Scantily Clad Hack ‘N Slash Gameplay From ‘Age Of Barbarian’

New gameplay footage of Age of Barbarian flaunts lots of skin, some gore and disruptive combat animations. Nostalgia is blinding sometimes.

I thought we had moved way past the time when games were about beuatiful people with no clothes on, with big weapons resulting in clunky combat. Nope. Crian Soft are making a series of games that look like they are graphical updates of games from the 80s – it’s all very bizarre. For instance, Karate Master and B.A.D. (irony?) are definitely games I played 20 years ago, just saying.

I have to admit though, and I am blaming nostalgia for this, there’s some inkling of appeal there still. I kind of like Age of Barbarian for all its jerk off…ahem, I mean jerkiness. It would probably be annoying to play if nothing else than that the attack animations are far too long and can be so easily interrupted, but there’s a challenge in that somewhere, one we used to have to accept and workaround.

Anyway, check out the gameplay and see what you make of it, I guess:

You can find out more information on Age of Barbarian over on the official website. You can pre-order the game now and get 20% off too.