Viking: Battle For Asgard

A good game, but never really reaches the promised potential. Visually its fine, not astounding - theres some very bland textures on display, and the opportunity to showcase some exciting and dynamic environment design only flashes up on occasion. For the most part its large open expanses of brown paths and green grass, which although fairly nicely done could have been improved with a bit more effort. The sea is nice though, but swimming is not your burly vikings strong point.....Visually its very reminiscent of Overlord. Not a bad thing, but not the highest complement.

Combat is decent enough, just the right side of button bashing, and nicely gorey, if slightly repetitive. Enemies can be hard to see as your crystal light only illuminates a 3ft radius around the character which can be annoying. Enemies are completely idiotic, no brains at all, generally attacking one at a time or not noticing you slice the arms off a companion stood next to them. The larger battles are fairly spectacular to be involved in but can descend into a mess of characters and dodgy framerate.

Sound design is woeful - barely any ambience at all bar footsteps and birds. Battles are conducted mostly in near silence which detracts from the world a fair bit. Story is guff, but simple enough to get on board with. Its all simple enough fare, with a certain charm to keep you slicing and dicing and collecting gold, but more of a renter to be fair.

this game is a must buy been on it the last 2 nights just cant put it down its a little bit like fable but more action in it the best bit so far is calling in the dragons in the massive battles u take part in order it now ull not be dissapointed

Amazing game, The moves, the enemy the allies the landscape. All excellent. The ONLY thing i dont like is the camera angle. Other than that really good.

A must buy for any gamer!

this is a great action game with lots of slaughtering the undead. Lots to do and very easy achievements too. Also some of the biggest battles with hundreds of enemies on screen at once!

I always thought Vikings were from Denmark , but this game has told me they were actually from Somerset , this little faux pas aside , this game reminded me of a game I had called barbarian 2 for the amiga back in the 2D ,16bit days . You are a Viking , who has been chosen by the gods to defeat Hel , who is loki's sister (a Norse god trouble maker ) on the way you have to save your kins men , who have been captured by Hel's minions , and are to be found scattered around the land , whilst battling vairing sizes of nasties , at certain points in the game you can call up an army to fight for you , to speed up your progress , you find teleport points which are most useful ( and save shoe leather ) you can also buy fighting moves , and you end up looking for a big fight just to see what each one does , or , how much blood and body parts you can spill on the floor , don't get too carried away as the enemy can surround you very quickly . oh I forgot to mention , you get dragons on your side ! A great fun game to have in your collection , see how many baddies you can get chasing you