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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Hey everyone !

The heads behind "Return to Mana: Legacy of the eight Elements" are reaching out and are hiring creative, talented individuals.
The following positions are open - if you think you're the woman/man for the job - apply for it!

“Black Sheep” is a team of partly game industry profesionals that develop games because they love games.
Working in our team means working on a professional level with good chances in stepping into the industry later aswell.
We all share the same dream that made the project a steady part of our life.

Black Sheep Development Group is hiring

I also want to add that I dont like that each time we add a new member here in the profil we spam you with mod updates, so please excuse that, we really want to keep down news untill they are "real" news.

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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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outlive
outlive Dec 4 2006, 6:07am says:

"content crunching" - work is beeing done :D

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NightSage
NightSage Nov 17 2006, 9:37pm says:

What do you guys mean by content crushed?

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ZitaX
ZitaX Nov 17 2006, 7:29am says:

May i ask if any of your models are face-poseable?

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brueckenpenner
brueckenpenner Apr 17 2007, 4:50pm says:

i hope you will finish this mod even if its out in 2010 ^^
in my opinion its one of the best mods i've seen so far - thx for the nice work so far

maybe you should get more team members then you didnt have to work so much ;)

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NightSage
NightSage Apr 17 2007, 5:34pm says:

looks like there taking a break the mods on hold

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xXxHieroxXx
xXxHieroxXx Oct 14 2006, 6:28pm says:

@ Dieblein, get it on sites sutch as Fileshack and Fileplanet. Realy greait download sites. Pluss, i have a subscription on Fileshack :) But they are stil realy good.

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Dieblein
Dieblein Oct 6 2006, 1:45am says:

But its gonna be around that size... So well definatley release it in a print magazine aswell as over the internet for those who want to DL it... but bandwith today of most users is pretty strong and still growing, should be acceptable when we are done developing

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outlive
outlive Aug 23 2006, 12:12pm says:

we can't tell right now, because it's way to early in development

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Benjy67k
Benjy67k Aug 14 2006, 4:18am says:

hmmm, rough size.... 2gb? maby 3? please tell me.

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kenyo
kenyo Aug 6 2006, 5:08pm says:

website down

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