SpellForce 3 - The perfect blend between RTS and RPG!
It is the year 518. The rebellion of the renegade mages, known as the Mage Wars, has been quashed by the Crown. However, it was a Pyrrhic victory: Whole regions have fallen into anarchy, refugees roam the lands in search of shelter, and a myster...
SpellForce 3 - The perfect blend between RTS and RPG!
It is the year 518. The rebellion of the renegade mages, known as the Mage Wars, has been quashed by the Crown. However, it was a Pyrrhic victory: Whole regions have fallen into anarchy, refugees roam the lands in search of shelter, and a mysterious, deadly plague called the “Bloodburn” has arisen and is spreading rapidly.
In times like these people cling to any sign of hope they can find. The Purity of Light, led by a charismatic man called Rondar Lacaine, claims that mages are the source of all misfortune – and that only the second coming of Aonir, the father of all gods, will return Eo to its former splendor.
Innovative Mix: Unique gameplay blending RTS and RPG naturally together
Create & Customize: Create your own hero and choose between distinct skill trees
Build to Fight: Raise your own army and fight epic mass battles
Epic Storyline: Immerse yourself in a rich world - Unravel the secrets behind the current situation in Nortander. Explore Eo, a fully-realized world filled with interesting characters and heart-wrenching stories.
Make new friends - assemble your party from a diverse cast of companions that not only complement your skills in interesting ways but also have an impact on the narrative. Manage their skills and equipment to ensure victory on the battlefield.
Choose your side: Strengthen and command one of three factions – Elves, Orcs and Humans. Prepare your troops and fight the mother of all battles. Play strategically, taking advantage of terrain, troop formations, visibility, scouting, etc.
Experience an epic tale: Enjoy a fully-voiced 30+ hour campaign on your own or with friends in the campaign coop mode. Face opponents of all skills in the online battles.
Multiplayer: Strong multiplayer component with various modes - Compete against each other in the PvP and Domination mode or play cooperative either together on one faction or classic where everybody plays a faction.
Reforced Edition Features:
Enhanced campaign experience
Improved RTS mechanics and reworked RTS faction (Humans, Orcs and Elves) designs, introduced in the expansions Fallen God & Soul Harvest
Updated Skilltrees with new spell mechanics introduced in the expansions
Improved Questflow
Improved loot distribution for a smoother progression
Reworked crafting
RTS AI Balance overhaul
Complete rework of the hub for minimizing downtimes
Complete purge of campaign/quest logic issues
Improved Coop Mode
Visually and functionally enhanced User Interface used in the expansions
Full Gamepad Support for controls and UI
A new skirmish map “Bitter Canyon” set in a mountainous environment
Journey Mode: An additional game mode similar to the original SpellForce’s “Free Game Mode”, providing more than 20 hours of unique content and a lot of replay value. Can be played in Coop!
Journey Skirmish: Play PvP skirmish matches against other players with your journey heroes
Arena Mode: An additional endless game mode where you start with a fresh character, fight against waves of monsters, and buy loot and spells from merchants to compete with other players in the leaderboards which can also be played in Coop
Improved Mod Support and mod support for the new Journey and Arena modes. Create your own Journey or arena maps and share them with the community.
Both Expansions are listed in the main menu of the main game, but they are not recognized when they are installed. You are obviously supposed to be able to start the expansions from that menu, but both Expansions are greyed out. When I click them, I am directed to the GOG web page to buy them. Which is not possible, since I have bought and installed them already.
This is pretty weak. I don't know who is to blame for this, but either the developers or GOG (who needs to make sure the games they are selling are actually working as intended) didn't do their job correctly. Not acceptable.
The game in itself is a good idea, interesting story, good graphics. But it is ridden with bugs, so many bugs that it makes the game a pain to be played, I mean what the point of doing 75% of a side quest when one interaction does not work and kill the entire quest itself? It's frustrating trying to work around one bug after another, I did not pay 50 bucks to be a beta tester and I feel that the developper did not backtest this game seriously.
I'm just here to tell you, if, after all the things you have read and seen about the game, you find yourself to be interested in it, give it a shot. Especially if you liked it's prequels. It may not be revolutionary, and it's not technically flawless, but it's got a lot of heart. I personally really enjoy it's writing and (german) voice acting, it's detailed world, it's beautiful art style and it's fluent gameplay.
I think the industry needs games like Spellforce 3, good games made by small, but dedicated and well-versed teams of people. They are the ones for young developers to look up to, to see that it's possible to succesfully follow your ideas. So, if you can and want, give the people behind this game some of your hard-earned money. In my opinion, their work deserves success.
Hailing from good ol' Germany, Spellforce 3 for me is the epitome of a game that's typical for German culture. Thus, the pros are:
- Meticulously crafted (OK, that's a lie, there were a lot of bugs, but reasons for the rushed release are unknown (profit maximization, anyone?), patches were provided asap and they are gone for good)
- Incredible eye for detail (especially in the graphics and design department, the environments are gorgeous)
- Meaningful, comprehensible & coherent (the story is top notch, the conversations and relationships between characters are well thought out and actually make sense)
- Epic scope (well, being the old guy I am I needed 50+ hours to complete the main game, and for sure the future of the world as we know it is at stake here)
- The soundtrack is actually really epic, too, and there's voice over for all conversations (the English ones are really good, don't know about the German VO, though).
However, as usual, there are cons:
- Being a RTS/RPG-hybrid, the RTS part is boooring (I think due to many reasons, e.g. units are not easily distinguishable from each other visually, the rock-paper-scissor-system is not very apparent, the gorgeous environments are too distracting because units are kinda lost in scenery)
- Loading screens are too frequent and take too long which is really distracting (travelling to a location and back just ot talk to an NPC takes ages, and yes it's a 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD, guys)
To sum it up, if you like it slow, sometimes boring, but also epic, coherent, beautiful and are fond of a good story being told then this is your game.
I was scared to buy this because there were so many bad reviews, but I liked Spell Force 2 so I gave it a chance. And it's the best game I've played in a long time. It's got heart -- an "it" factor a lot of games don't have. The voice acting is immersive. Watch a let's-play video if the other reviews put you off, see if it might be for you. I'm surprisingly happy with my purchase.
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