WithGolden Axe: Beast Riderhitting stores on October 17, Sega is ramping up the PR for its imminent monster-subjugating action game. Here’s a video which bigs up the series and seems intent on reassuring us that this newGolden Axeisn’t going to suck.
In the above video, you can watch videogame journalists talk about riding beasts and owning purple chickens. You can make whatever innuendo you like out of that.
Readers don’t seem keen onBeast Rider, but I am still willing to give it a fair shake. Whatever our memories may have us believe, the originalGolden Axereallywasn’t all that brilliantand doesn’ttrulyhave this sacred legacy to be tarnished. If a competent and fun action game can come of the license, so be it, even if theGolden Axename is totally being used to flog a few extra copies.
