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- Sword of Sodan -  
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Have you ever seen a game
where it says: "This game contains scenes of explicit violence and
gore."? Well if this game were released today it would have such a
label I'm sure.
Ofcourse this was way back when games weren't mainstream like today.
Sword of Sodan is quite a straightforward hack and slash action game.
The plot is the basic kill everything that crosses your path in your quest
to rid the kingdom of an evil wizard whose name you only find out right
before you get to his level.
At the time of release in 1988 most action games had very small sprites
(you do know what a sprite is right?) but not this game. Characters easily
stand half a screen high and some are much bigger than that. The grapihcs
were some of the best available at the time.
However the rest of the game suffers a bit, animation is somewhat choppy
and gameplay is limited to simple swordplay. There is very limited music
but the soundeffect are quite good with swords bashing and grunts and stuff.
Overall however as a game it's quite enjoyable.
You start the game by selecting a hero or heroine, both handle exactly the
same.
Each level is preceded by a map of where you currently are and a little
poem.
After this it's off to battle, you have three different attacks at your
disposal namely high, mid and low. All enemies come from the right side
as you keep walking right to advance the level.
Most levels are quite short usually consisting of about 3-5 enemies however
most of the characters you meet will be on only one or two levels at the
most so the variety in characters is quite large.
Along the way some enemies will drop bottles, these will be either a magic
zapper or a shield.
The zapper can kill an enemy with one blow so use it on the harder bosses
and the shield will make you invulnerable for a period of time. Also sometimes
they will drop a bottle which increases your hitstrenght and lets you do
more damage however if you die you loose one point of hitstrength so it's
of fairly little use.
Also the levels contain plenty of other dangers like spikes, falling floors,
barrels etc. some of these can kill your with one hit so be carefull.
There are 11 levels total with the latter ones all inside the castle, these
are also the most difficult so it's wise to save your items for later.
All in all the game is quite fun however I did use a cheat because the game
is very unforgiving.
For instance if you die and get send back a ways and there happens to be
a spike in the way you'll get hit anyway. Also the last boss seems pretty
much impossible because I must have lost like 20 lives because of him!
Anyway if you want a quick fix of action then I can recommend this game.
(As mentioned before there is quite a bit of blood and gore in the game
so if you don't like that than don't play it.)
Overal rating: 7/10
Erde Kaiser
Here are some system specific notes:
| Apple |
Released in
1993 by Bethesda Softworks.
Game has been tested but not completed with Basilisk II v0.8.
This version is almost equal to the original amiga version. The controls
are a bit awkward though you have to use the k,l,o,p and , keys to move
and space for slashing. |
| Amiga |
Released
in 1988.
Game has been tested and completed with winUAE v0.9.91.
The download contains four disks which are bootable, it also supports multiple
disk drives so you can mount all four disks and the game won't ask you to
swap them. |
Genesis/
megadrive |
Released
in 1990 produced by Innerprise Software and published by Electronic Arts.
Game has been tested but not completed with Wgens 2.11.
They tried to add some things like more enemies from both sides but overal
this is in pretty much every way inferiour to the original.
Oh and for some reason the second to last boss in the original somehow appears
in level 3 !
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Date added |
Nov-07-2004 11:25 |
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Name |
Sword of Sodan |
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Publisher |
Discovery software
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First released |
1988 |
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Genre |
Action
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Download |
Apple, filesize: 4264 Kb
Commodore Amiga, filesize: 2402 Kb
Sega Megadrive, filesize: 386 Kb
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Links |
Sodan.dk a former
employee of Discovery software, original publishers of this game.
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Manual |
Download manual for Sword of Sodan
, filesize: 6 Kb
This is text manual for the amiga. |
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Solve / Docs |
No solve available
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