Summoner 2: info, pics, music... inside!

Volition and THQ are into the full swing of development for their RPG sequel, Summoner 2, and as with the original, we can expect constant updates through the official site. The latest update contains plenty of media and information. For starters, the site has interviewed the Lead Designer of the game, Sandeep Shekar, where he discusses what kinds of changes we can expect in Summoner 2 and how it will connect to the original.
We now have information on The Nhuvasarim, one of the many types of enemies gamers can expect to run into during their adventure, as well as an MP3 of the theme for Munari City:

Munari City music (ZIP/MP3)

The Nhuvasarim were an ancient sect of necromancers. Their rituals involved torture and blood sacrifice, believing that the suffering of their victims would make them powerful.

The Nhuvasarim first appeared in Halassar after the Tree of Eleh shattered. At the core of their heresy was the worship of Laharah as a diabolical goddess of death. In their version of the myth, Laharah destroyed the Tree of Eleh to punish the people she had created.

As the Nhuvasarim grew powerful, the kings of Halassar fell under their corrupt influence. Their reign ended when Githiran, first emperor of Galdyr, conquered Halassar. Githiran sealed the evil sorcerers within the pages of a book, and the people of Halassar embraced Laharah as the goddess of life once again.

But a few survivors fled east to Medeva and Orenia. There people worshiped Urath, god of the Sudani. In these new lands, Laharah was unknown, and the Nhuvasarim converted many to their heresy and its goddess of death. As a new holy war erupted, the myth of the Araenugeth (the “War of the Gods”) was born.

After centuries of bloodshed, the last of the Nhuvasarim perished in the fires of the Inquisition. Their teachings, however, survived to inspire future tyrants of Medeva and Orenia, including the villains of Summoner 1.










More shots here.

hmmm this one looks as bad (graphically) as the first one. Not impressive at all. Might play good, like the first one.

looks good,not great!!! last pic is quite good though.

hope they fix the draw distance and bad camera angles in this one though, as it made the 1st bad, though the games was good

never played the first... but I heard it sucked?


I\'ll give this a try if it gets reasonable reviews.

the 1st one rocked

but we all know its about graphics and not gameplay

Plus the story in the SUmmoner was far ebtter then any story in any video game I\'ve ever played

graphics are still weak, but I bet it looks better in motion then it does in a capature


all the draw in problems are suposedly fixed, and the battle system has been revamped as well which disspoints me cause I loved the 1st one

but then I was good at it

The combat system in Summoner ruined the game for me.  I don\'t think I\'ve ever played an RPG with such dull, repetitive real-time battles.  It\'s nice to hear the Volition wised up and changed it, and hopefully it\'ll be for the better.

Originally posted by 182Ways
The combat system in Summoner ruined the game for me.  I don\'t think I\'ve ever played an RPG with such dull, repetitive real-time battles.  It\'s nice to hear the Volition wised up and changed it, and hopefully it\'ll be for the better.

did you finish the game ??? Cause the game picked up the pace in the 2nd half

I thought it was killer. I had 5 characters going and had to continue to switch between each 5 to reposition them and start an attack while switching agaoin to my helaer to keep the team alive

I loved the that ability.

compared to Turned Based RPG\'s the Summoer destroyed them.
Nothing is more exciting as choosing a menu and scrolling to the desired action. ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Please tell me of some other multiple character one player real time RPG\'s out there.

the chain attack system is one of my faovrites. Vagrant Story rocked and the Summoner added to it by allowing  you to control multiple charachters. If you liked Vagrant Story there is no way youy culdn\'t enjoy the Summoner

Yeah, I finished the game.  But the combat system never got any better.

I find even turn-based battles to be more exciting than those I encountered in Summoner.  You run up to an enemy, attack them with your sword, and then begin a tedious process of pressing directonal buttons.  Rinse.  Repeat.  Die of boredom.

Multiple-character, real-time (I use that term loosely) battles should be more along the lines of Star Ocean 2 or Tales of Destiny only with a stronger emphasis on melee combat, or like Dark Cloud or Zelda with more than one character.  

And no, I didn\'t like Vagrant Story.

different strokes for different folks

I can do with out Turn based RPG\'s in the Japanese anime styled console RPG sense

and Vagrant Story is my favorite game eva, I\'ll take the chain attack system

Summoner was great fun and I wish to god there were a heluva alot more RPG\'s being made more like it, minus the technical short comings of course. But since the Japanese are the only BIG Dev companies making large budgeted RPG\'s I\'ll just have to face facts and realize there won\'t be many good RPG\'s for me to play on the PS2


Games like Drakan and Summoner are 2 of my favorites, not very popular with the majority though.

Looks pretty good... - for a 3 year old PC game running on a Pentium II.

Those screenshots look like complete a$$. Volition should be ashamed of themselves for putting out shots like that.

well i didnt really like the fighting in summoner, i only got aout of first big town, had a ring and another character...i liked ita bit, but didnt really like it, i found the tming hard as the screen was sooo zoomed out......i liked vagrant story, bu didnt like the fighting on this..hope its all improved

I\'m sorry but...

the first Summoner is probably the worst game i\'ve ever played on PS2....


thus, there is no way this one can interest me.

Originally posted by kopking
well i didnt really like the fighting in summoner, i only got aout of first big town, had a ring and another character...i liked ita bit, but didnt really like it, i found the tming hard as the screen was sooo zoomed out......i liked vagrant story, bu didnt like the fighting on this..hope its all improved

umm the camera was completely controllable and had a zoom in and out feature

also if you didn\'t play the game at least to the 1/2 point you missed out on where the action really picked up and the storyline took off

The Summoner was the best stroy in a videogame I\'ve ever enjoyed with Vagrant Story being a close 2nd

the 1st  game is still one of my favorite RPG\'s and the 2nd one is the few present reasons why I\'ll be keeping my PS2

Originally posted by ddaryl



umm the camera was completely controllable and had a zoom in and out feature

also if you didn\'t play the game at least to the 1/2 point you missed out on where the action really picked up and the storyline took off

The Summoner was the best stroy in a videogame I\'ve ever enjoyed with Vagrant Story being a close 2nd

the 1st  game is still one of my favorite RPG\'s and the 2nd one is the few present reasons why I\'ll be keeping my PS2

Bah.. You hate Jak and Dax... But love this game... I dunno about you. jk...

Honestly I actuallly dont understand the so called hardcore gamer, but there is a quite a few people who loved the Summoner. For some reason they jsut don\'t hang out here, same with Drakan,another awesome realtime action RPG but yet the so called hardcore who hand out here didn\'t fgive it a try probably cause it wasn\'t Japanese enough.... I find it kinda sad

but at least no one can say I only like whats popular. I find Japanese RPG\'s are to melodramatic for my tastes. The turn based random battle systems are a big turn off to me as well

Summoner was fantastic in story and gameplay. It started slow but it got very interesting about 1/3 of the way in. I\'ve never played a multiple character realtime  RPG before the Summoner and haven\'t played on esince so maybe there are some out there. Just not on the PS2

I thought the chain attack system and the way you could level up all 4 of your characters with different traits was great

the technical aspect like the fix camera in the city of Lanelle which did suck as did  draw in also in the city of Lanelle but its not about graphics right ???