Master of Magic

At the end, a classic game under a new engine. Don't expect nothing new, but sometimes big changes are not needed if the basic formula works.

I used to play Might and Magic up to day, but recently I've discovered this remake. Its not Elements, or Planar Conquest which are sorta sequel to the original, this is a carefully crafted remake of the one and only Master of Magic. It worth every penny I paid and the joy is immense. The greatest emmories of my childhood are transformed. I love it.

I bought the original when it first came out and although I never scored very high on it's rating scale, I came back again and again and had LOTS of fun. The new version did a lot right, but managed to install several fatal flaws and failed to correct problems with the original game that would have made it better. The first two games i played one or two enemy wizards had mana leak, which in the original game was mostly ineffectual. In this one it completely incapacitates your armies. You can't attack or defend. What's the point in that? If I wanted to engage in a hopeless activity, I'd just face reality (lol). Third game I played was going well till I found an enemy hero who was immune to all forms of attack except archery. The default hero is B'Shan, an archer, and I took a female archer, so I took a full complement of archers to fill out my stack of 9. well, the regular archers couldn't hurt him at all, even though he had ZERO defense against it. the female archer did like ONE POINT, and B'shan would do pretty good with his first shot, but the rest all failed to do hardly any damage at all. How am I supposed to defeat an undefeatable opponent? Maddening. they even got rid of what little diplomacy the original game had. It's like one transgression and forget it, war! no truces EVER. Then they made trading spells have a gold value, so instead of getting good spells easily I could NEVER afford any spell I wanted. EVER. By the time I might have 4000 gold to buy a spell (assuming they would even talk to me, which they don't) I wouldn't NEED them at that point.

This is MOM and well i used too much time with it in the past... Upgraded graphics are fine and I like the hex map over the original square. Most likely old MOM players will like this. New gamers without history bloat may find better 4X games, but there are not too many fantasy 4X so I welcome this remake! Some fine tuning and maybe small tweaks will keep this old classic in my game collection that get dusted of from time to time!

It's really good old MOM! I have to recommend this one, it's like the old game, but in shiny new clothes. Missing only auto save and loading times are too looooooong, but those are minor things. Bought it more for supporting this remake idea, because there is not enough time, but yday, i wantetd to try for few minutes, but got stuck for 3 perfect hours :)