These are black days for Urak. Evil envelops the land and the people cry out for a savior.
For a thousand years, peace reigned on the pastoral lands of Urak. Then forces of darkness, led by the evil sorcerer Balkoth, unleashed a nightmare of war and terrorism that destroyed the people and laid waste to the land. Now the cities are defenceless. The people are starving. The Great Temples of the land, once the centres of beauty and learning lie crumbling, overrun by worshippers of Balkoth. The people pray for a leader who can defeat Balkoth and end this nightmare.
Are you that leader?
This pack includes the original Lords of Magic and the expansion Lords of Magic:Legends of Urak
Multiplayer notice: Due to the IPX network protocol no longer being supported, multiplayer play is only possible through IPX emulation software. For details click here.
Age requirements: ESRB Rating: EVERYONE with Animated Violence.
Minimum system requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista, 1.8 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM (1 GB recommended), 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended), 4GB HDD, Mouse, Keyboard.
Average customer rating 4.0 out of 5.0
A great turn based fantasy game!
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FireMyth)
This game was easily one of my favorite buys back in the day. The gameplay was balanced, the visuals were very good for the time and the use of both rts and turnbased elements was one of the more unique inclusions of the industry at the time. Though admittedly the rts portion was pretty weak the game was overall a huge success in terms of gameplay, replayability, and enjoyment.... full review You choose a faction (each with it's own little differences) and a Hero to start with, as you adventure you are able to capture cities and improve cities, build armies (as well as new heroes), train troops, research spells, spawn legendary creatures, trade with your allies and neutral parties, as well as wreak havoc on your enemies. Even for today it's not a bad game, just dated, but definitely a GoG!
You like HoMM & Lords of the Realm you will like this.
(by
tekknoman57)
I bought this game some time ago, because I like to collect classics, at first what to expect was unknown to me but after short time of fun with game I knew it's definetly worth attention.... full review
Story is set in a fantasy universe and not much different from any other fantasy strategy game. Golgoth, evil death god want to conquer world of Urak. You have to choose one of seven other world's elementals to prevent God of Death from ruling the world. At least Sierra menaged to pull story of and gave it nice feel.
Game is turn based, played from an isometric view with using a mouse. Click on your soldiers, then on place where you want to go or enemy want to attack. Nice & simple enough. You even don't have to read manual to learn how to play because buttons on screen are self-explanatory. he gameplay consists of resource management, force development and combat with the aim of extending your domination of the land. You can make many choices and many different things can be done in each game. I mentioned ealier that there is seven elemnts for choose to play as, also after defeating Balkoth you have additional eighth side. When starting new game you have choice to play as mage, warriot or thief so you basically have 28 combinations. Missions can be finished in different ways, depending on your choice, fight or use diplomacy. There is also dozens of weapons to wind or find and collect.
Graphic is detailed, at least at battle screens, with many variants of flora and highly detailed soldiers. Graphic in overview, when you are pointing your army when to go is less detailed but it defends itself good anyway.
Music changes, depending what you are doing at the moment, nice gente music while building or little dramathic durring battle. Voices in game are also included, when peoples in buildings or soldiers talk to you but their repeatibility sometimes could be annoying...
I don't have to say this game is 'have to buy' for any fantasy strategies fan but if you don't like strategies I suggest to consider buying it and give it a try. You can be very suprised.
This game has consumed as much of my childhood as any other game gog is likely to acquire. For good reasons too. The game is compelling and well put together and though it did have it's share of glitches and crashes it was worth putting up with.... full review
In the original game (not legends of urak) you play as one of the champions of urak: a Thief, Mage, or Warrior for the parties of either life,order,chaos,water,fire,earth, or air. After beating the game you also unlock the death party as a playable faction. the game is turn based and that can get tiring, but given a chance this game will surprise you.
The expansion Legends of urak is equally fun and included in this package. You take on the mantle of some of urak's legendary figures. The only one I can recall is that of prince Arthur and Merlin's quest through Camelot.
Here's some of the most helpful info I can give you as an aspiring adventurer:
Ctrl+c: opens cheat menu
ALL SPELLS: gives your party all the spells in the game.
BINGO: Gives you 200 of every resource.
ZILLA: Gives you a Level 10 Dragon
GO FAR: gives you an extra 1000 steps for your turn.
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