Viking Battle For Asgard pc ~ Vower Games

After four years aboard a longship from console land, Creative Assembly's hack and slasher (and chopper and slicer) about Norse mythology and decapitation HAS finally landed on the PC's shores.

In Viking: Battle for Asgard Skarin you play, who must liberate Midgard from the invading force of Hel, Queen of the Underworld, in his role as champion of Freya, Goddess of Plot Advancement. Hel's three key strengths Have captured islands, and your job is to travel across one each Stock, dispatching her minions and they've Freeing the imprisoned soldiers.

The fighting is solid, if never spectacular: a collection of light and heavy attack combos, blocks, dodges and draining mana-bar-elemental weapon power-ups. Purpose the repetition, Both of the moment-to-moment fighting and the campaign structure, anaesthetises you from ever feeling truly excited about the on-screen action.

Skarin is Constantly chopping off limbs in slow-mo finishing flourishes to a Point That feels gratuitous. You'll see the same animations So Many Times against the enemy handful of kinds Quickly That It Becomes boring.

There's a running theme of paying lip-service Viking to presentation, only for it to fall flat. The Nordic wrapping, for example, promises an entertaining world, the goal unengaged voice acting Quickly nixes Any investment.