Are you prepared for a new Golden Axe: Beast Rider trailer?

by Justin McElroy { Aug 29th 2008 at 11:00AM }

It's been three months since we've seen any moving pictures from Golden Axe: In Name Only, but is that enough time to prepare yourself for a new trailer? Have you had enough time to get ready for footage of a title that's so clearly not a Golden Axe game that it's almost kind of adorable? Are you ready for "Not this day!" sure to be one of the classic video game lines of all time? Most importantly (and prominently), are you braced for the most gratuitous digital ass shot of this or any other decade?

Feel free to watch above, just don't say we didn't warn you.

Tags: golden-axe, golden-axe-beast-rider, sega

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

tifosiotaku @ Aug 29th 2008 11:04AM

And to think, the money being wasted on this could have gone to a Daytona USA revival...

SugarDaddy @ Aug 29th 2008 11:54AM

Haha... Good joke there, man. Daytona USA... Priceless.

tifosiotaku @ Aug 29th 2008 12:56PM

That wasn't a joke, dude. I'm serious. If you do think it's a joke, go back to playing Mario Kart, you little nitwit. Real racers don't need blue shells...

theturtle363 @ Aug 29th 2008 11:07AM

oh God, one of the ass shots was some kind of half naked wild man.
On the plus side, the graphics and animations look really great even if the game is probably gonna suck

Psaakyrn @ Aug 29th 2008 11:37AM

Considering that it's likely supposed to be that of the heroine's, I'm going to assume that's a Freudian slip.

Titanium_Orchid @ Aug 29th 2008 12:25PM

No, there is some nice man-ass in the clip

theturtle363 @ Aug 29th 2008 2:08PM

i dont blame you for not believing me man

Chris @ Aug 29th 2008 11:10AM

This looks bloody awful.

Zertoss @ Aug 29th 2008 11:11AM

I wasn't going to watch this until I saw "the most gratuitous digital ass shot of this or any other decade". Thanks for that.

Psaakyrn @ Aug 29th 2008 11:18AM

Naked peach avatars don't get to complain about ass shots.

Zertoss @ Aug 29th 2008 11:31AM

Who's complaining?

Dirty @ Aug 29th 2008 11:35AM

I cant watch gratuitous ass shots at work... is it worth taking the time when I get home?

Zertoss @ Aug 29th 2008 11:43AM

For just the ass shot? If you've got a couple of minutes that need killing, I'd say yes.

The entire trailer actually made me want to play it. It looks like it could be fun.

Wiinterfang @ Aug 29th 2008 11:13AM

Well if anything SEGA can done right is great trailers, but this game looks weird, maybe is because of the stiff animation.

JerJer @ Aug 29th 2008 11:13AM

d'awwww *crosses fingers for a kameo type game. and when i say kameo i mean the kameo that kameo was before it became a pile of crap.

Dirty @ Aug 29th 2008 11:34AM

What was wrong with Kameo?

Marty @ Aug 29th 2008 11:16AM

I'm not saying it's good, I'm just saying that it's apparent that you haven't playing any Golden Axe past the first one. This is pretty much Golden Axe.

Edog Lost @ Aug 29th 2008 11:26AM

In an age of online co op, one would think the game that pioneered the co op genera could hold up against the hack and slash of a little game like Castel Crashers.

Sadly Sega seems to forget who their audience is and what we want.

Mr.ESC @ Aug 29th 2008 11:29AM

"Sadly Sega seems to forget who their audience is and what we want".

Also called the Wii syndrome.

Zertoss @ Aug 29th 2008 11:33AM

Sega DOES what NintenDON'T!

Oh wait...

Mr.ESC @ Aug 29th 2008 11:28AM

God of war:Kratos Sex change.

It looks good to me.

CesarSalad @ Aug 29th 2008 1:32PM

LMAO, Yea, she better get a decent haircut before we believe she is not a male.

