Paradox Interactive and Arrowhead Game Studios had announced that Magicka: Vietnam, the downloadable content that no one was expecting, will be released on April 14. And below are some new screenshots of robed wizards making their way through the rice paddies in Vietnam, everyone should check them out.
Magicka is an action-adventure video game based on Norse mythology and developed by independent developer Arrowhead Game Studios. It was released via Steam for Microsoft Windows on January 25, 2011. The game was developed by eight students at Luleå University of Technology in Skellefteå, Sweden and sold over 200,000 copies in its first 17 days on sale.
In Magicka, four mages form a sacred order to fight against an evil sorcerer and his creations. The game world is based loosely on Norse mythology, drawing inspiration from other fantasy games like Warhammer and Diablo, and featuring humorous in-game references to various other media titles including Star Wars, Star Trek, World of Warcraft, Neverwinter Nights, 300, Lord of the Rings, The Colour of Magic, Castlevania, Indiana Jones, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The game also takes amusing liberties when it comes to the classic fantasy setting, at one point supplying the players with an M60 machine gun, which the game itself notes to be “far too complex to be part of a fantasy game”.
