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Publisher: Electronic Arts (US/EU), Electronic Arts Victor (JP) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Climax | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensor: Blizzard Entertainment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Original system(s): IBM PC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer(s) of original games: Blizzard Entertainment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (1Track) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Warcraft II: The Dark Saga (ウォークラフトIIダークサーガ) is a Sega Saturn real-time strategy game developed by Climax. A combined port of the titular 1995 Blizzard Entertainment game Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness and its expansion pack Beyond the Dark Portal, it was first published in the United States and Europe by Electronic Arts in August 1997, and was later localized and published in Japan by Electronic Arts Victor the following November.
The game is the only title in Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft series released for home game consoles.
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Versions
The Dark Saga contains all missions from Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness and its expansion pack, Beyond the Dark Portal, and additionally allows up to sixteen units to be selected at once, rather than the original's nine.
Production credits
- Original WarCraft II Game Design: Blizzard Entertainment
- Beyond the Dark Portal Development: CyberLore Studios
- Executive Producer: Steve Rechtschaffner
- Associate Producer: Dennis Hirsch
- Assistant Producer: Kevin Loh
- Senior Development Director: Pauline Moller
- Production Assistants: Wendell Harlow. Adrienne Travica
- Technical Director: Yggy King
- Product Manager: Peter Rovea
- UK Marketing Manager: Sean Ratcliffe
- Public Relations Manager: Keith Dundas
- President: Karl Jeffery
- Executive Producer: Tim May
- Vice President: Chris Bergstresser
- Lead Programmer: Dave Looker
- Programmers: Damian Stones, Tom Pinnock, Darren White, Dave Thorburn, Tony Mack
- Art Director: Thor Hayton
- Artists: Mike Baxter, Andy Oakley, Alan Weaver, Mike Oakley, Lewis Cooper
- Audio Lead: Matt Simmonds
- QA Project Coordinator: Rod Higo
- Lead Testers: Tim Lewinson, Geoffrey Ball
- Assistant Leads: Edwin Singh, Lori Wilson
- Testers: Aaron Watmough, Ryan Yewell, Octavio Izaurralde, Ryan Savella, Colin Currie, Ian Ritchie, Greg Chan-Eather, Randy Deluna, Fausto Mazzuto, Joel Frigon, Avinash Narayan, Koji Sato, RJ Thompson, Patrick Donaghy, Justin Wiebe
- Mastering: Peter Petkov, Cary Chao, Jeff Hutchinson
- QA Database Support Guru: Bob Purewal
- Documentation: Jason Armatta
- Documentation Layout: Corinne Mah
- Package Design: Mary Mitchell
- Package Illustration: Courtesy of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
- Package Art Direction: Jennie Maruyama
- Quality Assurance: Matthew "The Tick" Murphy, Big John Hanley, Gregg Pollack
- Thanks to the gang at Blizzard: Shane Dabiri, Mike Morhaime, Joeray Hall, Pattrick Wyatt, Bill Roper, Duane Stinnett, Paul Sams
- Special Thanks: Don Mattrick, Paulette Doudelle, Steve Fitton, Julio Valladares, James Fairweather, Patrick Ratto, Sue Garfield, Louis Mutter (Davidson), Chris Yashimora (Davidson), Susan Wooley (Davidson), Kirby Leung
Magazine articles
- Main article: Warcraft II: The Dark Saga/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Physical scans
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Technical information
ROM dump status
System | Hash | Size | Build Date | Source | Comments | |||||||||
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634,364,976 | CD-ROM (EU) | T-5023H-50 V1.000 | ||||||||||
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505,715,280 | 1997-09-27 | CD-ROM (JP) | T-10623G V1.000 | |||||||||
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634,367,328 | CD-ROM (US) | T-5023H V1.000 |
References
- ↑ File:Warcraft2 Saturn JP Box Back.jpg
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://sega.jp/fb/segahard/ss/soft_licensee3.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-03-20 23:05)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Press release: 1997-08-20: Electronic Arts to Ship Warcraft II: The Dark Saga for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Computer & Video Games, "September 1997" (UK; 1997-08-13), page 76
- ↑ File:Warcraft2 sat us manual.pdf, page 24
- ↑ Consoles News, "Septembre 1997" (FR; 1997-08-28), page 120
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "September 1997" (US; 1997-0x-xx), page 50
- ↑ Famitsu, "1997-12-05" (JP; 1997-11-21), page 1
- ↑ Fun Generation, "09/97" (DE; 1997-08-13), page 80
- ↑ Game Power, "Ottobre 1997" (IT; 1997-xx-xx), page 44
- ↑ GamePro, "September 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 100
- ↑ Hobby Consolas, "Agosto 1997" (ES; 1997-xx-xx), page 76
- ↑ Level, "11/97" (TR; 1997-xx-xx), page 1
- ↑ MAN!AC, "09/97" (DE; 1997-08-06), page 80
- ↑ Mega Force, "Juillet/Août 1997" (FR; 1997-0x-xx), page 54
- ↑ Mega Fun, "09/97" (DE; 1997-08-06), page 40
- ↑ neXt Level, "September 1997" (DE; 1997-08-22), page 72
- ↑ Playmag, "Septembre 1997" (FR; 1997-0x-xx), page 110
- ↑ Saturn Fan, "1997 No. 22" (JP; 1997-11-14), page 187
- ↑ Saturn Fan, "1998 No. 2" (JP; 1998-01-16), page 106
- ↑ Saturn Power, "September 1997" (UK; 1997-07-29), page 76
- ↑ Sega Magazin, "September 1997" (DE; 1997-08-13), page 68
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1997" (UK; 1997-08-13), page 76
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "1997-42 (1997-12-05)" (JP; 1997-11-21), page 186
- ↑ Super Juegos, "Septiembre 1997" (ES; 1997-0x-xx), page 102
- ↑ Video Games, "8/97" (DE; 1997-07-30), page 94
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