10 best games of the Vikings for different platforms

1. The Banner Saga

platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android.

Tactical role-playing game, the visual style is strongly reminiscent of the old Disney cartoons. Much inspired by Viking culture, particularly race and hostile outside world. You move on it, driving the two caravans.

You have to make important decisions, monitor the performance will satiety and nomadic groups as well as fight with formidable enemies-conquerors. Battles take place step by step. You rearrange the characters from one cell to another, decide to attack an enemy or commit some other, more useful in this situation, action.

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2. Magicka

platforms: PC.

Swedish studio project Arrowhead Game Studios, which is familiar with Scandinavian traditions firsthand. The developers decided to focus on the magical aspect of native mythology. And squeezed out of it the maximum.

It has a few basic spells of different elements, which can be combined in many different ways. For example, in order not to give the enemies quickly get to you, you can conjure a stone wall with flames. Or scattered on the ground medical personnel mines, restoring health advancing them allies. And then just dump a group of villains a hefty comet.

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3. Through the Woods

platforms: PC.

A real gift for fans of Norwegian folklore. Action adventure project takes place in a dense forest, where the main character wanders in search of the kidnapped son. There, because of the trees peep mysterious creatures and easy to stumble upon an abandoned house or runic stone. All this though hints at an ancient secret, directly related to the fate of the child.

World Through the Woods looks bright as the embodiment of fantasy Norwegian child, which was strictly forbidden to walk in the woods.

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4. Munin

platforms: PC, iOS.

This platformer with a distinctive visual style, like no other game that demonstrates the true mask of Loki - god of trickery and deception. He steals the protagonist wings, and you need at all costs to return them. It will have to wade through a fiery mine, frosty mountains and dwarves maze, full of puzzles and runic symbols.

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5. Jotun

platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, Nintendo Switch.

You play as a Viking Thor, which killed unremarkable death. In every way it strives to impress the gods to get to Valhalla - the heavenly courts for those who fell in battle, the valiant warriors.

The game introduces many moments Scandinavian legends. You know who the Freya and Thor, what constitutes rejuvenating apples Idun and well knowledge of Mimir. And yet the project boasts a pleasant hand-drawn graphics and atmospheric music.

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6. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch.

Despite the fact that the effect of this has already become a legendary role-playing game is set in a completely different universe, the Viking aesthetics is felt at every step. Much has been borrowed from Norse legends and changed to fit into the world of The Elder Scrolls.

It is easy to draw an analogy between a giant dragon Alduin, one of the main characters in the game, and a huge wolf Fenrir, son of Loki and angrboða. There are DRAUGR giants, runic symbols and familiar titles. And sounding here and there, the phrase "for the Nords of Skyrim!" Speaks for itself.

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7. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.

Tearjerker warrior, is sent into the world of the dead Helheim to save the lost lover. In the travel time of the heroine is forced to deal with psychosisWhich literally passed to the player via a specially-recorded auditory hallucinations.

The game combines elements of both Celtic and Norse mythology. Interacting with scattered here and there in rune stones, you can listen to a lot of interesting stories about the different aspects of the Scandinavian world. Fighting with swords and interesting puzzles too suffice.

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8. God of War

platforms: PlayStation 4.

Although the protagonist Kratos games - the hero ancientHe manages to get along well on Norwegian soil. Together with his son Atreus he goes on a dangerous trip to scatter the ashes of his dead wife Fay.

It is very entertaining and touching thriller that presents the most abstract ideas of Norwegian folklore in the form understandable to all. The action takes place long before the Vikings, but you can visit six of the nine worlds of Norse mythology afterlife.

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9. The Last Vikings

platforms: iOS, Android.

One of the best games in Google Play for 2016. In it you have to surf the dangerous sea, attacking peaceful settlement, and fight monsters. All in order to bring back the glory of the Vikings. The project has many different characters, weapons and vehicles. As well as a simple but very nice graphics.

10. Zombie Vikings

platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.

Co-op arcade game with a very unusual sense of humor, in which a group of zombie Vikings need to find a lost eye supreme god Odin, Loki kidnapped insidious. Among the characters - fused with an octopus guy and brutal, but flirtatious warrior. Enemies and targets appropriate.

The action takes place in eight different worlds. You can use more than 40 types of weapons and runes to learn new skills. Gameplay is simple. But simple it just enough so that you can gather with friends, and not too straining, plenty of fun.

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