Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds (1995) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds

Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds was the follow-up of the successful yet underrated game, Magic Carpet. It fixed many of the design complaints present in the first Magic Carpet. The basic concept of the game…

90 8 September 1995

What Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds is

Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds is a shooter game developed by Bullfrog Productions and released in 1995. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The apprentice's master, who died after unleashing his deadly spell, was being spied upon by the Netherworld's ruler, Vissiluth, who is now intent on conquering the world of the living. It's once again up to this apprentice to stop him, by battling this demon. The NPC wizards are now considered to be Vissiluth's lackeys. They are all based in a city just before Vissiluth's seat of power. After the enemy wizards are vanquished, the apprentice takes an underground passage to reach Vissiluth's citadel. After the apprentice destroys the citadel, Vissiluth emerges and the two do battle. Upon emerging victorious, a volcano spews out mana in all different colours.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 94% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 24 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds launched on 8 September 1995, within three weeks of Rayman, Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest, Wipeout and MTV's Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Rayman, Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest, Wipeout, MTV's Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity.

Cheats and codes

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