Skies of Arcadia
Arcadia is a world where continents float high above, and people travel by airships. Among the countries of this world, the most powerful one is the Empire of Valua. Guided by its greedy admirals, Valua…
Skies of Arcadia is an adventure developed by Overworks, released 5 October 2000 on Dreamcast.
What Skies of Arcadia is
Skies of Arcadia is an adventure game developed by Overworks and released in 2000. It was published by Sega. It is available on Dreamcast only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game takes place in the fictional skies referred to as Arcadia, where six civilizations coexist on floating continents orbited by six moons of different colors. Thousands of years prior to the present time of the game, the civilizations, one of which existed for each moon, developed technologically to the point where each created a Gigas, a colossal living weapon of mass destruction, controlled by a Moon Crystal. Using the Gigas, the civilizations warred with one another, threatening the extinction of humanity. The most advanced, the Silver Civilization, used their Gigas to summon the Rains of Destruction, which pulled meteors from the orbiting moons and crashed them down onto the…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Skies of Arcadia holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 18 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Skies of Arcadia launched on 5 October 2000, within three weeks of Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Skies of Arcadia yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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