Swords And Soldiers

Review

At first glance, Swords and Soldiers looks like a kids game, and after you play the first few missions, you’ll probably still be thinking as much. However, the more you delve into the game, the less you think like this. This is a game you can boot up to play for a couple of minutes, but I played it for 2 hours solid and that’s the best thing about it. You can get hopelessly lost in challenge modes or the campaign, despite it having one of the most preposterous stories, another reason why people may think that this might be kids game.

Excuse me while I synopsize the first campaign. You start the game in control of a tribe of vikings who are about to have a massive barbecue and their evil nemesis BlackBeard has stolen their meat. They then go on a crusade around the world to recover something he took and on the way discover the biggest pepper they have ever seen, steal it and then make some BBQ sauce. This is the kind of story that I like in video games. Completely preposterous and stupid, yet not over the top.

Now, even as I labeled this a kids game earlier on, it presents a challenge that’s hard enough for the oldest of adults; it has a difficulty curve that makes sense. Throughout the entire game each new level is harder than the previous one, therefore you will be challenged slightly in each of the levels. Even if it just that the enemy has a giant or something that raises the dead. But even then you will still be able to beat the level.

This game doesn’t just have very good solo gameplay, but its online gameplay is very rewarding, and you will have lots of fun even after you have beaten the campaign mode as well as the challenge mode.

About the Author

George

George has been playing video games since he first got to play on his friend's Sega Saturn and saw something between the pixels, eventually falling in love with the virtual world. Then that Christmas he was given a PS1, and one day he was playing as a dragon and the next he was playing football with the best of them. Since then his life has been one long string of games tied together by other things. He's just as likely to be playing Left 4 Dead 2, as he is painting my new Warhammer army for the tabletop.