This is an amazing game, which is certainly worth the asking price. Especially when playing with the mouse "VSIM-mode" enabled you can get a lot of fun out of the same encounters and arena setups. The story isn't particularly amazing, but the game doesn't really need an amazing story anyway. It's enough to let you chop the limbs off of things. I actually made a video review of this title, which you can watch here: watch?v=mhW1HhiRT04 (sorry, I can't put URL's in the post). At best, it is the much older viking-simulator cousin of Dark Souls. I don't think much more needs to be said.
This game has been getting a lot of bad critique because it had to live up to the hype of the first game. Sadly, it was dumbed down quite a bit and the feeling of immersiveness isn't there as much as it is in the first game. But in its own right, it's better than a lot of other games I've played. And I still really liked the story, the poorly executed game mechanics just dragged it down a little bit, but I can easily ignore that if I just think about the story. I'm not going to spoil anything, but even if you didn't like the gameplay all that much, it's more than worth it to still play through it just to see the different endings.
