
- 70/100
- Players9 ratings

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
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
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."
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Collections4 collections
Platform libraries
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System gamesRetail releases
- Sega Genesis gamesLicensed games
Licensing
- Games based on filmsGames
Development status
Description adapted from its source, CC BY-SA 4.0.
