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Golden Axe: Beast Rider (PS3) | 
| From: Sega
Category: Video Games
New (8) Used (16) from £4.77
Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 1894
Platform: PlayStation 3
Genre: role-playing-games
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: Video Game
Edition: Normal
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: GOLDAXEPS3
EAN: 5060138436220
ASIN: B000FNJ0M6
Release Date: October 17, 2008
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Product Description
Golden Axe: Beast Rider delivers action-RPG thrills as a small band of Riders embark on an epic adventure to recruit allies, expose the enemy and prevent the annihilation of their breed. Delivering an intense and unique combat experience, players charge into battle on the backs of ferocious beasts or take their chances with the enemy while on foot. Fighting skill, wits and even magic are all called into action as players immerse themselves in the struggle to defeat an evil intent on enslaving the remains of civilisation. - Beast-Riding and Savage Combat - Players will cut down enemies while riding on an array of deadly, magical beasts.
- Brutal Melee Action - With swords and axes, players will unleash barbaric killing moves and dismembering attacks.
- Spells & Magic Weapons - Weapon upgrades and powerful unlockable elemental-based spells and magic will give players the advantage in battle.
- Harsh & Desolate Landscapes - There is a huge, ravaged, destructible world to explore... and survive.
- Classic Golden Axe Legacy - As the young warrior, Tyris Flare, players will encounter familiar friends and foes, and collect power-ups from pesky gnomes in a magical world of beasts.
- New Story Details Revealed - Players will discover events that took place before the original Golden Axe storyline as Tyris Flare, the famous half-Gladiator/half-Barbarian heroine, begins the epic quest to avenge her tribe.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 9
OK-ish August 9, 2010
G. L. Tempest (UK Cornwall)
The game is OK if you don't want to spend to much. But after a while you get very bored with walking around a lot and the fighting scenes are very repetetive
 Dogs of the Death Adder July 25, 2009
Stevie G (Manchester, England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Golden Axe: Beast Rider is a halfhearted franchise revival. Its still a hack and slasher, but a basic and ugly one.
Golden Axes heroine is Tyris. The `storyline' involves the kidnapping of `the last of the great Titans' by the Bogeymen. Which leads Tyris on a quest to rebuild the legendary Golden Axe.
Memories of the originals are hazy, but there some references. Gilius Thunderhead, the axe-wielding dwarf makes a few early appearances, but disappears by the end of each cut scene. This also happens with the entire Sisterhood during the opening ceremony. The gnomes also feature, complete with fast music. Attacking them causes items, health and cash to drop, acting like a bonus section.
Dragon statues act as continues, found during certain levels. Once these are used, death means a restart to the beginning. It's a nice, old school touch, but a checkpoint system would have worked better.
The fundamental change is the inclusion of beasts (hence the title) that can be used in battle. There is an interesting selection. Some have cloaking powers, others can breathe fire. It provides some welcome variation. However, later stages have large numbers of enemies on beasts. As soon as Tyris is knocked off, (which happens far too easily), an enemy will mount your beast too. It's a bit like carjacking in GTA. Creature respawn pads are usually located at the beginning of each level, which forces backtracking. Moreover, if your creature hasn't been killed, nothing will happen. Harsh and frustrating.
The combat system seems deep initially. Coloured attacks correspond to the shoulder buttons. So orange attacks are countered with L1, blue attacks with R1. Yet even during the tutorial stage, the controls feel unresponsive, with a noticeable delay between button prompt and animation. It leads to a button-bashing affair, and ruins the counter attack system.
Levels, or `Challenges', consist of basic puzzles, mixed with repetitive combat. The next section opens once all enemies are killed, or a puzzle is completed. Sometimes it's both!
Spells are included, but drain magic quickly. Recharging pads are scattered, but their general use is limited to emergencies, or when mission specific. It's extremely frustrating to reach a puzzle, need magic to pass, and have to scour the level, looking for an unopened crate or pad.
On the positive side, there's gore everywhere, and even a statistic for limb dismemberments. Loading screen artwork is a nice touch. And the music is above average. However, there is no trophy support, its also prone to split second freezes and graphical glitches. The camera can be very problematic. Levels are painfully linear. Enemies appear from thin air, which is a cheap move. Graphics are also under whelming. In a similar style to Viking: Battle For Asgard, the bright, cartoon-like aesthetic fails to hide an unattractive game.
Golden Axe has a few extras. Trials of Tyris is a selection of battle arenas that feature in the main quest. Challenge mode allows completed levels to be replayed, along with unlocked outfits and blades. But they all suffer the same problems as story mode, and remain almost no fun to play.
 Terrible stay away!!! June 5, 2009
Keith Dickinson (Sunderland)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
If like me you're a big fan of the originals then stay away, this game is dreadful...the game play is nonsensical...the story...is lost...the levels are just the same over and OVER again. A horrid return to a game that could have been served up much better if the creators looked to God of War for guidance instead they served a game which seems half finished the sounds, the music, the lag.
The whole thing is a complete waste of time, I'm glad I only spent 10 quid on it and it certainly won't be staying in my gaming library.
Golden Pain, Golden fun May 15, 2009
O. Onabanjo (Uk)
I am new to this genre. The game is good, but should get better.
Good Points: Controls easy to learn, difficult to master, Bosses easy to beat.
Improvement areas: The moves need to more fluid,save points should be introduced. Its annoying that new weapons / attires can not be used once unlocked during game play. Some of the Bosses have a greater advantage over the player.
The game is fun, still have 10 levels to go so watch this space.
Golden Axe R.I.P December 17, 2008
S. Sharma (UK)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I loved the original classic golden Axe games, they where awesome.
So when I this was came out I brought my copy.
It arrived and I played it for 5 hours and i did really try to find some love for the game, but it fails at every level.
Another classic destroyed
Come on Saga, get your act together.
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