Chaos Wars

This article is about the PlayStation 2 video game. For the fictional Dragonlance world, see Chaos War.
Chaos Wars

North American cover art
Developer(s) Idea Factory
Publisher(s)
Director(s) Masato Sato
Producer(s) Norihisa Kochiwa
Designer(s) Masato Sato
Platform(s) PlayStation 2
Release date(s)
  • JP September 21, 2006
  • NA June 3, 2008
Genre(s) Tactical role-playing
Mode(s) Single-player

Chaos Wars (カオスウォーズ Kaosu Wōzu) is a tactical role-playing video 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 video game series, including Aruze's Shadow Hearts, Atlus's Growlanser, Idea Factory's Blazing Souls, Spectral Souls: Resurrection of the Ethereal Empires, 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. Due to the voice actors sharing last names with members of the publishing team, it's believed they were relatives of the team.[2]

Story

Hyoma, the protagonist, has a dream of another world over a pillar of light coming from his family shrine that has been missing since his ancestor's time. The next day, he decides to take his two friends, Shinzuku and Hayate, to investigate the mountains where his dream took place. 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 transports to the world, he encounters a girl named Rin, the Gatekeeper of Endia, who is surrounded by summoned monsters. After Hyoma helps defeat the creatures the two introduce themselves, Hyoma rudely interrupting her and instead asks how to return to Tokyo. Before Rin could explain, more monsters appear. Hyoma and Rin run together, where they meet up with a friend of Rin's named Hiro. Afterwords, once safe, 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" (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 an 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

Reception

Reception
Aggregate scores
AggregatorScore
GameRankings65.00%[3]
Metacritic64 out of 100[4]

Chaos Wars received generally mixed reviews, it holds a ranking of 64/100 on Metacritic,[4] and 65.00% on GameRankings.[3]IGN gave the game a 7.5 and commented that "In truth it's probably one of Idea Factory's best efforts released here in the States, melding staples of the genre with more open, zippy little ideas". On a negative note, PlayStation: The Official Magazine gave it a 4, saying that "Chaos Wars might draw in some--like fans of the obscure games it's based on, especially those who long for the days of hand-drawn characters and tiny battlefields--but its old-school aesthetic isn't enough to make up for the lackluster production values and uninspired game play".

References

  1. 1 2 Bishop, Sam (May 9, 2008). "Chaos Wars Preview". IGN. pp. 1–2. Retrieved February 27, 2011.
  2. Ashcraft, Brian (2008-06-12). "Not So Good Voice Acting Explained!". Kotaku. Retrieved 2012-04-20.
  3. 1 2 "Chaos Wars for PlayStation 2". Game Rankings. Retrieved February 27, 2011.
  4. 1 2 "Chaos Wars for PlayStation 2". Metacritic. Retrieved February 27, 2011.
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