When Julian Gollop released Chaos: The Battle of Wizards in 1985, he thought the game was a failure. In an age without internet and little interaction between developer and publisher, it took him a long time to realise that his inventive turn-based strategy title had become one of the ZX Spectrum’s most popular games. “I gave the game as a Your Sinclair (magazine) cover tape and that’s where it achieved its most widely known distribution. Yet it wasn’t until the summer after that I realised that the game was actually quite popular and people started talking about it, and wanted to do remakes of it. So at the time, for a long time, I never thought it would be that popular.” Now, almost 30 years on from the original and its rather different sequel Lords of Chaos, Gollop has decided to bring the series back to its roots with Chaos Reborn.
It seems amazing that a few blocky pixels and the odd beep could produce so many emotional highs and lows. Chaos, a multiplayer tactical game of duelling wizards, with its wild swings of luck often led to equally wild swings of mood.
Chaos Reborn is a turn-based strategy game that comes from Snapshot Games and X-Com designer Julian Gollop. It’s based on Gollop’s 1985 Games Workshop Chaos, and follows many of the original’s tenets.
Proud Kickstarter backer. This is a fair score, but I would nudge it a bit higher myself. 85 overall, and almost definitely a "must buy" for fans of the genre.
Tom Chick - "If there’s such a thing as 'too small to fail', it applies to this wonderful gem."
