Heroes Chronicles: Conquest of the Underworld
Conquest of the Underworld is the second part of Heroes Chronicles, following Warlords of the Wasteland and preceding Heroes Chronicles: Masters of the Elements. Years after being slain in combat by Rion…
Heroes Chronicles: Conquest of the Underworld is a strategy developed by New World Computing, released 27 September 2000 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Heroes Chronicles: Conquest of the Underworld is
Heroes Chronicles: Conquest of the Underworld is a strategy game developed by New World Computing and released in 2000. It was published by The 3DO Company. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In Conquest of the Underworld, some years after Rion Gryphonheart's death, his soul is stolen from Paradise and taken into the depths of the Underworld. The Ancestors send Tarnum to aid Queen Allison of Erathia in saving her father's soul. On the first layer of the Underworld, Tarnum searches for the Orb of Inhibition so that the Boatman will take him to the next level. Allison wishes to accompany Tarnum in battle, but Tarnum insists that she stay behind practicing. In the second layer of the Underworld, Tarnum and his men are affected by ghosts from their past. From his nightmares, Tarnum learns that his older sister was almost killed by his Barbarian armies, but was saved by Rion…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Might and Magic series
Heroes Chronicles: Conquest of the Underworld is the 20th of 56 entries we hold in the Might and Magic series. The next entry was Heroes Chronicles: The World Tree in 2000.
What it launched against
Heroes Chronicles: Conquest of the Underworld launched on 27 September 2000, within three weeks of Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Dino Crisis 2 and Zeus: Master of Olympus.
Released around the same time: Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Dino Crisis 2, Zeus: Master of Olympus.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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