Videogamer writes: "What with the current trend in retro remakes actually being pretty good, we had high hopes for SEGA's Xbox 360 and PS3 Golden Axe: Beast Riders. All we really wanted was a good two-player hack 'n' slash that had lots of brutal combat, great graphics and some beasts to ride. We got one of the three, and sadly the beasts aren't even that much fun to ride. If you've got fond memories of the classic arcade and Mega Drive game and thought this would spark a franchise revival, we've got bad news. It won't.
THQ's Conan proved that a game needn't be God of War quality to be good fun, but Level 7's Golden Axe falls some way short of even that. You play as Tyris, the last surviving member of the Axirian Sisterhood. It's quite tricky to follow exactly what's going on at the start of the game as the focus is clearly on teaching you the controls, but it seems there's been a massacre of sorts, a special dragon has been enslaved and you're given the powerful Golden Axe to help you gain revenge."