Eric @ Aug 29th 2008 11:32AM

Golden Axe was all about the co-op,
I just hope there's a co-op option or they should have left the "golden axe" logo out.

ComicShaman @ Aug 29th 2008 11:43AM

Agreed. My enthusiasm for this game (which was not ever very high) plummeted through the floor when I heard they were not including co-op. Even the Sega spokesperson seemed to think it was a bad decision.

Mike @ Aug 29th 2008 11:34AM

This looks kind of fun. I watched the trailer on mute so I wasn't dragged through the inevitable rancid narration. It really doesn't look awful, I'm surprised. And as for it being "clearly not a Golden Axe game" - Justin, have you ever played Golden Axe? In any form?

Blank-Mage @ Aug 29th 2008 12:32PM

Clever move, I wish I had thought of it. Trust me, you didn't miss anything.

Erluti @ Aug 29th 2008 11:52AM

"And now *I* ride upon them!"
- yeah she does!

But anyway, because the title is "Golden Axe" and there is no co-op, I hate this abomination of a game.
If they had just called it "Lady who rides upon them" it would seem like a good rental.

SugarDaddy @ Aug 29th 2008 11:55AM

I think that ass shot could have used some slo-mo to garner the "most gratuitous" label. I enjoy the back-dimples there.

Zoot Suit Jedi @ Aug 29th 2008 12:12PM

As a matter of fact Joystiq, no, I am NOT prepared for another trailer for this game. In fact, since the announcement that there is not going to be any co-op, the only preparations I have made are to avoid being interested in anything that has to do with this steamy pile.

sin_trader @ Aug 29th 2008 12:30PM

Narration by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is top-notch at least. I love
her songs/voice work from the Silent Hill games.

Rocha @ Aug 29th 2008 12:41PM

most gratuitous digital ass shot of this or any other decade?

That would be the intro for Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.

Booxatron @ Aug 29th 2008 1:53PM

I don't know, I'm thinking it goes to any scene with Sakuya in it from Okami:

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/1805/cosokamicr6.jpg

Not that I'm complaining.

t_m @ Aug 30th 2008 9:31AM

nah... i'd still give it to warrior within.

proof that they shouldn't let twelve year old boys or geeks do art direction.

finaldarklord @ Aug 29th 2008 1:03PM

Good Lord, what a piece of shit.

Golden Axe is just one of those games where you need to make at least a passing attempt at making it feel in line with the classics.

And who the hell decided against co-op? Fuck...

Kurt @ Aug 29th 2008 1:17PM

The dwarf from the first Golden Axe was much sexier...

NukeAssault @ Aug 29th 2008 1:36PM

I think it looks great. Id buy it. I need a good hack n slash.

Richard Mitchell @ Aug 29th 2008 1:37PM

So Death Adder is an actual snake man now?

XtremeWRATH @ Aug 29th 2008 1:47PM

I still can't believe they have the balls to call this Golden Axe and not make it 4 player co op. I hope they realize that idiot move cost them alot of sales.

JoeTheBlow @ Aug 29th 2008 2:06PM

What kind of POS low-budget crap uses rendered CGI cut-scenes these days?!
Awful.

Heavenly Sword and MGS shown that CGI is pointless nowadays, i'm sure some Xbox games did too.

Audacious @ Aug 29th 2008 4:12PM

ah yes look like a killer sega title, "Not this day!" all we need now is the ability to ride sonic the werewolf.

Jigsaw @ Aug 29th 2008 4:20PM

more like brown axe amirite

Gah, I'm so disappointed with the art direction in this game. Why is everything brown?! And it seems Tyris - although I don't see how the hell that is supposed to be her - is wearing pants again, like in the early pictures. Bah!

People complain a lot about the lack of multiplayer, but it's not as if adding that would make this look or feel any more like Golden Axe. The world, characters and pretty much everything else just look nothing like the original games, and that's the biggest problem I have with this game. It may end up being a decent game, I dunno, but unless it will deliver something vastly different from these trailers, Golden Axe it ain't.