#storm warrior

[rp-kat]

Bloodstock ‘05

2005

Wacken Magazin

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@tumbleduke I found a working K-Tel Storm Warrior ROM! Overall more exciting than Elite’s. This game obliterated me pretty quickly haha.

[c64screengrabs]

@tumbleduke requested Storm Warrior (Front Runner version), and having never played this, I am not sure which version that is. I found a 1984 release by K-Tel (top image), and a 1988 release by Elite (the remainder of the screens). Tumbleduke, does one of these look right?

I would have gotten more screens of the former one but I couldn’t seem to start the game. As for Elite’s version, the music was very good, graphics fairly good, but I found the game a bit boring because it was kind of...empty. Besides the enemies, there are no sprites aside from an odd turret that flings projectiles at you, and static landscape. Even though the landscapes and backgrounds feel inspired by Ghosts & Goblins, there’s a lack of movement and energy that G&G achieved.

It’s also really amusingly obvious during gameplay that the player character design and animation was heavily based on Palace Software’s Barbarian, which was released the year before. The movement, attack sequences and even the way the enemies fall over dead are very close to Barbarian’s design; however, what it lacks in similarity to G&G it also lacks in similarity to Barbarian - the overall gameplay is stiff and somewhat slow.

[englishcarssince1946]

2003 Storm Warrior Thunderwagon

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Producenterne bag den måske kommende tv-serie 'Storm Warrior' er usædvanligt ambitiøse. Selvom finansieringen endnu ikke er på plads, vil de have lige så mange seere som ’Game of Thrones’.

Apparently, there’s going to be another huge viking tv show, called “Storm Warrior”, which will be shot mostly in Denmark, in Lejre. So, a lot less fjords than Vikings, I suppose.

There’s still far too little information for me to form an opinion. The article makes the people behind it sound ridiculously ambitious (they want as many viewers as GoT and to be more historically correct than Vikings or GoT, to mention two things), and from what I can see on Imdb, the series so far manages to have a lot of actors that only succeed in making me go “who?” Though to be fair, that was also true for Vikings when that one started, so - I guess we’ll see next year.