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Golden Axe II Review
User Submitted Golden Axe II Reviews
Date: 2008-11-16
Golden Axe II
Golden Axe II is a full action hack n' slash game for sega megadrive/genesis. It offers a wide variety of enemies, attacks and magics. The player can choose between three different characters.
Although its made for the sega genesis console, wich has no savingfunction i felt the game was a bit too short. If you play effectively, the complete game can be done in about 1,5 hours. A good function is that the game has three diffrent difficulties, of wich the easiest does not offer play of the entire campaign.
Date: 2008-01-31
Wake me up when it's over
I would say that video games don't come much simpler than this bore but the likes of Pong and Pac-Man, while less technically sophisticated are still better. Golden Axe 2 is such a chore to play with no fun or enjoyment injected into the proceedings whatsoever.
Again, you can choose from barbarian Ax Battler, amazonian Tyris Flare or dwarf Gillius Thunderhead as you slowly plod your way through a generic as hell fantasy kingdom, hacking and slashing at conveyor belt enemies (who sometimes kill themselves out of sheer stupidity) before you get to the big guy in a suit of armour who has taken over the land because of his evilness or whatever nonsense.
I often associate Golden Axe with Streets of Rage since the gameplay in the first games was very similar (I also bought them on the same day back in March 1993). But while the SOR series only got better and more sophisticated I am afraid that Golden Axe just got crapper. It tries to be the gaming equivalent of a big budget Conan movie but comes off as no more than a Roger Corman mini-series. You've never played a game so stripped down and bland as this.
Graphics D+
Sound D-
Gameplay D-
Lasting Appeal F
Pros:
It's a lot like Golden Axe
Cons:
It's a LOT like Golden Axe
Sound effects are no more than white noise.
Baddies all look the same.
No point system.
Very, very little in the way of power ups.
No combo moves.
Collision detection is poor.
Music is just ghastly.
Date: 2004-04-18
Better than its predecessor
As Golden Axe is one of my all-time favorite games, I was expecting great things of Golden Axe II. Unfortunately, it just doesn't live up to the original. For one thing, the graphics got uglier. Everything looks lo-res and very drab, though some of the enemies are nicely done. Another thing that sucks about this game is the sound and music: the sound is of the tinny "clink, clink, swish, swish" variety and the music sounds pretty bad. As with the original Golden Axe, you take control of a muscle-bound human warrior, a woman, or a dwarf. Sometimes I play the woman because I get my jollies off of seeing her videogame anatomy, though usually I play the dwarf, because he kicks ass.
Date: 2002-05-28
My favorite video game of all time
It's possible to love old and new things equally. I love this game.
Date: 2002-01-21
Not nearly as good as the first
The graphics aren't as good (they seem "muddier") and the gameplay just isn't as compelling. The original Golden Axe is a lot better.
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