{"id":871,"date":"2008-04-12T09:22:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T15:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=871"},"modified":"2008-04-12T09:22:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-12T15:22:04","slug":"review-viking-battle-for-asgard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/12\/review-viking-battle-for-asgard\/","title":{"rendered":"Review – Viking: Battle for Asgard"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Norse goddess of death has resurrected an army of undead to conquer the Nordic lands.\u00a0 It\u2019s up to a lone Viking warrior named Skarin to free troops and wage battle and revenge on the hordes of evil Legion soldiers.<\/p>\n

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Viking: Battle for Asgard for the Xbox 360 and PS3 is a hack and slash action-adventure game.\u00a0 Play as Skarin as he explores the land, mowing down any undead Vikings in his way.\u00a0 Players will scour the countryside looking for enemy encampments where they\u2019ll defeat any bad guys before freeing Viking troops.\u00a0 Sometimes the leader of these troops will request another task of you before joining your army.\u00a0 Luckily a handy map and warp points are always available so you usually know exactly where to go.<\/p>\n

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Power up your attacks with runes that give your weapons elemental powers like ice, fire, and lightning.\u00a0 Gather amulets to summon dragons to help you in the climatic battles at the end of each world.\u00a0 These big skirmishes are the highlight of the game and feature hundreds of enemy and ally soldiers going after each other, leaving you to locate and defeat the leaders.<\/p>\n

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Graphics are decent enough, but unfortunately, Skarin is a rather lumbering, oafish Viking, making play control a little slower and less fluid than what it could be.\u00a0 Viking: Battle of Asgard isn\u2019t necessarily a bad game, but it is pretty mindless and repetitive.\u00a0 Gamers who enjoyed other mythological quests like Fable and God of War may also appreciate this more Nordic adventure.<\/p>\n

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Not for kids! Not for kids!\u00a0 Not for kids!\u00a0 While not too terribly realistic, the M rating for violent blood and gore still stands as there are plenty of beheadings, limb removals, and red stuff.\u00a0 About the only redeeming factor is that it may encourage gamers to learn more about Norse mythology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Norse goddess of death has resurrected an army of undead to conquer the Nordic lands.\u00a0 It\u2019s up to a lone Viking warrior named Skarin to free troops and wage battle and revenge on the hordes of evil Legion soldiers. Viking: Battle for Asgard for the Xbox 360 and PS3 is a hack and slash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}