Galleon (video game)

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Galleon
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Developer(s) Confounding Factor
Publisher(s) EU SCi
NA Atlus
Designer(s) Toby Gard
Platforms Xbox, Mobile phone
Release date(s) Xbox
EU 20040611June 11, 2004
NA 20040803August 3, 2004
Mobile
    Genre(s) Action-adventure
    Platformer
    Mode(s) Single-player

    Galleon (Galleon: Islands of Mystery in the U.S. version) is an action-adventure game developed by Toby Gard and Confounding Factor and released by Square Enix Europe and Atlus for Xbox and mobile phones (the latter as Galleon: Dawn) in 2004.

    Gameplay

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    Plot

    Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Galleon follows the exploits of Captain Rhama who pursues a villain from island to island. It is set in an unspecified historical era in which piracy was active.[1]

    Development

    Announced in Edge in 1997, the game went through various incarnations and publishers. As the original designer of Lara Croft, Toby Gard left Core Design shortly after the first Tomb Raider game was released. Galleon was to be his first independent title following the original Tomb Raider. Galleon was delayed and eventually ported from the original PlayStation to the Dreamcast to the GameCube (as Galleon: Islands of Mystery[2]) and eventually to the Xbox. The graphical style of the game was intended to have a comic book feel as well as being influenced by Ray Harryhausen's Sinbad films and Burt Lancaster vehicles.[3] Gard has since returned to Eidos Interactive as a design consultant for the Tomb Raider franchise. The soundtrack was originally composed by Lee Nicklen, though due to breach of contract and the publishers not paying him, the music is now available for free under the GNU license.[citation needed]

    Reception

    Reception
    Review scores
    Publication Score
    mobile Xbox
    1UP.com N/A C+[4]
    Edge N/A 7/10[5]
    EGM N/A 4.5/10[6]
    Eurogamer N/A 6/10[1]
    Game Informer N/A 4.25/10[7]
    GameSpot 7.2/10[8] 7/10[9]
    GameSpy N/A 3.5/5 stars[10]
    GameZone N/A 7.5/10[11]
    IGN N/A 8.2/10[12]
    OXM N/A 6.8/10[13]
    The Times N/A 4/5 stars[14]
    Aggregate scores
    GameRankings 72%[15] 67%[16]
    Metacritic N/A 67/100[17]

    The Xbox version received "average" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.[17]

    References

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