Games Review: Golden Axe: Beast Rider

PS3, Xbox 360, Sega, £49.99

Golden Axe: Beast Rider is a retro-styled RPG that relies on the old arcade standards of button-bashing, and a scantily clad warrior woman hacking her way through a host of foes.

She does this on the back of any one of a number of pathetically wimpy beasts, which are ill-equipped to roam the battlefield – they seem to die at the merest brush of a sword. Golden Axe neither convinces as an homage to arcade games of the past, nor as a modern RPG. Expect a very bumpy ride.