Viking: Battle for Asgard is not a perfect game. The camera can sometimes kill you, the story is bland, npc's have no feelings and appear brainless, and it feels like a game that is behind its time. However despite that Viking is very very fun. Sega is great at making arcade style games, ex. The Club. Viking is a hack and slash single player game thats takes place across multiple islands. Fighting in the game is done by pressing a for a standard attack and x for a heavy attack, you gain abilities and moves from arenas, and use magic to kill your foes. Button mashing will get you no where you have to pick your attacks and block your enemies. When you hurt enemies enough an x appears above their head allowing you to perform a fatality moves that dismembers your opponents in all of it's slow motion glory, it's almost 300 esque in it's use of slow motion. You get to see all the blood spurts and limbs flying that you want. Not for the faint of heart or those who should not be playing it. The quest are divided up in areas that you must take back from the evil hordes. After taking places back your army gets bigger and when your army gets big enough you attack a stronghold. The graphics are good enough, and the controls are good except for the camera. This game is fun do not let gamespot guide you to not trying this game. If you like hack and slash style games def. check it out. I do not like these style games but I do enjoy it.
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