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| From: Sega Of America, Inc.
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 1393
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 68023
Model: 68023
UPC: 010086680232
EAN: 0010086680232
ASIN: B000WCN8IW
Release Date: March 25, 2008
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| Features:
| • | High-impact, brutal combat. Dismember enemies and experience high-impact melee combat unlike any game you've played. | | • | Mythical powers. Tame dragons and command them to rain fire upon your enemies. Power up your weapons with elemental abilities and lay waste to your adversaries. | | • | Three open-world environments. Explore, uncover and fight your way across huge Norse worlds full of combat and exploration. | | • | Climactic, epic battles. Lay the foundations for huge battles featuring hundreds of warriors at once. Subtly influence the battle through targeted assassination and sabotage, or wade in to save stricken allies. |
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Product Description
You must stop the goddess Hel from wiping out all of humanity with her army of resurrected Viking warriors. You are the deeply flawed young warrior Skarin in the violent yet spectacular world of the Vikings and their God. Leave a bloody trail of dismembered foes as you master an involving and addictive combat style with destructive mythical powers and abilities. Explore vast and visually stunning open-world environments while slaying your enemies with a huge array of devastating and brutal combat moves. Tame mighty dragons and unleash their rain of fire, laying waste to the enemy hordes that stand in your way. Free enslaved warriors to wage war on Hel's legion and lead them into huge, epic battles featuring colossal giants, powerful shaman, deadly assassins and Hel's own champions. Use your emerging skills to help turn the tide of conflict with a timely murder or a visceral wave of slaughter. Stop Hel and save the future of mankind before it's too late.
Three massive open-world Nordic islands present both large-scale battles and smaller skirmishes. Explore, uncover and fight your way across huge Norse worlds full of combat and exploration Lay the foundations for huge battles featuring hundreds of warriors at once. Subtly influence the battle through targeted assassination and sabotage, or wade in to save stricken allies
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
 Worth every penny December 24, 2008
Kathy J. Olson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Many websites will have you believe that this game is easy, and can be played through in 6 to 8 hours. However, this is a lie, and it took me (a skilled gamer) over 25 hours to complete. The graphics are easily among the best on the console (just look at the in-game screenshots that are provided by Amazon [found below the boxart on the first page]). the game does have a very simple story (that is presented more to justify the action), but this doesn't really distract from the game's overall immaculate quality, because the real treat in Viking is in its incredible swordplay and massive battles. No game haas ever attempted to create battles of the scale seen in this game. The scenery in the game looks very pretty, and there is an absolutely massive world to explore (consisting of three large islands). The game never really gets old due to its challenging missions, and the fact that the scenery changes dramatically from area to area. there are about 20 new moves and combos to learn, and each finishing move is gory and presented in slow motiion. Each successful hit and crunchy limb-removing hack feels like a truly real sword hitting flesh. The game is bruatal, beautiful and lastly, it is very unique. Each large battle wont lag a bit (oddly, some of the smaller fights can lag, although even the largest final battles dont have a single framerate hitch), and no other game has ever attempted to introduce scale even close to this. Nor has anyone ever presented a game centered around vikings. I'm looking forward to a sequal! You will not be dissappoionted. BY THE WAY, GAMESTOP OFFERS THE GAME NEW FOR $20!
 If Skarin was a Viking... November 18, 2008
E. L. Sapp (Washington DC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
...he would have been left on a hillside to die of stupidity.
In reality, the most frustrating thing is the inability to have Skarin attack who or what you want him to attack in melee. There are many times throughout the game when items need to be destroyed. However, Skarin will only target these things until he is attacked, at which point he turns around to attack the enemy who attacked him. It's almost a wrestling match to get him to stop attacking the enemy and start attacking what you want him to attack (or stop him from attacking a wimpy enemy and go after the powerful one).
A mini-map would be useful (or at least a detailed map of the surrounding area) as there are times when getting to where you need to be is unnecessarily difficult because the location requires you to go through a cave, or up a hill, or through a maze of canyons.
Those frustrations aside, the rest of the game is entertaining. The various deaths Skarin can inflict are amusing and don't get old, even after seeing them a lot.
Overall, I would say this game is a solid rental.
Wonderful time killer, average story October 10, 2008
Brian Long (Ogden, UT USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Viking follows the warrior Skarinn, a Viking with epileptic seizures who has been selected as the champion of Freya against the forces of Hel, Lokis daughter, who has raised an undead army to conquer Midgard.
Viking is as straightforward a beat-em-up as you can find. The game plays like a drawn out guerilla campaign. Raise your forces, find them supplies and reinforcements, and assualt various positions held by the unded Legion. These missions are fairly straightforward and have little in the way of variety, thoguh finding the proper path forward can be a trial at times.
The graphics give this game its best punch. The combat plays in slow motion at times, during fatalities and other gruesome swordplay, which'll slake any devotee of the Blood-and-guts god. The enemies and other Vikings are rather cookie cutter, but the action is fast paced enough you'll barely notice. The atmosphere is also well handled, and though there are some nasty glare moments, the effect serves to highlight the difference in sides. Hels controlled areas are dark and foreboding, with rolling stormclouds and dreary, depressing showers, whereas Freyas land is bright and cheery, with butterflies and birdsong.
Gameplay is simple and straightforward. You buy higher level abilities, but otherwise the game follows a rather predictable pattern: get overwhelmed and you're hosed. Magic makes a useful appearance, and is a significant boon during the assualts that periodically happen throughout the game. In addition to setting your sword afire with a flame spell, you'll also grant the same effect to every Viking within reach, making it a very worthwhile strategic spell.
The story is passable, but nearly glossed over in gameplay. While the story and dialouge between Hel and Freya is a nice counterpoint, you'll want to get to the next fight so badly you won't really care what they're saying. The visions that Skarin has throughout the game are a better story element, as well as the beautiful cel shaded storybook scenes between levels.
Fun Budget Title for Adventure, RPG, or Hack&Slash Fans October 5, 2008
Jasyn A. Rigdon (Stafford, VA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Surprise sleeper hit from SEGA that has very good production (music, voice acting, scenery) and entertainment vaule (gameplay). Drawing some serious inspiration from games like the Lord of the Rings series atmosphere, FABLE's questing, and BloodRayne series' combat style (think vicous sword fatalities), VIKING is a B-rate hack-&-slasher that tries really hard to please it's audience.
Falling just short of greatness,there are gameplay issues: the graphics are good last-gen quality, but the water looks nice; there are some issues with the camera in melee combat when facing large groups; the concept of being supported by a viking army and your own dragons was seriously under used. Seriously, don't make me sneak and fight my way in to a town to rescue a group or retrieve an artifact by myself when the game has given me an actual army but only lets me use it on specific missions. That really defeats the whole purpose of recruiting the army if you can't choose how to deploy it. Not a "Game of the Year" nominee, but definately worth a weekend rental or reduced price. I can see sequel potential in this CONAN-like title.
Bravo Sega!! September 18, 2008
M. Howitzer (East Coast U.S.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a great game! I have not had this much fun with a game in a while! I usually don't play games from franchises that I'm not already familiar with, but I really took an interest in this game. I've put many hours into it, and I can say that I'm fully satisfied!
Beautiful, lush, and lively environments, filled with tons of warriors, are at the forefront of this games attractions. The ocean is the coolest I've EVER seen in a video game! The graphics really are amazing, as well as the character interaction, quest advancement, and game depth.
I highly recommend Sega's new masterpiece, Viking!!!
5 stars, thumbs up!!
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