Console Monster: Viking: Battle for Asgard XBOX 360 Review

Console Monster writes: "Nearly every era of time has had a game interpretation. The Romans have Rome: Total War, the Greeks have God of War and the Vikings now have Viking: Battle for Asgard. Now, by playing Viking you can tell where the inspiration for the game came from. Kratos and his Greek friends made hack and slash good in God of War. However, in Viking it is not so good. It seems Creative Assembly have tried too hard to make Viking like God of War, instead making an average hack and slash game. People who like dismembering limbs and lots of blood may find some interest in this, but the majority will just find it rather bland.

Somewhere amongst the flying heads and spraying blood there is a story about a Viking solider named Skarin who is called upon by the Norse gods to stop the legion of Hel, a group of hideous undead soliders lead by a not so ugly goddess of Death. The cutscenes are mainly in 300 style comic strip animations voiced beautifully by Brian Blessed, however they are too confusing to be bothered with…"