The game captures *cold viking atmosphere* really well. It's fun to slice bad guys with an axe but it gets extremely hard if you're not using the second player. The lack of a proper camera rotation on the first player is not benifiting the game since the other half of the screen is occupied by the 2nd player, it's hard to keep track of everything that's happening. It's possible that with 2 players as intended the experience would be drastically different.
I tried to use both players with no success in that department, but my micromanagement is not that good. One of the strong points - the game has a plot and dialogues with characters speaking vernacular of the time the game is set in.