Evolution Worlds (known as Shinkisekai Evolutia (神機世界エヴォルシア) in Japan) is a role-playing video game developed by Sting Entertainment for the GameCube. It was first published in Japan in 2002 by Entertainment Software Publishing and later by Ubisoft in North America and Europe. The game contains an abbreviated version of Evolution: The World of Sacred Device (1999) along with the full sequel Evolution 2: Far Off Promise (1999) on the same disc. Both games were originally released on the Sega Dreamcast.

Plot

The game is set in the year of 930. An ancient civilization had met its demise one thousand years before. Special individuals are able to use Cyframes, ancient tools, which were excavated from the ruins of the ancient civilization. These individuals are known as Cyframe users or adventurers, and are assigned jobs from the Society, a research institute. The adventurers use their Cyframes to explore ruins. Some of the ruins have hieroglyphics that tell of a Cyframe called Evolutia that has tremendous power. Many search for the fabled Evolutia like the Launcher family and even the army.

Major characters

Re-release

Evolution Worlds has several changes in its re-release of Evolution and Evolution 2. The first Evolution has no spoken dialogue, and the sequel has a Japanese voice track. Evolution Worlds uses newly recorded English voice acting for both games. The Linear Watch was removed, due to lack of Dreamcast's portable memory cartridge, Visual Memory Unit. Due to limited disc space, the first part (re-release of Evolution) is highly trimmed down, eliminating almost all of its dungeon crawling and condensing the game's entire plot into fewer, but much longer, cutscenes.

Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.