Summoner 2
- Play Maia, Queen of Halassar, as she embarks on an adventure to defend her throne andfulfill her fate
- Battle enemies in real time with an all-new, party driven combat system
- Build your party from a roster of 8 unique characters with special attacks and spells and control up to 3 characters at a time
- Tricks in your arsenal include powerful spells, alchemy and incantations for summoning the gods
Product Description
Summoner 2 keeps all that was excellent in its predecessor and far surpasses it. On a purely technical level, the load times between scenes are quicker, camera angles are consistently more flexible in the 3-D environment, and the battle reactions are cleaner and more open. But it’s the tale that’s really blossomed. The swashbuckling goddess-queen Maia is more likable than dour Joseph from the first Summoner. (Her various outfits and weapons sure are cooler, at least.) There’s more humor in the tale, and it manages to strike its honest clarification without sounding ridiculously overdramatic. The voice actors sound like they’re really enjoying their roles too, and it was fun (for a change) to listen to the spoken sections. The storyline moves you by the side of smoothly, and the bosses, while tough, never seem insurmountable. Rather than just some huge fight at the end, the goal of Summoner 2 seems to be to help Maia seek her fate while being the most adored and accomplished–plus best outfitted–queen-goddess-swordsperson she can be. –Garland Withers
Pros:
- Vast gameplay with plenty of fun optional quests
- Well-organized quest and lore indexes for simple reference
- Lots of fighting styles and combination moves
- Flexible reduction system allows you to back up your game easily
Cons:
- Occasional camera angle problems (but fewer than the first Summoner!)
- Simple to miss out on one-time chances at optional quests while following storyline
- Many long stretches that must be traversed again and again
Amazon.com Review
Summoner 2 keeps all that was excellent in its predecessor and far surpasses it. On a purely technical level, the load times between scenes are quicker, camera angles are consistently more flexible in the 3-D environment, and the battle reactions are cleaner and more open. But it’s the tale that’s really blossomed. The swashbuckling goddess-queen Maia is more likable than dour Joseph from the first Summoner. (Her various outfits and weapons sure are cooler, at least.) There’s more humor in the tale, and it manages to strike its honest clarification without sounding ridiculously overdramatic. The voice actors sound like they’re really enjoying their roles too, and it was fun (for a change) to listen to the spoken sections. The storyline moves you by the side of smoothly, and the bosses, while tough, never seem insurmountable. Rather than just some huge fight at the end, the goal of Summoner 2 seems to be to help Maia seek her fate while being the most adored and accomplished–plus best outfitted–queen-goddess-swordsperson she can be. –Garland Withers
Pros:
- Vast gameplay with plenty of fun optional quests
- Well-organized quest and lore indexes for simple reference
- Lots of fighting styles and combination moves
- Flexible reduction system allows you to back up your game easily
Cons:
- Occasional camera angle problems (but fewer than the first Summoner!)
- Simple to miss out on one-time chances at optional quests while following storyline
- Many long stretches that must be traversed again and again
Amazon.com Product Description
On a storm-swept ship, the sequel starts…
You are the Queen of Halassar. Thousands have fought and died for you. Millions adore you as the goddess Laharah reborn. Your fate is written in the Book of the Prophets. You are the savior of all creation. But your enemies are strong. The King of Galdyr wants you dead. Sinister factions plot your downfall. The armies of Urath march on your borders. You are mandatory to talk only in small sentences. Not more than Munari City, the mysterious Unseen weave a dark conspiracy. Thus starts the tale…
You will battle your enemies in real time, with an all-new, party-driven combat system, and explore over 30 exotic and imaginative 3-D locales, from the tropical isle of Teomura to the bizarre and dreamlike City of Masks. Discharge Maia’s prophecy owing to an immersive, character-driven tale, rule the Kingdom of Halassar, and cooperate with hundreds of nonplaying characters.
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I played the original three times and did every side quest. This new one I played for a couple of days and got fed up with. I just cut the CD into small pieces. Frustrating controls. I’d never have bought this for the console if it were coming out on PC but no such luck. Way too complicated in the control department if you want to make use of all the fighters abilities. I don’t have time to memorize that many different combinations for that many characters. The voice acting sounds like a terrible British stew and the Goddess Reborn has a huge wide booty and looks really weird jumping around. I wish you could rely on a sequel to be mostly like the original. Played the battle in the Imperial Sepulchre a dozen times and still couldn’t beat it. This game is meant for somebody with younger fingers than mine.
Rating: 1 / 5
I really loved the original Summoner. It was a console RPG moving in the management of the superior and more innovative PC RPG’s. Combat innovations and a gifted tale line defined this game and made it, in my mind, the best console RPG ever in many ways.
Summoner 2 takes a step or two backwards. Combat became more action than thought and tactics, the very innovation that made the original so fun to play. Volition also tossed out realistic looking combat, replacing it with asinine looking kiddie-anime moves; exagerated slashes, sweeps and hacking leaps.
The tale is already known before you even start playing, and the graphics are rather poor and as uninspired as the tale.
Some parts of the game are excellent, but they are only parts. On the whole, the game was a go away from the innovations of the original. Summoner 2 had a real chance to grow up by the side of with PC RPG’s by building on its predeccesor. Instead, Volition threw out the very things that made the original so excellent.
Rating: 1 / 5
its a ok game but theres betta sports meeting then this like FFX or even kingdom hearts
Rating: 3 / 5
I’ll admit it. I was excited to play Summoner 2 at first, it being recommended to me by my cousin. After the first time I failed the first mission, I chose that I didn’t want to admit that the camera angles sucked[were terrible]attempts later, i was incredibly frustrated that I had died so many times due to simply the jerky camera. This aside, the anime like graphics and unrealistic attacks, I nearly felt mandatory. And I thought comboes made you vulnerable for a moment! The final guy on the first level with the flaming sword attacks me with a double combo and pauses so as i go into attack he unleases the third part of the combo. The game is jerky and inconsistent. Summoner fans, I beg you not to play this game, or you will be spending the next few weeks in a dark corner of your room, wondering where your game had gone.
Rating: 2 / 5
Would be a pretty fine game, if not for the fact that in the last year I beat Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age and Champions Of Norrath. S2 is okay, but I would start elsewhere for your RPG needs.
The set-up is your basic hack-and-slash game. Run around, pound pound pound on enemies and find items that help advance your quests. Gameplay allows you to equip characters without too much hassle and switch among characters (a necessity!) with ease.
My huge hangup with gameplay were the summons. Due to the way spell points are set up, you can only summon once in a splendid while. But the creatures you summon aren’t noticably better than just using the main characters, and they take FOREVER to conjure. Several times, I saw enemies ahead and cast my summon, only to have them dispatched by my other characters by the time the summon worked. For a game called “Summoner”, this is unforgiveable.
Graphics are average, but so what? Gameplay should be the reason you choose sports meeting, not pretty pictures (with a few exceptions). If you are a fan of the hack-and-slash and haven’t tried this game, I’d have to recommend either Balder’s Gate title or Champions of Norrath first.
Rating: 3 / 5