High Seas Havoc

High Seas Havoc, known in Japan as Captain Lang (キャプテン ラング, Kyaputen Rangu) and in Europe as simply Havoc, is a video game that was made for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis by Data East. It was also released in the arcades running on a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis based arcade cabinet.

High Seas Havoc
North American cover art
Developer(s)	Data East
Publisher(s)	NA/JP: Data East PAL: Codemasters
Designer(s)	Akira Ohtani[1]
Programmer(s)	Yasuhiro Matsuda Hiroyasu Fujimaru
Artist(s)	Mutsunori Sato Megumi Shinya Yoichi Kodama
Composer(s)	Emi Shimizu Masaaki Iwasaki
Platform(s)	Mega Drive/Genesis Arcade
Release	NA: January 1994[2] JP: April 22, 1994[3] PAL: 1994
Genre(s)	Action
Mode(s)	Single-player

Plot

The story is about an anthropomorphic pirate seal named Havoc (Lang in the Japanese version), his young sidekick Tide (Land in the Japanese version), a girl named Bridget, and an evil walrus pirate named Bernardo. Bernardo is looking for Emeralda, a gem with powers that can cause whole armies to be toppled. A map shows where Emeralda is located, and Bernardo is looking for the map. Havoc and Tide discover Bridget unconscious at a beach. When she wakes up in a dwelling, she instructs Havoc to keep her and the map safe. Havoc hides the map in a cliff. After Bernardo's henchmen kidnaps Bridget and Tide, Havoc sets off to rescue them.

Gameplay

Each level apart from the first two and last one have two acts. The Cape Sealph level was removed from the European version.

Development

Reception

Review scores

Publication	Score
Famitsu	26/40[4]
GamePro	4/5[5]
Mean Machines	64/100[6]

Reception

High Seas Havoc received generally positive reviews.

Tony Ponce for Destructoid called the game a rip-off of Sonic the Hedgehog.^[7]