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• gamedeal user

  May 18, 2014

  Lets get the bad things out of the way, the voice acting disgusts me, the controls can be pretty confusing, and I find myself having to look up what to do because the instruction is just so poor. It wasn't set up great, but there is a lack of Viking games in the gaming community. They do bring out the aspect of Vikings well in this game, its a hack n slash where you recruit hundreds of vikings to your army and every now and then get into huge battles where its like something out of the Lord of The Rings. You can use dragons to decimate the enemys, and chop the Legions filthy limbs off at your leisure. Overall, it's ok, it's worth a play through.
• gamedeal user

  May 21, 2014

  BUY IT IF ITS ON SALE-8/10 No game is perfect. Some have iffy controls, others have lame stories, and a few just have weak enemies, but even with these natural foibles, glitches and hang-ups, a videogame can transcend its limitations and be heralded as a title where the sum is greater than the parts. That isn't the case with Viking: Battle for Asgard. Set in the time when the Norse Gods ruled and people hid gold in glowing urns for some inexplicable reason, Viking, the latest from SEGA and Creative Assembly, tosses you into the massive boots of Skarin, a shirtless warrior who packs a sword and battleaxe. The game opens with Skarin mortally wounded and about to take a one-way trip to Valhalla, but Freya -- Odin's daughter -- steps in to save the Schwarzenegger-like brute as long as he pledges allegiance to her and promises to go after Hel, queen of the Underworld. Skarin agrees, gets this glowing amulet from Freya, and we're off! Now, taking on the queen of the damned isn't a one-man gig. The problem is, Hel's Legion -- an army of blue-skinned, undead bad guys -- is roaming the countryside and has imprisoned the very Vikings who would be willing to fight alongside Skarin. This means that the majority of your time in Viking is spent scouring the mountain tops and grassy plains looking for men who are usually locked in giant ribcage prisons or tethered to skull poles. Find the camps, kill the Legion, and free the men. From there, the troops usually give you some task to complete such as gathering a healing honey or eliminating a traitor, and once the odd job is complete, they join your team. See, you're freeing all of these soldiers for the massive battles that Viking revolves around. When you tap Select and bring up your map, you'll find it covered with various icons indicating enemy encampments, friendly bases and more. Of the enemy kind, you'll see some that have conditions -- free X number of troops, find the battle horn, etc. -- that must be met before you can complete the task. Usually, these are the massive battles that act as a middle and end to the level.Once you meet the battle conditions, you can select the icon on the map and jump straight into the war. Here's where all of the troops you've saved march into battle with you. If you haven't seen these skirmishes in action, they can be pretty impressive. Each one starts with a cutscene depicting a sea of your men marching toward a sea of enemies. Dragons fly overhead, Shaman are casting ominous spells in the distance, and giants wait at the ready. When the scene ends, you're thrust into the battle the imagery just set up. You and hundreds of your men move towards hundreds of enemies. Although there's no way to control what your men are doing, they're generally pretty good about following you and helping the best they can -- that is by beating the living hell out of all the blue-skinned freaks that get in their way. While your boys on the ground tend to the Legion horde, you're pretty much on your own as far as ending the battle. Each scenario has win conditions such as eliminating two of the three Shamans or taking care of a few giants. Once you've completed the tasks, your troops can move deeper into the base, you'll get a new set of objectives, and the beat goes on. In the end, you have to call your Shaman to the base's heart and have her switch it to good
• Duke Alamo

  Nov 6, 2022

  I had a hard time getting it to run on Windows 10, what I had to do was: 1 - install the game 2 - navigate to the game file in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\\steamapps\common\Viking Battle for Asgard/external/DirectX/Redist/DXSetup.exe 3 - run the DXSetup.exe 4 - go up four folders until your in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Viking Battle for Asgard 5 - find "ConfigTool.exe" and right click it and select "Properties". Click on compatibility when the popup appears. 6 - select "Run this program in compatibility mode for" and select "Windows XP Service pack 3", also select run as administrator. Click on "Apply" and "Save". 7 - go to your library in the Steam client and find Viking Battle for Asgard and click on "Play". 8 - a menu with two toggle options popup, choose the one that says "configure game". 9 - configure your controls to your liking and save and play. You should be good to go now. I hope this helps my fellow viking warriors!
• gamedeal user

