Viking: Battle for Asgard is a hack and slash game with a huge free-roaming map and even huger battle scenes.

Battle for Asgard is a game featuring many aspects of Norse religion and mythology.

Skarin is a strong warrior who is selected by Freya, the goddess of war to fight against the forces of Hel, a goddess banished from Asgard, the realm of the gods, to stop her causing armageddon and destroying Asgard (if you are following, your doing well).

You fight on the mortal realm of Midgard (our world) doing battle with Hel's ressurected viking warriors across 3 islands during this conflict, you must free captives, destroy portals and summon some 'backup'.

Features:
Immense dismemberment, blood and gore
Very appealing art style
Huge battles
Epic storyline

Another thing to mention is the mix of hacking and slashing as well as stealth which not only gives you an advantage but is also optional, you can go in all errrrr axes flailing and swords slashing but its going to be a difficult slog or you can can use stealth and speed things up.

Unfortunatley, this is where the criticism starts.

Although this is a hack 'n' slash, the chocie of weapons is very poor, you get an axe and a sword and you may get throwing axes and firebombs later but thats it and after the 300th kill, the combo system starts grow boring aswell even though you are utilising the power of ice, lighting and fire.

The huge battles do deserve praise but they are showed down your throat after the first two huge ones, you want something more but they just throw smaller scale ones or ones of similar size and you are left wondering whether or not, the developers realise that you have appreciated their engine by now.

And the open world is far too sparse of interest even though they have tryed to liven it up with scattered chests or bags of coins, you will find yourself counting down the time until you get to the next objective.

And when you get there (assuming your on the second island) you will start the same repetative quests that you did on the first island.

The story, graphics and voice over are solid but the gameplay lets it down, so if you want to see huge battles with swords slashing and magic flying, you might be able to look past the flaws but for me money is best spent else where.