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Warriors of Might and Magic for PlayStation 1
Warriors of Might and Magic for PlayStation 1 is an action adventure featuring weapons, magic and Alleron's quest. He wears a mask he cannot remove and tries to discover why he was condemned. In the world of Ardon, his personal struggle becomes connected to much older conflicts. You guide him through three-dimensional areas, defeat monsters and find passages that take his journey further. Along the way, you also discover items that let you improve his equipment.
Combat takes place in real time: you attack, defend and cast spells while moving around opponents. You collect different weapons, shields and armour pieces and choose what Alleron wears. Searching chests and breakable objects yields new useful items. Books and conversations provide clues about quests and the surroundings. Between fights, you look for keys and switches, investigate side paths and jump over obstacles to reach the next section.
This is the separate single-player PlayStation 1 game, not the PlayStation 2 release of the same name. You can play with the directional buttons; a DualShock controller is supported too. Saving requires two free blocks on a memory card in slot 1. If you allow saving at the start, the game saves after a completed level and when you run through a Save Gate. Later, Load Game lets you select a save point you reached during your saved adventure.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 1 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Warriors of Might and Magic for PlayStation 1 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Warriors of Might and Magic
Warriors of Might and Magic appeared around the transition from the original PlayStation to PlayStation 2. The 3DO Company developed and published the PlayStation 1 game, released in North America in late 2000 and followed by Europe in 2001. The Might and Magic name was already associated with role-playing and strategy games. Warriors gave that world an adventure in which you move and fight directly, with one visible hero rather than a party controlled through individual commands.
The story introduction in the original manual develops Ardon's background. The Ancients and Kreegan wage a war that repeatedly affects its ordinary inhabitants. In their legends, Einar acts both as a protector and as a dangerous, unpredictable power. That background gives Alleron's journey a scale beyond his own mask and condemnation. Books, conversations and encounters reveal more of that world as you play.
During the same period, 3DO also used the series name for a PlayStation 2 game with the same title. It appeared on different hardware and has a different gameplay implementation. The PlayStation 1 manual, for example, describes progression through Save Gates and completed levels, along with its own control layout. Information about the two games therefore needs to be kept separate. Within the original PlayStation library, Warriors sits alongside Crusaders of Might and Magic as an action game that approaches the fantasy world through a directly controlled hero.
Similar games for PlayStation 1
Crusaders of Might and Magic for PlayStation 1 is the closest comparison: it also combines melee combat, spells and collecting equipment. You follow Drake rather than Alleron, with a different personal story. Both let you guide one hero directly through three-dimensional fantasy areas. Warriors uses its own mystery surrounding the mask and its Ardon background; names, route descriptions and saving instructions from Crusaders therefore cannot simply be applied to this game.
Like Warriors, MediEvil has you fight fantasy creatures with various melee weapons and search for new passages. Its skeletal hero Sir Daniel Fortesque and his surroundings, however, receive a humorous fairy-tale treatment. Warriors focuses on Alleron, his condemnation and the conflict surrounding Ardon. Choosing armour, a shield and spells gives equipment more emphasis there. In MediEvil, collecting Chalices and their associated rewards forms a separate thread through the adventure.
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver shares the directly controlled hero, dark fantasy world and combat between exploring structures. Raziel, however, has his own supernatural abilities, including switching between two worlds. This forms an important part of the spatial puzzles. Warriors builds Alleron's abilities mainly around found equipment and magic. Soul Reaver therefore asks you to look at blocked routes differently from searching for keys and switches in Warriors.
Alundra also combines action combat, puzzles and helping inhabitants affected by a supernatural threat. It shows its world from an angled overhead viewpoint with drawn characters, whereas Warriors uses fully three-dimensional areas. Alundra revolves around dreams and a village's secrets; Warriors centres on Alleron's mask and Ardon. In both games, you need to pay attention to the surroundings between fights, but their camera viewpoints make judging jumps distinctly different.
Like Warriors, Tomb Raider features three-dimensional areas where you cross obstacles, search for switches and encounter enemies. Lara's journey places more emphasis on precise jumps, climbing and understanding large structures. Warriors gives melee combat, shields and spells a bigger role and lets you change equipment you find. Both ask you to look carefully beyond the main path, but Lara's firearms and Alleron's close combat lead to a very different approach to encounters.
