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| Conan | 
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| From: THQ
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $14.93
You Save: $5.06 (25%)
New (20) Used (15) from $13.25
Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 1219
Format: Cd
Platform: Playstation 3
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 99022
Model: 5000
UPC: 752919990223
EAN: 0752919990223
ASIN: B000SH3XCW
Release Date: May 19, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 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. |
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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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
 fun game September 18, 2008
This game is fun/ not too difficult. I just hate repeating entire levels if I die!!
Fun, but flawed August 3, 2008
I'll preface this review by noting that I bought this game used for less than $20, and that has certainly colored my enjoyment of it. If I'd paid full price, I'd probably feel kind of ripped off.
Overall, Conan is a pretty fun game. Sure, it's a God of War knock-off, but it's fun to get to run around, sever people's limbs, throw crates at people, and rescue the occasional half-naked maiden. The level design is nice, the graphics are pretty good (nicely capturing the classic Conan comic-style art), the voice acting is acceptable (remember, this is Conan, not Hamlet), and the hack-and-slash aspect is very entertaining.
However, the major flaw in the game, as many others have noted, is the boss fights. You run around avoiding attacks, get one hit in, then run around avoiding attacks again. It's a slow, tedious process that's the same for every boss fight. Also, some of the boss fights are ridiculously difficult, and the hit-and-wait strategy only adds to the tedium. Oh, and you can't use magic to wound the bosses, which is really, really lame.
I'd recommend picking Conan up if you can find it pretty cheap, but it's definitely not worth paying full price for.
 LET THERE BE BLOOD July 28, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
GREAT GAME, GREAT GRAPHICS, GREAT MOVES, GREAT STORY. I RECOMEND THIS GAME A LOT IF YOU LIKE GOD OF WAR YOU ARE GOING TO LIKE THIS ONE. I ALSO RECOMEND VIKING.
CHEERS.
A Cheap Heavenly Sword with Hot chicks(Revised) July 28, 2008
This is a great game for the PS3 for those of you who want the fun of Heavenly Sword and cannot afford to lay down $50 USED for the game. This game is very entertaining. Kind of like God of War with a sense of humor. I believe Kevin Sorbo does the voice of Conan. My favorite line is when the lead female of the story says, "Perhaps you would serve a woman" to which he replies, "I would service her!" Great stuff. The graphics are very nice with good frame rate throughout and despite the reviews to the contrary, some of the puzzles are interesting to solve and difficult as any you would find in Half life. Of course, Conan does pretty much tell you what to do most of the time. I would say my favorite part of the game is the checkpoint system. After playing and giving up on Turok due to the ridiculously long checkpoints, I am happy to say that this game has plenty of check points. You will never find yourself having to kill the same 20 guys over and over again. Even the Boss fights have the checkpoints split up so each step to kill the beast will not have to be repeated. Very nice. Many save points every where and for the most part short load times means this game does not frustrate you like many of the games which made it to the PS3 as well as the XBox. For this price(this game can be found at Game Stop for under $20) it is well worth the money. I am not sure I would say the same if I had to be one of the original people who bought this game for $60 however which is why I give it four stars. This game ain't perfect but it is very entertaining and a hell of a lot of fun! Buy it!
Amendment to the above review:After playing this game for about a week and getting nearly to the end, I ended up returning the game for a refund. It gets REALLY BORING. The moves of Conan don't change that much but the opponents keep on getting stronger and almost impossible to beat. There are some guys in the last level who have these shields with spikes in them. Whenever Conan reaches back to hit them(and yes Conan moves very slow always no matter how fast the opponents are moving at this point) spikes come out of the shield and this causes damage to Conan. These are not bosses mind you. There are like 10 of these guys who you have to kill. Ugggh. BORING! You just hack away at these idiots from every angle until I figured out that they throw out their shield every once in a while. So you have to wait for them to throw the shield, not get hit by the damn thing and then quickly get behind them(Quick is not really a word in Conan's dictionary remember) and beat the crap out of them before they recover their shields. They give Conan magical "armor powers" but these get used up pretty quickly. Plus every level is pretty much the same as the last. The graphics start looking pretty grainy after awhile as well.
To add insult to injury, remember how I was talking about the great checkpoint system? Well, there is one level where you land on a platform and kill a bunch of big hard to beat guys along with the guys with the shields and huge bats. Once you complete this the place starts falling apart so you have to run and jump from platform to platform as the whole place falls apart. Guess what? THey forgot to put a checkpoint here!! So as you keep falling off to your death, you have to once again battle all the idiots on the platform. This was never done in the game until now. Probably because they felt people needed a real challenge to get to the end of the game. Ugggghhh! Annoying. I got killed three times and that did it for me.
This game is probably still worth less than $20 but I am playing Dark Kingdom and that game is a lot more fun to play with more variety and better graphics. Try it instead of this one...
What would you expect? July 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've read the less than favorable reviews for this game before purchasing it myself. It seems you will either like it or not. There isn't much in between. But, that's the way the movie was, too. You either liked it or you didn't. The game's name should give a clue. It's Conan. What would you expect? So, I purchased it used just in case the negative reviews were correct and, wow, I love this game. It does play much like God of War and it is violent. It also provides a generous amount of skin so this title earns its M rating. Don't expect this to be a thought provoking and uplifting gaming experience. It is, however, a game that is easy to just get lost in for awhile. Now for the technical:
Graphics: good.
Soundtrack: good.
Controls: a little sluggish.
Story line: ehhh, not really. But, good action.
Playability: very playable and easy to learn.
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