Raiding & Pillaging! War Of The Vikings Launches On PC
April 17, 2014 by brennon
Paradox Entertainment and Fat Shark's War of the Vikings, an online only skirmish game, released yesterday so you can get your pillaging on as the Vikings, or defend the shores of Albion as Saxons...
The game sees you filling the boots of either side in a range of skill based melee fighting where you can just beat the living snot out of each other or fight for land and control points around their Dark Age maps.
There are a number of classes in the game that offer you different weapon load-outs. Some of you might be carrying around big double-handed Dane Axes while others wield sword and shield for extra protection. Of course you could always go for the archer and start plugging your enemies with arrows.
I've been watching a few videos of people playing this game and it looks brutal and incredibly fun. You'll be learning to fight smart and then build your fully customisable class based on what makes sense for you. Did I mention you can even craft different beards to go alongside all those different weapons and armour types?
Alas if my laptop could handle this I'd be all over it!
Looks fun, I think it would be a good console game.
They’ve been discussing going to console but they have a very small team so it might take some time – or never happen at all. Think the focus is making sure they keep the PC version up and running at the moment.
Hmmm… looks a bit lame, more so due to that cheesy voice over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeT_5AFAEHg
Excusing the voice over see what you think of some game play. Admittedly this guy can be a bit whiny but it shows off what the game is about.
BoW Ben
Been playing this since open beta on Steam. It gets rather addicting with all the different ways to custom make your classes, and weapon builds. Ignore the voices in these movies in the game they are much better, even going as far as to make all the cursing and insulting in the languages of the period.
They move like little ballerinas tiptoeing through battle completely weightless… a common problem in multiplayers when animation is sacrificed to framerate and controller responsivity.
I haven’t had a game-worthy PC since 1995 or so, and I hate multiplayers anyway. Where’s the story in them?
Damn, that looks really awesome! Deffo gonna give this one a go, shame about the comments on the graphics, they look plenty serviceable to me.
Console master race in here or something? lol
You sold me with the thing about crafting beards
Graphics are fine but the game looks so…chaotic and random.