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Summoner: Best Story in a Game of 2000

Posted by Orange:

Summoner has been voted the game with the Best Game Story by Gamespot/ZDNet for 2000. I fully agree. Summoner beat out some tough competing games for this mark, too.. the runners up for the category were: Incredible Crisis (PSX), Chrono Cross (PSX), Vagrant Story (PSX), StarCraft 64 (N64). Congrats to Jason Scott and Mike Breault for writing the story, and the rest of Volition for making the game! Here's a little excerpt from Gamespot:

Summoner tells a compelling story about several characters uniting against a common foe and trying to make sense of their lives in the process. But more importantly, the game applies a traditional Hollywood formula to the writing - the story is divided into acts, and several catastrophic events make for plenty of cliffhangers. As the story progresses, the characters you thought you knew so well surprise you as they mature. And though the game is titled Summoner, the story is about several different personalities, not just the party leader. The game forces you to explore each character, and it even takes certain characters away from you to keep you from getting too attached to one personality.

Nice.