Warlocked

by Atari

Product Features

• two playable factions
• 24 missions; control groups of soldiers
• harvest resources
• raise and use dragons as weapons

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004U1PL
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Game Cartridge
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,162 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Warlocked is a fantasy real-time strategy (RTS) game that focuses on resource collecting, unit building, exploring, and battling between two bitter rivals: humans and beasts. Gamers can choose to play on one side or the other, each housing a dozen missions, numerous subplots, unique units, and different personalities.

We enjoyed how simply Warlocked uses the Game Boy Color's interface of four arrow keys and two buttons to do everything. RTS games typically rely heavily on savvy mouse maneuvering, and we feared the gameplay would be very difficult on the small Game Boy Color screen. Thankfully, its not, and the game scores better for it.

The basic gameplay involves mining gold and chopping down wood to create new buildings and units, as well as creating an army of warriors and archers to do your dirty work. If there are too many people and not enough houses, your town hall will be unable to produce more men until there are adequate quarters for them to sleep in. Likewise, if there's not enough wood to make archers, you may be stuck creating more sword-wielding grunts.

Wizards can be found and protected, then added to your arsenal. Each of the 20 different kinds of magicians features its own unique skill. While some may be able to launch fireballs, cause earthquakes or summon lightning storms, others may make enemies fall asleep, cause deadly plagues, or convert enemy fighters over to your side.

Mission objectives themselves vary greatly. From rescuing a princess, finding treasure chests, riding a dragon out of its lair, escorting an important member of royalty to safety, or destroying a village, it's rare to see such variety in any game these days, much less a portable one!

Warlocked has only one glaring problem: pathfinding artificial intelligence (AI). In many cases, when you're instructing your troops or worker to go somewhere, the little warriors will get stuck behind objects or tangled in groups.

The good news that comes out of this AI problem is the strong multiplayer mode. That's right--with the optional Game Link cable, two Warlockedgamers can be (forgive the pun, we couldn't resist!) locked in war with each other. In fact, during the single-player game, it's possible to unlock special multiplayer maps (eight in all). This head-to-head option proved to be the most fun game mode of all.

Fans of the bigger, badder RTS games such as WarCraft and Age of Empires will find much to love here. Don't be thrown off by the Game Boy guise--you just might get hooked! --Todd Mowatt

Pros:

• Easy-to-use interface
• Wide variety in gameplay
• Fun head-to-head option

Cons:

• Poor pathfinding artificial intelligence often makes for bumbling troops

Product Description

Humans and beasts are fighting for control of the planet. Choose which side you wish to control and try to eliminate the other faction in a total of 24 missions. You must take control of groups of archers, grunts, knights, and dragons, each unit with a special purpose. Grunts are used to harvest resources, while knights and archers are military units that attack up-close and from a distance respectively. The most powerful unit in the game is the dragon, which must be raised from an egg. The ultimate goal is to balance defending your outpost with attacking your enemies. A unique addition to the gameplay is the availability of ultra-powerful wiz units. There are 27 to be found; however, only few of them will be available on a cartridge. So you must trade wiz units with a friend to collect them all. Try to manage an army and defeat your enemies in WARLOCKED

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE game to own on GBC!, July 16, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Warlocked (Game Cartridge)

Imagine a game where YOU take the lead of either a massive evil army of beasts or an empire of good humans. Wage wars against the humans or beasts. Control knights, goblins, grunts, warriors, human and skeleton archers, wizards and even dragons! The voice samples in this game are simply ear candy and the graphics rule. A must buy for any gamer! -- .......

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars T.J. Wilson-A #1 Warlocked Fan!!!, March 26, 2001

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Warlocked (Game Cartridge)

What an awseome game!I would definitely reccomend you buy Warlocked!Now,don't get any ideas about players saying the graphics arn't good.That's their opinion,but my opinion is the graphics are awesome!!!You get to control an army of wizards, warriors(knights),archers,and you even get to control goblins(grunts) and make them build you buildings to help your army!There are a total of 26 levels.The first 2 levels prepare you for the other levels,so it's not a hard game to learn how to play,but it's very challenging.My favorite part of the game is getting to control wizards like Windwiz and Necromnancer. Warlocked was one of my first GBC games,and it will always be my favorite!!!

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Locked on WarLocked, September 24, 2000

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TO fan in Washington (Ellensburg, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Warlocked (Game Cartridge)

I think this is the best game for GBC if you are a RTS fan I have ben playing it nonstop for over a week. Basically it is a copy of war craft and/or Age of Kings but with less units, even with les units you dont realy need anyting but Knights and Archers... but calvery would be nice.... At first it may seem too easy but it gets HARD later on ex. killing giant spiders, rescuing wizards with only 2 grunts (grunts can't attack), repelling attacks on your main hall... even though you can only build 3 types of units the MANY different wizards and dragons keep you busy. Once you beat a campaign you think " I'm done" but you still have the other race to play as, plus the army's menu and the wizards will keep you busy ( it seemes that you can never have enough wizards.) also you can fied bonis games will keep you playing like puzles and five card stud. Over all.....BUY IT! It's like having a PC game that you can play any where and keep in you'r pocket!!!!!!!!