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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A worthy addition to the Conan Franchise - buy it, you won't regret it!, 1 Oct 2007
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
Bought the game yesterday - and it is absolutely fantastic. I am really enjoying the game. It is very difficult to prise yourself away from the console to do anything else!
It reminds me of a favorite game on the PC called 'Blade of Severance' The graphics are not in the same league as 'Gears of War' or a 'Killzone' but they are still beautiful. As an owner (and fan of) God of war 1 & 2, in my opinion they are better. The higher resolution makes the difference, and the makers have captured the ambience and atmosphere of the Conan world perfectly. The audio is very good too.
I don't think the Videos online do this game justice at all. I've played it a Samsung 226CW PC LCD screen and on an Epson Projector and the game looks stunning on both.
Admittedly, the cut scenes are it's weakest part especially if you were to compare them to Heavenly sword but they do the job of progressing the story. The game-play itself is superb. Arms, legs, and yes Heads too all come flying off sometimes in slowmo when you perfect a particular attack. There are loads of cool moves to learn as well.
The other thing I really like about the game compared to God of war, is that I prefer the weapons used. You can use Two-handed swords and pole-blades, single swords or axes with a shield or two swords. The bloody combat seems more realistic than when you are swinging two blades around on the end of chains. You can see more of the action during close combat. Plus they have modelled the Conan character brilliantly.
This is one of my favourite games at the moment..
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Violence Overdose, 27 April 2008
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
Conan is a missed opportunity. The game has the right ingredients but they just weren't developed the right way. The truth is Conan is very entertaining. You have numerous combos which have devastating results on the enemies, resulting in decapitations, severed arms and numerous other "fun" deaths. Conan can flip a guy in the air and cut him in half and as he falls to the floor, his intestine falls out as blood gushes like a fountain. It's this kind of extreme violence we're talking about. This makes Conan a fun Hack'n'Slash. However, as you advance in the game, the number of enemies increases dramatically as does their quality. None of them is extremely hard to kill, however they gang up on you and any kind of combo becomes close to impossible. You just use the strong/light combo, mashing triangle or square and trying to roll away when surrounded. It takes a lot out of the game. There are also a lot of bosses. This is where things start to get messy. I like bosses and these are old school. They're big and mean. They are not impossible to kill but they take a long time and can become frustrating and annoying. You fight them in rounds. After you deplete their energy once, you go to the next round where they have a new combo or a new attack. They're about three rounds each. They also require that you push certain buttons, as they flash in the screen at the end of each round which can be hard if you don't have good reflexes and don't pay close attention. This brings us to the worst part of the game. The final boss is just awful. I dare you not to lose your temper while fighting him. On normal difficulty it took me 48 minutes to beat him. You cannot save during the fight so you must go through all the rounds at once or start from the beginning, the next time. I cannot stress enough how infuriating this boss is. He's hard but he's mostly annoying. He's cheap and dull and really, and I mean really, takes away most of the fun you've had until that point.
Also frustrating are the platform sections. Conan's movements and jumps are clumsy and the camera is a mess. You can easily miss jumps. They're awkward and the fixed camera doesn't help. The camera is also a problem in the final boss battle. Many times I couldn't see Graven, which is essential to predict his moves and know when to attack. There is no excuse for this.
There are also puzzles but they are so easy, they are hardly worth mentioning.
The graphics are also fairly uninspired. After you've seen games like Uncharted or Ratchet and Clank: TOD, Conan really looks bad. The water is laughable; the cut scenes are stiff and the voice acting bellow par. Even Ron Pearlman who is an actor I highly appreciate seems to be phoning it in. The game could also be longer. It took me 8:30 hours to finish and I'm a slow gamer.
Still it's not all bad. The music is perfect for the atmosphere. There are a lot of maidens with their bare breasts who need rescue and of course there's carnage, a lot of carnage. Imaginative carnage.
Conan is an entertaining game even with all its problems. I'll play it again, when I want a mindless, gory, fun game. If you can get pass the PS2 graphics and like bosses or are a patient gamer who loves a challenge, give it a try. If you want or expect an unforgettable experience, play God of War. Conan is a testosterone filled, violent, crude, game. A guilty pleasure that I enjoyed and am glad to have in my collection even with all its flaws.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Conan!!!!!!!!!!, 26 April 2009
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
I am a fan of the film Conan with ole Arnie as Conan, and I saw this game on the playstation store, I downloaded the demo and was pleasantly surprised by how good the game is. You play as Conan, walking through a stage and come upon encounters, you could be walking down a lane, and come to a village where the inhabitants want to chop you up. This is where things get interesting, with your character you have a few fighting styles to choose from, there is the single sword hack and slash, sword and shield so you can defend yourself somewhat, dual swords, so you can perform lots of little attacks and double handed fighting. Double handed entails finding an oversized weapon i.e. a sword three times normal size and wielding it with both hands, performing slower attacks but dealing more damage when you hit. Coupled with this is the option of performing moves, e.g. circle, circle, circle ends in a three stroke attack performing more damage at the end if all the blows connect.
And therein lays the fun of the game, for every enemy you kill you gain experience points and as these mount you can "buy" better attacks for each of the fighting styles I have mentioned. You must then use these attacks to become more proficient in them, so a % meter is listed when you view the attack you want to use from the menu bar. One of my favourite moves in the game was grappling a person and then performed a pile driver, so Conan grabs the baddie, jumps in the air and then turns the person over so their head explodes on the ground. The other favourite was picking someone up and breaking their spine over Conan's knee.
What I am trying to get at is that the game is quite gory, which was great! Wielding two swords and then chopping both arms off of a baddie, or decapitating them was great fun.
For mindless violence, this game has it all, I have given the game four stars though as I found the storyline very wanting, Conan is just sort of pushed into each stage with there being a Boss at the end coincidentally to help the storyline along.
One note of advice I will give - when able in the villages, burn down the huts as there are sometimes goodies inside.
Claudia Black and Ron Perlman provide the voices for the main characters which is nice as this game helps celebrate the 75th anniversary of Howard's first
published story.
For £15, this is a game worth the money or even pre-owned it is £8, it is a fun hack and slash game, and there is replay value as you can buy different abilities the next time round.
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