Viking Battle for Asgard preview Xbox 360
Viking Battle for Asgard preview Xbox 360
We've gone hands-on this month with Viking: Battle for Asgard, the forthcoming action game from the makers of the PC favourite Total War series. Taking on a character from such formidable fighting stock as the Vikings is always going to be exciting and we have high hopes of this game from what we've seen so far - there's a mix of solo missions and whole-army assaults which you'll have to gather forces for. Viking: Battle for Asgard could be one of the biggest action epics the 360 has seen - find out more in our full hands-on preview now!
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Viking Battle for Asgard preview for Xbox 360
If there's one thing you can rely on
with Sussex-based developer The
Creative Assembly, it's that they
know how to handle themselves
in a scrap. As you'd
probably expect from
the team behind the
sublime Total War
series on PC, or
the hugely
underrated Spartan: Total Warrior from three years
back, the battle scenes in their latest
are some of the most impressive yet
seen on a current-generation
console.
Shifting hundreds of
chunky, detailed warriors around
with not even the slightest hint of a
stutter, Viking feels closest in spirit to
something like a Western Dynasty
Warriors, but with a good deal more
dismemberment. It's brutal, barbaric
and bloody - just as a game featuring
such vicious fighters should be.
Rather than controlling a horde of
Norse warriors, you play as one Viking,
Skarin, who is tasked with destroying a
legion of undead, conjured by the
goddess Hel after her banishment by
the all-powerful Odin. If the story
sounds a little like a Norse remake of
God of War's plot, then you won't be
surprised to hear that Skarin is also a
dark, conflicted protagonist, with inner
demons, a mysterious past and a lust
for blood. Sega is clearly positioning
him as a rival to Sony's Kratos,
suggesting he's "gaming's next great
hero".
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