I'm a huge nut about Nordic mythology, so when I saw a game based on vikings was being made for the 360/PS3, I naturally decided to look into it more. My family knew I was interested in the game, and I got it for my birthday about 3 weeks ago. I started playing it recently, since I had a lot of tests and stuff to study for recently, and I'm now working my way through games that have piled up on me.
Anyway, to the point. I started up this game and was expecting something mediocre, that might be half-fun and keep me moderately entertained for a while, but found that this game was actually amazing. I had more fun with this game than I had with my other 360 games, even the two I enjoyed the most (which says alot), Assassin's Creed and Devil May Cry 4. Given how good this game looks (not on par with the best graphics for the system, but they're good considering the worlds are massive and there are no loading times whatsoever while you play the game), and the amount of exploration and different combat moves you can use, I wonder how this game could get made.
Obviously, it hasn't gotten a lot of attention, which makes me believe it must've had a pretty small budget, since it wasn't advertised much at all or anything like that, but if a small budget can do this much, why do big budgets do so little? Don't get me wrong, there are still great games coming out pretty often, but it just makes me wonder how much better they'd be if they used all the resources they had and put them into the game, like people seem to have done with Viking.
If you haven't tried this game, I recommend it. Maybe I'm just weird, but I absolutely love it. It's an amazing gaming experience that lasts for a while (not exceedingly long, but about as long as you'd expect a game like this to last), and it beats out all other games that try to do the same genre, in my eyes. It doesn't have a super-deep story or anything like that, but I don't find a story like that necessary for a game like this. The story is what it is, and it's not bad, it just isn't very deep - Because it doesn't need to be.
tl;dr: Viking: Battle for Asgard is an amazing game, and I wish more people would give it notice.
