The viking is out for Vengeance!!

User Rating: 8 | Rune PC
By maggon_rohit | Review Date:
Vikings,a breed of battle hardy men.War is what they knew best.This game lets you play as Ragnar who is out for blood,a traitor's blood.Conrack who starts worshipping Lord of te underworld,Loki.The plot is simple Loki wants to bring Ragnarok on earth and is helped by the viking Conrack and his men who are killing more and more people to send them to the underworld,amassing an army for Loki to take over the world.Our character Ragnar along with his father and some men of his village go to stop the evil Conrack but they all end up dead except for Ragnar who is now guided by the great Odin himself to stop Loki and his minions and in the process get his revenge.

There are 3 basic types of weapons at our disposal swords,maces and axes.While moving from level to level we keep getting better and better weapons and each has a unique rune power.Some of them are pretty useful while some make no sense at all.We can cast lightning,turn enemies to stone,freeze them,hit them and make them allies which helps quite a lot in situations where you have to deal with more than a few which at times becomes overwhelming and there are a quite a few such situations which keep you on your toes so that you donot underestimate your enemies.You can do some really sick decapitations with your swords and axes if you get them right.You can cut off the weapon bearing arm of your enemy to make him totally helpless,but these things you have to learn with each level.

There are not a lot of differant types of enemies that you get to fight in the game,you have your standard goblins and zombies,other vikings and dwarves and still more powerful undead and some Yeti like giant creatures.The best part of the game is that you have to go toe to toe with them,you cant hide behind your shield for as long as you want,shields have health and they break when their health reaches 0.You have to keep moving constantly to avoid being hit.The AI is pretty good and the enemies really bring down the Hp if they connect with your flesh.

We dont get to change armours but our character model goes through apparel changes from time to time and eventually he looks like a proper viking like the ones seen in some movies full with a helmet with horns.

The levels take place underwater,caves,fortresses,temples,Ragnar's village.But the caves tend to get a little repetitive.We also get to go to Valhalla the Norse heaven.The puzzles are pretty good,and all levels have a lot of enemies to kill.

So apart from very few types of enemies to fight and some repetitive caves a fun game to play if you can learn to properly swing your weapns, which is probably the best thing about the game,its all about melee combat,no bows and arrows,vikings fought their enemies while looking in their eyes.

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