42 Year have past. Long enough for the world to heal. Long enough to forget the horrors of the war that almost claimed not only our lives, but that of our entire world. From the east came the Empire, their mecha and weapons soon overwhelmed the defenders of the Allied Kingdoms but, they were beaten.

Three warrior from the Kingdom Domen stood against the tide of chaos when no one else could. Wielding the powers of the eight great elements of mana, the heroes beat back the empire. However, the aftermath of what we today call the Second Imperial War was high indeed. The Empire lies in ruins, the allied kingdoms threaten to break apart from within, and Mana, the source of all magic, has vanished.

42 years have past, to the east the Empire stirs, the forests of Domen have turned dangerous, fought with monsters and bandits. Now a new generation takes to the defense of the world for now is the time for the Return to Mana.

Return to Mana: Legacy of the eight Elements is a stylized fantasy adventure inspired by several wonderfully SNES games. Based on Half Life 2's source engine, Return to Mana is a coop game for up to three player over Steam or LAN.

Features :

- Over 50 maps planned for the final version with 4 different environments.
- 3 characters with unique abilities.
- A story divided into chapters for added ease in progressing between servers.
- Real time melee combat system for a tactical experience
- 8 Schools of Magic
- And much much more.

"As the world turns the beast stirs, for time flows like a river and history repeats and the time of the return of mana approaches"

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News from "Return to Mana - legacy of the eight Elements" !

First of all, we have given an interview to www.halflife2.org which you can view here:


We have got the first complete Npc done for you to look at. I have added some of the recent concept arts as well to show the strong emphasis we put on originality.

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Like everyone can expect we spend the month playing Half-Life2 and working ourself into the engine. I dont want to bother you with work in progress shots but I can assure you that we have already piped a lot of our content ingame. Expect the first ingame shots around next month.

Dont forget to visit our homepage and drop your ideas and thoughts in the forum.

Returntomana.mods.de

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GigaTV Presentation of Return to Mana

GigaTV Presentation of Return to Mana

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Return to Mana was invited to the German TV Show Giga on 13.06.06 Here's the half hour full of background/story information, developing process and...

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AtTheGates
AtTheGates Dec 16 2005, 5:18pm says:

awsome looking work guys, the mana series was one of my fav all time games, I look forward to trying it out.

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SuperTwister
SuperTwister Dec 15 2005, 7:05pm says:

continue the good work :)

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yalldropdead
yalldropdead Dec 15 2005, 2:25pm says:

wow, amazing visuals, watching right now.

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Sebastos
Sebastos Dec 15 2005, 12:00pm says:

looks absolutely stunning
as usual
good job

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zenarion
zenarion Dec 15 2005, 11:29am says:

woops. sorry :) you had it translated :') it is people like you who drive me to practicing and getting better. number 1 mod of moddb.com :) *voting*

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zenarion
zenarion Dec 15 2005, 11:23am says:

wow. this actually looks better than HL2!
the bad part, is that i'm not german, and do not understand your website. could that be changed?

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UltimateShadow
UltimateShadow Dec 15 2005, 5:55am says:

Sorry to other mods, BUT NO1 WILL BE EVER CAPABLE OF BEATING THIS !!!!
N1 Mod

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BradNewsom
BradNewsom Dec 15 2005, 12:06am says:

Looking GREAT might I say! ^_^

-Pg

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DrFunkenstein
DrFunkenstein Dec 14 2005, 4:30pm says: Online

It looks great, I'm really looking forward to it. I was hoping the it would be more... cartoony, but they still look nice.

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Rikku2000
Rikku2000 Dec 13 2005, 6:24am says:

Hey Dieblein...

Secret of Mana rulz....

greats from Japan ^^

your Rikku2000

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