Product Description

Conan is an action adventure video game featuring a story of epic brutality, sheer evil and visceral combat within an expansive fantasy setting. Players will follow the journey of Conan the Cimmerian as he fights a vicious battle against a variety of enemies and an elusive power that threatens to consume the world. Using everything at his disposal, including deadly weapons and environmental objects, Conan must fight everything in his path as he traverses a variety of unique realms within the Hyborian world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4492 in Video Games
• Brand: THQ
• Model: 55022
• Released on: 2007-10-23
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Dimensions: .40 pounds

Features

• Deep and gratifying combat system that offers a variety of fighting styles to battle enemies. Through multiple movement trees, players can string together combos and fight foes using grappling moves, hand-to-hand combat, sword fights and dual-wielded attacks.
• Highly interactive combat locations and real-time physics will allow players to pick up any weapons in sight, such as swords, axes, spears and torches, and use surrounding environmental elements to inflict damage on enemies.
• Cinematic game play experience, complete with innovative special effects, lighting and a powerful, epic soundtrack.
• ESRB Rated M for Mature

Amazon.com
Conan is an all-new action combat game featuring a story of adventure, true evil, and brutal, visceral combat. The game follows the journey of Conan the Cimmerian as he fights an epic battle against a variety of enemies and an elusive evil power that threatens to consume the world. Using anything and everything at his disposal, including hand-to-hand weapons, objects in the environment, and powerful elemental magic, Conan takes the fight to his enemies across the massive continent of Hyborea.

Customer Reviews

For a Conan franchise....it's a start.
ok...this will be brief...


This game is a lil' something to do between now and Assasin's Creed.

While it won't win awards as the greatest hack n slash adventure ever....still...it's Conan....this is almost what the Barabraian's portion of Golden Axe would have been.

It's a change of pace from all of the FPSs that have/are flooding the market right now

The good

- excellent graphics

- if you are into button mashing, this is right up your alley

- different fighting styles with upgrades possible thru the use of combos

- Yes....there are naked women, so this could be a con if you are a concerned parent.

The cons

- Combos can be broken and AI could have been better

- needed a better variety of weapons

- so far most of the enemies are the same.

- No multiplayer


Another gripe is that as visceral as this game is, the camera nevcer really gets up close as you dismember the enemy. There are heads flying arms cut off guts ripped out but sometimes you are sooo busy hacking away that you really don't get to enjoy it.

This game would have benefitted more from an interesting upgrade/ loot system or even a multiplayer system, heck it could have benefitted by ripping some pages from Diablo, but for now...it's enjoyable until far more interesting titles come along.


I give it a 3.5 out of 5 stars.

CONAN
CONAN is a pretty decent game. It's not perfect, but it is a lot of fun and that's what counts. The graphics are topnotch, so all the bare breasts and over the top violence comes out with wonderful visual flair. Pretty much all you will be doing in this game is smashing out at enemies and randomly rescuing half naked women until you get to a boss battle at which point you will be angry for about 30 minutes.

The last battle is one of the cheapest, most repitative boss battles I've ever played. It took me a good 45 minutes to finish and I can't remember the last time I was so angry. But other than that, the other boss battles aren't so outrageous, it's just a matter of taking a bit to figure out what exactly the game intends for you to do.

There are some pretty brutal combos, but unfortunately most of them only really work on weaker enemies. Later in the game, once you've unlocked all your moves and have gotten used to them, these weak enemies are nowhere to be seen. You can still get a handful of combos out, and if you manage to stun the enemy you can get the ones you get on weak enemies, but by the last couple of levels I was mostly using three or four combos that actually still worked. A lot of the time, though(and this was a problem with that final boss bottle), I'd just end up getting a ton of enemies pouncing on me interrupting every single combo so that all I could do was quick strike and dodge. However, even doing that I still managed to whip out some really vicious violence and dismemberments.

Speaking of dismemberments, there are wonderful achievements, such as getting 100 dismemberments, 100 enemies thrown to their death, 100 enemies killed by boulder throws, etc. It really works to keep your variety up more.

Despite the fact that alot of times I wasn't able to get the combo I wanted out and that the boss battles weren't really fun, I enjoyed the game as a whole a lot. It's pure streamlined carnal violence with barebreasts thrown in, obviously because what guy can resist extreme brutality with breasts on the side.

Probably not really worth the full new release price, but I don't mind that I bought it within the first few days of its release. The game is a bit short, but really, I think six hours was enough. The game didn't start to drag because of this, which I think may have been a problem if it had actually continued on a few more hours.

As for replay, I'm going to be going back on the different difficulties to try it out for the achievements and I'm going to shoot for all the different death achievements. If I didn't have the achievements, though, it would just be good for some random slashing whenever I was bored.

this is conan!!!
it has corny dialog, brutal violence, and nekkid chicks. this is awesome conan action. yeah it is a lot like god of war. that is a good thing, god of war rules. so does this. it has its own additions and dare i say improvements but ultimately it achieves what is most necessary. its fun as hell. crom! but this is a good game. crush me with your love conan!!!