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2002 · The 3DO Company · Action role-playing · Adventure

Shifters

PlayStation exclusive

Shifters, also known as Shifters of Might and Magic, is a 2002 action role-playing video game developed and published by The 3DO Company for the PlayStation 2 in 2002. Set in the fictional Might and Magic universe, it is a direct sequel to the PlayStation 2 incarnation of Warriors of Might and Magic.

Released
17 June 2002
Platforms
PlayStation 2
Genres
Action role-playingAdventureRole-playing
Developers
The 3DO Company
Publishers
The 3DO Company
Modes
Single-player
Themes
ActionHistorical
Age ratings
ESRB T

About

Shifters, also known as Shifters of Might and Magic, is a 2002 action role-playing game developed and published by The 3DO Company for the PlayStation 2. Set in the fictional Might and Magic universe, it is a direct sequel to the PlayStation 2 incarnation of Warriors of Might and Magic.

Keywords

  • medieval
  • action-adventure
  • shape-shifting

Media

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Gameplay

The player controls Alleron, the lead character from Warriors of Might and Magic. Alleron must defeat a horde of flesh and metal invaders who are replacing villages with steam-powered cities. Unlike the previous game, Alleron has gained the power to shapeshift and can assume 24 different creature forms, such as a humanoid ram and a griffin-style creature.

Alleron travels through six different worlds in which he must battle with members of that world's race, often ending in a boss battle. During the game, there are secret areas that are only accessible to particular shapeshift forms. However, the main game can always be completed no matter the choice of form.

Reception

The game received unfavorable reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

IGN reviewed the game, calling it a "game of a great many disparate parts, all of them widely varying in quality, somehow stuffed together into a single, highly unwieldy package [...] It's not an entirely bad game, in other words, but the good bits are like needles lost in the giant haystack of the ones that aren't so good."

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
PlayStation 217 June 2002Worldwide

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