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Posted on: April 7, 2014

Millian

Games: 262 Reviews: 3

Online access key is OK

I think the game is stellar and I am looking forward to additional content and patches. I don't get the whining about an online key though. Gating official servers helps keep operating costs manageable and the community limited to paying customers. I see no problem with that. The game has zero copy protection, so it's hardly a big deal. Online access, rather, is an added bonus. The game works just fine in offline mode.

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Posted on: June 16, 2014

PanzerAzelSaturn

Games: 609 Reviews: 7

Good, but not as good as last 3 games

While this game remains faithful to the play style of the prior games (3 of my favorite games ever), it just isn't quite as good as them. There are too many little things removed or "streamlined" that the whole game feels a little less interesting on the whole. I personally prefer the graphics of the prior 2 games (beautiful 2D), but this one looks nice enough. The music is good, but I found myself only really enjoying the new versions of the old songs. The new stuff was a little too dramatic in general. That all said, the game is still good fantasy TBS fun and I did play through the campaign within 2 weeks of the games release. If you prefer modern games this is a good bet. If you prefer older stuff, the older games in the series are better. If you played the others to death like I have and wan't to know if this is worth it, I would say yes, as long as you are OK with a slightly watered down experience. Finally, there is no DRM in the game. You have to register if you want to use the online servers to play the game mulitplayer. I don't play online multiplayer and never had to register. If you want to play multiplayer, but you refuse to register your product to do so, don't bother with this. Registration consists of entering your product Key and an email from what I can tell. Offline it works just like every other GOG game and as usual for the series includes hotseat mode.

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Posted on: April 13, 2014

Torsional

Games: 28 Reviews: 1

Excellent Game

The game is one of the better turn-based strategy games out there. Fans have been waiting a long time for this game and it does not disappoint. I'm sorry to see GoG members give the game 1 star reviews, just because its online function requires a key. You can just use Hamachi or another service to avoid the key. This way they can offer the game on GoG while still making sure that some people actually pay for it. Otherwise it could possibly only end up as a top torrent somewhere.

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Posted on: May 20, 2018

johnny5wd

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Games: 1863 Reviews: 5

AoW cross-platform play with Steam users

GAMEPLAY Expect 3D perspective instead of isometric with similar gameplay to previous incarnations. Alright for multiplayer, weak AI. Nonetheless: enjoyable TBS. ON-LINE ACCESS KEY FOR MULTIPLAYER SERVICES Reason given by publisher: "We are running our own servers for online features. This makes it possible - for example - to have both Steam and GoG players play together. It will also allow us to expand our online features in the future." One reviewer commented that an on-line access key is a way to make sure "some people actually pay for it". This game is NOT offered for FREE on GoG. Customers ARE PAYING for the game, in PARTICULAR for "DRM-FREE CONTENT". Requiring an on-line access key to access a specific aspect of the gameplay is arguably a deliberate means of enforcing control by dependency and from that perspective not entirely DRM-free. Yes, it can be circumvented by using VPN solutions IF a game has a play over LAN option that works. Yes, you can still play the game off-line. Yes, you can get that access key. My concern is not just DRM. Once a game loses popularity its servers receive less maintenance or disappear. There are plenty of games which relied on Game Spy or on publisher's servers, like SWAT3 or No One Lives Forecer 2, where there were takeovers or bankruptcy scenarios so you end up only being able to play a game single-player. EXAMPLE: Civ4. Supports up to 40 players in multiplayer, has LAN multiplayer, but needs GameSpy. GoG version will only work with TWO (host and one guest) over LAN due to a bug. GoG can't fix that and 2K Games won't, because their main revenue is from Steam. Got it there? No problem: it is patched for that platform, replacing GameSpy, BUT you need a Steam account which is in itself a form of an on-line access key. Forces me to now get it on Steam as well. What happens when Steam is gone like GameSpy? Or the game's publisher? Or there is no internet access? That is why I choose GoG over other platforms.

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Posted on: March 1, 2015

braneman

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Games: 754 Reviews: 5

AI is cheating SOB don't bother.

Let me begin by saying if you buy this for multilayer you'll be fine. But if you're like me and you cant always convince people to invest in $45 games that can last most of a weekend for one campaign(and aren't as well known as say the Civ series) chances are you'll be playing with the AI a lot, Unfortunately this is baby's first AI program and it has ESP, increased production, increased research, increased city growth. And the ESP is the real kicker here. The AI will attack Cities they can't see, Cities they have never seen and yet they know EXACTLY what is in there and EXACTLY what to send to win the battle. It's great, its really really great because it turns this from strategy to whack-a-mole. Because I can't bluff the AI, or pull troops that are normally defending cities, or use camouflage(because it doesn't work against the ai) or else they'll just swoop in with exactly the right number of cavalry to take the city and then roll in with a larger slower force to occupy it. Or they'll decide to tortuosly move an entire stack of units one by one in my line of sight so I have to watch the animation six times in a row. My biggest problem with this game is I'm just trying to learn it and I can't bring myself to because of all this cheapness, its no fun playing a game where the entire thing is rigged from the start in such a blatant way. I want to like it, I can see a fun game in there somewhere, a game that could easily be a true successor to Master of Magic but until the AI at least pretends to play fair(at normal difficulty) I don't want to touch it.

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