Heavenly Sword is an achievement in game-based cinematic storytelling. The game employs state of the art motion capturing to give its characters a flair for realism rarely captured with a console. But what this game didn’t capture was any innovation in game play. That isn’t to say this game isn’t fun and doesn’t have a few surprises, but if you’ve played God Of War you’re not going to find anything new here and for the record... if you haven’t played God Of War, get off your computer, turn on your Playstation, and get going.
The story of Heavenly Sword follows Nariko, a warrior whose curves can kill as seductively as her blades. Nariko is the hottest action female video game lead character since Lara Croft. I don’t want to go into the back story too much since it’s a big part of enjoying the game but I’ll give you the gist of it. Nariko’s clan protects a weapon known as the Heavenly Sword. The sword was left behind after a warrior of light came to defeat a great evil and won. Ever since then, people have been fighting for custody of the Heavenly Sword.
One of those people is the evil King Bohan, a twisted, perverted, and power hungry warlord. Andy Serkis, better known as Gollum of Lord of the Rings fame, provides the motion capture for King Bohan. This performance deserves an Oscar. He is the creepiest villain in recent gaming history and the man deserves some recognition for it.
This game defines the term consoler. It’s a combo-based button masher. For the non-gamer, that means you keep hitting random buttons on your controller to watch your character do mass amounts of damage to everything around them. Though some of these titles make it feel like these games take no skill, the best of them make it fun for the beginners who can do nothing but whack the controller and more involved for the advanced players who like to watch their foes be vanquished in style. This game falls in the better category for sure.
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