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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.

  • Intense combat action: Playing as Conan, use an incredibly deep and gratifying combat system that provides a variety of fighting styles to battle enemies. Utilizing multiple movement trees, string together combos and fight foes using grappling moves, hand-to-hand combat, swordplay, and dual-wielded attacks. Over 20 swords, axes, halberds, shields, and spears can be picked up off enemy corpses.
  • Interactive environments: Highly interactive combat locales and a real-time physics engine allows you to pick up any weapon, shield or torch, in sight. Use the environment to your advantage in combat, crushing foes with falling pillars or throwing them onto spikes.
  • Cinematic gameplay experience: Thanks to the power of next-generation hardware, the game takes advantage of next generation cinematic graphics, special effects, lighting and shaders. Dozens of independently acting A.I. enemies participate onscreen at once.
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/12/conan-action-game-moves-up-to-sept-28/

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This is the God of War like Conan game, not the MMO.

I was really looking forward to this game but suddenly announcing it is coming out in a couple weeks vs 6 months gives me a bad feeling in my gut. Especially with the competition, I have a hard time believing that was planned, more like forced.

Any thoughts?
 
I think that it's probably not shaping up to be a good game so the plan is to bury it under Halo 3.

That's too bad, I've recently started getting into Conan and I was looking forward to this...
 
Maybe they figure Halo 3 is going to be a system seller and that people buying a new system will want to pick up another game or 2 to go with Halo 3.
 
I'm gonna rent it unless I can find it on sale cheap somewhere. Love everything about the Conan mythos but the vids on the game didn't look too spectacular.
 
[quote name='help1']Retarded move. They should wait for a summer release.[/QUOTE]

Look at it this way, by summer it'll be cheaper!
 
Yeah I have yet to see one video that really shows any of the gameplay, which isn't a good thing. I think they just pushed out a release and cut their losses for a game that didn't look like it was going to be any good.
 
Things aren't looking good for Conan.. I wasn't looking forward to this game anyway, But...
 
I have this game sitting next to me yet know nothing about it....Should I play it?
Its either this, Bio Shock, or Eternal Sonata...
 
[quote name='GizmoGC']I have this game sitting next to me yet know nothing about it....Should I play it?
Its either this, Bio Shock, or Eternal Sonata...[/QUOTE]


yes, play it, be the guinea pig.
 
[quote name='Apossum']yes, play it, be the guinea pig.[/QUOTE]

I'll take one for the team I suppose.

I did enjoy Van Helsing on the Xbox and this game kinda looks like it....
 
[quote name='GizmoGC']I'll take one for the team I suppose.

I did enjoy Van Helsing on the Xbox and this game kinda looks like it....[/QUOTE]


Well thank you, I was a designer on Van Helsing. ;)

So I take it you were one of those that got Conan off the internets and burned it? Heard it's been available for weeks now. I've heard a few people say that it's pretty fun, a poor mans god of war, but fun.
 
[quote name='thrustbucket']Well thank you, I was a designer on Van Helsing. ;)

So I take it you were one of those that got Conan off the internets and burned it? Heard it's been available for weeks now. I've heard a few people say that it's pretty fun, a poor mans god of war, but fun.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I really enjoyed Van Helsing. I had a few friends who worked as 'quality testers" at Vivendi in Irvine (or is it Brentwood?) and they were able to get me a copy for the employee price of $8 or $10 back in the day. They did not work on the game, but it was available to anyone that works in the company. I played through the game in a day....and then a few more times after that. Awesome game.

As for Conan...yes. It is available in PAL and is region free so it works in any 360. I played a few minutes of it last night...not too bad. Feels alot like Van Helsing (never played God of War...).
 
[quote name='GizmoGC']Yeah, I really enjoyed Van Helsing. I had a few friends who worked as 'quality testers" at Vivendi in Irvine (or is it Brentwood?) and they were able to get me a copy for the employee price of $8 or $10 back in the day. They did not work on the game, but it was available to anyone that works in the company. I played through the game in a day....and then a few more times after that. Awesome game.
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I was in charge of monster spawning and room transitioning. That's cool though, I've never actually met anyone that I didn't work with that played it.

