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Wrath Unleashed - Archon Reborn?

Posted by simoniker on from the light-versus-darkness dept.

Thanks to GameSpy for their preview of Wrath Unleashed, LucasArts' hex-based action strategy videogame. This PS2/Xbox title, being developed by The Collective, has some similarities to a gaming classic, as the writer explains: "If you're like me and were born in the '70s, you may yet remember Archon... Wrath Unleashed revisits and updates the original. With a shorthand mythology regarding elementals, it offers a hexagonal board game with an RPG heart." The game, which is also reminiscent of Archon co-creator Paul Reiche's under-rated The Unholy War for PlayStation, is described as a "promising mix of elements", and Wrath Unleashed's preview concludes: "The balance between action and strategy is a tricky one in games such as this ... but it does offer a distinctly old-school feel and plenty of options for different gamers."

7 comments

  1. Yay Archon! by ZzzzSleep · · Score: 1

    This is great news!
    Archon is one of the few C64 games that I still play today...
    If only a Gamecube version would be released though... *Sigh*

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  2. Excellent Game by xneilj · · Score: 2, Informative

    Archon stands out for me as one of the most interesting games from the C=64 era.

    There's actually a promising looking remake of Archon being made for the PC - the authors have even obtained portions of the source from one of the original authors.

    Check it out here.

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    1. Re:Excellent Game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Except that this remake has been in the works for so long it's really just vaporware.

    2. Re:Excellent Game by xneilj · · Score: 1

      Yeah it's been a while :( But since they posted about a month ago to say the 2 player mode is finally complete and working, they just need to add the Network play and Player vs. CPU then it sounds like it's going somewhere...

      Who knows, maybe it'll be out before Duke Nukem Forever! ;)

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  3. Too Bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Too bad the Collective is doing it. The few talented people they have at that company are all being dragged down by the tremendous egos of the people running it. Hopefully they can still pull one out, but don't look for it anytime soon, since the management level helps the company keep its long standing tradition of massively late titles. Too bad...

  4. The true sequel... by WinnipegDragon · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The best 'Archon-like' game that I have ever played was Dark Legions by Canadian developer Silicon Knights.

    A massive game board, characters who cast spells and could summon, armies purchased by a point-buy system, great replayability, not that the original Archon was bad, but Dark Legions just came off as a better game. Came with a set of trading cards of all the troop types in the box too!

    Check it out here: http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=275

    Please note, I am too dumb for the HTMLing. You all can copy and paste, right?

  5. Archon sucked by Kris_J · · Score: 1

    If you didn't practice battles all the time, it didn't matter how good your tactics were, you still got your "strong" peices' arses kicked by your opponents "weak" characters. It's like playing ro-sham-bo whenever a pawn takes a queen.