Savage 2 released online

By Robert Purchese Published 17 January, 2008

Multiplayer battler. Free to try.

Online multiplayer game Savage 2: A Tortured Soul is available to download now from the official website.

You can grab the client for free and play LAN matches indefinitely, or try online battles for five hours before being asked to fork out USD 29.99 for the full package.

For those unfamiliar with it, and you probably are, Savage pits two teams of five-to-17 of you against each other in a genre-bending battle. FPS fans will like the Battlefield-like action; RTS fans will like the base-building and idea of one person overseeing everything as a general; and RPG fans will like levelling up (each game from 1-10) and getting persistent items to carry across battles.

The original Savage from 2004 earned itself 8/10 on Eurogamer. "Given the right people and the right attitude, this is one of the finest multiplayer games of the year," concluded Tom.

Creator S2 Games is calling the sequel a labour of love, and we can't really see a reason not to give a shot. Apart from that it has savage torture in the title. Which I hate, by the way.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Rirekon #1 4 years ago

    The first one was alright, but it was no Natural Selection. Will probably give this a whirl though

  • Olemak #2 4 years ago

    The gameplay vid looks ace, and I really liked the first one - played that a lot back in the day - so this is getting DL'ed tonight.

    The dollar being what it is, it's pretty damn cheap anyway, will probably spring for the full version.

  • Lurks #3 4 years ago

    My mate Ian says he's looking forward to this. And he likes any game that's really shit. So what does that tell you?

  • crozon #4 4 years ago

    "My mate Ian says he's looking forward to this. And he likes any game that's really shit. So what does that tell you?"

    that for once he likes a game thats not shit?

  • FWB #5 4 years ago

    Not Ian? THE Ian? Wow!

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #6 4 years ago

    Ian's normally pretty spot on with these things

  • Khanivor #7 4 years ago

    I dunno. He's been a tad unreliable of late.

  • Ihya #8 4 years ago

    This is a great game, well worth the $30, which means pretty cheap here in the UK. It really is a quality fps with strong rpg elements, and with good commanders in place it turns it from a chaotic free for all into two coordinated teams that can strategise a la an RTS. (64 player btw) You can get some epic battles out of it you cannot find elsewhere.
    Edited by 1 at 17/01/08 @ 18:47

  • FWB #9 4 years ago

    What was Ian's last major contribution to world? Huh?

  • zoidberg #10 4 years ago

    Savage always deserved a broader audience.

  • dog #11 4 years ago

    its mentioned that you can play on LAN for free... i'm always on the lookout for good games 3 or 4 people can play in a nice smoking LAN session... co-op games are always good...

    i couldn't see any info on their site if this is actually how it can be played.... can you have 3/4 people on one side vs the computer, or can you p[lay it 2vs2, or does it need to be larger numbers of players?

    anyone know?

  • spelk #12 4 years ago

    I've heard about this Ian character, he's a lush.