John Watson (Founder and Technical Director at Stoic) took to the Xbox News Wire to announce that the Viking RPG strategy game The Banner Saga is coming to the Xbox One on January 12, 2016.
Blending an RPG with turn based tactical combat The Banner Saga lets gamers live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization. Every decision you make in travel, conversation and combat has a meaningful effect on the outcome as your story unfolds. Not everyone will survive, but they will be remembered.
The art of The Banner Saga stands out and grabs the attention of people wherever we take the game. Arnie Jorgensen was heavily inspired by the American master Eyvind Earle for the art inThe Banner Saga, but a lesser known inspiration came from the children’s books by Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire, both Leif the Lucky and Book of Norse Myths.
The team at Stoic had to ensure that the experience of The Banner Saga remained the same when you were playing at home on a couch with a gamepad in hand, so they spent a lot of time redesigning parts of the user experience to work better on the Xbox and with an Xbox One Controller in hand. Fans have also been told that they should keep their saved games from The Banner Saga as they’ll be able to import their saved data and continue your exact caravan, character, and story choices straight into The Banner Saga 2.
Check out the announcement video below: