After spending my whole vacation playing this beautiful trainwreck all i can say is.....eh
I'll give a breif summary of my first 6 hours.
hour-1. amazed by the beautiful if somewhat lifeless enviorment.
hour-2. still having fun learning the combat and combo's.
hour-3. alittle confused on the story and seeing the start of repetition.
hour-4 beggining my first major battle, impressed by how many people are on screen at once, this might not be so bad.
hour-5 the monotony of repetion beggining to set in. (what the hell is going on?)
hour-6 asleep in my chair.
This is pretty much the gist of this game go kill a few zombies that really dont fit in with norse mytholigy, over and over and over again.
Graphics are good and at their best in battle showing off all the gory goodness. The sound is..uh...is there sound?
gameplay consists of hacking and slashing which is fun at first but gets stale and old real fast. The controls are actually the highpoint, combat is easy and fun without being monotonous.the development team tried to mix it up a bit by adding some platform and stealth elements which fall short of being anything more than annoying. the story which i was pretty hyped up about, myself being really interested in vikings and norse mytholigy was completely dissapointed. about 8 hours in on my playthrough i really no longer cared about the story by that point. all in all this game was not bad, unfortunately it wasnt good either.