Instead of rushing in with your melee troops, it’s usually better to try and kill as many enemies as possible with ranged attacks, and only move in to melee once the enemy is getting too close. Thus making sure that your soldiers don’t end up in situations where they take a lot of damage is the key to success. Most units that are not built for melee will go down in two-three hits, and even melee units will go down fast when under attack from multiple enemies. And because of this, you don’t just want the most powerful units to hog all the EXP.Ĭombat is swift and deadly. The difference between a brand new unit and a leveled up one is not massive, but it’s still nice to be able to field a force of experienced soldiers. Units also level up as they fight, and become more powerful, and they’ll retain their levels between missions. Thus it becomes really important to try and preserve your troops, and minimize how much damage they take. On a few levels you might be given additional reinforcements at certain points, but more often than not, you need to beat the level with only your starting forces. Each level has you start with a pre-set group of units, and you can’t recruit more. In Nordic Warriors you’re trying to lead a ragtag band of warriors to victory against the undead hordes. After a bit of figthing, the ground starts looking really messy Gameplay Finally, there’s the music, which also works well. Props also goes to the narrator, who speaks before each level, which helps set the tone for the game. The voice acting is also surprisingly good, with each unit giving different verbal confirmations whenever you give orders. The sound effects are overall pretty good, and the meaty explosive effects when you manage to lob several bombs into the enemy ranks are quite satisfying. This might be a bit excessive, but it’s also something that Myth did. These are then affected by things like explosions, and will roll downhill if given the chance, and wherever they go, they’ll leave a trail of blood. Whenever someone dies, they’ll leave a pile of bloody chunks behind.

Speaking of destructive, you’ll leave quite a mess behind you, wherever you chose to fight. The enemies that are the most destructive also really stand out from the pack. The only exception to this are the archer enemies, who do blend in with the regular zombies, but other than that it’s easy to tell what’s going on by just glancing at the screen. You don’t have to worry about not being able to tell the difference between a common zombie, and an armoured enemy. There’s a bit of variety to the character and enemy models, and despite their (for the most part) human-looking models, it’s still easy to tell everything apart. That is not a complaint about its graphics, the game still looks pretty good, but as the game has a relatively realistic art style, the somewhat simple level geometry and character models is more noticeable than if the developers had gone with a highly stylized look. It looks a bit like a big budget RTS or RTT from around 15 years ago, running at a higher resolution. Nordic Warriors is a fully 3D real time tactics game, with a fully rotating camera. The normal zombies, pretty easy to take out when they clump up in narrow spaces, but be careful, they’re still dangerous up close Presentation The setting itself is a somewhat generic pop-culture Viking setting, with fantasy elements, so it has most of the things you would expect from it, like longboats and big burly shirtless men with an axe in each hand. Nordic warriors does not have the most inspired plot ever, but it still gives you a good motivation for why you’re doing what you’re doing, and why you need to stop the enemy. She fights her way through them, and finds her father, mortally wounded, and with his dying breath, he tells her that she’s the only one who can stop this.įreja sets out with the few remaining warriors she has, in an attempt to seek aid from the king, and put an end to this nightmare. Hordes of creatures from beyond the grave has slaughtered everyone who lives there. Being attuned to the world she’s able to sense that something is wrong.Īs she returns to her village, she finds that it’s been attacked. On a faithful day, a young shaman named Freja sets out to find a group of missing people.

In a world not entirely unlike our own (circa year 1000), there were tribes of Norsemen. Of course there are longboats in this game! (Although you can’t actually go into them) Story & Setting

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