Golden Axe: Beast Rider
Beast Rider is the first Golden Axe game in 3D as opposed to side scrolling hack and slash. While this is a major shift in game style from the previous games, Beast Rider maintains many of the elements from…
Golden Axe: Beast Rider is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Secret Level, released 14 October 2008 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
What Golden Axe: Beast Rider is
Golden Axe: Beast Rider is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Secret Level and released in 2008. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Beast Rider is the first Golden Axe game in 3D as opposed to side scrolling hack and slash. While this is a major shift in game style from the previous games, Beast Rider maintains many of the elements from the originals such as magic and riding beasts, as well as sending the player on a quest to defeat Death Adder.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Golden Axe series
Golden Axe: Beast Rider is the 24th of 32 entries we hold in the Golden Axe series. It arrived 7 months after Sega Superstars Tennis. The next entry was Arcade Ultimate in 2012. Its critic score of 40 is 28 points below the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed at 88.
How it was received
Golden Axe: Beast Rider holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 25 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Golden Axe: Beast Rider launched on 14 October 2008, within three weeks of Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space and LittleBigPlanet. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space, LittleBigPlanet.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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