Hunter: The Reckoning Wayward
Evil exists everywhere, but it is unseen by most. As a Hunter, you have the special gift--or curse--to recognize and destroy the evil that has come back from the dead to dwell the earth. This time, an evil…
Hunter: The Reckoning Wayward is an adventure developed by High Voltage Software, released 9 October 2003 on PlayStation 2.
What Hunter: The Reckoning Wayward is
Hunter: The Reckoning Wayward is an adventure game developed by High Voltage Software and released in 2003. It was published by Vivendi Universal Games. It is available on PlayStation 2 only. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Evil exists everywhere, but it is unseen by most. As a Hunter, you have the special gift--or curse--to recognize and destroy the evil that has come back from the dead to dwell the earth. This time, an evil cult has formed in Ashcroft and it's up to Hunters to destroy it. Choose from five playable characters--each with unique weapons, edges, and supernatural abilities--and fight crowds of monstrous enemies. Based on White Wolf's pen-and-paper role-playing game, Hunter: The Reckoning Wayward combines an intense storyline, deadly characters, and gothic environments.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the World of Darkness series
Hunter: The Reckoning Wayward is the third of 47 entries we hold in the World of Darkness series. It arrived a year after Hunter: The Reckoning. The next entry was Hunter: The Reckoning - Redeemer in 2003. Its critic score of 80 is 10 points above the series average of 70. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Hunter: The Reckoning Wayward holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Hunter: The Reckoning Wayward launched on 9 October 2003, within three weeks of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Jak II and SSX 3. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Jak II, SSX 3.
Official trailer
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