When Vikings Attack!
When Vikings Attack! plays like an arena melee brawler game. The only hard rule is that throwing objects are only allowed. Players control a small group of civilians fighting hordes of vikings. The objective…
When Vikings Attack! is a fighting developed by Clever Beans, released 6 November 2012 on PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3.
What When Vikings Attack! is
When Vikings Attack! is a fighting game developed by Clever Beans and released in 2012. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
When Vikings Attack! plays like an arena melee brawler game. The only hard rule is that throwing objects are only allowed. Players control a small group of civilians fighting hordes of vikings. The objective is to pick up objects and throw to knock out enemies. Every vikings and civilians are fragile to every strike from a thrown object and will be knocked out in one hit. Each time an object collides with a figure, they're knocked out and excluded from the group, but larger or wide objects may even knock out an entire group, resulting in the player being eliminated. Lost civilians can be replaced by recruiting stray people roaming field. The game also features special items to be thrown…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
When Vikings Attack! holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What it launched against
When Vikings Attack! launched on 6 November 2012, within three weeks of Hotline Miami, Assassin's Creed III, Halo 4 and Euro Truck Simulator 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Hotline Miami, Assassin's Creed III, Halo 4, Euro Truck Simulator 2.
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