Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #830 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Sega
• Released on: 2008-03-28
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Manufacturer's Description

The task of stopping Hel and defending the future of mankind falls to Skarin a promising but deeply flawed young warrior, ignorant of the true reason for his favor with the Gods...

Skarin is an uncompromising force, a play-thing of the Gods rebelling against their selfish agenda in a whirlwind clash of flash and steel set against the back-drop of a rich Viking culture and mythology.

Percussive moment of impact combat, savage and brutal, Vikings combat is a range fuelled meat grinder directed by the player; fusing over-the-top dismemberment with disturbing realism by displaying the gore-soaked real nature of close combat in detail. Transitions in real time from small scale skirmishes to mass battles, become on amongst many and turn the tide in favour of your kinsman.

Customer Reviews

It must have been a battle to make a game this bad.
When buying this game for £25 I thought I had a bargain as it looked and sounded ok. However, I quickly found that this is one of the worst games ever made for a console.

The graphics are terrible for a next gen console and the animation is abysmal. The sound is very standard and I cant even pick anything special or bad about it. The environments look like something from a kids cartoon and the characters all look like dwarves.

The gameplay is weak with combat being the only thing you have to focus on. This would have been ok but the combat is so poor that it is laughable. Seriously, hardly any combos and most of the moves look the same. There are some gory finishing moves but you have hard attack and soft attack and thats about it.

All the missions revolve around finding your men, an object, or killing something. With no variety you will quickly get bored of wandering across another hill to kill some people and then claim the objective to unlock another samey mission.

I had to take this game back as I could not bear to play this trash any longer. So bad it gave me stomach ache.

Not Brilliant
I bought this game after seeing the trailer - I was hoping that at last a good game was available for the PS3 (Most games I have played on the PS3 thus far have not done the platform justice) and I was yet again let down by this game and the PS3. The game constantly crashes just when it looks like its getting interesting. I am at the point of getting rid of the PS3 and buying a 360.

Disappointing
Boring side quests, mediocre graphics (looks like its a PS2 port), and repetitive fight sequences. On the plus side, it is very satisfying chopping enemies limbs off.

It's a nice idea, having a hack and slash RPG, but this one just doesn't work.

Heavenly Sword is much more fun than this and has far more depth to the fighting (and it's only 14.99~ on pre-owned now).