Vikings: Battle for Asgard
Vikings is set during the time of Odin and Norse mythology, whereby the player takes control of a warrior named Skarin in an area known as Brighthelm. The environment consists of 3 islands each progressively becoming more difficult with altered terrains, although you get to level up during each stage.
Brighthelm has a large amount of locations which the player can liberate. In order for Skarin to liberate each island, he must fight an all out war whereby, Skarin holds the balance between success and failure via commanding air airstrikes from Dragon allies or taking down strategic opponents. Along with this combat feature, there can be hordes of Vikings fighting alongside the player.
The combat system of the game is predominately hack-and-slash style, much like the previous Creative Assembly title, Spartan: Total Warrior, although Vikings is graphically violent and gruesome. It features dismemberment and decapitation along with the ability to blow enemies up using primitive pipe bombs and other explosives. Throughout the game, the player has the ability to raid various Legion strongholds across the map. This can range from infiltrating a lumber mill and rescuing the Vikings held there, (who will help vanquish the Legion patrol units) to an all-out one-man assault against a quarry or storming a tower.
The game will appeal to fans of Conan the Barbarian whom Skarin bears a resemblance to, and Beowulf in terms of the aesthetic and theme of sorcery and Norse mythology.
Vikings: Battle for Asgard, is definitely worth a run through for the dismemberment alone.
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