Customer Reviews
Excellent Bloody, Gory Fantasy! 
2008-09-14
For those of you who have read the Marvel Comics Conan the Barbarian or The Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel Magazine Comics), then this game is for you! It follows the Conan world to a T.
Violent, bloody, and wenching at its best! You dismember pirates, Egyptians, etc and, once you save a wench from harm, she "pays" you back. The game play is outstanding! So realistic and fun...play it in a dark room with surround sound and you will not regret it.
Enjoy.
Great Game too bad it did not make a success 2008-05-02
Its so much fun, great graphics, sound and gameplay. too bad it did not make a best selling.
I realy enjoyed it much, I think the main cause of the low sales is that there are few fans of conan in the new generation
I recommend this game to any action fan.
Conan 
2008-04-13
Fun... But it doesn't have it all. Very short (about 6 hours) and very repetitive. Almost zero replay value.
This is the REAL Conan..Bloody, Gory, Violent! 2008-03-31
Excellent game. I am truly impressed with this game. If you are a fan of the Marvel Comics Conan the Barbarian and Savage Sword of Conan (Magazine), then you will LOVE this game. This is definitely from the true Conan line up. As for the game play, it is truly magnificent! You can pick up a Buccaner and rip their guts out with your hands or you can throw them up in the air and slice them in half! Decapitation and dismemberment is big in this game. When you save the damsels in distress...well, let's just say that it is not what you expected. 8)
This is definitely not for children due to the amount of violence.
Buy it...you will not regret it.
Sloppy and Buggy 
2008-03-25
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.
Always in moderation: Indulge and you'll be overwhelmed 2008-03-09
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.
Good while it lasted 
2008-03-04
This is not a bad game and it deserves more recognition that what it has recieved lately. This is game is not very innovative but that didnt hurt the value for me. The only huge problem to me was that it lasted around 6 hours which is very short. I bought it for 35 which is a good price because, I could see me playing this again. The achievements are also neat, the way they are set up. Overall its a good game even though its short.
overall 7.5-8.0
Great Hack-n-Slash Game 2008-02-15
This is probably one of the best hack-n-slash games I have ever played. Unlike most, I actually feel like I'm in control of the character. With a lot of games like this, I end up getting too frustrated because you have to wait for your character to finish a canned move sequence before you get to control them again.
Sure, there's little storyline, but who cares? This game was created so you can torture legions of enemies. It delivers.
The only thing I don't like about this game is the boss battles can really piss you off. They go on for ever. They are epic, that's for sure. Just when you think you've got the boss licked, it comes back for some more.
I find myself laughing out loud at the shear carnage in the game.
I highly recommend this game. I'm glad I just rented it, though, as it has no replay value to me.
~Slick
Fantastic hack and slash with terrible boss battles 2008-01-19
OK, I am not a hardcore gamer. But I do like Conan, and the demo looked good enough for me to buy it. I have to say that the game was a lot of fun, and the storyline was Canon-like (not much plot). There are many bare breasted women (not really sure why), and a lot of graphic violence. This is not for kids, no way.
As you kill enemies you gain red mana that lets you learn new moves. The new moves is very cool. It is basically teaching you combos for each stage of the game. There are different combos for 1 handed with shield, dual wield, or big one handed weapons. I thought you could sort of specialize in one fighting style and learn all those moves... wrong. Just grab them at random. When you reload saved games all your weapons are gone anyway and you just grab what you find. Each type of weapon combos are fun to learn, but really do not have much impact on gameplay. It is fun to hack the arms off an enemy, or throw him on a spike, but going back through a second time there is no difference in the order you buy skills or train yourself. That was a let down.
You can find some hidden areas, usually pretty obvious. These unlock treasures and usually some naked women saying don't leave me here until you save her. Then she says let me reward you and stands there, you can't do anything (even hack her up).
There are some pretty clever environment plays as well. Some huge crossbows you get to fire into ships, or destroy part of the environment, that was a lot of fun.
Now for the bad parts... The camera is on some sort of system (non intelligent). So sometimes the area you need to go is at the bottom of the screen where you can't see it! And many times your perspective shifts with the camera, and so does the controller. You will press left and suddenly be going down on the screen. WIERD camera system. It was really frustrating in several spots where I had no idea where to go next or what to do. Resort to running around until something highlights for an action.
Actions are ok. You get a white circle on the ground and press the action button. What comes next is the frustrating part. It is different for each situation. You would like Action - X to open a door (it shows which button to hit at the top of the screen) would always work. Nope. It depends on what door, sometimes it is X, sometimes the left stick up, then down. If you get any of these "prompts" wrong you start all over. That is not too frustrating when it is a door, it is downright CRAZY when you fight bosses.
The bosses fight like normal with a huge health bar. As you get them down near zero a precanned sequence starts where you have to press a prompted button at the exact right time... Not always the same button either. IT IS RANDOM!!! So you figured out on the last boss at 1% health, STOP trying to get off your 9 button combo (because one of those button presses will be taken as your boss prompt). Fine. Then you think you have it figured out, nope. Random button prompt at top of the screen with about 1/2 a second to react, press button (or button sequence) or you die. Lame. The final boss was an incredibly tedious sequence of get him to 1% health and GUESS the buttons, then have the boss regen 1/2 or more of his health because you pressed the wrong button. Rinse, repeat. Took me over an hour. The entire rest of the game only took 8 hours!
Without the boss "non-combat" system it would have been fun to complete. As it is I never want to repeat the end of the game. I will start from the beginning and play for a bit, and then delete the saves before I get to the end boss, too lame for me to bother finishing again.
So, to summarize:
Graphic game
Lots of cool finishing moves to kill enemies
Wierd camera system
A few "puzzle" areas of jump before you die (lame)
Nice variety of things to kill and weapons to use
The learning system was so close, but doesn't actually make any difference in the game
I would not pay for it new, but I would rent it for a weekend or buy it used.
Craptacular Crap! 2008-01-16
You can tell when a game has been rushed into production. How you ask? Well, it comes out like Conan. After playing Conan, I have to wonder if the video game magazines out there are in bed with the game companies as well. How else can you explain GamePro giving this game a decent review?
Okay, so the animtions are nice but usually suffer from some serious frame drops when more than one character is on the screen. The graphics are simply unacceptable as a nextgen title. These are subpar pre-xbox at best.
My guess is that THQ ran out of creative steam and instead of adding decent content and levels of play they simply chose to make each boss fight last forever. I mean seriously, I enjoy a good boss fight but eight "variations" of the same boss fight before you finally defeat it? There is nothing fun about these boss fights, period.
The controls are okay and as I previously stated the bodily hacking animations never get boring (when they run smoothly that is). One question is why the annoying pause after executing a combo that has not hit an enemy? To annoy me?
I wanted to punch my tv several times playing this game and cancelled my subscription to GamePro Magazine after buying it on their advice. I want unbiased reviews of a game period. If a games sucks, say so before I spend sixty bucks!
In the sea of crap games out there, Conan sinks to the bottom.
- Dan.
