Golden Axe (Wii)

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Description

Golden Axe is an arcade beat-'em-up game that puts players in the shoes of one of three heroes, each with his own reason for trying to overthrow the evil rule of Death-Adder, who - along with his forces of darkness - kidnapped and imprisoned the King and his daughter and stole the legendary Golden Axe.

This is a horizontal fighting game, where you basically take one of the three characters (the barbarian Ax Battler, a dwarf named Gilius Thunderhead or the amazon Tyris Flare) and bash everything which stands between you and Death Adder himself.

The game allows to play up to two players on a same screen, however in the C64 version this option has not been implemented. C64 version was also stripped off in the other areas, such as: only one enemy can engage the player at a time or there are only two types of dragons instead of three.

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There are 273 other screenshots on file for other versions of this game.

Alternate Titles

• "戦斧" -- Japanese spelling
• "战斧" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)

Part of the Following Groups

• BPjS / BPjM indexed games
• Game Center CX challenge games
• Genre: Beat 'em up / Brawler
• Golden Axe series
• Protagonist: Barbarian
• SEGA Vintage Collection series

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The Press Says

Jeuxvideo.com	Jan 15, 2010	16 out of 20	80
Nintendo Life	Sep 18, 2009		70
Nintendo Life	Nov 29, 2006		70
IGN	Dec 14, 2006	6.5 out of 10	65
Eurogamer.de	Jan 26, 2007	3 out of 5	60

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Trivia

Characters

Although not mentioned in the game, these are the names of the characters:
Dwarf: Gilius Thunderhead,
Barbarian: Ax Battler,
Amazon: Tyris Flare.

German index

On May 30, 1992, Golden Axe was put on the infamous German index by the BPjS. For more information about what this means and to see a list of games sharing the same fate, take a look here: BPjS/BPjM indexed games.

Since August 31, 2005, the game is no longer on the index.

References

The Chicken Stinger is a creature you fight in the second stage of Altered Beast. This creature later showed up in Golden Axe as one of the Bizarrians that you can steal from the enemies in the game (it's now called a Chicken-Leg). The Chicken-Leg also showed up later in the arcade game Golden Axe: The Revenge Of Death Adder.

Sound

The death screams of the bad guys are digitized from screams used in the films First Blood (several) and one from Conan The Barbarian. Fans of the game who watch the movies will be able to pick these out easily.

Awards

• FLUX
  • Issue #4 - #70 in the "Top 100 Video Games of All-Time" list

Information also contributed by Big John WV, mark abrams, Tiago Jacques and Xoleras

Related Web Sites

• Death Adder's Castle (Death Adder's Golden Axe page, a great fansite about Golden Axe.)
• everything2 node: Golden Axe (A humorous take on the first game, the entire series, the conversions, the characters, villains and gameplay.)
• Golden Axe — StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki (An illustrated guide to the game, complete with detailed platform comparisons.)
• X360A achievement guide (X360A's achievement guide for Golden Axe.)