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Game Information
- Platform: PlayStation 3
- BBFC Rating:
Suitable for 18 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 18. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 18 years of age or over. - Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features
- The story of a Viking Hero. Skarin is an uncompromising force. A plaything of the gods rebelling against their selfish agenda. The definitive Viking warrior.
- Rich Viking Lore. The violent and glorious world of Viking mythology brought to stunning life. Players will write their own legends to be told around the campfire.
- Vast open world environments. Explore, uncover and fight your way across huge next gen worlds full of combat, exploration and quests.
- High impact, brutal combat engine. Experience intensely physical melee combat. Dismember enemies with deadly combat moves in a whirlwind of death.
- Mythical Powers. Tame dragons and command them to rain fire upon your enemies. Call on magic and the power of the gods to win the mortal war.
- Free your people. Liberate your Viking kinsmen from the clutches of Hel. Earn their trust and their sword arm. Fight alongside them in battle.
- Epic Battles. Lay the foundations for huge battles featuring hundreds of dynamic NPC warriors. Subtly influence the battle through targeted assassination or wade in to save stricken allies. Become one amongst many and turn the tide in favour of your kinsmen.
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The task of stopping Hel and defending the future of mankind falls to Skarin a promising but deeply flawed young warrior, ignorant of the true reason for his favor with the Gods...
Skarin is an uncompromising force, a play-thing of the Gods rebelling against their selfish agenda in a whirlwind clash of flash and steel set against the back-drop of a rich Viking culture and mythology.
Percussive moment of impact combat, savage and brutal, Vikings combat is a range fuelled meat grinder directed by the player; fusing over-the-top dismemberment with disturbing realism by displaying the gore-soaked real nature of close combat in detail. Transitions in real time from small scale skirmishes to mass battles, become on amongst many and turn the tide in favour of your kinsman.
Product Description
- The story of a Viking Hero. Skarin is an uncompromising force. A plaything of the gods rebelling against their selfish agenda. The definitive Viking warrior.
- Rich Viking Lore. The violent and glorious world of Viking mythology brought to stunning life. Players will write their own legends to be told around the campfire.
- Vast open world environments. Explore, uncover and fight your way across huge next gen worlds full of combat, exploration and quests
- High impact, brutal combat engine. Experience intensely physical melee combat. Dismember enemies with deadly combat moves in a whirlwind of death.
- Mythical Powers. Tame dragons and command them to rain fire upon your enemies. Call on magic and the power of the gods to win the mortal war
- Free your people. Liberate your Viking kinsmen from the clutches of Hel. Earn their trust and their sword arm. Fight alongside them in battle.
- Epic Battles. Lay the foundations for huge battles featuring hundreds of dynamic NPC warriors. Subtly influence the battle through targeted assassination or wade in to save stricken allies. Become one amongst many and turn the tide in favour of your kinsmen.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I quite enjoyed this game at first; it was repetitive, but I enjoyed the whole violence thing after a hard day in the office. A few times when I was playing it, the game froze; I didn't think anything of it, until I got to the first big battle. I've now tried three times to play this section, but every time the console has crashed in the first few minutes. It's incredibly irritating.
I've given it two stars because, despite really annoying me by crashing, I enjoyed the mindlessness of this game. There's nothing much to think about, apart from running about hacking at orc-type creatures. OK, so it's not demanding, but sometimes that's fun. I quite enjoyed the gory finishing moves, although by the time one of the goblin-y creatures can be beheaded, hacked in half or similar, they're about to die anyway.
I quite liked it that the goblin things kept chickens and drank wine in their goblin fortress thing. It made them seem a bit more civilised than the Vikings, who seemed to spend their time being trapped in unfeasibly delicate wooden cages or drinking mead. Which reminds me; the tasks were often pretty daft. About 20 Vikings who have just had their workplace invaded and been imprisoned need your character to go and get something or kill someone before they'll help you fight the evil types, even though a) it's in their own interests to help you, particularly since doing so would lessen the chance of them being imprisoned again and b) it would make more sense of a whole group of them acted together to do whatever it is that needs done, rather than making you go on your own. It's a shame you couldn't play for Hel's legions and beat up the lazy Vikings!
