Images and video: THQ's Conan (PS3/360)

Doesn't look enough like Ahnuld. PASS.

Dismemberment is always fun though.

Looks pretty cool. A LOT like God of War but that's not necessarily a bad thing. From what I read of the GI article it sounds like there'll be a lot of variety in combat (more-so than God of War actually).

Wait.....they made Marvel Nemesis? Then Fuckem!

The camera looks like it would piss me off something awful, and the AI might need some work, but theres still time to fix it, I suppose.

Conan's face had an inncedint with a brick wall.
Im fucking smoking crack yo.

Seems weird to have Conan without Arnold's face. The Kraken battle looked like a lamer version of the Hydra battle in God of War. That and the combat looked really slow. Hopefully this isn't the final build. My final verdict: unimpressed.

bad model design FTL.

Conan reminds me of Nathan Explosion.

God of War style games are the new sidescrolling beat-em-up.

Idunno.

It just looks incredibly blah to me.

First off, the combat looks INCREDIBLY slow. Conan needs to wind up on EVERY hit he does. And Conan's movement just looks well, LESS than smooth.

Second, the collision detection is crap. I mean, guys are teleporting to be thrown, being hit when they're not ACTUALLY being hit and vice versa.

Third, the sound is aweful. I mean, how many times do we need to hear the EXACT same *SPLOTCH* sound, even when fighting different enemies? It honestly sounds like some bad playstation 1 game.

Last, did anyone see that the burning baricade just *POOFED* out of existence after burning for a while? What the heck was that? It didn't even fade out, it was just gone.

Next-gen indeed.

You know, this is getting ridiculous. A sandbox game? It must be a GTA clone. An action fighting game? It must be a God of War clone. Neither of those games invented those genres. Maybe I'll start calling FPSs Doom clones, that makes as much sense.

Oh, thats totally understandable, but most people (over)use terms like 'GTA clone' as a derogatory term. Its like there's only one game allowed to be in a genre or something. Of course, its usually fanboys of a particular game that say all the 'imitators' suck, so that should say something right there, I suppose.