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Whenever there is a strategy game that is set in middle ages England it always reminds me of defender of the crown. Vikings is quite a different kind of game though as it is a pure strategy game and it does not have minigames or flashy graphics. You start the game by configuring your characters name and title, you can also change the computer opponents to human ones. There are six players each game and you cannot change this number but this is mainly because the map is very large and it will take a while before you come into contact with each other.
You can pick your starting territory from anywhere on the map, including
not only current day England and Ireland but also parts of Scandinavia and
Iceland, and all of the surrounding areas become directly under your control
as well so it's important to choose a good patch of land. Directly after
that you start your turn and there is plenty for you to do as you need to
harvest food to feed your people, keep them happy and collect taxes.
Collecting money is a vital part of the game as you need plenty of money
to conquer all the lands and though you start simple with swordsmen, pikemen
and archers, later on you have to build fortresses or improve existing ones.
To conquer the territories that are not located on the mainland of England
you'll need need to construct ships and docks to build them in. All this
is done to conquer a set number of territories which can be set at the beginning
at the game but the default is 125 so there will be plenty for you to do
before you can win.
Vikings is a fairly unknown game but as a strategy game I found it quite
entertaining. It is a pure strategy game though with plenty of management
and with absolutly no flashy bits. If you like that sort of thing I recommend
you check it out but for the casual game it might be a bit too dry.
Overal rating: 7/10
Erde Kaiser
Vikings was released for one systems here are some notes:
| DOS |
Released
in 1992.
Game has been tested but not completed on a DOS PC.
This game has problems running under windows but I got it to run under
DOSBOX version 0.62. |
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Date added |
Apr-04-2005 21:39 |
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Vikings |
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Developer |
Realism entertainment
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Publisher |
Realism entertainment
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First released |
1992 |
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Genre |
Strategy
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Download |
MS-DOS, filesize: 302 Kb
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Manual |
Download manual for Vikings
, filesize: 2311 Kb
This is the scanned manual in pdf format. |
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Solve / Docs |
No solve available
No extra docs available |
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