Games Review: Golden Axe: Beast Rider
PS3, Xbox 360, Sega, £49.99
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Your support makes all the difference.Golden Axe: Beast Rider is a retro-styled RPG that relies on the old arcade standards of button-bashing, and a scantily clad warrior woman hacking her way through a host of foes.
She does this on the back of any one of a number of pathetically wimpy beasts, which are ill-equipped to roam the battlefield – they seem to die at the merest brush of a sword. Golden Axe neither convinces as an homage to arcade games of the past, nor as a modern RPG. Expect a very bumpy ride.
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