Rune: Viking Warlord is the PlayStation 2 port of Rune, released in 2001 by Take-Two Interactive. It contains a few extra maps and enemies, but is otherwise a straight port. It was released in North America on July 30, 2001 and in the United Kingdom on October 5. The PlayStation 2 port received "mixed" reviews according to Metacritic. It was criticized for inferior graphics to the original and long loading times. Whatever their opinion of the multiplayer on PC, critics disliked the multiplayer on PS2. In NextGen's October 2001 issue, Preston called it "Another disc on the already enormous heap of mediocre PS2 games." Dylan Parrotta of GameZone gave it 4.5 out of 10, saying, "Though I could not find a stopwatch I would say that I spent around a quarter of my time in the confines of the load screen."