Barbarian II - Dungeons Of Drax
 

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Ugly colours....thats the nicest thing i can say about this game :yawn:

Secret military post. Please ignore. :max:

I agree to that. This game doesn't operate with a mouse at all.

Ay - I remember now... We talked about this very thing a few months ago... But I thought it has been fixed. Working on a way to fix it as we speak. I thought that the mark 1 was too low.

Barbarian II was one of my favourite game on commodore64 but this PCversion seems to me a little bit weak in the graphic interface. The 1 point isn't the right way to introduce a new gamer to this marvellous development of the first Barbarian, a real masterwork of the '80. Do you know if the game programmers created also Barbarian III?

Secret military post. Please ignore. :max:

Yeah, give us the real thing :) At least that one made me laugh out loud, even though it might deserve a rating of 1

OK - the review has been changed. Iit's been done in a real hurry, so if you find any mistakes (or have anything to add) please let me know!

Secret military post. Please ignore. :max:

Now please - Enough about the mix up - let's talk about the game we have Barbarian II - Dungeons Of Drax.

1 was definatly too harsh for this game.
Glad to see it got a much more deserved rating.

I agree, it improved greatly over the horrid original.

What horrid original? Barbarian was one of the best game of its generation! Palace created a game that has yet (IMO) to be matched in gameplay (especialy when played against another human).
The original easily gets a 5/5, where this I would give it a 3/5 in a good day.

You crazy?
I played the original on the C64 I admit but 5/5 for the original is still a bit too much.
I'd give it a 2.5, :D .

"the horrid original" is actualy mastertronics Barbarian (which will soon be on this site), and has nothing to do with thies game (i.e. it's not the preqel, just has the same name).
I will have to stop this history lesson, or Seb will kill me. (j/k)

Nope - I'll just invite you to a nice little game of Death Sword - which is the true prequel of this game!
:Titan:

Yup.

Mastertronic didn't come near Barbarian methinks.

I really liked the first Barbarian (or Death Sword if you will) but I wasn't really fond of this one.

What's with the military communiques? Is there going to be a barbarian invasion soon?:)

The game isn´t so bad for its time (1989).
If you like this genres try also the classics Golden Axe, Gods, Rastan, Unreal (not the 3D game but the old one from Ubisoft), Bert the Barbarian and Deathbringer.

Actually "AXE OF RAGE" is the name of PC version of Barbarian 2, just like "Death Sword" is the name of PC version of Barbarian. Only here they left "BARBARIAN 2" signing in the game.

On the intro screen to the game, Epyx is credited for making this on the PC.

I find that hard to believe as my original of Barbarian II on C64 is made by Palace Software. Epyx was know for making games such as Summer Games, Winter Games etc... I find it *not* likely that they made this...

Regards

I had this game when it came out in '89. I used to play it everyday............back then I thought it was the best game ever!

the background story about the name change is wrong.

The orginal game was Called Death Sword in some regions only but in most it was called Barbarian , then a few months later Psygnosis released a game called Barbarian aswell...and the mess was started.

Barbarian 2 from palace did the same thing aswell, had 2 names one for some countries (Barbarian 2) and for the others it was named Barbarian II - Axe of rage... Both series (Psygnosis and Palace) had liscensed the name so that was not the problem itself.

As times went on ...sceners and crackers decided to name the files as follows:

Psygnosis games:

Barbarian (+ some undertitle...)
Barbarian 2 (+ some under title...)

Palace:

Barbarian - Death Sword
Barbarian II - Axe of Rage.

Wrong!

To understand the titles we have to go back to the C64...

"Death Sword" and it's sequel "Axe Of Rage" are the U.S. titles (distributed by Epyx) for "Barbarian" and it's sequel "Barbarian II - Dungeons Of Drax" (games developed by UK based Palace Software).

Hackers/crackers were for a small part guilty in creating some confusion (they did however cause more confusion with International Karate by splitting the game in 1 and 2; this was one game: in International Karate you could choose between 1st or 2nd tournament), then Mastertronic/Psygnosis finished the job confusing all gamers with their inferior title "Barbarian".