Wed 05 Oct 2011
Playstation
Conan Review
The combat style and gameplay is fairly cliché and is nothing new, it’s
the same Lord of the Rings style linear level design combined with wave
after wave of mindless minions that are ultimately easy to dispose of
followed by your basic run of the mill boss. Nothing innovative in this
game, you basically just use two buttons, one for strong attack and one
for light attack, anything else is just unnecessary and whatever else
there is the game doesn’t provide you any incentive to use. Despite
being a pretty simple the game still manages to be at least a little bit
enjoyable.
When it comes to boss battles, it’s mostly about pattern recognition, knowing when to attack the boss, what moves to use and how to avoid the boss’s attack when you’re not attacking him. There are some cinematic special moves which are cool but they don’t really add much of a dynamic to game play or save it from redundancy. Interwoven into all this mindless and redundant combat is the option of saving scantily clad women as you might expect to find in a Conan games, you’ll run into these instances at certain points throughout the game. For a pretty cookie cutter game the weapon styles are actually quite diverse, you can pick up weapons that drop along the way and equip them or just stick with the weapon you started with.
While this game provides some mindless hack and slash fun, it’s certainly not worth purchasing, if anything I would borrow it from a friend or give a rental.
Rating: 65% - “Nothing special but it can be fun.”
Pros:
Scantily clad women frequently appear that you can rescue
Some pretty fun basic hack and slash
Cons:
Very stale and cliché, nothing new...at all
You will quickly become tired of the two button hack and slash combat system
When it comes to boss battles, it’s mostly about pattern recognition, knowing when to attack the boss, what moves to use and how to avoid the boss’s attack when you’re not attacking him. There are some cinematic special moves which are cool but they don’t really add much of a dynamic to game play or save it from redundancy. Interwoven into all this mindless and redundant combat is the option of saving scantily clad women as you might expect to find in a Conan games, you’ll run into these instances at certain points throughout the game. For a pretty cookie cutter game the weapon styles are actually quite diverse, you can pick up weapons that drop along the way and equip them or just stick with the weapon you started with.
While this game provides some mindless hack and slash fun, it’s certainly not worth purchasing, if anything I would borrow it from a friend or give a rental.
Rating: 65% - “Nothing special but it can be fun.”
Pros:
Scantily clad women frequently appear that you can rescue
Some pretty fun basic hack and slash
Cons:
Very stale and cliché, nothing new...at all
You will quickly become tired of the two button hack and slash combat system
