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Heavenly Sword
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List Price: $59.99
Special Price: $59.99
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Sony Computer Entertainment
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 144
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0711719813224
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Feature: The Heavenly Sword itself can transform into three distinct weapons, each with its own accompanying fighting stance used by Nariko to vary combat styles.
Format: Blu-ray
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Sony Computer Entertainment
Manufacturer: Sony Computer Entertainment
Model: 98132
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Release Date: 2007-09-12
Studio: Sony Computer Entertainment
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Features
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The Heavenly Sword itself can transform into three distinct weapons, each with its own accompanying fighting stance used by Nariko to vary combat styles.
The combat engine can scale up from sophisticated one-on-one encounters to one-on-many, where enemies employ intelligent squad-based dynamics, right up to combat against battalions pushing real-time gameplay and (AI) to unprecedented new levels.
The physics-based combat allows players to sweep debris against opponents, kick tables to halt an oncoming surge of fighters, smash the enemy into the scenery, or throw bodies into other enemies using “aftertouch” controls.
Heavenly Sword provides a wide range of objects & weaponry including rapid fire crossbows and massively damaging bazookas.
Coupled with real-time story evolvement and amazing set-pieces, Heavenly Sword feels like a blockbuster action movie that takes combat gameplay to new heights.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Emotionally charged, stunningly beautiful, and delivering unprecedented dramatic Character performance, Heavenly Sword showcases the power of the PS3 system,. 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. Thestory builds around the ancient Heavenly Sword, which once belonged to a powerful deity. It can never be wielded by a mortal without it slowly, but inevitably draining their life-force. When the invading King (played by Andy Serkis) destroys the warrior clan that guards the Heavenly Sword, 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 and irreparably overtaken by the omnipotent Heavenly Sword.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Phenomenal game. Plain and simple.
Comment: All I can say is wow. From start to finish a rock solid game with great visuals and non stop action. Get this game, you will NOT be disappointed.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Favorite PS3 Title
Comment: This is by far my favorite PS3 game of all time. The acting is top notch, the dialog is superb, the story keeps you interested, the characters are colorful and original, the graphics are stunning, the controls are easy to learn. There is so much about the game I love. You will get attached to the characters. - it's not just a hack n' slash game for the sake of it. You truly get immersed. My favorite bad guy character was Flying Fox. He was so funny! Of course, Nariko kicks major butt and she's not some gratuitously drawn cartoon with ridiculously large bosoms like many of the female protagonists in video games. I played this game twice and it was fun learning more and more of the special combos that Nariko is capable of. This is a truly outstanding game.
Customer Rating:
Summary: What a beautiful, beautiful game
Comment: I've never seen a game this beautiful. Background graphics are cinematic and breathtaking. The details are amazing; hairs flowing as the character runs, the clothes wave as the winds blow, and most impressive is the way light reflects and makes shadows on every object and surface in great detail -- just amazing. Almost looks like pre-rendered ray-traced 3D CG animation (it's not) happening on-the-fly as you play. To top it all off, game play is fast-moving and fun with no boring moments. If you have a PS3, this is definitely the game to own to show off its prowess.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Good game
Comment: This game is good ..i love the few games out there who make so much use of sixaxis feature ..
nice gameplay ...still playing so cant comment on the length as most of the ppl talking about ...
But So far so good :)
Customer Rating:
Summary: Riddle of the Flying Hats!
Comment: We just purchased this game on Friday, July 4th.
Pros:
Stunning graphics... really top notch!
Great voice acting
Great story line
Interesting use of the hats!
Cons:
Too many "combos" well over 120.
Six axis control is not what it's hyped up to be in this game
Character control is sub par.
Interesting use of the hats!
The graphics and colors are second to none! I have never played a video game before that matches this game in use of color! The scenery and settings are gorgeous. The voice acting is perfect! And although I'm only a couple of hours into the game, the story line so far is truly interesting!
Now the bad part...
To memorize over 120 combinations... which covers all the attacks, defense, stances, etc is more than what many gamers are willing to try to memorize... what works for what, etc!!
The six axis controler needs to be refined considerably.. not sure if this is a problem with the engineering of the controller or the game itself, since this is the first game I've played so far that makes use of motion detection.
Many times you have to use the cone type hats popular among asian agri-workers as a means of hitting multiple targets great distances apart... by bouncing them off a series of gongs! Case in point, I was in a compound high atop a mountain peak and had to throw a hat probably around half a mile or greater to hit a gong with it bouncing back another half mile or so to hit a gong in the compound where I was at... and sometimes you have to do it in a specific order! You actually spend much more time trying to solve the puzzle of hitting these gongs than you do fighting your enemies!
Character control leaves so very much to be desired during the hat throwing. Most times it is difficult to get your heroine positioned properly to throw hats. I DO like the fact that you can do minor mid-course corrections in the trajectory of the hats as it travels out to meet it's target (the camera follows behind the hat as it travels across great spaces to the target gong!) The camera view while following projectiles is spectacular! I love it!
Would I recommend this game to my friends who have the PS3? Yes. Four stars... for both overal and fun... not three.
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