Dark Sun: Shattered Lands
Shattered Lands is the first in a series of computer role-playing games based in the highly acclaimed AD&D 2nd Edition DARK SUN game world. You begin the game as a gladiator about to fight in King…
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands is a role-playing (rpg) developed by SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc.), released 31 December 1993 on DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Dark Sun: Shattered Lands is
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc.) and released in 1993. It is available on DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Dark Sun.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Dark Sun world of Athas is arid and bleak, a wasteland with a handful of cities ruled by thousand-year-old sorcerer-kings. Your party begins as slaves in the city of Draj, destined to die as gladiators in the Arena. You must find a way to escape into the hostile wilderness, join with other escaped slaves and create a rebel force powerful enough to destroy the evil sorcerer-king's army.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Dungeons & Dragons series
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands is the 32nd of 140 entries we hold in the Dungeons & Dragons series. The next entry was Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor in 1993.
What it launched against
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands launched on 31 December 1993, within three weeks of Doom, Mega Man X, Theme Park and Windjammers.
Released around the same time: Doom, Mega Man X, Theme Park, Windjammers.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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