Conan

by THQ

Product Features

• Deep and gratifying combat system that offers a variety of fighting styles to battle enemies. Throug
• Highly interactive combat locations and real-time physics will allow players to pick up any weapons
• Cinematic game play experience, complete with innovative special effects, lighting and a powerful, e
• ESRB Rated M for Mature

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000SH3XD6
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 23, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,210 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Xbox 360

Amazon.com

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.

Product Description

Conan X360

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars CONAN, November 20, 2007

By 

ribcage (Lantana, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Conan (Video Game)

CONAN is a pretty decent game. It's not perfect, but it is a lot of fun and that's what counts. The graphics are topnotch, so all the bare breasts and over the top violence comes out with wonderful visual flair. Pretty much all you will be doing in this game is smashing out at enemies and randomly rescuing half naked women until you get to a boss battle at which point you will be angry for about 30 minutes.

The last battle is one of the cheapest, most repitative boss battles I've ever played. It took me a good 45 minutes to finish and I can't remember the last time I was so angry. But other than that, the other boss battles aren't so outrageous, it's just a matter of taking a bit to figure out what exactly the game intends for you to do.

There are some pretty brutal combos, but unfortunately most of them only really work on weaker enemies. Later in the game, once you've unlocked all your moves and have gotten used to them, these weak enemies are nowhere to be seen. You can still get a handful of combos out, and if you manage to stun the enemy you can get the ones you get on weak enemies, but by the last couple of levels I was mostly using three or four combos that actually still worked. A lot of the time, though(and this was a problem with that final boss bottle), I'd just end up getting a ton of enemies pouncing on me interrupting every single combo so that all I could do was quick strike and dodge. However, even doing that I still managed to whip out some really vicious violence and dismemberments.

Speaking of dismemberments, there are wonderful achievements, such as getting 100 dismemberments, 100 enemies thrown to their death, 100 enemies killed by boulder throws, etc. It really works to keep your variety up more.

Despite the fact that alot of times I wasn't able to get the combo I wanted out and that the boss battles weren't really fun, I enjoyed the game as a whole a lot. It's pure streamlined carnal violence with barebreasts thrown in, obviously because what guy can resist extreme brutality with breasts on the side.

Probably not really worth the full new release price, but I don't mind that I bought it within the first few days of its release. The game is a bit short, but really, I think six hours was enough. The game didn't start to drag because of this, which I think may have been a problem if it had actually continued on a few more hours.

As for replay, I'm going to be going back on the different difficulties to try it out for the achievements and I'm going to shoot for all the different death achievements. If I didn't have the achievements, though, it would just be good for some random slashing whenever I was bored.

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars For a Conan franchise....it's a start., October 24, 2007

By 

H. Crosland "Dredded Panthyr" (Maryland) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Conan (Video Game)

ok...this will be brief...


This game is a lil' something to do between now and Assasin's Creed.

While it won't win awards as the greatest hack n slash adventure ever....still...it's Conan....this is almost what the Barabraian's portion of Golden Axe would have been.

It's a change of pace from all of the FPSs that have/are flooding the market right now

The good

- excellent graphics

- if you are into button mashing, this is right up your alley

- different fighting styles with upgrades possible thru the use of combos

- Yes....there are naked women, so this could be a con if you are a concerned parent.

The cons

- Combos can be broken and AI could have been better

- needed a better variety of weapons

- so far most of the enemies are the same.

- No multiplayer


Another gripe is that as visceral as this game is, the camera nevcer really gets up close as you dismember the enemy. There are heads flying arms cut off guts ripped out but sometimes you are sooo busy hacking away that you really don't get to enjoy it.

This game would have benefitted more from an interesting upgrade/ loot system or even a multiplayer system, heck it could have benefitted by ripping some pages from Diablo, but for now...it's enjoyable until far more interesting titles come along.


I give it a 3.5 out of 5 stars.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sloppy and Buggy, March 25, 2008

By 

A. Buffalo "Olaf the Grey" (Warrenton, Virginia USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Conan (Video Game)

This was a much anticipated game. I would like to return it and get my money back at full value. The game begins well enough but as you work through it becomes so difficult as to be less than enjoyable. Now, do I expect the game to be a challenge? Of course, but when you are required to memorize a litany of moves that eclipse the arts of fencing, boxing and tae kwon do put together, defeating the bosses of each level becomes more than extremely challenging. Yet this is not my major gripe. There are holes in the geometry throughout the game, the Conan sprite will often get stuck in weird places which require a reload, sometimes requiring a complete rehash of quite a bit of tough baddies you have had a hard enough time killing already. This is even more annoying when fighting against level bosses because some of them can push you into these "holes" and carve you to bits while your sprite is stuck without the ability to move or counter the attacks. If you are thinking about buying this game forget it. However I would recommend renting it because in the areas where the game is working properly it is downright fun, which is why I give it more than one star. Dismembering your enemies and then being able to kick their lifeless bodies around is just plain cool.

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