CONAN - - PS3 - - Savage, brutal, addictive, bloody, imaginative, surreal, occasionally frustrating and generally fun!
PS3
For me:
As a longtime CONAN fan, I ate up the idea of a videogame where I could trample my enemies before me and hear the lamentations of their women. This game did not satisfy such a thrill, but it did deliver in the way of providing a CONAN world to explore and conquer. While it doesn't convey the vast history of the character it remains reasonably true to the basics.
The landscapes and backgrounds are wonderful. To stomp through them with murderous intent is brilliant. However, they are much too constricting! An open ended, "Oblivion" type world is much more suitable for the CONAN lineage.
The enemy AI is vicious & eager to destroy you, but they're also much too repetitive and unvaried in character. While the threat posed is menacing at first, that spark sputters out in an instant when you realize you've carved a hundred of the same foes two levels prior.
As far as the story goes, it's quite straightforward and soaking with simplistic brawny machismo. However, as a guy-I did enjoy it to a degree short of exclaiming a Tim 'The Toolman' Taylor grunt. (Is anyone outside of America even going to remotely get that reference???)
So...massive and immersive would be two words I would NOT use to describe this game.
All said and done, I had a good time playing the game, but wanted a much more harsh and serious tone to coincide with the adventurous nature of a CONAN experience. The Conan world should be/is wild, natural and unnatural, mystical, vast, and with extremes of good and evil with many shades of grey in between. This game looked to captivate on such attributes, but simply fell short.
Rent it or buy it for cheap! Your call!