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| “Golden Axe 2: The Revenge of the Death Adder” is the pinnacle of the series and has to be played by anyone who wants to even try out the “Golden Axe” series. Released in 1992 in the arcades by Sega in limited quantities “Golden Axe 2” improves on the original in every way, but despite this being a great game, it never found its way onto console, which is truly disappointing. The story of “Golden Axe 2” which is very typical of a sequel is this: Death Adder is revived and he starts taking over the world. Sega fixed the problem of not letting you switch characters when you continued which is a very welcome addition considering they added a whole new cast. The new cast also spans to the enemies which include tribal men, giant squid, grim reaper type enemies, death knights, and ogres. |
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| The gameplay has undergone a major overhaul since the last game. First of all you can take multiple paths in the game like in “Metal Slug 3” which increases the replay value. They also added a huge variety of ridable creatures which all control a little bit differently. One cool factor is that you can use mini catapults and ballistae. You also have option to mount these on your ridable creatures and use them while moving. Another thing that is new to the series is being able to destroy projectiles when they are fired at you. Magic has changed as well. Now you can only use magic when you have completely filled up your charge such as 13/13 or 9/9 as opposed to using them if you only had one magic unit in the first game. They also added a kick attack and destroyable containers that contain powerups as well as switches. They also added item pickup for point type items such as gold. Other than these additions not much has changed. |
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Stern Blade
This time we have a new well oiled barbarian who is all to ready to save the world. Plays just like Ax Battler in the first "Golden Axe". He uses Fire Magic.
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Dora
A female centaur who isn't particularly a good character.
She is rather long which makes her a huge target.
She uses thunder magic.
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Trix
This kid is supposedly some sort of farmer.
His magic
attack restores health. This is helpful if you are playing
in a group, but when you play alone he really sucks
because he is extremely weak. |
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Goah and Gillius Thunderhead
This guy is sweet. He has a Dwarf riding on his back like Blaster from "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" and he carries a battle axe. He has the strongest magic in the game that turns enemies into stone.
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The play control has changed a little bit since the first game. As mentioned before you have a kick attack that stuns characters. Hit detection has also improved a great deal too. Enemies seem to deal a lot more damage in this game and stun you with almost every hit. This can be frustrating, but thankfully the game lets you continue as many times as you want. Otherwise not much else has changed.
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| The score in “Golden Axe 2” is so amazing that mere words cannot describe how awesome it is. Composed by Masanori Takeuchi (“After Burner Climax”) and Tomoyuki Kawamura (“Sega Rally 2”) the music yet again is inspired by the Conan movies. This is especially prevalent in the Main Theme, On a Ship, and Mushroom Forest. The music fits right in the mood of the game. The sound effects are still cheesy and they still have the “Oh Gawd!!” sound. |
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The Graphics in this game are amazing and blow the competition out of the water. “Golden Axe 2” now uses a much larger color pallet and uses very fluid animation that takes advantage of the Mega 32 arcade hardware it was using. The Graphical effects are pretty neat to. One spell you can use summons an inferno and if enemies are on screen when you this the game shows you a close up of the guys face burning off. The game still uses Mode 7 type effects and particular items shimmer such as gold.
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Music
Main Theme 1
On A Ship
The Forest of the Mushroom |
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