''Beowulf: The Game'' is a

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video game for

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and

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. It is based upon the 2007 film ''

Beowulf ''Beowulf'' (; ang, Bēowulf ) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature. The ...

'', which in turn was based upon the epic poem of the same name. It was released on November 13, 2007 in the United States. The characters are voiced by the original actors who starred in the film.

Plot

The story begins with

racing on a beach with a fellow Thane. On the beach they slay crabs and then Beowulf races with the Thane in the sea, where he is attacked by a sea serpent. He fights the serpent on a small rock structure but is defeated and thrown into the water; there,

Grendel's mother Grendel's mother ( ang, Grendles mōdor) is one of three antagonists in the anonymous Old English poem ''Beowulf'' (c. 700-1000 AD), the other two being Grendel and the dragon. Each antagonist reflects different negative aspects of both the hero ...

appears and says he is her new hero, and grants him power. Beowulf defeats the sea serpent with his newfound power and returns to the beach where he was racing with the Thane. Afterward, having heard the problem the Danes are facing, he goes to help King

Hrothgar Hrothgar ( ang, Hrōðgār ; on, Hróarr) was a semi-legendary Danish king living around the early sixth century AD. Hrothgar appears in the Anglo-Saxon epics ''Beowulf'' and ''Widsith'', in Norse sagas and poems, and in medieval Danish chron ...

to stop

Grendel Grendel is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem '' Beowulf'' (700–1000). He is one of the poem's three antagonists (along with his mother and the dragon), all aligned in opposition against the protagonist Beowulf. Grendel is feared by a ...

, gaining Heroic powers on the journey. Afterwards, the player plays through the thirty years of Beowulf's life as king of the Danes, which was not seen in the movie. Beowulf gets to journey from Heorot to Iceland, defeating demons and large creatures, from a giant hellhound to trolls.

Reception

The game was met with very mixed reception.

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gave it a score of 55% and 51 out of 100 for the PlayStation 3 version; 54% and 51 out of 100 for the Xbox 360 version; 48% and 44 out of 100 for the PSP version; and 45% and 44 out of 100 for the PC version.

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* {{moby game, id=/beowulf-the-game 2007 video games Ubisoft games PlayStation 3 games PlayStation Portable games Video games based on animated films Video games based on Norse mythology Video games developed in China Video games scored by Cris Velasco Video games scored by Sascha Dikiciyan Video games set in Denmark Video games set in medieval Scandinavia Video games set in the 6th century Windows games Xbox 360 games Works based on Beowulf