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| Golden Axe: Beast Rider (Xbox 360) |  | From: Sega
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
Buy New: £34.40
You Save: £15.59 (31%)
New (7) Used (2) from £28.00
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 3060
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: role-playing-games
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5060138436312
ASIN: B000VVNIZW
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 Yippee January 24, 2008
8 out of 46 found this review helpful
Golden Axe, a remake, I am so excited. Things I hope they include in the re-make:
- The music (A classic wonderful)
- Beating the living crap out of those midget thief things
- Riding the dragon that shoots fire
Please note I realise that this game is not out yet and to be honest with you I don't care, frankly it pleases me to know that I have wasted several precious seconds of your lives as you read my "inane drivel".
On another note I highly recommend the book "The Joy of Pickling".
It won't win any awards or sell billions but it is good fun. October 21, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Anyone play conan? the hack and slash action game from last year? The games press gave it mediocre reviews and referred to it as a poor mans god of war or heavenly sword, personally I loved it and prefer it to both those games. So how does this relate to golden axe? well golden axe is conans spiritual successor. The graphical style is similar and the gameplay certainly has similarities as well. It has all the trademark golden axe bits, gnome abuse chicken legs, swords and sorcery.
To be honest there is little original about it, but thats fine it is an enjoyable action game that will keep action and fantasy fans happy.
Good fun, great art October 25, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I write this as a game fan and would-be developer who came late to the party - don't have the thumb jockey skills of a kid and didn't start playing until a few years ago. I didn't play the old Golden Axe game.
My favourite XBox game is Heavenly Sword, because it had a great story. I prefer RPGs to straight shoot-em games. I'm also much enjoying Ninja Gaiden, which has a greater variety of puzzles and tricks to it than this game, and better attack combos although the game play is similar: both are run-through-the-corridor, fight lots of nasties, smack occasional bosses, collect points and cash games. (Don't know what the cash is for here as I haven't got to a point where I can spend it or seen a shop...) Neither of them has movie scripts that are up to much though they both look super. The game scripting of the storylines is thinner in Golden Axe, with nothing to distract you from your only plotline (free da big dragon) except Tyris's big bottom and cute outfits, which might do it for a lot of people.
Golden Axe has several big pluses going for it. It looks fantastic, especially on a big TV. You get to ride lots of beasts and use their special skills which is tremendous fun though it can be very frustrating if you get knocked off so don't forget to run them round and round a lot in the usual gamer tactic and use all your space. You can improve your stats by replaying stages as many times as you like.
I would have liked more special attacks for Tyris to use because they're easier, but instead of these the game relies on timing blocks and counter attacks to one-shot enemies. Satisfying when you get it right, maddening when you don't - in other words the kind of challenge that keeps you trying. People with better controller skills than me probably have a better time but you can stumble through it as you can get health and power boosts in plenty along the way, so don't be put off. Another reviewer says there are too many of these but not for me there weren't.
Anyway, triffic fun and well worth the price.
 Hack and Slash - miss or smash? October 17, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I'm going to try and be as honest as possible here. As someone who loves and owns the entire series of Golden Axe games, on all their various console incarnations, I will say this: I am a little disappointed that the series has not been given the respect it deserves, a common theme for many modern incarnations - anyone played the god awful fatal fury remake, streetwise, for the ps2? Sheesh. I mean G.A.B.R. was always going to be a hack and slash style scrolling beater whether people like it or not - that's what the series is about(apart from the far too Zelda-esque styling's of golden axe warrior), but it could have had a bit more to it. As Ninja Gaiden and alike have already proven - these type of games can be simple but engrossing and extremely well made. The level design on offer here is very basic and not at all interactive, apart from the odd wall spike to pin your enemies to. Also the rather mediocre levels are a bit too long winded and not much to look at - I mean overall they're pretty enough but just plain and well....plain.
Now the major point of the game the 'beast rider' element has not been pulled of as it should have been - the beasts are as weak as they where in the original golden axe - the odd slap and you're off them, and in an instant they're either being rode by someone else, who, incidentally, takes far more than a few slaps to dismount I can tell you, or they've been chopped to bits by the time you've got to your feet.
Now enough bashing and on with the decent elements of the title. Firstly I don't agree with the majority of reviews that state the beasts are rubbish to control - but there is a knack to it which means you literally have to run from one end of a segment just smacking enemies as you go past then spinning round to do it again. If you don't do this you'll be dismounted in the blink of an eye and the above problems ensue, not the most inovative use of cool looking mega beasties - shame. Next up I've found the combat satisfyingly visceral but not varied enough - a few lengthier combos wouldn't have gone a miss - but all in all it's hacky, hacky, blood spurting fun - mindless but satisfying, although smashing someone in half could have felt a little meatier. Next up: The magic is just there - it doesn't have that `build it up then let it rip' element that was present in the original games (you can unleash a big firey dragon when your potions are full but it's nowhere near as cool or worthwhile as it sounds), plus there are so many ways to get potions that the little gnome kicking sections (yes they're back) are totally redundant.
The Modes:
There is the main story which I haven't finished yet, but I've spent about 6 hours on it so I'll update this when I'm finally done. Then there's an arena style, wave after wave, affair - 'nouhg said. Then you can play through the story levels you've completed and try to get better ratings (if you've not already got an A) which in turn give you better weapons and outfits to use in arena mode. However, as a side note, you have to rack up a stupid amount of points to get these new weapons which leaves you feeling a little bit unrewarded for the slog.
So all in all it's a bit of an average affair - it does not deserve some of the more sensationally low review scores it has been given, there are far worse games out there that have been given far more than they deserve, and I feel that being able to sort your disappointment that the series has not been given the treatment it deserves from how the actual game plays is essential to your enjoyment.
Final Verdict: An average hack and slash that doesn't quite have the cheap kicks that gave Conan it's gruesomely enjoyable edge. Some okay elements that are not as well though out as they could have been, but are chunky enough to keep you hacking away to see all that's on offer. Also Tyris looks hot but you can't play as Battler and Gillius (they are in it though) which is more than a bit of kick in the pants.
Cheers for reading.
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