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    Viking: Battle for Asgard

    Game » consists of 7 releases. Released Mar 25, 2008

    Hack thousands of foes into pieces while rage against Hel's forces in this third-person action game from Creative Assembly.

    mikeinsc's Viking: Battle for Asgard (Xbox 360) review

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    Repetitive, but Enjoyable

     It's odd that Vikings have been such an ignored centerpiece of a game. They seem to be MADE for gaming. Brutally violent warriors tends to equal FUN game.

    Well, outside of Blizzard's Lost Vikings, I can't think of a major Viking related title outside of this surprisingly enjoyable --- but not surprisingly violent --- game.

    Viking follows the path of Skarin, a Viking warlord who is seeking to help his fellow Vikings fight back against the evil Legion. This takes an exceptionally long time as you have to liberate three increasingly large islands. And you have to fight progressively difficult enemies.

    While the game is violent --- really fucking violent --- there is a very good stealth element. Your island missions always end with a siege of a huge capital city, but you have to do some stealth work to prepare for the attack. And you really do need to be quiet because, if you're caught, you're going to get overwhelmed and slaughtered.

    The game does get fairly tedious. I couldn't bring myself to finish it, which is a criticism of high proportions. But the game is a great title to play. I'll likely try it again in the future. But this game has sadly fallen through the cracks as the game deserved a lot more attention than this.

    Other reviews for Viking: Battle for Asgard (Xbox 360)

      Great if your in the mood 0

      Viking : Battle for asgard is a great game if you just watched 300 or conan the (first one)  and want to slice up and brutally cut people in half,decapitate and literally disarm people. but before you can get to hoards of hel's army to slaughter you have to complete tasks on one of three  medium sized island's like liberate a farm for food for your army and free troops for the upcoming battle. On  more then one occasion it felt that these quests were a bit forced in to the game for length.Once y...

      2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

      battle for mediocrity... 0

      Viking tells the tale of an exotically named conannny lookin fella who comes into contact with lots of other exotically named viking folk. His boss apparently gets styling tips from princess leia,and is trying to beat down her unruly goddess cohort, or sybling, or colleague? and she's named hel. yeah, i thought it was misspelled everytime i read it throughout the game.Your job as mighty Skarin, is basically, to hack up a lot of dudes who are terribly reminiscent of the Uruhkai (spelling) orcs fr...

      1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

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