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Cultures 2: The Gates of Asgard

The Viking Bjarni whiles his days days away in an idyllic village on Greenland’s coast until a dark prophecy knocks on his door. In his premonition, Bjarni witnesses an epic struggle between the forces of Good…

63 26 August 2002

Cultures 2: The Gates of Asgard is an adventure developed by Funatics Development, released 26 August 2002 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Cultures 2: The Gates of Asgard is

Cultures 2: The Gates of Asgard is an adventure game developed by Funatics Development and released in 2002. It was published by JoWooD Productions Software. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Viking Bjarni whiles his days days away in an idyllic village on Greenland’s coast until a dark prophecy knocks on his door. In his premonition, Bjarni witnesses an epic struggle between the forces of Good and Evil. He must journey to battle the Midgard Serpent. Get ready for a quest that will take you through Europe (including England and Byzantium) and the outskirts of Baghdad. Your journey will unite the four great western cultures with a common purpose. But how long can it last? Inspired by Norse mythology, the real time strategy title, Cultures 2: Gates of Asgard, combines elements of simulation, adventure, and role-playing to immerse you in Bjarni’s quest to defeat the fabled…
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How it plays

Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), historical and sandbox.

How it was received

Cultures 2: The Gates of Asgard holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Cultures 2: The Gates of Asgard launched on 26 August 2002, within three weeks of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Battlefield 1942, Mafia and Syberia. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Battlefield 1942, Mafia, Syberia.

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When did Cultures 2: The Gates of Asgard come out?
Cultures 2: The Gates of Asgard was released on 26 August 2002 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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