Haven: Call of the King

Move over Darth Vader Vetch is in the house. This game has the best voice character actors ever especially the "bad guys" vetch and his general. Too bad there wasn't a sequel. The game starts out with a general with a voice that sounds over a 100 yet bold and strong reporting to Emperor Vetch. Vetch has conquered many worlds and enslaved them to maintain and increase his power, and extend his immortality unopposed. The general reports to Vetch that a young person who goes by the name of haven has been having a dream. The dream is of calling The king who has left their world on a crusade, and this king is the only one who can defeat Vetch. However there is a condition for this. The King can only defeat Vetch from his castle which is guarded by a shield, and the person who summons the king must stay inside the shield because the king will come to that person where ever he is even outside the castle where the kings powers are useless. Haven had to make a choice after he summoned the king either to stay in the shielded castle and wait, or to rescue his girl friend who was actually sent by Vetch to Haven to win his heart. Haven follows his heart and falls into the trap which Vetch has set up for him "Haven" as well as the King. In the end Haven is left with the question of why he did not stay where he was supposed to when he called the King. That was Just the story as for the computer graphics and gaming, every challenge was awesome, and you could due a virtual tour of a planet on this game at a time when there was no GoogleEarth available. Who knows? maybe some of technology used to create GoogleEarth came from the designers of this game.

Yes, this game is a typical multi platforming games being that there are many different play styles in the same game. You do standard platforming like in Jak and Daxter, you race a bit, you shoot guns, and you fly a spaceship...you fly that spaceship a bit to much for my tastes near the end of the game. You are Haven and you are a worker or basically a slave at the hands of this rather evil empire. There is a legend though that says in times of trouble you ring this bell to summon the king and he will thwart the evil. For the most part it is okay and there are a lot of modes of play, still the story totally blows at the end as it is obvious they thought this game was going to be super great and they would be making a sequel so at the end you get kind of a incomplete end. And considering how many years it has been since this one's release anyone who has played this or will play it will never know how the story was supposed to end. The platforming was fun, I also enjoyed the shooting stages. There were a couple of stages that drove me crazy, and the spaceships is just boring. Your weapons of choice is a yo-yo type weapon, and you also use blasters too. So be prepared for a lot of variety at the beginning then it kind of is just you in your ship and hamster ball and that is about all there is to it besides the unfinished ending.