Champions Of Norrath: Return to Arms is the sequel to Champions of Norrath. It's a Sony Of America title that, for reasons that are frankly too boring to go into, is distributed locally by Ubisoft. Like the original title, it uses the same Snowblind engine that's powered two separate but more or less identical Baldur's Gate titles across all platforms, although the Sony branding on Return To Arms means it's a PS2 exclusive.

Exclusive is a funny word to bandy about, though, when you realise that Return To Arms really is functionally the same game that's been released somewhere in the region of eight times already -- see if you can name them all. The presence of eight largely identical games suggests that there's a hard core of gamers out there who aren't actually all that interested in the "role" part of role-playing, preferring instead a whole shed load of hacking, slashing and rendering into tiny bloody chunks.