Golden Axe: Beast Rider Comments by Robert Purchese
Look at the hooves on that.
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rhinoxious
06/02/08 @ 16:29
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Another fantasy beat-em ip with a scantily clad hero.
No one makes one for a decade, then loads come along at once. |
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Return2Dust
06/02/08 @ 16:44
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I used to play GoldenAxe in my local chip shop when I was a lad. Must be 18 years ago now...bloody hell.
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Triggerhappytel
06/02/08 @ 16:46
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@ dadrester - you mean Final Fight Streetwise, which was shit, apparently.
Anyway, I have fairly high hopes for this, but secretly we all know it will probably be cack. So long as Sonic Team are in no way involved (I can't be arsed to look it up) then there's the faint glimmer of hope it might be okay. |
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MightyMouse
06/02/08 @ 16:51
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It's no Severance: Blade of Darkness though, is it? Now there was a game, still up there with the best.
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Muddtallica
06/02/08 @ 18:19
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Rodney: No, you are quite correct; I seem to recall that the midget-pummelling got pretty fiercely competitive in two-player, as you both jostled to land blows on the wee man to get him to drop chicken legs to heal your battle wounds. Certainly, it's a feature of whose return I would demand before considering a purchase.
Still, good to see the beast-riding remains front and centre. That was another fun quirk of two-player; once a beast turned up, all attention would turn towards frantic one-upmanship over who actually got to ride the monster, and away from actually progressing through the level. It always ended in tears though, as the monster would end up getting frightened and running away, leaving an ill-tempered silence and bitter recriminations in his wake. Those were certainly the days. :D |
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MuppetThumper
07/02/08 @ 11:27
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I'll be getting this. Got great memories of playing it from yonder years - including 2 player on the same keyboard on the Spectrum. It was one of those nutter jobs of loading each level from the tape deck separately, so if you died you had to load the whole damn thing again.
Also played the arcade game about 8-10 years ago in SegaWorld. That was FANTASTIC, all around where gypos forking out a quid or more for 3 mins of gameplay on crappy shooters or driving games, and me and a mate spent about £1.40 for 50 minutes of brilliant fun completing Golden Axe. MightyMouse - cheers for the Severance reminiscence too. That was a quality game, its difficulty as brutal as its decapitations. |
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