NightCaster: Defeat the Darkness is an adventure developed by VR1 Entertainment, released 22 January 2002 on Xbox.
What NightCaster: Defeat the Darkness is
NightCaster: Defeat the Darkness is an adventure game developed by VR1 Entertainment and released in 2002. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
NightCaster is a third-person, single-player, action-adventure game for the Xbox, developed by VR1 Entertainment and published by Microsoft. Players take the role of Arran, a novice wizard whose magical power grows as he ages throughout his quest to collect spells and rid the world of eternal night. NightCaster was released on December 26, 2001 and its ESRB rating is Teen. In December 2002, the sequel, NightCaster II: Equinox, was released, with two-player compatibility. The game received generally middling reviews with a Metacritic average of 61
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
NightCaster: Defeat the Darkness holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 30% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
NightCaster: Defeat the Darkness launched on 22 January 2002, within three weeks of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Metal Slug 4 and La Pucelle Tactics. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Metal Slug 4, La Pucelle Tactics.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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