It's in my top 5 worst beat em up games of all time, along with Bebe Kids and Last Action Hero.
The Good
The character sprites are huge and somewhat detailed.
There are potions that can heal you, use a flame sword for extra damage and can less damage from enemy attacks.
You can choose between Easy and Normal and have 3, 5, 7 lives, but trust me, you want to have 7 lives and put it on easy, I'll tell you why in a moment.
Blood and Gore
The Bad
Man, oh man, where do I begin? Oh yeah, there's ONLY 1 music in the whole game, and it's in the title screen and ending of the game, and it sounds horrible, please mute it, your ears will thank you and I later on. I don't think you can count the 2 second "congrats on beating this level" music as music either.
EA spelled Heroes wrong, they wrote Heros in the option screen, not a huge problem, but how can you be considered professional developers if you can't spell at the words right, reminds me of You're Winner in Big Rigs.
As you move your character, you notice 2 problems: You walk as slow as a snail and the animation is choppy. It's like 2 frames for your legs, I know the sprites are big, but come on, there's more animation in a NES game than this, LOL. The graphics aren't too hot either, it's not very appealing either. Yes, it's a old game, but old games can look nice too, look at the crappy Rise of the Robots game, it wasn't worth playing, but it's graphics were awesome. Here it's drab, dull and disappointing for those who want to show off what the Genesis is capable of, but it's not the worst looking game ever though(probably average at best).
You'll be glad to know that there isn't a hard mode, because no one will beat it, easy mode is still tough, and normal mode is almost suicide. Due to the fact that enemies come at you from both sides and you move way too slow to begin with, it only increases the challenge and frustration. Remember what I said about the potions, well, some potions don't do anything at all, and there's one that can kill you and lose a life, that's right, there's a potion that can kill you and lose a life. Another problem about the potions as that you have NO IDEA OF WHAT POTION CAN HELP OR KILL YOU, so you must try any potion you pick up. This is stupid, its' like: Should I get that potion to heal me or will it kill me. It becomes a guessing game and your too angry to even play it further.
Enemies are cheap. That's right, enemies will most likely hit you 1st unless your really quick with that sword. They hardly give you a chance to get in range before they attack. Once you get hit, your vulnerable to other attacks since there's no invincibility or you being knocked down(until you die of course), which means you take cheap hits constantly. Also, there can be too many enemies to fight against at once, usually from both sides, and your huge size makes it hard to avoid attacks, not cool.
The hit detection is one of the worst things I've seen in gaming. Ok, tell me if this makes sense: The tip of your sword can ONLY hurts enemies, if you hit your enemies that isn't the tip of the sword as if your sword goes through the enemy, THEY TAKE NO DAMAGE FROM YOUR ATTACKS AT ALL. Total BS. The sword is sharp on the edges to cut someone, how unrealistic is that. That means you can never be too close to hitting your enemies, but you need to be in range to hit them to begin with. Again, it gets worse with multiple enemies on screen as well.
The level design is broken. Every level is short, but it's made long because your character moves slower than a turtle. If you were Sonic, you could breeze through each level in 5-10 seconds. The traps add even more frustration. Level 2 is so awful because the wooden spikes that pop through holes in a ground is so random that you have no idea when they would pop up, so it's more about luck than skill to avoid them. Level 5 is where you would want to stop playing this game forever. Why, because as you walk, seconds later you'll fall into a pit and die, with no indication. Well, there is one indication, but it's impossible to see it, it's some little stone that you won't recognize on the 1st time you play it. Adding even more frustration is the 2 mini bosses that are very huge actually. If you fall into the Pit, stop playing this game, please do, please stop, here's why: You can only kill 2 the giants with a overhead swing(up+c), but you have to be close enough to hit them since their on the right side of the screen. But since you can't touch that hardly even noticeable stone in the area that will male you fall into the pit, your screwed since if you try to jump pass the giants, you'll bounce off them and most likely fall into the pit. THIS GAME IS HORRIBLY PROGRAMMED AND SHOULD BE BANNED!
Sound effects are garbage too. And why do vikings quack like ducks when they get hit?
Controls are bad as usual. Pulling off a attack can be slow as there's 1 second delay when you press the attack button, so you must time each attack perfectly, or die. Turning around in this game is not easy: Since your facing one direction whenever you moved left or right, you have to push the other direction you want to go and the attack button to turn around. It's slow, clunky and a little unresponsive at times, not good.
The Conclusion
What went wrong EA? The Amiga version is superior in every way because it was made by talented developers unlike EA. How do you release a game this broken and unplayable to the public? This gives beat em ups a bad name, what went into their minds when releasing this junk? It should had been 2 player to make it less difficult, but team damage would be a problem though. Bottom line, it sucks, and it's one beat em up you'll want to forget that it even exists or destroy if you see a cartridge of this crap lying around, it's that bad people.