NORSE: OATH OF BLOOD

Viking adventurers wage turn-based war

- Ian Evenden

Vikings make great videogame characters. They've got everything - distinctive appearance, bladed weaponry, a tendency to charge at things while screaming bloodcurdling battlecries. They're also, according to Norse: Oath of Blood, simple farmers just looking for somewhere to live, before a murder sends one of them on an epic quest for vengeance.

Norse is a turn-based tactics and base-building game set in Norway, and attempts to make its setting as authentic to the Vikings as possible. That means no dragons or other monsters, but the other humans living in the Scandinavian forests are bad enough.