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| Heavenly Sword | 
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| From: Sony Computer Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $24.00
You Save: $35.99 (60%)
Buy New/Used from $24.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  (149 reviews)
Sales Rank: 208
Platform: Playstation 3
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 98132
Model: 98132
UPC: 711719813224
EAN: 0711719813224
ASIN: B000K9OP2A
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 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:
Product Description
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... Voice and creative work by Andy Serkis, the world's leading CG actor. ESRB Rated T For Teen.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 144 more reviews...
 Awsome graphics January 5, 2009
I purchased this game on Black Friday for [...], what a steal!!! I can't believe this game has been out for 2 years and the graphics are still amazing! But there is one part in the game that I just can't seem to pass, which is the part where you have to destroy the 3 vehicles with the catapult. Can anyone help?
RAD!!! December 31, 2008
This game is my new favorite! it's amazing, the graphics and the music. Some people are saying it's too short but, the game is worth the time, it'll blow you away!
 One Of The Best For The PS3 December 29, 2008
As said above this is one of the titles to get for the PS3 if your just getting the system. When I first got the game (when it came out!!) The graphics blew my mind, It was some of the best stuff I had seen on the ps3.
Gameplay its similar to the Devil May Cry Series. Its fun, especially Kai's parts with the SixAxis controller. I did however encounter one problem with this gem. When I hooked up my optical sound system, the game installed some patches. After it did that in some parts of the game the frame rate would drop horribly! (The game froze once) The FR drop only happend 5 times. Maybe a Firmware update would solve it?
Enough of that tho. This game is a must have. There is only one thing stopping it from getting a 5 Star....LENGTH! Heavenly sword has it all except it's short..very short, 1st play through took me 7.5 Hours, 2nd time around 6 hours.
It's just too bad that Ninja Theory is not making a sequel (It was in the works for a trilogy, in fact they had the story all written up, but they decided to can the other 2 Heavenly swords due to interest in making multi-platform games. Because sony owns the rights to the name they *may* make a sequel, but as of now don't hold your breath for it. T_T)
Amazing Game with Language options December 28, 2008
I LOVE this game.. it is amazing .. the graphics.. the story line, the fighting scenes..
But what surprised me more than anything..
When I first put in the disk it gave me an option to select my language out of a long list of language choices..
I am german born and to have the treat to play this game in German just blew me away ..
LOVE it.. !!
Great Game, Not Much Replay December 16, 2008
Well, for starters, I played this game with the after touch (moving your controller to guide projectiles) turned off, I found this made the game way more enjoyable.
The story line is pretty solid, needless to say you and your clan are on the run, and you have a serious piece of hardware in a melee weapon.
The game is split up into multiple little segments some of them playing out like a hack and slash, and others involving sniping with a series of crossbows, rocket launchers, and cannons. As per the norm there are a few time based puzzles (though they are not specfically labeled as such, they require alot of timing).
I found the game to be relatively easy, which is nice for a casual gamer, there is nothing more frustrating than not being able to get passed a specific enemy.
However, there are a few downsides to the game:
1. Very linear
2. Sometimes (albeit rarely) the camera angle gets in the way and you can not properly see a projectile you would like to deflect
3. No real replay value
4. No multiplayer
I would have liked to have seen some kind of co-op play, but it was not included with the game.
Overall though this is a very solid game and definitely worth a play through.
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