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"

Image RSS Feed Latest Screens
Concept - Girl Title screen test
Blog RSS Feed Report abuse Latest News: Secret of Mana- Alive moddb.com launch

2 comments by Dieblein on Jul 9th, 2004 digg this super bookmark


Secret of Mana is a Half-Life² Modification in which we are recreating one of the most glorious SNES games:
"Seiken Densetsu2", and as we know it, "Secret of Mana".

The mod will feature a whole world the player can interact with and level up in. And in addition to that we are planing to add coop gameplay as well. Im Dieblein, leader of the mod, and Im currently working on the player models. We have a decent team now and the story is nearly done.

Perhaps you know me of the Half-Life1 Singleplayer mod "Escape from the darkness". I add this in order to make clear that we are very dedicated in what we are doing.

Here some shots of what has already been done. Visit our mod profile or homepage in order to find out more!

User Posted Image User Posted Image User Posted Image
Downloads RSS Feed Latest Downloads
GigaTV Presentation of Return to Mana

GigaTV Presentation of Return to Mana

Jul 09, 2006 Movies 1 comment

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...

Comments  (200 - 210 of 231)
SEThorian
SEThorian Dec 23 2004, 5:19pm says:

Wow, those are some fantastic screenshots! I'm impressed by the fact that the SDK has only been out for about a month and your mappers can already create something like this that fast. Regardless of the fact if they have lots of experience with the HL1 engine, this is quite impressive. I'm definitely keeping an eye on this one.. ;)

+1 vote     reply to comment
neo1
neo1 Dec 22 2004, 7:49pm says:

HOLY SHIT Returntomana.mods.de IS INGAME THATS BETTER THAN HL2 GRAPHIX IN A MOD KEEP IT UP!!!!

+1 vote     reply to comment
Clayface
Clayface Dec 13 2004, 9:55pm says:

i like LoM, i got to the water temple in it, heh, not very far, but ya, looks like a fun mod, i think tales of phantasia was a funner game then legend of mana for the snes,ToP is the sequel

+1 vote     reply to comment
bL@$t4m3
bL@$t4m3 Dec 4 2004, 1:21pm says:

browsing thru the mods and i couldnt believe my eyes som2 mod lol awesome man.i played thru the original snes on transed into english 3 times lol i love this game to death i play it on zbattle.net. man this will be so sweet U BETTER HAVE THE LEGENDARY BLACK RABITE IN THIS!!!!!!!! lol the hardest dam square boss ever. good luck guys i am praying for top notch!

+1 vote     reply to comment
San-J
San-J Nov 6 2004, 4:08pm says:

You guys got my vote for best player models :)

+1 vote     reply to comment
splice
splice Oct 31 2004, 2:35pm says:

wow looks amazing.

+1 vote     reply to comment
onarum
onarum Oct 26 2004, 9:51pm says:

i cant stop drooling when i think of a secret of mana role playing game mod for hl2.

+1 vote     reply to comment
mobius_rtm
mobius_rtm Oct 15 2004, 7:56pm says:

Im Mobius from the RTM dev team. I'm glad for all the feedback we have been geting and i encouge you to stop by our site

+1 vote     reply to comment
Stuffie
Stuffie Oct 10 2004, 5:55pm says:

Those models freak me out.. o_O in a good way of course

+1 vote     reply to comment
outlive
outlive Sep 10 2004, 10:06am says:

@ Doofus

keep in mind, it's concept work in progress

thx for compliment !

+1 vote     reply to comment
Post a Comment

Only registered members can share their thoughts. So come on! Join the Mod DB community today (totally free) and do things you never thought possible.

Icon
Half-Life 2 Icon
Platform
PC
Developer
Black Sheep
Contact
Send Message
Official Page
Returntomana.org
Release Date
TBD
Mod Watch
Track this mod
Bookmark
Digg Super bookmark
Style
Genre
Role Playing
Theme
Fantasy
Players
Single & Multiplayer
Statistics
Rank
1,666 of 8,347
Last Update
2 months ago
Watchers
796 members
Files
1
News
17