The Aggressor Valiant Hearts: The Great War
About the game
The game “Valiant Hearts: The Great War” was developed and published by “Ubisoft” in 2014.
It belongs to the genre of “Narrative Adventure." It is a single-player game.
The game is classified by the database as one with a “Designated Aggressor,” a “Historical Setting,” and a “Passive Player Role.”
About the Aggressor Categories
Aggressor Type: Designated
- This game features the “Designated Aggressor." It indicates that the game tends to focus on one side of the conflict, either constantly or episodically. The Aggressor(s) are set by the narrative and rules of the game and cannot be changed by the player, meaning that the perspective on the Aggressor is fixed.
Setting Type: Historical
- This game has a historical setting. It is placed here by adhering to a point in time, persons or events of history, or a place recognisable by the player audience. It does not mean that the history simulated works deterministically to play out exactly like its real-life equivalent but that a historical world in the broadest sense is created.
Player Agency: Passive
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In this game, the role of the player's agency towards the Aggressor(s) is limited or even completely disabled, their role therefore often passive. The player tends to witness the aggression or acts within it, but is unable to take action against the cause of the aggression, i.e. the Aggressor themselves.
Individual Assessment
“Valiant Hearts: The Great War” was released by Ubisoft for the centennial anniversary of the First World War and is an anti-war game. In it, players take up different perspectives of actors in World War I that range from soldiers to civilians, yet always highlight the central aspect of human suffering. It therefore puts players in the position of enduring an aggression that comes from a number of designated Aggressors, but can be summarised under “the War” and everything that it entails.