Norse by Norse West: The Return of the Lost Vikings
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Norse by Norse West: The Return of the Lost Vikings is a platform developed by Beam Software, released 14 April 1997 on PlayStation, Sega Saturn, DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Norse by Norse West: The Return of the Lost Vikings is
Norse by Norse West: The Return of the Lost Vikings is a platform game developed by Beam Software and released in 1997. It was published by Interplay Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation, Sega Saturn, DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
After escaping from Tomator in The Lost Vikings, Erik the Swift, Olaf the Stout, and Baleog the Fierce have lived joyous and fruitful Viking lives. Then one day, after returning home from a fishing trip, the Vikings get captured by Tomator again. Tomator then calls upon a robotic guard to send them into the Arena, which falls short when a system failure happens. During the blackout, the three Vikings dismantle the robot piece by piece and wear its parts on their bodies, granting them new abilities. The three Vikings are then accidentally sent through time once again. Equipped with the new robotic gear, Erik, Olaf, and Baleog must journey through each level to find their way back home. Along…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.
How it was received
Norse by Norse West: The Return of the Lost Vikings holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 14% of the 2,373 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Norse by Norse West: The Return of the Lost Vikings launched on 14 April 1997, within three weeks of Star Fox 64, Doom 64, Need for Speed II and Jonah Lomu Rugby. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Star Fox 64, Doom 64, Need for Speed II, Jonah Lomu Rugby.
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