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If a game where you play as a big retarded dude who is about 15 words away from being mute has no appeal at all, go play a long winded RPG or snarky adventure game. If you want to play a game where the button to skip cutscenes is so large, you almost can't resist, this could be the game for you.
Did you enjoy doing what amounts to the same 4 fun things over and over and over again in Assassins Creed? Does the idea of a large island full of guys to kill sound AWESOME? Do you like to do your killing with a sword in one hand an axe in the other sound awesome? Then stop reading and go rent the game now.
It's not that Viking is a great game, it is not great. The plotline is something involving whiney goddesses hating each other and you have to kill one of them or something, I think I am killing the chick with Black hair for the one with white hair done like Princess Leia or something, I don't know... all I know is that there are places on the map where guys need to lose some limbs. Alright, it's not that simple, as there is some context. The guys over here need to lose their limbs so you can rescue the vikings there to have a lumber mill to make siege weapons. Guys over there need to die so you can rescue Vikings to have farmlands to feed your army. The game manages to write up logical reasons for everything your doing, it all makes sense... it's just the action of liberating a farm or clearing a rock quarry are for the most part, exactly the same... kill guys, open gate to free vikings, do inanae fetch quest.
The game does have some bright spots... firstly, the only loading screens are when you change levels (about 3+ hours) and when you turn the game on. Aside from that, no loading, you die, you respawn at your base, teleport around the map instantly, minimal texture pop in and a cool color change depending on who owns a territory. The AI is aggressive on both your side and the AI. The super warrior Skarin or whoever while being a total badass, will DIE if you try and solo 10+ guys at once, because they do not take turns attacking... they will Zerg Rush you and there is not too much you can do... aside from fighting smart by using ranged weapons, Stealth-Lite(TM) and having badass reflexes.
The combat system is simple, you mash A occasionally holding the Left Bumper to do flavor attacks or throwing in a tap of X or sometimes... to get really wild, you hold LB and hit X, there is a block button on L that lets you dodge backwards and do a shoulder check move... so it's simple action. But it is fun in a grisly way.
You see... you can tear guys up, lopping off arms, legs, heads, torsos, sometimes a combination of those, in slow motion finishing moves. It is brutal and satisfying.
Really, that is the whole of the game. It's simple, brutish, and has a retarded charm to it's simplistic brutality that is worth checking out. Sort of like a movie by Michael Bay.
There are also airstrikes... BY MAGIC DRAGONS. They have little impact on the game, mostly letting you skip an occasional objective in the siege mode by having your bombers uh, I mean dragons do a fly by and throw down some napalm on the fleash of your foes.
The game is by no means awesome, it is just a fairly solid, competent but not amazing game. I have trouble recomending it for purchase to anyone, but it's better than Dyansty Warriors... whatever number. It's nowhere near amazing, but it's nowhere near being utter crap, it's the Dennys of Videogames, the
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