Chaos Wars

Chaos Wars
Chaos Wars
Chaos Wars.jpg
North American cover art
Developer(s) Idea Factory
Publisher(s)
Platform(s) PlayStation 2
Release date(s)
  • JP September 21, 2006
  • NA June 3, 2008
Genre(s) Tactical role-playing
Mode(s) Single-player
Rating(s)
This article is about the PlayStation 2 game Chaos Wars. For the fictional Dragonlance world, see Chaos War.

Chaos Wars (カオスウォーズ Kaosu Wōzu?) is a tactical role-playing game released by Idea Factory for the PlayStation 2 in Japan on September 21, 2006. Promotional art for the game is by Nishimura Kinu. The game's opening theme Shūtan no Ou to Isekai no Kishi ~The Endia&The Knights~ was done by Sound Horizon. In North America, the game was released on June 3, 2008 as a GameStop exclusive.[1]

Chaos Wars is a crossover between several companies' role-playing game series, including Aruze's Shadow Hearts, Atlus's Growlanser, Idea Factory's Blazing Souls, Spectral Souls, and RED Entertainment's Gungrave and Shinsengumi Gunraw Den.[1]

Chaos Wars has become a cult classic because of the poor voice acting in the English conversion of the game. The voice acting of the game is rumored to be the publishing team's family members.

Contents

Story

Hyoma (protagonist) has a dream of another world over a pillar of light coming from his family shrine. The next day, he decides to take his two friends (Shinzuku, and Hayate) to investigate. During their investigation, they find a cave with strange technology but as they are looking in to it, the machines activate and a bright light appears, taking them to another world known as Endia.

When Hyoma teleports to the world, he encounters a girl named Rin, who is surrounded by monsters. After Hyoma helps defeat the creatures, more appear so both Hyoma and Rin run together, where they meet up with a friend of Rin's named Hiro. Afterwords, Rin explains that the walls are thick in this world, which is the reason that they have been taken from their world to this world. They are known as "Knights" because when people are taken to Endia, they obtain powers like any other.

When Hyoma asks how to get back to his world, Rin explains that there is no way to return. Hyoma doesn't accept this fact and decides to find a way, but there, they then encounter the "Luin", an Organization that is determined to find "Keys" (which are mechanisms used to open gates and to summon "knights") in order to make their "paradise". After they escape from them with the help of Rin, they are taken to a isle near another island named "Radiance Island". There, they find a vacant mansion with its own transporter and that is where their adventure begins.

Characters

This game contains many characters, but due to lack of information, only the key point characters will be shown here

  • Hyoma: Hyoma is a high school freshman from Tokyo, Japan, he has a sour look, a sour attitude, a sour everything in fact.He is very rude to almost everyone he meets but does show compassion for his two friends.He was bored of his own world so being taken to another world is quite exciting for him.
  • Hayte: Like Hyoma, Hayte is a high school freshmen and a long childhood friend to Hyoma, Hayte is very carefree, funny guy but after being taken to Endia, he becomes more serious but tries to keep every one in high spirits.He is a black belt and is skilled in Spearsmanship, so it is unwise to anger him.
  • Shinzuku: Shinzuku is a childhood friend to Hyoma and Hayte, despite being a senior in high school she is the same age as both Hyoma and Hayte, Shes very caring and high spirited person who always supports Hyoma (despite the fact he insults her most of the time), she is very skilled in battle games and always carries around a paper sword, which she uses to hit people on the head but it hurts more than she thinks.
  • Rin: Rin is the "Gatekeeper" of the world of Endia, as a "Gatekeeper", her job is to monitor and keep track of data of "Knights" and other dimensions, after Hyoma saves Rin from the Luin, she decides to travel with him to find answers of the world of Endia.
  • Hiro: Hiro is a warrior of the world called Neverland and the daughter of the devil (She is from Spectral Forces), Hiro came shortly before Hyoma did she meant Rin when she was taken to Endia, knowning nothing of this world, she taged along.
  • Laru: Laru is the captian of the order of warriors known as "Kishadan", Laru is a strong beliver in justice and doing whats right but he is too firm sometimes, he begins to think that Hyoma and the others are with the Luin because at one point they try finding and use "Keys" to find a way home, at first he distrust them but after being rescued by Hyoma when the Luin kidnapped him, he agrees to help in their situation.
  • Nicole: A serious young man who cares about his own thoughts more than anyone else's. When his subjects don't behave, he threatens to take their Tengaio away.

Reception

Chaos Wars holds a ranking of 64/100 on Metacritic,[2] and 65.00% on Game Rankings.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Bishop, Sam (May 9, 2008). "Chaos Wars Preview". IGN. pp. 1–2. http://ps2.ign.com/articles/873/873078p1.html. Retrieved February 27, 2011. 
  2. ^ "Chaos Wars for PlayStation 2". Metacritic. http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-2/chaos-wars. Retrieved February 27, 2011. 
  3. ^ "Chaos Wars for PlayStation 2". Game Rankings. http://www.gamerankings.com/ps2/934027-chaos-wars/index.html. Retrieved February 27, 2011. 

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