Zombie Vikings first stepped into our lives back in the Fall of 2015 on PlayStation 4. Later that year, it made the logical step to the Personal Computer, and a few months past that, the crew at Zoink Games announced that they'd be bringing their co-op brawler to the Xbox One.
Being a zombie doesn't seem like a gig with many perks. You shamble around, moan, and lazily point at things for days on end for the chance to maybe, just maybe, munch on a brain or two. Your teeth are the most important part of your job, and you don't even get dental! Zombie Vikings, on the other hand, have it great. They get to go on sweet road trips, hack up aggressive worms, and just generally pal around. Sure, you have to have prior experience as a viking, but I can think of worse ways to spend a summer internship.
Video games, as a whole, have been mining Norse Mythology for ideas and story beats since someone said “let’s implement a story as to why these pixels just stabbed these other pixels.” And why not, right? Nordic myths are chock full of good versus evil, insurmountable odds, stalwart heroes, monsters and/or dragons, and a body coun...
