First (blurry) images of the new Golden Axe

[msxyz]

http://www.retroplayer.tv/content/view/34/27/1/0/ (nana2)

(in development for Xbox 360 and PS3) It was at Sega booth at E3, same "pre-rendered but with in game assets" **** but those who saw it were quite impressed.

I hope Sega won't screw up this like that horrible Golden Axe for the Playstation

[Hex]

I really want this to succeed and be a great game.
The original was an arcade favorite of mine and then a Sega genesis favorite of mine. Hopefully they will treat it as a classic that they are redoing and not just another meal ticket.

Low Q video can be found here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVnX6bmEheo&search=golden%20axe)

[lognoronon]

Is this going to be like the Altered Beast that sort of fell off the map?

[|MaguS|]

Is this going to be like the Altered Beast that sort of fell off the map?

Altered Beast was canceled, saddly.

I don't think this one will due to the high cost of nextgen development. I just hope the gameplay is the same as the original, an arcade beat-em Up... I don't want no RPG system or anything.

[msxyz]

Sega also canned Streets of Rage for the Dreamcast. There are a few images floating around the 'net taken from the demo which was submitted to Sega executives for approval. According to the lead designer (can't remember its name) the game wasn't accepted because the executives believed that the market had eveolved and there wasn't space for a game like SoR. Fools

[H3avyM3tal]

Times are changing. Always. If this isn't going to be a new game all in all, than no one will care. If it won't give you a more 'grown up' type of game - really good story, really good characters, and really good gameplay - nothing will happen.

Gamers today want more than a simple beat-em-up. If this is going to like the old golden axe, only in 3d, it will suck big time.

Then again, with garphics like this, I may be wrong...

[Parts]

Id love to see new gen Streets of Rage and Altered Beast, 2 of my favorite sega games evar.

[lognoronon]

Times are changing. Always. If this isn't going to be a new game all in all, than no one will care. If it won't give you a more 'grown up' type of game - really good story, really good characters, and really good gameplay - nothing will happen.

Gamers today want more than a simple beat-em-up. If this is going to like the old golden axe, only in 3d, it will suck big time.

Then again, with garphics like this, I may be wrong...

I would love a classic beat em up and critics can screw themselves. I grew up on these type of games and I still like them.

[H3avyM3tal]

ofcourse you do. I men you love the old ones. Thats why you can sit and play the old games. But I doubt you would like any game like that in the recent years, that you can call an awesome game.

[lognoronon]

Maybe, maybe not but I have not really seen any in recent years that caught my eye. This one is doing that though and so did Altered Beast until they canned it. Then again I have always liked the sega beat em ups.

[msxyz]

Times are changing. Always. If this isn't going to be a new game all in all, than no one will care. If it won't give you a more 'grown up' type of game - really good story, really good characters, and really good gameplay - nothing will happen.

Times are changing... for the worse. At least 15 years ago when you wanted to pick up a easy going sidescrolling beat'em up, yougot that.

Year after year all we get are dumber games wrapped into shiny graphic effects and nice FMVs. Even RPGs rely less and less on the simulated skill of the protagonist and more on the skills of the player with the pad/mouse. Everything is accomplished through stupid, repetitive actions and fast button clicking.

Yes, maybe we don't need another Golden Axe when Oblivion is essentially based on the same gameplay, it is equally shallow but compensate that linearity with incredble graphics.

[K007]

wow i remember spending countless hours playing this game..too bad no pc :(

[Hex]

I have resorted to playing it on MAME for now.
Really hope this one keeps the spirit of the original games unlike the Gauntlet updates.