Rifts: Promise of Power

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Rifts: Promise of Power
DeveloperBackbone Entertainment
PublisherNokia
ComposerChris Rezanson
PlatformN-Gage
Release
GenreTactical role-playing[3][4]
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

Rifts: Promise of Power is a 2005 video game licensed for the Rifts role-playing game (RPG) from Palladium Books. It was released for the N-Gage in 2005. The basic mechanics of the game are adapted from the pen-and-paper version, utilizing an action point turn-based system.

In 2025, Palladium Books announced plans to crowdfund the re-release of the game on PC.[5]

Gameplay

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There are three character classes available in Promise of Power. There are three proto-classes from which players can select at the outset of the game: Mercenary, Psionic, and Magic User. Upon reaching fourth level, players may choose a specialization such as Borg, Burster, or Ley Line Walker, some of which are restricted based on proto-class. One character class specially designed for the game – the Elemental Fusionist – was adapted into the Rifts Ultimate Edition core rulebook.

The game covers five different locations on Rifts Earth from the sourcebooks. Promise of Power is set on Rifts Earth, a post-apocalyptic world a few hundred years in the future. It features advanced technology, magic and psionic powers, alien and monstrous beings from other dimensions, mutants, and vampires.

Development

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Shane Neville loved the Rifts adventure book as a high school and university student, and began to envision a game based on them once he entered the video-game business; when he joined Nokia's fledgling Richmond studio in 2003 and saw that Rifts was one of the company's options, Neville met with Kevin Siembieda to collaborate on the game.[6] Siembieda refused all video game licensing requests for the game for 14 years, but finally agreed to license Rifts to Nokia.[7] Nokia announced a dedicated Rifts Promise of Power mini-site, which went live on April 2, 2005 for the upcoming Rifts role-playing on the N-Gage.[8]

Reception

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The game received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[9]

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