Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior

a.k.a. Death Sword

created and published by Palace Software in 1988, running on Amiga OCS

type: fighting
genre: Fantasy, Combat blood sports, One-on-one fighting
series: Barbarian series by Palace
perspective: side view
player options: single player

languages: eng

3.9/5

Lemon Amiga

Official description

First the Black Plague, now this.

Drax, the evil sorcerer, is holding Princess Mariana captive in his dark and dismal dungeon. And he’ll only release her to the warrior who can defeat his barbarian guards in deadly sword combat.

Somebody gets the girl.

While Drax looks on you’ll fight one-on-one against a string of his ruthless slaves—clashing swords in the forgotten dungeon, Drax’s throne room, the molten lava bed and in the dark, enchanted forest.

As Gorth the hero-warrior, you’ll need to sharpen your sword skills—using powerful combination moves to cut down your opponents. If you fail, the court gremlin will throw you on the heap with the rest of the warriors. And then what will become of lovely Princess Mariana..?

Clash with brawny barbarians in head-to-head sword combat. Only the best will take on Drax himself.

Defeat your foes in the throne room, dungeon, lava bed or dark forest.

Collect "trophies" using the hair-raising "web of death" chop.

Cinematic graphics and metal-on-metal sound effects.

Two-player practice option. Joystick controls.

# 2024-01-29 22:02:19 - official description

Technical specs

display: raster

Editor notes (2)

Not to be confused with Barbarian by Psygnosis.

Sanguine # 2012-02-12 09:52:35

Released in the US as Death Sword to distinguish it from the Psygnosis game with the same name.

# 2006

Authors / Staff

coding

Richard Leinfellner (coder)

graphics

Gary Carr (graphician)
Jo Walker (graphician)

audio

David Whittaker (musician)
Richard Joseph (musician)

other

Steve Brown (misc)

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External reviews (11) - average: 76.8% - median: 77%

review source		issue	date	score
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	uk	9	1988-06	419/1000	41%	view
Amiga Computing	uk	2	1988-07	77/100	77%	view
Amiga Format	uk	25	1991-08	76/100	76%
Amiga Power	uk	4	1991-08	60/100	60%
Amiga User International (AUI) (03-25)	uk	6	1988-06	7/10	70%	view
C&VG (Computer & Video Games) (011-084)	uk	79	1988-05	9/10	90%	view
Commodore User (33-61)	uk	55	1988-04	9/10	90%	view
Génération 4 (001-082)	fr	4	1988-07	91/100	91%	view
The Games Machine Italy	it	15	1989-12	84/100	84%	view
Zero	uk	3	1990-01	77/100	77%	view
Zzap!	uk	32	1987-12	89/100	89%	view