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Age of Wonders II is the wildly anticipated sequel to the award-winning strategy phenomenon. Delivering an invigorating mix of Empire Building, Role-playing, and Warfare, Age of Wonders II brings turn-based strategy to new heights.
Awakened to join an immortal group of Wizards in the Circle of Evermore, you must restore balance to a world on the brink of collapse.
* Dictate the fate of the world from within your Wizard's Tower, a transmitter of power used to channel your ground-shaking spells.
* Reign supreme over one of 12 distinct and races such as Elves, Frostlings, Draconians, Dwarves, Halflings, Humans, and even the Undead.
* Specialize in 7 spheres of magic including Air, Fire, Life and Death.
* Enlist the aid of more than 30 loyal champion heroes who possess the unique ability to wield over 100 mighty artifacts.
* Research and cast powerful enchantments, fierce combat magic, and world altering spells.
* Confront rivals in Multiplayer via a LAN or over the Internet for up to 8 players - options include Play by Email, Hot Seat, and the exciting Simultaneous-Turn System allowing all players to move at the same time!
Minimum system requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista, 1 GHz Processor (1.4 GHz recommended), 256MB RAM (512 recommended), 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended), Mouse, Keyboard.
Posted on 2010-09-23 14:03:05 by
dawnslayer:
My favorite turn based game ever.
Master of Magic (MoM) shows heavy influence in AoW I and II.
Pro:
-Cool uses of spells (raising dead cities, creating poisoned forests)
-Each race has very different, appropriate units.
-Spell research and City-building identical to MoM.
-Some of the best 2d graphics i've ever seen (except character portraits)
-Heroes that you can customize powers read more
and gear on.
-Maps are very well-designed, many have multiple layers.
Cons:
-Difficulty- can be brutal, especially in early turns.
-Some AI issues- alternatively too strong or too timid from turn to turn.
-Levels can easily be eight hours long.
-No random world generator.
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Posted on 2010-09-24 09:18:00 by
Narakir:
AOW 2 is a really nice games, the graphical environment is all shiny and well made, there's a lot of variety and the campaign is long enough to keep you entertained despite it's story begin unnoticeable. The gameplay is efficient and the races are quite different despite they all field the regular Footman + Ranged Fighter + Wizard scheme in the early games. The strategical part read more
of the games plays exactly like civilisation, except that you can cast very powerful spells that can transform the land or cause climatic disturbances in some aeras if not the entire map, no other game I met, perhaps with the exception of populous or magic carpet had such a powerful magic to play with, and that's fun.
Battles are deadly and could be said to be "realistic" as they can turn into a total bloodbath for both sides, leaving you with only a few troops alive far away from any base so keep some reinforcements close as you advance. No units are too powerful or impossible to crush, I've managed to kill a red dragon with a bunch of hobbit slingers and some luck ^^. Because luck is quite an important factor in combats, some of your most powerful units can be wasted against inferior units. That means you want to spare them and take risks accordingly, because you can't rebuild them so easily as your basic footmen.
However the game has also it's flaws : The first and the most common about games is the AI. As opposed to a human player the AI never build cities are rarely field armies that are able to match the player forces, not that it's bad during battle but it lacks strategic vision and won't react properly all the time, AOW1 and Shadow magic did it a way better. The other aspect inherited from AOW1 and which I think was "fixed" in Shadow magic, is the power of heroes. They start quite weak but become incredibly powerful with time, enough to conquer a city or crush an entire army by themselves. So don't be surprised if you can finish some campaigns with your couple of supermen destroying everything in their path.
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Posted on 2010-11-28 01:46:49 by
liquidsnakehpks:
aow is a very simple turn based game,you will spend loads of time if you learn how to play it, the game story itself such that it make you learn the game well as you play further,dont rush like the rpgs this is a turn based game think wisely and you shall master the phases soon
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