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Heavenly Sword

Certificate 16

Average rating

(67%)

Genres:	Adventure \| Fighting \| Role-playing
Released:	September 14, 2007

Emotionally charged, stunningly beautiful and delivering unprecedented dramatic character performance, Heavenly Sword showcases the power of Playstation 3. A dramatic tale of revenge sees Nariko, a fiery red-haired heroine embark on a quest for vengeance against an invading King and his army. The story builds around the ancient Heavenly Sword which once belonged to a powerful deity. It can never be wielded by a mortal without it draining their life-force, killing them within hours. When the invading King (played by Andy Serkis) destroys the warrior clan that guards the Heavenly Sword, the clan leader's daughter, Nariko, takes up the sword in a desperate fight for survival. Nariko must now pay the ultimate price as she embarks on one last mission of vengeance against the King and his army before her life is finally drawn to a close...

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44 out of 54 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 5.0 stars
PS3 has stepped up

Kopite33 from from Bristol, 14th September, 2007

The Playstation 3 is finally proving it's better than the rest with this stunning new game. The graphics are like nothing I have ever seen before - simply amazing. The storyline is great and was written by Hollywood scriptwriters! Gameplay is great and has three styles of attack: range, power and speed. It involves using a mixture of these attack styles to beat hundreds (yes,hundreds!) of enemys at a time. Sixaxis is also used in the game to control 'aftertouch' which involves steering thrown items (knives,axes,people and the highly powerful blast cannon) using the controller. Many people have compared it to God of War, which, despite being a great game, comes nothing near to Heavenly Sword. The soundtrack is also quite good.

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Rated 1.0 stars
Heavingly Rubbish

DukeDudeston from , 19th February, 2010

What was I thinking? I read other reviews about this game, however I like to keep an open mind. However, I am with the mob with this one... The graphics are amazing, it blew me away with the visuals, and even the lip syncing was especially nice.. however this is all this game seems to have. The game requires it to install 3GB onto your hard drive.. urm.. sorry but what? 25GB Blu-ray not enough for it? It needs to install data to the hard drive? The thing that makes this game rubbish. is the controls.. now this claims to be; Adventure, Fighting, Role-playing. However, I believe that only 1 of the 3 are right.. it is a fighting game, I got bored on the first chapter, I was expecting a lot more.. then. smashing the square button, then the triangle button now and then.. which is what you be doing a lot of. (just look at the combo move list, after you watch the first scene - which you button bash your heart out on) Secondly it feels as if the character is seperate to your controller, you press the X button.. then a few seconds later, they respond by walking down the ladder, now most gamers expect the right anolog stick to control the camera by default... no.. the 'Six Axis' tilt controls the camera, which in my hands felt wrong. If you want a button bashing game, with great graphics by all means rent / buy it.. if you want a game with more depth and strategic feel to it.. look elsewhere.

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