As Golden Axe is one of my all-time favorite games, I was expecting great things of Golden Axe II. Unfortunately, it just doesn't live up to the original. For one thing, the graphics got uglier. Everything looks lo-res and very drab, though some of the enemies are nicely done. Another thing that sucks about this game is the sound and music: the sound is of the tinny "clink, clink, swish, swish" variety and the music sounds pretty bad. As with the original Golden Axe, you take control of a muscle-bound human warrior, a woman, or a dwarf. Sometimes I play the woman because I get my jollies off of seeing her videogame anatomy, though usually I play the dwarf, because he kicks ass.