Archon II: Adept is a 1984 computer game developed by Jon Freeman, Paul Reiche III and Anne Westfall, and distributed by Electronic Arts (and Ariolasoft in Europe) for various platforms.
Adept is a hybrid of a tactical board game and action. It's not based around a chess motif, as the original Archon is, but maintains the concept of "good vs. evil", one on one combat, magic and power points.
Like its predecessor, Adept is a struggle between two o...
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Archon II: Adept is a 1984 computer game developed by Jon Freeman, Paul Reiche III and Anne Westfall, and distributed by Electronic Arts (and Ariolasoft in Europe) for various platforms.
Adept is a hybrid of a tactical board game and action. It's not based around a chess motif, as the original Archon is, but maintains the concept of "good vs. evil", one on one combat, magic and power points.
Like its predecessor, Adept is a struggle between two opposing sides that takes place on a game board, complete with playing pieces, but instead of capturing pieces enter a battle screen and duel to the death.
The board is a rectangle with four roughly concentric bands, corresponding to the four elements of Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water. Two non-elemental squares along the vertical center are "Void." Two decorative citadel squares pad the horizontal center. Each player starts with four wizards called "Adepts" that can cast spells, in particular a summoning spell used to bring the other pieces into...
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