Golden Axe: Beast Rider
As the unstoppable Tyris Flare, players will engage in vicious melee combat both on foot and atop massive mythical beasts, savaging enemies with blades and magic on a quest for vengeance.
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Stars Sucks….
You get only one character choice, a horrible story, uninteresting monsters, stupid bosses and a lame ending. This is an insult to the Golden Axe series. Only one playable character and the worst skimpy dressed one at that.
1 Stars this is too hard of a game!!!!!!
well i bought this game after a friend told me not to.wow was i stupid.yes its well maid and its fun to play but once you get past 4 levels it gets impossible to play.you get 2 choices when you select the diffaculty that is either very hard or just forget it.there are not enoughe health pods anywhere and once you die you have to start all over again!yes you do get 2 horse statues to use to save yourself but you use them fast.then your on your own.this game is impossible to play or even think about getting far.its really sad cause it could of been a great game.all it does is make you mad and you want to just throw the game out the window.you have been warned!!!!!lol
2 Stars I never played this game, so I probably am not the best person to review it.
This game looks terrible. I bought it for a cheap price and couldn’t be bothered to open the game. I sold it for a profit and laughed all the way to the bank.
4 Stars BeastRider
I played the original Beast Rider on the SEGA Genesis and it was one of my favorite games. I was not sure what to expect on the updated XBOX 360 version. Some reviews I read thought there was too much hack and slash, and not enough problem solving. Some thought the ability to play only one character (vs 3 choices in the original) was too limiting. I share these views to some extent, but I have found that this version is even more fun to play than the original, and other than the two criticisms noted, this is a good game.
5 Stars Fun fantasy land. Great best riding and fighting. Not a hack and slash.
This is a game for the fantasy fans and not hack and slash fans. I think a lot of people approach the game as a hack and slash game like Ninja Gaiden or Heavenly Sword. But, the main gameplay isn’t the hack and slash elements but riding giant beasts, killing little enemies or having beast battles.
The hack and slash aspect is terrible. There are colors of attacks and they have to be matched to button presses otherwise health goes down, you lose bonus points etc. There are no combos as such and the weapons don’t change much. However, the beasts come in 4-5 different varieties all with their own attacks. The beasts run out health and die and you end up hack and slash mode when you aren’t riding a beast. There aren’t as much beast spawn points so one has to take care of their beasts.
The levels are very linear but the backdrop and the set-pieces are pretty. There is no point exploring the levels and none of the set pieces are interactive - except for the usual assortments of health, magic, gold etc. So, everything moves quickly. But, there is no story to speak of - there is a good backdrop for a story but not a story.
What is incredible about this game is the beast riding and fighting. Somehow, it captures size - the beasts are king kong sized, dinosaur sized, elephant sized and it all feels so smooth. In Ninja Gaiden, there are regular size and then building size and no sense of size in between. In Heavely Sword, there is no blend of sizes, it’s always a series of little mini-games. In this game, you ride big beasts fight and then you hack and slash and it all feels natural - in the sense that you don’t feel like you entered into mode of a game fighting with a beast and another mode in hack and slash. It blends very well together. Anything you can do in 3rd person slash mode can be done riding a beast.
Overall, it’s a great ride into an interesting fantasy land - there is a great backdrop and beast riding is fun. There is no story but I suppose it probably would have turned out to be hamfisted lord of the rings style affair so your own imagination is probably to better to connect the dots between what shows up. The female protagonist isn’t sexed up - she’s kinda scary and even when she walks around in a bikini, it’s like she’s a female Conan. This is a great rental or a good buy at a low price.
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