SpellForce Platinum

Game is kinda ok. It is a blend of rpg and rts although trying to combine two different genres, it does a kinda meh result. Maybe it was too ambitious for its time. What is really grating to me, is some small details that were already considered stantard for its time. Like double cliking on a unit to select all of the same type, map goes back to unexplored every time you reload (!), lack of speed up etc. So not bad, not super. For its dirt price today, it can help kill some time.

the graphics are old, but the gameplay and story are great.

Instantly crashes after main title.

This was one of my favourite games as a child, and even when I re-booted it recently I've sunk a lot of hours into it. The campaign is really great and it blends additional RPG elements into the game (aside from leveling an Avatar), by having you collect plans for units and buildings.

The title spellforce is a RTS/RPG blend it has elements of both but doesn't do either any better then good. the RPG elements, you have a generic RPG set up and thats not bad, you have leveling and character progression, but the way you cast spells is a bit cumbersome and the interface to build your character is a big annoying but forgivable. the RTS element is ok, you build building and an army but where you can place buildings is frustrating you run out of room quickly and the issues of this become apparent in the tutorial, unit AI is kinda dumb even for this era of RTS the mechanics are primative and feel beta. and my least favorite part is the speed to game moves at, its slow, units move painfully slow and you will spend most of your time waiting for units to move about. all the issues will become apparent in the tutorial. play the tutorial and you will know all the bad for the game. but with all the issues the game is still very playable. and you can have a lot of fun playing it.