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Hexcite: The Shapes of Victory

The world's best strategy games have two things in common: they start with a deceptively simple board and the goal of taking territory from your opponents. Now HEXCITE brings a whole new shape to strategy…

21 October 1998

Hexcite: The Shapes of Victory is a puzzle developed by Landwarf, released 21 October 1998 on Game Boy Color.

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What Hexcite: The Shapes of Victory is

Hexcite: The Shapes of Victory is a puzzle game developed by Landwarf and released in 1998. It was published by Ubi Soft Entertainment. It is available on Game Boy Color only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The world's best strategy games have two things in common: they start with a deceptively simple board and the goal of taking territory from your opponents. Now HEXCITE brings a whole new shape to strategy games. In HEXCITE, 1 or 2 players battle to dominate the board with pieces of different shapes and sizes. Like any great strategy game, HEXCITE is simple to learn, but challenging to master. And every round is unpredictable until the last play. Who knows? HEXCITE could be the shape of things to come!
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Hexcite: The Shapes of Victory launched on 21 October 1998, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, MediEvil I and The House of the Dead 2.

Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, MediEvil I, The House of the Dead 2.

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When did Hexcite: The Shapes of Victory come out?
Hexcite: The Shapes of Victory was released on 21 October 1998 for Game Boy Color.

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