If you're not sold yet, you've got until December 8 to play for free and make up your mind.

War of the Vikings is still in development, but you can pre-order the game through Steam Early Access and play while the team completes its work. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. “To improve immersion even further are making it so enemies always speak their original language, that being Old Norse or Old English, whilst friends speak english so you can easily understand them.” Steam and the Steam logo are trademarks of Valve Corporation. “A nearby archer might cheer loudly due to a headshot and you hear yourself congratulate him, or you see a charging enemy and roar fiercely as you face him head on,” a press release from developer Fat Shark reads. War of the Vikings was a multiplayer action hack and slash video game developed by Fatshark and published by Paradox Interactive. The update also brings the clever Battle Chatter feature, which will add character comments on the battle.

This sea-side village features a lot of tall places to get kicked off of, Sparta-style, as the Vikings and Saxons fight for control. I can already tell that one of the new maps, Cliff, was designed specifically to send me plummeting to my death.

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