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Viking: Battle for Asgard launched today. A somewhat anticipated action game based on a Viking story about Skarin, the hero of the game, and his journey to proctect his land and the Gods. Skarin can be seen holding a huge ass axe in all the promotional videos and screenshots.

Here’s what wikipedia has to say about the gameplay:

The game will feature an open-world experience, there will be three islands in the world of Midgard, the player can explore each one of them freely. the player will be able to search and find his fellow viking soldiers and rescue them and use them in battles,

The world will have plenty of castles which player can attack and capture, when the player finishes his missions in each island, he must fight a great war, this can be a great siege or a battle between large armies. One of the main features of the game will be large armies, in many battles there will be hundreds of soldiers fighting to the death.

The player may use different ways of weakening his enemy, like killing their shaman, or getting into the main fight and use combat moves and combos to kill enemy soldiers. There is not much revealed about the combat system of the game, but it will feature hack and slash gameplay much like the previous Creative Assembly action game, Spartan: Total Warrior, though it will be considerably more violent featuring very graphic violence including dismemberment.

This will be your typical hack-n-slash game. What separates it a part from some of the others are the great visual effects and engrossing storyline. I’ve longed for a good Viking game, and Viking: Battle for Asgard proves to be it.