Beowulf: The Game

by Ubisoft

Product Features

• Delve even deeper into the adventure and play through 30 years of the Beowulf story not seen in the movie. Experience more of Beowulf's life and mold your own legacy.
• Unlock an army of up to 12 thanes as you increase your heroic experience (by saving thanes, killing giant monsters, etc.).
• Carnal Power allows you to use stronger attacks and special weapons such as pillars.
• Give orders, assign your army's position, and tailor weapons to the situation or enemy.
• Use your army to trigger mechanisms (e.g., open doors) and row Drakar.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000TGB4SM
• Item Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Media: DVD
• Release Date: November 13, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,585 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PC

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Assume the role of Beowulf, legendary Norse warrior with the strength of 30 men. Arrogant, self-serving, and lustful for gold and glory, you journey to Denmark to destroy a beast wreaking havoc on a frigid land. But evil persists, and you succumb to its lure of even greater fame, quietly maneuvering to claim the Danish throne. As King, you must face the consequences of ambition, even as war descends on the realm. Lead your thanes into battle, slay the Titans of a dying age, and crush the enemies that threaten to annihilate both your kingdom and your people.

Features:

• Play through 30 years of the Beowulf story not seen in the movie
• Unlock an army of up to 12 thanes as you increase your heroic experience
• "Carnal Power" allows you to use stronger attacks and special weapons
• Give orders, assign your army’s position and tailor weapons to the situation or enemy
• Use your army to trigger mechanisms, like doors, and row Drakar
• Combos, parries, and skills increase as you progress
• Grab allows you to hold on to walls or climb, as well as fight in hand-to-hand combat with enemies and giant monsters

Product Description

Strength lust vengeance... You are Beowulf.Product InformationBattle fierce enemies and slay giant monsters as you play through 30 years ofBeowulf's life not seen in the movie.  Play Beowulf an epic hero tormentedby desire for power and glory.   A slayer and a king torn between thenobility and brutality within him.You are Beowulf legendary Norse warrior with the strength of 30 men.  Arrogant self-serving and lustful for gold and glory you journey to Denmark to destroy a bloodthirsty beat wreaking havoc on a frigid land.  But evil persists and you succumb to its lure of even greater fame quietly maneuvering to claim the Danish throne.  As king you must face the consequences ofambition even as war descends on the realm.  Lead your thanes into battleslay the Titans of dying age and crush the enemies that threaten to annihilateboth your kingdom and your people.  Only then when you look destiny in theeye will you know what kind of hero you truly are.Product Features Unleash carnal power and engage in hand-to-hand combat with giant monsters. Unlock an Army of 12 thanes as you increase your heroic experience. Lead your men into battle and become a hero king.Windows Requirements Windows XP Vista Pentium IV 3.0 GHz or AMD 3000 processor 256 MB DirectX 9.0 compliant Video Card 7 GB Hard Drive space DirectX 9.0 compliant Sound Card DirectX 9.0 (included on disc) 4X DVD-ROM drive or better Mouse Keyboard 

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars THE LEGENDARY HERO WOULD FALL ONTO HIS SWORD, November 17, 2007

By 

NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in geosynchronous orbit) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Beowulf - The Game (DVD)

The heavier name they bear, the harder they fall.

BEOWULF was supposed to transfer the epic story of the old Norse hero torn between brutality and nobility to our PCs. The original story takes place mostly in Denmark and Sweden; nevertheless, since it is the only surviving AngloSaxon heroic poetry, it is revered as England's National Poem.
To those of you not having to struggle with its old English in high-school and are not familiar with the story: the Viking hero comes in aid of king Hroogar and defeats three foes (Grendel, Grendel's mother and a giant (sea-serpent) Wyrm - that unfortunately delivers Beowulf's fatal wounds as well). Since the poem runs for 3,182 lines, you can bet that the story is a lot more complicated than this.
It was this epic that provided J.R.Tolkien with the seed ideas for his LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy (he had even published a paper on its influence on Western literature).

