Myth 2 review

The game I will review is Myth 2 Soulblighter back in 1998 when I was a student a game came out that I couldn't stop playing. Recently while moving house I loaded up this gem from a by-gone age and once again I am addicted.

Myth 2 is suprisingly the sequel to the sucessful Myth. It is based in a medieval world which is again being invaded by the remains of the dead under the hideous noseless soulblighter.

Each level is peceeded by a diary extrtact setting the scene as the living attempt to stem this ever growing tide of mortal remains, this sets the scene perfectly as this eery voice over pulls no punches and raises the moral stakes after each level, you are under no misapprehensions about the fate of this world being in your hands.

Each level is based in a rolling 3D (Voxel) landscape filled with squirrels and trees and the joys of nature. You are assigned troops for each mission, sometimes after an objective is reached you will reciev some more, but you never have too many.

Into this world are placed hordes of shambling dead, who attempt to thwart your aims, some of these monsters don't shamble most are as fast if not faster than you. (as in 28 days later) which makes you take care of your small force.

The amount of your troops for each level does not vary however each level your troops get experience and some appear in level after level, until they one day very easily get killed. It is easy to die in this game.

Your weapons vary but mostly you fight with swords, arrows and molotov cocktail weilding dwarfs. The latter being the most fun to play, as the physics engine is a delight. If for example in a particularly wet environment you throw a number of explosives on top of each other annd they fail to go off they will sit there, if however a grenade explodes over them they will re-ignite flying randomly around causing a massive explosion.

All these ingredients form a game that even if you have played a level hundreds of times each time is unique, and can be played hundreds of ways. This game has definate lastibility. I'm playing it 8 years later


I give this game
Gameplay 9
Graphics 8
Sound 9
Value 10
Tilt 10

9.5