Thank You. I actually might go buy this game now, I thought it looked pretty sweeet.
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Yes, it is a great game if you dig "olde" school, brutal hack n' slash games, with a smattering of stealth and strategy that also let's you complete the game at your own pace due to having open world exploration. While not being completely polished and lacking in the animation department, what makes this game truly shine, is that it completely rewards you with some truly epic battles that are like clashes on the level of Braveheart/LotR in size, and brutality.
There are strategic missions that will sometimes have you roaming around enemy camps, trying to figure out how to sneak in without getting outnumbered and mobbed. It also offers the ability to learn new moves and upgrade your weapons with elemental magic runes. You will gain dragon runes which allows you to summon a dragon during the truly massive battles, and you have to decide which points of the enemy lines that you want the dragon to take out as well. You can also finish the game at your own pace, and freely roam around huge environments, searching out gold whenever you want to take a break from the core missions.
Without spoiling anything, by the time you reach the midpoint massive (ever growing larger)battle on the open world second (much larger than the first) island, this game really starts to open up and become highly addictive, as well as just flat out fun. A completely raw, brutal, war driven game that has wonderfully designed fantastical environments which truly generate the whole Norse mythology vibe, while at the same time, being reminiscent of Frank Frazetta's artwork. It also at times has a real Fable feel, as well as a LotR "Battle for Helms Deep" kind of vibe as well. All in all, I highly recommend it to people who dig epic, old school, fantasy hack n' slash games, as this game is a hack n' slash at it's core, but is also quite a bit more as well.
AdaMoochUD
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