Peak of nordic action, you may not be a viking raiding the shores, but there's yet to be made a game with gameplay as juicy, varied and rewarding. All the ambushes, sieges and fights with random patrols that stroll between locations and the gore of it all is fenomenal

Good pacing, alright story and characters, I wasn't a fan of how gods got involved, but they are quite memorable and if I could swing my sword and axe at more abominations, they can all start throwing their champions and armies at me. 3 or 4 islands (I don't remember now and I don't know why I haven't left review earlier) that feel different enough but it's still mostly same stuff on greater scale, skill progression also plays into that but isn't too robust (some attacks are nasty tho and I love it)

As much as intros to big fights and the story zenith were cinematic, I would love to see more actuall dialogues, exposition and not just barking orders and taunts from npcs, even if it was supposed to be a meat grinder and all the talking was there to make it less awkward. On top of that I would like it more if before sieges forts would be packed more or at least around them there would be more enemies ancamped, where are all of them coming from during the conquest? why can I just run around and get collectibles and ignore everyone? where is the challange? cos the stealth way is way too boring to go all the way through with it

Sure it has some issues on PC, but there are worse cases of old or ported games honestly

I really enjoyed this game. It's very basic but has some very satisfying combat and war moments. It's not without issues, it is repetitive, the audio is too quite, combat is missing that much needed sound "impact" and the most glaring issues of all is the 30fps lock. There is no way around this at the time of this review. I ended up using the Cheat Engine tweak (noted in the discussions) and set the speedhack to 1.2. This does NOT make it 60fps but it definitely makes the game play feel smoother and not so sluggish. Ran fine on Windows 11 but I did have a couple of crashes straight to desktop,no progress was lost, this game autosaves very often. During this current time of terrible AAA gaming it has been a treat to step back in time and play some of the old PS2\PS3 games that I would have normally passed on.

If you are looking for a straight forward hack and slash game you can't go wrong with this on a sale.

Was a really good game during the Xbox 360 era. If you can deal with the outdated graphics and gameplay from that era, it's a fun game and really nostalgic.