Untold Legends 2 :The Warrior's Code is Sony Online Entertainment's second foray into this series. This series, played on the Playstation Portable is the followup to the top-selling Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade, which launched in 2005 with the PSP.

In The Warrior's Code, the realm is one of chaos and oppression as a powerful warlod's strange and horrific minions continue to slaughter and enslave the people. When members of a secret shape-shifter race begin to disappear, suspicions of an isidious plot to exterminate this ancient people lead many to flee into the wilderness for survival. While struggling to evade capture and death, some of thes shape-shifting refugees stumble upon a carefully gaurded and stunning secret that rekindles hope for freedom and peace in the realm.

SOE is advertising The Warrior's Code as an entirely new game from Brotherhood of the Blade, and as such, will offer veterans of the first game a completely new experience. This will be accomplished by The Warriors Code's brand new art style, 3D engine, storyline, and characters, as well as a nice little feature: the returning ability to play multiplayer games over the PSP's wireless network or via the internet in a two-player cooperative mood.

The Warrior's Code is an action RPG dungeon crawl with gameplay aspects that borrows heavily from Baulders Gate: Dark Allaince and Champions of Norrath style games. SOE says The Warrior's Code's story-driven, single-player campaign will contain five acts, each of which has six main quests and those will themselves have varying subquests. All together, there should be well more than 40 quests for the player to undertake, once completed the game can be replayed again with an enhanced character at a harder difficulty for extra challenge and replay value.

In The Warriors Code, players will create a character from five archetypes: Mercenary, Scout, Prowler, Disciple, and Gaurdian. Each of these character types are varied and have unique weapons, attacks, and changing forms. These forms can deviate greatly, from the Scout's changing form of the Hellcat (a furry's worst nightmare), to the Disciple and its Behemoth form (which resembles a big furry sumo wrestler with pigtails). Each character type promises a unique gameplay experince.

It looks like The Warrior's Code will have plenty of substance, not to mention a raft of substantive improvements from the original Untold Legends. For fans of the Champions of Norrath & the Baulder's Gate: Dark Alliance series this is one game to pay close attention to.

SCREENS

• Scout showing some monsters a good time
• Skills screen
• Big sword, Dead Baddy

LINKS

• Forum Discussion
• Official Website