Kronos Digital Entertainment (Company)

Kronos Digital Entertainment

COMPANY

United States

Now out of business, Kronos Digital Entertainment was a developer primarily known for its Fear Effect series of games.

History

Kronos started out as an animation and CG effect house, not a video game developer. The company's first involvement with games was creating the opening cinematic forKing's Quest VI. After working on the art assets for Sierra's Phantasmagoria, Kronos began preparing to develop its first original title. Plans to create a fighting game for Sony fell through, but soon after the company started work on what would become its first published title, Criticom (Game). Criticom was released in 1995, but the developer would have to wait until 2000's Fear Effect (Game) to see significant success.

Developed Games

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Dark Rift (Game)

10 July 1997

One of the first 3D fighting games released for the Nintendo 64, Dark Rift is a spiritual sequel to Kronos's earlier sci-fi fighter Criticom.

PC N64

Criticom (Game)

29 November 1995

A 3D fighting game set in a far future sci-fi universe, which is known for the ability to level up fighters (granting them additional special moves and combos). It is the first game from the eventual creators of the Fear Effect series.

PS1 SAT

Fear Effect (Game)

24 February 2000

An action game that goes from Hong Kong to Hell, Fear Effect takes players to a dark world where killing people and monsters becomes part of the job as players search for a missing girl.

PC PS1 NSW +5

Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix (Game)

20 February 2001

Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix is a prequel to the original Fear Effect for the Playstation console. The game's story reveals the conditions under which the three protagonists from the first game met each other, and the events that preceded the story of the original Fear Effect.

PS1 PS3N PSPN +1