GiN:
Swords and Sorcery: Underworld is an interesting gaming experience. It’s a new game that appears like a traditional Might & Magic or Wizardry game, allowing you to create your own party of characters, adventuring in first person, etc., with all of the old timey flair those games may have had. The Dark Spire as well as the Etrian Odyssey games also make a very good comparison, due to the highly customizable nature of your party. This is a new game styled as an old-school RPG, straight out of the late 80’s, to the point that even the art style evokes the source material.
Swords and Sorcery - Underworld Gold is the debut effort from OlderBytes, which means it's largely the work of a single programmer / writer named Charles Clerc. Clerc is apparently a fan of old school RPGs like Eye of the Beholder and the SSI Gold Box games, because Underworld Gold goes out of its way to emulate them. The question is, though, does it merely evoke fond memories of earlier games, or does it manage to generate any of its own?
OlderBytes Studio today confirmed the upcoming release of the highly-anticipated Gold Edition of its old-school 80's style first-person party-based, RPG Swords and Sorcery -- Underworld.
