As bad as they come, no actually, it's worse!
The graphics are hideous and kept reminding me of the good old PS1 days. No imagination whatsoever went into designing the levels. They are bland and boring. A few destroyable tables here and some barrels or wooden boxes there are as far as decorating goes. The camera is nauseating, always fixed in a useless corner without much field to play with. If you reverse direction the camera only reacts when you reach the edge of the screen and then with such ferocity that you can feel your stomach flip almost like doing a looping in a feisty rollercoaster. At some points in the game it makes you loose all sense of direction especially when everything looks the same no matter in what direction you look which happens far too often. At least there are no popups. No wonder, there is no view whatsoever since it is either restricted by fog or walls in every direction.
While moving jarringly around with you're unattractive character you also tend to run into obstructions even so there are non visible. Gameplay mostly concentrates on fighting with a few unimaginative puzzles strewn in to have some reprieve from the button bashing. The combos seem almost useless and blocking isn't very advantageous since you can only block one opponent at a time and the rest are still hacking you to pieces. To top it off you're also completely immobilized while blocking. In the end you just start hacking away at your enemies like mad hoping to survive the skirmish and heal yourself either with a special move which consist of throwing yourself to your knees and sending an urgent prayer to God or by picking up healing-herbs your opponents left behind or you found in some destroyable boxes.
You think a bow is great weapon? Not in this game. You can't see your opponents before the see you. If they are using a bow as well you can be sure that each of their arrows hit you. That's the first sign that there is an enemy somewhere. Now all you have to do is figure out where the sharp object came from and fire in the approximate direction and cross your fingers because maybe, just maybe you may hit someone. Using the bow immobilizes you and puts you in a first-person view; by the way good look finding some cover. There is none. The sound is so bad it's not worth talking about and it grates on your nerves. Add to that some ridiculously long loading times and you have one awful game you really don't want to think about disgracing your PlayStation2 with. If you want some good swordplay get Lord of Rings: The return of the King, now that game gives value for money.