Namco gets Mage Knighted

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Nov 18, 2005 9:51 am PT

Turn-based strategy based on WizKids miniatures game coming to Nintendo DS in spring 2006.

The tabletop miniature-based strategy game Mage Knight is looking to expand its kingdom to games of the digital persuasion, and the first portable battlefield to play host to its crusade will be the DS.

Where the forthcoming PC game Mage Knight Apocalypse will be an action role-playing take on the license, publisher Namco says Mage Knight: Destiny's Soldier on the DS will be a turn-based strategy game. As a retired soldier forced to reenter the fray, players will assemble and issue orders to an army of warriors culled from disparate factions to defeat the evil Solonavi and to restore peace to the land.

It appears that Namco is looking to approximate the tabletop Mage Knight game on the DS. The system's touch screen will be used to pick up units, deploy them, issue commands, and roll dice, just as in the real Mage Knight.

While the game obviously is intended to appeal to fans of the license, Namco Hometek business director Jeff Lujan said it's being developed to appeal to nonfans as well. "The sheer amount of storytelling, strategy gameplay, and army customization is a testament to how deep and rich the Mage Knight universe really is," he said.

6 Comments

  • -rick-james-

    Posted May 28, 2006 10:53 am PT

    i hope you can like paint ur units like in war hammer the pc games if any bodys played that!

  • -rick-james-

    Posted May 28, 2006 10:51 am PT

    seriously striker i agree man i play mage knight and hero clix man i call galatis no no im just kidding but hey if they do iand its worrth the money and has wirless function ill kill you

  • charrpi

    Posted Nov 30, 2005 5:44 am PT

    never heard of the game b4.....but given the current info, ill definitely buy it

  • peachy_dagansta

    Posted Nov 27, 2005 3:53 pm PT

    i used to love magknhights... i hope the game does well. that'll sell me on a ds!

  • peanutbudda37

    Posted Nov 20, 2005 7:31 am PT

    yea idk if tey would do that but if they did it might be kinda neet but the game gets a lil boring after a while.

  • stiker71

    Posted Nov 18, 2005 2:13 pm PT

    sweet i wish wiz kids would make a heroclixs DS as well

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