I'm excited for conan.
 
[quote name='thrustbucket']I was in charge of monster spawning and room transitioning. That's cool though, I've never actually met anyone that I didn't work with that played it.

I'm excited for conan.[/QUOTE]

Conan feels a lot like Van Helsing. Ive played about an hour and unlocked 50 points or so. I imagine this game will need some changes to be released in the USA since the maidens have huge visible nipples.
 
Hmmm... I actually kinda dig the demo. It so wants to be God of War that it's not even funny, but I thought the combat worked pretty well and the controls were good. Feel free to call me crazy...
 
Graphics are meh, and the voice acting for Conan is horrible.

Looks like another game I'll pick up used in six months for $20.
 
I found the game mildy entertaining even though the graphics and voice acting suck. It definitely feels like they were TRYING to copy God of War with a lot of the elements. I did get a good laugh though when that girl asked him who he served, and he said he serves no man, and then she said would you serve a woman, and Conan says something like, "Service a woman? Sure I love servicing women!" That was pretty funny. Anyway, I'd proably pick this up for a budget price.
 
I just beat the demo for the second time, and I really enjoyed it. If it wasn't for my massive backlog as well as, Halo 3, Bioshock, and Orange box, I would pick this up. Till then it's gonna have to wait for a big price drop.
 
I enjoyed it, and it comes out on my birthday, so maybe I will get lucky. Pulling arrows out of your chest was bad ass, as well as all the crazy grapples.
 
Based on the demo, it's alright. I guess I'm not the only one who noticed the terrible voice acting. :lol:

Definitely a $20.00 game, or a rental.
 
Rental for me, did like the fact you could just throw enemys off bridges if u didn't want to slice and dice them :)
 
[quote name='xeno']i preatty much agree that this is a $20 game /rental based on the demo .[/quote]

im gonna 5th or 6th this line.

it was great fun, especially when u do the XYY attack and cut the horizontally (cutting head/legs at the same time FTW)

its not worth 65 dollars, but totally worth 20 or a rental, as fast as you get thru the demo, the game prob finishes in no time.
 
In the demo, do you rescue maidens at all?
In my copy (PAL) they have big ol' titties...curious to see what the American censors did to that, lol.
 
[quote name='thrustbucket']poor mans god of war, but fun.[/quote]

I just used that sentence to describe the demo to a friend. But then added:

"But fucking awesome cause it's Conan."
 
[quote name='GizmoGC']In the demo, do you rescue maidens at all?
In my copy (PAL) they have big ol' titties...curious to see what the American censors did to that, lol.[/quote]

You rescue male sailors in cages in the American demo. I think it would probably be better with big boobie ladies though... damn censors... :lol:
 
[quote name='GizmoGC']In the demo, do you rescue maidens at all?
In my copy (PAL) they have big ol' titties...curious to see what the American censors did to that, lol.[/QUOTE]

Prepare to rescue.

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Combat was way too slow and his moves were trying to have too much style and finesse for a barbarian. It should be more rough and straight forward like PS2 Shadow of Rome, where it feels like each of his moves have more impact.
 
[quote name='Professor Oreo']You rescue male sailors in cages in the American demo. I think it would probably be better with big boobie ladies though... damn censors... :lol:[/QUOTE]

So is it already censored? I was thinking about geting the game because it is Conan but I dont know. Might have to go to http://www.gamersreports.com/article/19/ and do that to get something that is uncensored.
 
Dont know what makes me more said. The fact that the demo sucks or that even though they say it is M due to nudity they still censored it.

EDIT: Damnit I just tried to make a German profile and it gives me an error. I was going to see if they had one that was uncensored.
 
Has this been confirmed to be censored? Just because the demo Mission doesn't have nekkid boobies doesn't mean they aren't there...
 
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