Thirty years ago, a small group of software developers set up a new game studio and started to build their favorite games. Their early works include “Lost Viking”, “Rock Racing” and “Black Thorns”. These games were all well received and reflected the company’s design philosophy, which was later Blizzard Entertainment.
The “Blizzard Playground Collection Series” published this time relaunched these three early works with special significance in the form of enhanced versions.
The “Blizzard Playground Collection Series” game will be divided into the original version and the upgraded ultimate version. Each version can customize the button configuration and can reverse the game for up to 10 seconds. The original versions of “The Lost Viking” and “Black Thorns” also include a “watch mode”, allowing players to easily watch the clearance process and adjust back to their own control at any time. In addition to the ultimate version of “Rock Racing”, each version of each game also has the function of saving at any time. In addition, the “Blizzard Playground Collection Series” will also contain many additional content, such as: game art, development materials, deleted content, storytelling and talk shows. Through the “Blizzard Playground Collection Series”, players will get a glimpse of the origin of Blizzard’s classic features, such as colorful designs and funny sense of humor.
In the game “The Lost Vikings”, players will play the three swift Erik (Erik the Swift), strong Olaf (Olaf the Stout) and the hot Baelog the Fierce (Baelog the Fierce) The fierce Vikings used their respective skills to cooperate to face hundreds of difficulties, defeat the enemy, and return home through numerous obstacles. The ultimate version of “The Lost Viking” integrates the game features of the original game when it was launched on different platforms, as well as the top sound and visual experience at the beginning of the market, and produced additional levels and cutscenes, and also supports up to three players. Stand-alone cooperation mode.
“Rock Racing” features a dangerous track full of traps and an epic metal rock soundtrack. Players will play the role of a racer and start a racing journey full of destruction and violence. There are a variety of different racers and a series of customizable vehicles for players to choose from in the game. Each racer has different talents. Each car also has different upgradeable items to help players overtake and destroy opponents.
The ultimate version of “Rock Racing” has new environmental effects such as snow and rain, and up to four players can compete in a single-player multiplayer battle (the original version only supports two players). The track changes have also been upgraded to 384, and a screen resolution of 16:9 is supported. In addition, the original recording version of the classic soundtrack of the game, new tracks, and the new dubbing content of “Laolai” are also added to the game, adding more blood and excitement when the players are racing.
The protagonist of the “Blackthorne” storyline is Kyle “Blackthorne” Vlaros (Kyle “Blackthorne” Vlaros), a highly skilled commando, this man is infinite, difficult and cunning, and has a mysterious life experience. Also holding a powerful shotgun. Players will play the protagonist to meet the challenge of destiny and carry out the mission, and in a 2D futuristic world full of mutant monsters and goblins, they will fight fiercely with the enemy and strive to liberate the people of this world. The content of the ultimate version of “Black Thorns” will discover the hidden areas of the “Fog of War” as you explore each level.
“Lost Vikings” appear in World of Warcraft and Blizzard Heroes
Through the “Lost Viking”, “Rock Racing” and “Black Thorns” Ultimate Edition, more players from all over the world have the opportunity to experience Blizzard’s ancestor-level game content for the first time. If you are careful, you You will find many small easter eggs.
For example, these Viking characters in “The Lost Vikings”, because they are the ancestor-level characters of Blizzard, often appear in other Blizzard games. For example, in “Rock Racing”, the strong Olaf appears as a mysterious playable racer. These three Vikings also appeared in the Sega 32X version of “Black Thorns”.
The three Vikings finally came to Azeroth, and were lost in Uldaman dungeon in the cursed land of “World of Warcraft”. In the follow-up “Catastrophe and Rebirth” expansion, these Vikings further appear in the main mission of the Cursed Lands, and they will use their classic abilities to assist the heroes of Azeroth.
In recent years, they have also appeared in Heroes of the Storm, and have become a three-in-one playable role.
The “Blizzard Playground Collection Series” digital collection has been launched on Windows PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One game platforms (PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S game consoles can also be played through backward compatible technology). The Windows PC version of “Blizzard Playground Collection Series” will be included in the celebration of Blizzard’s 30th anniversary in the Collector’s Edition package, which contains various in-game gifts from Blizzard, and will be available for sale earlier this month. Players who have purchased the Happy Celebration Collection Pack will automatically get the “Blizzard Playground Collection Series”. The console version of this celebration collection package-“Blizzard 30th Anniversary Celebration Collection” is also launched today.
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