices and shifted to remote work as part of Quebec's pandemic response, the boxes still had not been made, despite it having been many months since Odyssey's second extensive downloadable expansion The Fate of Atlantis released its third and final installment Judgment of Atlantis in mid-July 2019. This uncharacteristically left Odyssey's assets still available for use.[2]
After Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot called and asked if Odyssey was finished, Côté confirmed it and hung up, only to remember that the computers were still not in storage. He then called Guillemot again to pitch the idea, not just because of his own and the player community's reactions to Melissanthi Mahut's performance as Kassandra, but also to try and draw more players to Valhalla from those who still lingered in Odyssey.[2] In a December 2021 interview with Gamespot, Ubisoft Quebec's associate creative director Clémence Nogrix said the company is "hoping that this could prove and potentially give a green light to something in the future", but would not confirm whether another similar project was in development elsewhere.[3] However, this was quashed in September 2022, when Côté confirmed to Axios that, contrary to rumors, there were no plans to make any further crossovers.[4]
Memories[]
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
Those Who Are Treasured
Main memories
- A Great Escape
- No Rest For the Misthios
- Not All Treasure Should Be Found
- A Message Delivered
- Power Corrupts All
- A New Horizon
Side memories
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
A Fated Encounter
Main memories
- A Distorted Dream
- Tossing and Turning
- Night and Day
- Counting Sheep
- What Dreams May Come
- One Last Sleepless Night
World Events
Gallery[]
References[]
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Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories on Ubisoft's official website (backup link)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Phillips, Tom (10 September 2022). Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is. Eurogamer. Archived from the original on 10 September 2022. Retrieved on 17 October 2023.
- ↑ Ramée, Jordan (14 December 2021). Kassandra And Eivor Don't Flirt In Assassin's Creed Valhalla/Odyssey's Crossover Stories, But There's Tension. Gamespot. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021. Retrieved on 10 January 2022.
- ↑ Totilo, Stephen (10 September 2022). Ubisoft announces 6 Assassin’s Creed games and a franchise shake-up. Axios. Archived from the original on 10 September 2022. Retrieved on 3 March 2025.
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