By Crom! I don't know why it took me so long to purchase this game. It is everything you think it is when looking at it in the store page - nothing more, nothing less. Well... maybe a bit more.

The fighting mechanics are deceptively simple, but you can (and will) die in an encounter if you don't use proper strategy, especially in the late-game. Control is exactly what it needs to be and once you have become accustomed to the control scheme, it flows very well.

I won't waste any time repeating everything that has already been said about this game in other reviews, but I will say that if you are even a casual fan of sword & sorcery, high fantasy, and pulp, you owe it to yourself to check this game out. It is a beautiful love-letter to the barbarian tales of our youth all wrapped up in an uncompromising package - complete with half-naked, buxom warrior women, massively muscled heroes, and all manner of evil creatures... from Cro-magnon ape men to vomiting corpses.

If you ever wanted to know what it would be like playing through those old pulp fantasy novels or Saturday afternoon barbarian B-Movies, now you have the opportunity!

Thank you Crian Soft for making an unapologetic homage to my childhood fantasies. At this price, Age of Barbarian (and its DLC) is worth every penny.