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1995 · Realtime Associates · Adventure · Platformer

Warlock

When the sun aligns with the moon once every millennium, druid guardians summon their magic of their runestones to prevent the rebirth of the Warlock. The runestones are scattered through time and across the continents and you must find them before the Warlock does.

Released
1995
Platforms
SNESSega Genesis
Genres
AdventurePlatformerPuzzle
Developers
Realtime Associates
Publishers
LJN
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Side view
Themes
ActionHorror
Country
United States
Age ratings
ESRB E
Languages
English

About

Warlock (also stylized Beware the Ultimate Evil of Warlock) is a side-scrolling action video game based on the 1989 horror film series of the same title, more spefically the movie Warlock: The Armageddon. It was released on May 26, 1995 through Acclaim Entertainment for the Genesis and Super NES platforms. A version for the Atari Jaguar was planned by Trimark Interactive but never released.

›Story

Once every thousand years, the sun and the moon align together. When this happens, the Evil One sends his only son, the Warlock, to Earth to gather six ancient runestones. When assembled, the runestones give the possessor ultimate power to undo the Earth's creation. Using sorcery inherited from his ancestors, a modern druid must travel through time to prevent the Warlock from finding all of the runestones.

Keywords

  • time travel
  • magic
  • time manipulation
  • action-adventure
  • based on - movie
  • undead
  • checkpoints

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Gameplay

As a druid, the player is armed with seven different spells that will aid him in his battle against the Warlock. Up to 255 spells of a certain kind can be carried, although the status bar only shows up to nine.

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Story

Once every thousand years, the sun and the moon align together. When this happens, the Evil One sends his only son, the Warlock, to Earth to gather six ancient runestones. When assembled, the runestones give the possessor ultimate power to undo the Earth's creation. Using sorcery inherited from his ancestors, a modern druid must travel through time to prevent the Warlock from finding all of the runestones.

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the SNES version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "There's nothing wrong, just nothing notable."

Captain Squideo of GamePro gave the Genesis version a negative review, remarking that the game is highly derivative of other platform shooters, and that it suffers from delayed controls, overly small enemies, and a lack of variety in the gameplay. A reviewer for Next Generation gave the Genesis version one out of five stars. He too found the game overly derivative, and commented that "Some of the backgrounds are well shaded, and the accompanying music is a touch on the eerie side, but all this game does is to prove that bad movies make horrible side-scrolling action games."

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
SNES31 December 1994North America · Europe 31 December 1994 · Japan 26 May 1995 · Brazil 1 September 1995
Sega Genesis31 December 1994North America · Europe 31 December 1995 · Brazil 31 December 1995

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Description adapted from its source, CC BY-SA 4.0.