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Pyrrhic Tales: Prelude to Darkness

Pyrrhic Tales: Prelude to Darkness is a dark, sophisticated fantasy CRPG featuring complex, turn-based tactical combat, 3D graphics, a skill-based character advancement system, and an intricate, involved plot…

15 November 2002

Pyrrhic Tales: Prelude to Darkness is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Zero Sum, released 15 November 2002 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Pyrrhic Tales: Prelude to Darkness is

Pyrrhic Tales: Prelude to Darkness is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Zero Sum and released in 2002. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

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Pyrrhic Tales: Prelude to Darkness is a dark, sophisticated fantasy CRPG featuring complex, turn-based tactical combat, 3D graphics, a skill-based character advancement system, and an intricate, involved plot. Prelude thrives on the tradition of true role-playing games, allowing players to craft a diverse team and become a part of a large and intricate world with a rich history, hundreds of non-player characters, and nearly endless paths and subplots. Prelude takes place in a huge river valley, surrounded on all sides by impassable cliffs. The Children of the Flame have been at peace with the People of the River for a thousand years. But something has changed. Ethnic tensions have suddenly…
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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.

What it launched against

Pyrrhic Tales: Prelude to Darkness launched on 15 November 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Metroid Fusion.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Metroid Fusion.

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Pyrrhic Tales: Prelude to Darkness was released on 15 November 2002 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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