Storm Warrior

Storm Warrior
Developer(s)	Elite Systems
Publisher(s)	Encore (Elite Systems)
Designer(s)	Chris Coupe (C64)
Artist(s)	Paul Walker (C64)
Composer(s)	Mark Cooksey (C64)^[1] Mark Crane (Amstrad)^[2]
Platform(s)	Amstrad CPC Commodore 64 ZX Spectrum
Release date(s)	1989
Genre(s)	Beat 'em up
Mode(s)	Single player

Storm Warrior is a 1989 beat 'em up game developed and released by Elite Systems for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum 8-bit home computer systems. The game casts the player in the role of a prince on a quest to rid his kingdom of a witch's curse. It is unrelated to the 1984 game Storm Warrior.

Gameplay

In Storm Warrior, the player controls a hero armed with a sword, who may walk and turn, jump into various directions, defend and attack with his sword (high and medium slashes), kick, and roll.^[3] The character walks right through a series of screens, fighting defeating various enemies along the way.

Plot

The evil Witch Queen has summoned a terrible thunderstorm that is to last a hundred years, causing torrential rains, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes and other calamities. The heir prince of the kingdom embarks on a dangerous quest to reach the castle from which the Witch Queen exercises control on the elements, so he can kill her and break the spell.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Development

The C64 version was made by the same team which did the C64 port of Forgotten Worlds.^[6] The Witch Queen has been known as "Queen of Darkness" in an early version of the game.^[7]

Reception

The game was poorly received.^[4] The C64 version of the game received the scores of 44% from Computer + Video Games ("Mark Cooksey's music is pleasant, but otherwise the game has few merits"), 64% from Your Commodore ("an average game" and not in a top division of beat-em-up games") and 51% from CU Amiga ("Basically, SW is just a very dull Barbarian clone").^[5]^[8]^[9] Micromania Segunda Epoca gave it 6/10, recommending the Amstrad version.^[3]

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