I’m sorry to say, but Vikings are “meh.”

After so many Eurocentric games, from a Welsh pirate to a French noble to British twins, the game returned to its Middle Eastern roots with Origins. Instead of continuing with this direction, however, we (understandably) turned to Ancient Greece and then moved to Vikings.  After shifting more worldly settings to “sub-games,” as they did with India and China, Ubisoft has now chosen one of the most overused ethnic groups embraced by Caucasians in modern times. Vikings are ubiquitous, and people who romanticize and idolize them are as pervasive as the Celtophiles who appear at every Irish and Scottish celebration (outside those actual countries).