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- Genre: Adventure (PS2)
- Perspective(s): Third Person
- Released: Jun 1, 04 NA
- Publisher: Mud Duck
Release Dates
NA Jun 1, 04 EU May 28, 04
Vergil Ties
Dec 12, 10 10:49am
Generic with a capital G
Here's a little game that could've been excellent - Malice. It was met by mediocre...


Recent threads
- game crash - The Head Eater Mar 3
- Cell break Dec 29
- Beating the boss Aug 25
Background
In a war between two unlikely forces, a strange girl dies, only to escape the long queues of dead in the afterlife and return to fix the fractured worlds it seems she might have created.On her return, she must reboot the Orrery, the machine that turns the universe, and travel through the Elemental Gates of the Past, Present and Future Her adventures will pitch her against funny characters, surreal creatures, Magic Guardians, and the brutal marching boots of an unending cloned Army. All time-lines lead to a final blistering conflict with a super-fueled, lava drooling, nuclear Fire God, hell bent on consuming the planet
Help Malice evolve through 4 different incarnations to become the Goddess destined to defeat a God gone mad! Use an array of spectacular magic skills and apocalyptic weaponry, like the Clockwork Hammer, the Mace of Clubs and the Quantum Tuning Fork... Surreal, stunning and unique, Malice is a cataclysmically dark and comic tale
Gameplay
In the strange backwaters of a dreadful universe an unusual girl is sent to repair a fractured world and defeat a God gone mad. It's up to Malice to set things straight with her array of spectacular magic, surreal allies and unique weaponryFeatures
- Wield apocalyptic weapons like the Clockwork Hammer, Quantum Tuning Fork and the Mace of Clubs.
- Master the mayhem of 5 Elemental Magics.
- Explore 22 free-roaming, dementedly detailed and ominously shadowed levels.
- Experience furious combat action, brain-frying puzzles and interact with fiendish foes.
- Transform through four different incarnations to become the powerful god destined to defeat Nefarious Rex.
- True real-time shadowing.
- Fully parametric Phong shading with pervasive bump-mapping.
- No far clip planes, ever...
- Super-high detailed characters with weighted soft-skinning.
- Ultra high-res textures.
- IK simulators for hair and other flexible objects.
- Realtime 3D surround sound with 64 voices at once
![Box shot of Malice [North America]](http://i.neoseeker.com/boxshots/R2FtZXMvUGxheXN0YXRpb25fMi9BY3Rpb24vQWR2ZW50dXJl/malice_kats_tale_frontcover_small_idBx2qQE9YWvP8Q.jpg)