A few other sections could have used a bit more work (from what I've seen of the game). The power ups you can buy from the shop are pretty rubbish, so you end up collecting loads of gold but don't have anything worthwhile to spend it on. Similarly, the moves you can buy are largely pointless; you don't really need fancy combos and can happily just bash away at the x and square buttons.
If you fancy some brain-free hack and slash gore action and don't mind that the game crashes and lags so often it can become unplayable, then you'll probably enjoy this. But I'd avoid it and am about to trade in my copy after less than a week, which is unheard of for me.
I've given it two stars because, despite really annoying me by crashing, I enjoyed the mindlessness of this game. There's nothing much to think about, apart from running about hacking at orc-type creatures. OK, so it's not demanding, but sometimes that's fun. I quite enjoyed the gory finishing moves, although by the time one of the goblin-y creatures can be beheaded, hacked in half or similar, they're about to die anyway.
I quite liked it that the goblin things kept chickens and drank wine in their goblin fortress thing. It made them seem a bit more civilised than the Vikings, who seemed to spend their time being trapped in unfeasibly delicate wooden cages or drinking mead. Which reminds me; the tasks were often pretty daft. About 20 Vikings who have just had their workplace invaded and been imprisoned need your character to go and get something or kill someone before they'll help you fight the evil types, even though a) it's in their own interests to help you, particularly since doing so would lessen the chance of them being imprisoned again and b) it would make more sense of a whole group of them acted together to do whatever it is that needs done, rather than making you go on your own. It's a shame you couldn't play for Hel's legions and beat up the lazy Vikings!
A few other sections could have used a bit more work (from what I've seen of the game). The power ups you can buy from the shop are pretty rubbish, so you end up collecting loads of gold but don't have anything worthwhile to spend it on. Similarly, the moves you can buy are largely pointless; you don't really need fancy combos and can happily just bash away at the x and square buttons.
If you fancy some brain-free hack and slash gore action and don't mind that the game crashes and lags so often it can become unplayable, then you'll probably enjoy this. But I'd avoid it and am about to trade in my copy after less than a week, which is unheard of for me.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
Just finished this games yesterday, and I had a lot of fun with it. One of the few games where I wanted to pick it up any free time I had to do the next stage. Good points are good story (with the great BRIAN BLESSED shouting as always!), good graphics, amazing variety of gory kills and some nice cut scenes. However a couple things let it down, the lack of variety and the length of the game, probably completed it in less than 20 hours. However very enjoyable, and definately recommended at the lower price!
Fun:
This game is beyond epic. I bought this a year or two ago and I'm still going on it. There's little to say without spoiling the unexpected surprises. If you love your hack 'n' slashes, pretend to be the characters as the battle and love armies clashing together in battle then this is surely the game for you!!!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Good Old Viking Game
I love the Vikings and I really did enjoy this game although its dated a bit now when I say this I mean that your character doesn't speak like today's games but it has fun parts in... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Jamie Collins
Fun hack and slash
A fun hack and slash with funny deaths campaign is not to bad provides 2-3 hours of gameplay if played slowly and not constant best bo0ught cheap tho for the amount of gameplay... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Shock747
game crashes
i been playing this game for a week noe and was fine up untill the final battle of the first level.. Read more
Published 20 months ago by peter
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If you like this sort of games this is a good one for a tener.
Published on 15 Dec 2009 by Alex Seguino
A good game
The game is very enjoyable. In other aspects has faults, is not like current games, but in my opinion they aren't very important in this case beacuse you are going to enjoy the... Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2009 by A. Astobiza
Daz from Baz
I really enjoyed playing this game, the graphics are great, the slow mo kills are brilliant and the battles are amazing! Read more
Published on 9 July 2009 by D. Osborne
wow unexpected and brilliant
a great game with beautiful slow mo killing. is a perfect RPG with plenty to do and would recommend this game to anyone. the story line is great and follows a norse theme. Read more
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Published on 13 May 2009 by Mr. I. R. Brown
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This game is quite literally the "bomb" i had so much fun with it as i am a simple minded fellow who doesn't need a whole lot of variety to keep me interested. Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2008 by Mango Fresh
in response to the other reviews..
I'v read some of the other reviews for this game and one problem tat appears a lot is the movement. The movement is slow but it should be because he is running with massive boots... Read more
Published on 19 Dec 2008 by Dan Power
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