Viking: Battle For Asgard Comments by Kristan Reed

@Krelle

For me, its hardly CA love, this is actually the first CA game i have ever bought, beleive it or not

The game is very enjoyable, thats all. I;m on my second run through, trying to do the whole game without being killed on hard.

Now, just completed the first island on hard without dying, and it was a blast.

Sneaking through the major enemy cities, before you conquer them is unreal.

One of the games main strengths, and hasn't really been mentioned, is that game pre loads the ENTIRE island and all the legion forces.

I've actually felt more immersed in their world that i have done in many RPG's, and found the major enemy cities to be fascinating. You really feel the pressure at all times of discovery, and its amazing to watch them all go through the activities. The fights that break out between some legions, the feasting on corpses, its all a great experience.

For the record, ive never played a CA game before either. And I did play Viking last week, confirmed it wasnt worth my time (sadly almost no game is these days (Becouse of extreme limit of gaming time, not becouse of bad games(!))).

Ill be back for more internet arguing tonight.
Take care~ o/

I never played a CA game. But i like this very much.

Also never played a CA game in my life (played spartan demo but that's it)...it's just a surprisingly good game, try it when it's cheap, you might be surprised

Well Metacritic have Viking scored at an average of 7/10 from 19 reviews and Gamespot's average is 7.2 from 13. I honestly think those mean scores are a more accurate reflection of how good this title is.

...to fall into line, I've never played a CA game before, either. And I did not even know the developer was "those Total War guys" before I looked it up ~halfway thru the game out of curiosity.

Viking BfA went in the charts at number 8 so it looks like EG's review came too late to put many people off buying it! :)

I believe the Total War games are developed in the UK Creative Assembly studio, whereas this, Spartan and some of the expansion packs are developed in Australia by the CA studio there.

I prepare to be corrected on this, though.

"Viking BfA went in the charts at number 8 so it looks like EG's review came too late to put many people off buying it! :) "

yeah - talk about luck :)

But the whole thing with reviews is its just one persons opinion

Except they carry weight and are really meant to represent EG's opinion, not one person's. Otherwise review sites are no different than user blogs.

It's why Viking was previewed twice, by two different people. The review by a third. If this was all just a matter of personal opinion, it should have been one person following the game from first impressions to final review.

Besides, opinions I get from my friends. More is expected from a review site.

@hiddenranbir - well said :)
Like I’ve said in a previous post, I myself would have probably been put off from buying it if I read this 'opinion' before the game was released...

If anything, this whole 'debacle' has made me wonder how many other great games I could have missed, I’m hoping that this is really just an isolated case... As hiddenranbir has said, and probably a few others, it might be worth EG giving games to people to follow from their initial preview up until ultimate release, because as it stands there is no consistency with your articles. ATM your previews (esp with Viking) have lead us to believe that the game would be very good (which it IS, to reiterate ;) but your review now leads us to believe otherwise.

Unless you are just coping out of previewing games unfavourable just to remain “in” with publishers just so you can get your review copies and/or advertising?

Also, this game has got alot of shit reviews. Its not just EG. Take 1up/ign for example. Say what you want about those websites, but they hardly give such scores even to Tamagotchi spin-offs.

The 1up review is even more of a joke than this one.

I presume you haven't played this game, it is a very good game, lots of people here and elsewhere say so, I think you'll find that more people like a lot than think its bad or even average. So you can either believe 2 individual people that don't like it and happen to write reviews or the majority of people who've played it. Your choice, but if you don't play it then you are missing out on one of the best experiences of the generation so far.

@Zuluhero

well you might want to try the 2/10 rated Tenchu Z

easily the best tenchu game in the series (the one before got 8/10 despite being no where near as good as this and featuring american cops eating doghnuts?), 50 missions though maps are repeated a LOT with different enemy layouts

and about 30 hours of ace Ninjery...now has a clear stealth kill indicator, and a new window of opportunity when a guard is shocked to see you..

4 player online co op across all missions (to be fair tho this can be very laggy)

it's possibly the best 2/10 game in the history of videogames

Your choice, but if you don't play it then you are missing out on one of the best experiences of the generation so far.
Wow, from a "solid 7" to that? Everyone on crack tonight? :)

As I said, Ive played Viking for about an hour. I found it to be a rather nice game. Enjoyed it. Wasnt good enough to hook me thou.
My personal "problem" (if anyone cares..) these days is that my time with games is limited to about ~4hours / week. (Could probably up that to around 7h if i could stay away from forums etc.) Anyway! This makes it impossible for me to play anything but the absolute cream that is released every month, and I would not have had the time to bother with Viking even if it got an 8/10.

My time constrains has nothing to do with how good(or bad) the game is, but it still affects my personal opinion in a huge way.

Sorry for the rant, guys. Its late :x

edit:
Billy
This game? http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages4/9...
Yeah, seems like an f'in masterpiece! Can honestly say I havnt tried it thou. So chances are 52 others were wrong. Lets call for a petition! Re-review Tenchu Z! Nao!

The review has been pushed off the front page now so I guess the replies will die down.

@ Krelle - well, at least you gave Viking a tried.

@ Crea - Spartan and Viking are made in the UK studio. Basically the console team is formed from the members of Medieval team.

Hopefully in the next step it is medievalish...so we can have some sexy cavalry charges! Mounted combat!

@Bust_Nak

Thanks for the correction :)

@Krelle

Tench indeed has an average of 57, above the 2 it got here, Edge gave it a 6 which is probably about right, as it's an above average game....not a below average game

i'm not mooting it as a masterwork, merely saying it's possibly the finest 2/10 game you'd ever play, personally i loved it

Tenchu z is extremely underrrated at this site. It is not a great game with high production values, but its genuinly ninjaish and quite entertaining and its very satisfying to get the Ninja 5 rankings. 6/10 at least imo.

I just cant see why I should bother with anything but great games. There is enough of them already to keep me busy. As most people i will probably never be able to complete my "to play"-list.

You guys must either:
Love Ninjas
Play games 24/7 (or close enough)

"So you can either believe 2 individual people that don't like it and happen to write reviews or the majority of people who've played it."

You can make that at least four, because IGN, 1up, Eurogamer and now Gamespot all think the game is below average.

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/vikin...

Have you read the 1up review? It's not written by the 1up crew. It's real short and doesn't tell you about the game, it said the story is crap, enemy AI surrounds you so it's hard to concentrate on one guy, samey objectives then gave it a D+ and left it at that.

Edge gave this game 6/10 in issue 188 and I think they're the harshest most ruthless magazine when it comes to game's reviews as that's a 7 by lesser magazine and website's standards.

@Krelle

Then your missing out on many fantastic games. The "best" games arent always the most entertaining ones. Playing only the highest rated games is like just seeing movies that are nominated for the Oscars. Oblivion and Mass Effect are very good games but not as entertaining as AoT and Dark Sector imo.

"Edge gave this game 6/10 in issue 188 and I think they're the harshest most ruthless magazine when it comes to game's reviews as that's a 7 by lesser magazine and website's standards."

This logic doesn't really work for an individual title... IGN gave it a 6.8 or something and they usually score games 1-2 points higher than the less terrible sites and magazines so by such reasoning it could really be a 4...

Oh cool - we don't have to worry about this stoopid review anymore cos Richard Leadbetter's written a much more accurate reviewlet in the latest Xbox360-PS3 faceoff.

Hurrah for letting a grown-up have a go!

Yeah, there was definitly something fishy when the original review says you can get through the game with heavy attack alone.