Towards the weight of such legacy UBISOFT demonstrated...total and blatant disrespect. To try and fail to follow the complicated story could be forgiven. To flagrantly display no intention of using the story for anything but an excuse is unforgivable.
The game is released in tandem with the Beowulf movie. Yes, that means that the game drafts the appearances of Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, and John Malkovich.

This is the game that could had been (amongst many other things) RUNE's spiritual successor - being a Third person action slasher with Viking swords and axes and special moves. Well, it is definitely NOT!
As an innovation, two fighting modes are introduced: unarmed (carnal) and armed (heroic). Although your preference will determine the ending, this is not really a choice since the game pretty much favors the one fighting mode over the other at various segments. Using each fighting mode earns you points to be used in either improving your character's or your squad's abilities (in rudimentary RPG-like fashion - which this game clearly is not).

Yes, for a game following a Hero's quests, you actually have a group of followers, the Thanes. Of all the stupid sidekicks and squads I have ever encountered (remember the DAIKATANA bunch..?), these Nordsmen were surely...dropped the hardest at childbirth. Their AI is truly dismal! An enemy may be hacking just besides them yet all they do is stand idle and stare. You are supposedly able to encourage them to fight harder - yet to no effect. Even ordering them to do simple tasks will often fall on deaf ears...

The graphics are good but not great - when compared to this season's major releases - and its hardware requirements are pretty steep for what it eventually delivers. To be fair though, artistically it manages to be more atmospheric than over-hyped games such as BIOSHOCK.

No, I cannot recommend it to anyone - not even English-Lit Majors...

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars dud, December 12, 2008

By 

Duane C. Becker (Port Orange Florida) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Beowulf - The Game (DVD)

Game won't play, tech support useless, this stupid game was a loser and now resides in the county landfill,

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst game i have ever played, January 15, 2012

By 

Jacob Magner (Syracuse, NY) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Beowulf - The Game (DVD)

I have played a lot of games before, and even if a game is bad I try and finish it because I would like to see what happens at the end of the game. I wanted to play this game because I really liked the movie and I was curious what happened between the 30 years in the movie, like the game says you can play through. After shortly playing through it, I just gave up playing it, it wasn't even worth it to try and suck it up to see the ending.

To begin with the graphics are not that great, I know it's a 2007 game, but Final Fantasy 10 had better graphics than this game, hell some psp games have better graphics. I don't mind graphics in a game, if that game is good. The story is changed a bit from the movie, and some weapons he use changes. (*minor spoiler* i.e. The sea monster`s horn instead of a sword). Weapons break way to fast, but in its defense you run into them a lot.

The fighting is ok in this game, but I have played others that have a better fighting system. The only good thing about this game is the bloody kills, and finishing moves. No dismemberment though. You get "power-ups" throughout the game, but I only got two of them so far in the game. One makes you powerful, and the other makes your party powerful. If your "party" dies its game over and your hits hurt them too, and they get in the way all the time so you end up killing them. The grendle part is the part your party members can die.

The game leans heavily on Quick Time Events and I tend to hate these types of gameplay. Some games do it well, but some make it extremely annoying, i.e. this game. They even have a music Quick Time Event, but its more annoying than anything. The only cool part was the song Beowulf sung to bring out Grendel.

Overall this game is trying to be a God of War game with Beowulf instead of Kratos, but it failed horribly. I got the game and the movie for 4 dollars together at a sale at Wal-Mart, so I didn't lose that much on it since I really liked the Beowulf movie. I do feel bad for the people who bought this at retail price just to find out how much this game sucks, save your money for another game.

Length: I didn't complete the game because it was so bad, so I don't know the length.

Trophies / Achievements: I don't know its achievements due to playing it on the PC, and I don't recommend trying for them since it would be a very painful process.

Positives:
*Some kills are nice, but not much

Negatives:
*Bad Graphics
*Changed Story
*Bad Gameplay
*Try's to mimic to many games, and fails

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