Besieger
Besieger is a real-time strategy game where it is up to the player to find Thor's hammer and set things straight again as the vikings, fight as the Cimmerians or play as the returning Korin in three different…
Besieger is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Primal Software, released 21 April 2004 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Besieger is
Besieger is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Primal Software and released in 2004. It was published by Akella. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
When Korin, rightful king of the Cimmerians sets on a quest to find a fabled magic sword, his sister Mara sees her chance and seizes power with her dark magic. Vikings that live nearby hear of this and fear an attack. Therefore they send out some warriors on a quest to find Thor's hammer. They set out on a flying ship, only to be shot down and see Mara's forces destroy their capital.
How it plays
Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Besieger holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Besieger launched on 21 April 2004, within three weeks of Pikmin 2, Painkiller, Rise of Nations: Thrones & Patriots and Hitman: Contracts. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Pikmin 2, Painkiller, Rise of Nations: Thrones & Patriots, Hitman: Contracts.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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