When Vikings Attack ... you're supposed to throw stuff at them

By Russ Frushtick on May 24, 2012 05.24.12

So vikings can be jerks. This is not news. They burn, they pillage, they do other mean nasty stuff that we'd rather not go into. Cool as they might seem in the movies, if a viking showed up at your house, you can bet he's not there for supper. You should keep that in mind as we talk about When Vikings Attack, a PSN game coming to Vita and PS3 later this year. It's developed by Clever Beans, a studio made up of two gents in northern England, and it seeks to tell the world just how to best deal with a possible viking menace. Players command what could only be described as mobs of people. They move around the screen as a pack, able to grow in size by walking into nearby pedestrians. A bigger mob allows heavier items to be picked up and thrown at, you guessed it, mobs of vikings. So while...