Fantasy

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Age of Wonders II: The Wizard’s Throne is about a young wizard named “Merlin”. The world is unbalanced, and Merlin must fight against other powerful wizards to gain control of all the different Spheres of magic to bring back the balance.

This game is the sequel to the original Age of Wonders, released in 1999. It is a turn based strategy game, and is more like Master of Magic than Heroes of Might and Magic. Some new features in the game are the “Pioneer,” which lets the player to build new cities, and the “Teleportation Gate” that allows units to teleport to any friendly city.

Age of Wonders II: The Wizard’s Throne is focused on magic. The leader is a powerful wizard, and for the most part of the game he stays in his “Wizard Tower,” a powerful structure built in cities. This wizard has a certain range, or “Domain,” in which he can cast his spells. To aid him are individual heroes, which can carry items and gain experience. There is also a wide variety of units to choose from, including the “Glutton” that can swallow his enemies whole, and the pretty “Nymph” that seduces her enemies. …

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Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic is a stand-alone sequel to Age of Wonders II: The Wizard’s Throne. Like its predecessors, it’s all about turn-based strategy in a fantasy world.

In the campaign, a corrupt new empire led by the wizard Phobius, has launched an aggressive assault on the ancient races and all things magic. Meanwhile, an even greater evil in the form of hellish demons, breeds within its shadows. The wizard Merlin has been captured by the demons, but can still communicate with his old wizard friends. The player is cast as these wizards as they fight the human empire and the demons.

The main character is the Wizard, who most of the time stays in his wizard tower casting spells in his domain. He researches new spells and abilities and becomes more and more powerful as the game moves on.

One unique feature is the Simultaneous turns mode, where all players move their units at the same time. For those that like it old-school there’s still a Classic turns mode. …

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Age of Wonders is a turn-based strategy game set in a fantasy scenario. The campaign can be played on two sides and tells a tale how the humans come to a new land and destabilized the peace between the races, throwing the land into war. The game also features several stand-alone scenarios. There is an extensive diplomatic matrix which structures the relationships between the 12 races and their respective leaders. There are global-spells which can be cast on the strategic map, outside of tactical combat.

Creatures can move around without being led by a hero, so the map eventually crawls with all sorts of strange beings. Neutral forces are not always static, most of them move around and sometimes attack the 12 races. The automatic tactical-combat mode shows a somewhat detailed overview of the combat simulation: it is a worthwhile substitute for impatient gamers, especially in multiplayer encounters.

As in Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia and Master of Magic, heroes are very important. They reach new levels of skill and power with experience and can be equipped with artifacts. But they do have limitations that usually do not allow a solitary hero to overrun a city-garrison all by himself. …

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