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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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!

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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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Docm30
Docm30 Jul 7 2004, 9:16pm says:

the models arent the greatest i have ever seen, but the skins are very good

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SkitZaY
SkitZaY Jul 7 2004, 8:21am says:

OMFG SOM!!!! That game owned if you guys pull this off i will give you all 10c :P

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Warbringing_Matey
Warbringing_Matey Jul 6 2004, 4:57pm says:

I love the model work!

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duckedtapedemon
duckedtapedemon Jul 6 2004, 1:44pm says:

bice player models!

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AdrianShephard
AdrianShephard Jul 6 2004, 6:46am says:

cant wait :)

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Froberg
Froberg Jul 5 2004, 6:29pm says:

Blasphemy ;)

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NightSage
NightSage Jul 5 2004, 4:03pm says:

what the heck... cool hope you'll recreate teh battle system from Legend of mana..

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worldspawn
worldspawn Jul 5 2004, 12:07pm says:

It sounds great... and the models are pretty kickass! Looking forward to this mod.

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lillbrorsan
lillbrorsan Jul 5 2004, 12:03pm says:

Cool :D

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Dieblein
Dieblein Jul 7 2006, 7:11am says:

Well but judging by what we planed we havet done more (we want a good fight system and lot of different environments from forest, desert, snow, island, jungle and wasteland)

Compared to others we might be far yes

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