Savage: The Battle for Newerth
Savage: The Battle for Newerth was originally released by S2 Games in September 2003 and eventually became freeware 3 years later in September 2006, when the game has been officially abandoned and made open…
Savage: The Battle for Newerth is a fighting developed by S2 Games, released 9 September 2003 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Savage: The Battle for Newerth is
Savage: The Battle for Newerth is a fighting game developed by S2 Games and released in 2003. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Savage: The Battle for Newerth was originally released by S2 Games in September 2003 and eventually became freeware 3 years later in September 2006, when the game has been officially abandoned and made open source. The last official patch (2.0e) came out in January 2004. Since then Savage: The Battle for Newerth has been continuously improved by the Savage community: from 2004 to 2005 by the EX2 team, from 2005 to 2007 by the SEP/SFE team and since 2008 by the Savage XR team. Although the game has been criticized for being released in an unpolished state, lacking basic features and any kind of tutorials, Savage: The Battle for Newerth with its innovative RTS/FPS gameplay was far ahead of…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, science fiction and warfare.
How it was received
Savage: The Battle for Newerth holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 84% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 14 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Savage: The Battle for Newerth launched on 9 September 2003, within three weeks of Tales of Symphonia, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run and Age of Mythology: The Titans. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Tales of Symphonia, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run, Age of Mythology: The Titans.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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