  Nov 3, 2014

  When I first saw this game, I thought it would be a lot of fun: massive battles, chopping up minions, being a big damn nordic hero. I wasn't entirely wrong, but I wasn't right either. Viking: Battle for Asgard is a 3rd person hack and slash action adventure game. You play as Skarin, a Viking warrior blessed by Freya, tasked with saving Midgard (yet it's called battle for Asgard..). It takes place on 3 different islands of various sizes. It contains zero notable RPG elements, no loot, no stats, and no detailed information at all. You buy skills (moves) before really knowing much about it, you buy upgrades but don't really know how it differs from the previous one, besides it's [i]better[/i]. It is straight forward and fairly linear. Occasionally you have multiple tasks that can be completed in any order, but they all must be completed before progressing to the next area so there really is no choice involved. There are also some strange stealth sections that just feel thrown in. Maybe they were trying to break up the hack and slash monotony, which is successful, but because it varies so much from the rest of the gameplay, you really never feel equipped correctly to do them. Those sections feel very out of place, especially when they also have a collecting bit thrown in to them (for a few achievements only) but are never explained whatsoever as to why you would be collecting the things in the first place unless you read the achievements ahead of time. You [i]may[/i] stumble across one of the skulls, but would never know what the heck you had collected unless you read the achievements. Just seems poorly implemented. Aside from those skulls, there really aren't any secrets to be found. I like to thoroughly explore areas looking for hidden objects or areas, but there are none to be found. You may occassionally come across a random sack of gold or chest (which only contain gold or a quest item), but that's about it. Because of this, there doesn't feel like much of a reason to explore (even when you're on a rather linear path). [b]Visuals:[/b] Because this is a console port from Xbox 360/PS3, its graphics are similar to that generation of game. As with a lot of ports, the game is very poorly optimized for PC. It lags pretty noticibly in large battles, it has no Field of View slider, very few graphics options, and the FPS is locked at 30. There is a guide on Steam that will help get the game looking better, but it still cannot unlock the FPS but will change the FOV. Before changing it, there were times when moving the camera made my eyes hurt but even then, turning the camera seemed to blur the screen in a nauseating manner. All that said, I enjoyed the visuals. There were times when things looked really impressive, scenery looked gorgeous, and combat felt visceral. I think the Creative Assembly did a great job crafting a believable world. It felt consistant and nothing really felt out of place. Small details like fences looked like they really tried to make it fit and appear to belong there. Area layouts made sense. One of the worst things to me were the animations. Some were just straight strange (dragon summoning looks like your character just collapses and goes ragdoll) and others were just lazy. Every time you fight a Giant, the 3 different Quick Time Events are animated exactly the same, every single time. The first time you see it, you think, wow, that's pretty cool; But after seeing the same thing 9 times, it gets boring and you're just waiting for it to end. Even the dismemberment kills start to get boring after a while as there only appears to be 5 or so different variations. I think had they actually put in effort on optimization and unlocking the FPS; This game would have been recieved much better on PC. [b]Controls:[/b] I played it with a wireless Xbox 360 controller and it felt pretty good. I did not try it with keyboard/mouse at all so I cannot say how those were, but right when you load up the game, it specifically says it was designed for a controller. The controls are rather simple to understand and build slowly in complexity. The combat does get rather repetative as you end up using the same few moves as you progress. As mentioned above, the game has Quick Time Events when fighting tough enemies. They're not particulary hard the first time you do them, and then shift into mind numbingly easy as you progress because the pattern [u]does not change[/u]. There's only one kill animation for giants, so there's only one pattern to use every time you kill one. It's repetative and lacks any excitement. As mentioned above the camera was a problem. It seemed to have a habit of working against you any chance it got, allowing for a sword to your backside. Targeting was also rather strange and likes to work against you. Targeting in Viking seems to rely on auto locking on the target nearest to you, that's fine except when you're getting attacked from multiple sides and are trying to attack a specific enemy before they stike you, only to lunge at a different enemy and get hit multiple times in the back. What makes it worse is that even though you are swinging a sword and axe, you can only seem to hit one target at a time (unless using a special attack). Sure, your swing may go through multiple enemies (especially when they're clipping inside one another) but the same will only register a hit on one, which one can be hard to determine ahead of time. All said, I still recommend the game but not at full price. If it's under $5 and you like action adventure, hack and slash, or vikings, it's worth it. It's fun enough, the achievements are quite achieveable, and has a run time of 15-20 hours. There are worse ways to spend a weekend. 6/10
• gamedeal user

  Nov 3, 2014

  Viking: Battle for Asgard is a decent enough game. Story is mediocre, mechanics are okay, if repeatative. The art and music are fairly good, graphics are surprisingly still passable, if a bit bright. Buy this game only if it's on sale, and only if you like lot's of hack n' slash fighting mixed with the occasional battle set piece. QTEs are sins I don't often forgive, and niether is being a lazy port, but, this game is alright with me, regardless. If you've played Brutal Legend, and enjoyed it, but wanted a more serious attempt at a similar style game, you'll probably like this. Probably.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 30, 2023

  Good memories, fun game. Just play with controller and you'll be fine. Does get a little repetitive but its not worth the amount of negative reviews.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 22, 2015

  I say "no" but I really do love this game but this port is so so bad and would not recommend it! If you truly want to experience this game get it on console! 2/10 for the port, 8/10 for the actual game which is pretty fun.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 1, 2017

  It's been years since I have had the option to play this. It still holds up and is just a really fun game that takes bits from all genres and puts them into a hybrid rpg action adventure. My only one complaint is the controls are pretty wonky (due to no lock on), otherwise you cant really go wrong with Viking: Battle for Asgard. Give it a chance, you wont be dissapointed. update: After 100% the game, there are a couple things I'll add. There is a glitch on the second island that makes the game seem unplayable. You will know it when it happens... No hard reset needed though. Just pause, even during the bug, window the game and come right back into it. Very strange bug, but its more an annoyance (not game breaking) than anything. This also happened two times on the third island, still not a big deal. If you are trying to 100% the game(everything is doable in one run) there is really only four missable ones and thats Skullbagger 1,2,3 and not starting the game in hard mode. Youtube it before you wage your first war campaign. Viking is still as awesome as I remember all those years ago. Happy hunting.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 14, 2017

  Great story and immersive and diverse gameplay, sure to provide endless hours of engrossing and engaging entertainment. It has a complex and deep story with emotional moments and characters you really get attached to. I recommend this for anyone from casual gamers to professional no-lifers. You are sure to enjoy.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 3, 2017

  Not a bad game. It feels like a watered down version of Dragon Age: Inquisition but with a weak story and less immersion. However, I found this game to be rather enjoyable once I got the hang of the combat ( Which isn't really explained too well) and spent a few hours slaughtering foes for fun. Another issue was the accessibility of the option menus which required you to reboot the game every time you wanted to tweak a performance setting so I spent the first 30 minutes trying to get the performance to balance with what my PC can run, as there is no auto setting. While the gameplay is a bit blunt and combat eventually repetitive, it does remain a pretty consistent challenge which allows a feeling of accomplishment upon completing each segment. If on special, worth giving it a shot for sure.