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So, I impulse bought that old Conan game for 360 in the checkout isle at Best Buy. It was only $15, so I thought I didn't have much to lose. Come to find out after playing it this weekend that it's a complete blast.
It's a hack 'n slash game that uses simple combos for battle like X X Y, or X Y B...shit like that. I assumed this game would probably suck, but man I'm hooked. It's highly flavorable to the Conan lore that I've read in the Robert E Howard books, some of the stages grabbed me as real visual interpretations of some of the stories in The Coming of Conan collection.
You earn red runes (Money) in combat, finding treasure chests, and rescuing beautiful naked slave girls. Yes, naked. The money is then used to buy (unlock) new moves, and I'd say there are about 30 new moves to get. You get to choose which kind of moves you want to buy too, such as one handed weapon, two handed, and dual wield weapon moves. Some are grapple combos as well.
The funnest moments for me so far is learning the Parry system, this is a very cool looking set of moves that are triggered with a quick time button press during a timely block in battle. Man, these are awesome, this is where the heads come off in a cinematic style, or where you can slice a guy completely in half...lengthwise!
For $15 I just gotta give this game some props. It's got some decent music, it's really flavorful to Conan lore, and it's bloody as hell. There's a demo on Live too, but I didn't think the demo shows all the stuff you can do well enough, although you do get to impale people in it.
And so there is no confusion, I'm talking about this game, not the shitty mmorpg on PC:
It's a hack 'n slash game that uses simple combos for battle like X X Y, or X Y B...shit like that. I assumed this game would probably suck, but man I'm hooked. It's highly flavorable to the Conan lore that I've read in the Robert E Howard books, some of the stages grabbed me as real visual interpretations of some of the stories in The Coming of Conan collection.
You earn red runes (Money) in combat, finding treasure chests, and rescuing beautiful naked slave girls. Yes, naked. The money is then used to buy (unlock) new moves, and I'd say there are about 30 new moves to get. You get to choose which kind of moves you want to buy too, such as one handed weapon, two handed, and dual wield weapon moves. Some are grapple combos as well.
The funnest moments for me so far is learning the Parry system, this is a very cool looking set of moves that are triggered with a quick time button press during a timely block in battle. Man, these are awesome, this is where the heads come off in a cinematic style, or where you can slice a guy completely in half...lengthwise!
For $15 I just gotta give this game some props. It's got some decent music, it's really flavorful to Conan lore, and it's bloody as hell. There's a demo on Live too, but I didn't think the demo shows all the stuff you can do well enough, although you do get to impale people in it.
And so there is no confusion, I'm talking about this game, not the shitty mmorpg on PC:
) said that the last boss was really annoying, so I figured I might not have missed a whole lot. 
