Viking game coming to next-gen consoles

A game presented yesterday (August 21, 2007) by Sega at the Leipzig Convention will allow players to experience Norse mythology in a whole new way.

Vikings: Battle for Asgard puts players in control of a powerful yet flawed Viking warrior fighting to stop Hel, the goddess of death, from unleashing her armies and starting an apocalyptic battle known as Ragnarok. In this battle, Odin, Thor, Balder and other Asgardian gods clash with ice giants, huge serpents and evil gods from the Norse pantheon in an effort to save Midgard (Earth for us mortals) from total destruction. We can expect a few epic confrontations.

Vikings will be the first next-gen console title for its development team, The Creative Assembly, and it is slated for release on Xbox 360 and PS3 on spring 2008.

The game will play in a similar fashion to God of War and, if that turns out to be true, then this is great news. I have always been interested in Greek and Norse mythology so God of War caught my attention instantly. In fact, I think it’s one of the best franchises out there and if this game can pull off something similar to what GOW did with Greek mythology then we can expect a great game. Stories in ancient mythology are full of supernatural heroes and villains and great adventures which could be turned into great games so let’s hope more developers look into those for inspiration when creating new titles.

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