Posted on: June 22, 2020
MaZeW
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Awesome idea, flawed execution
I really want to love Spellforce, and in a certain way I do. This game offers a lot. The base foundation is rather simple. A CRPG hero with the power to summon armies. So Baldur's Gate meets Warcraft. Sounds awesome, but the implementation is mixed. Spellforce maps tend to be pretty big, and that creates long waiting times just to run from A to B, made even worse when quests send you all over. Also in the Strategy parts controlling your units is a bit sketchy, in particular the path finding seems to struggle with bigger groups of units. While a formation option is present it does not work properly. So be prepared to manually prevent kongo lines of units. Another thing about the strategy part that it less than ideal, specifically in the first campaign. You almost always start with a fresh base, meaning the game is rather low key at the start of a new map. Build your base, tech up, attack, reinforce, attack... In the 2. and 3. campaign they improved that. Up above I compared it to Warcraft, but that is probably a bad image. It in many ways feels almost like a Settlers game, more focussed on base building and ressources than the leading of armies. A bad fit for what they wanted to go for, a hero and his troops. Overall, it feels a bit slow and clunky, but functional. The same can be said for the RPG part. The skill system is relatively simple. You level up and get a couple points to increase your character stats and invest into skill lists. Skills allow you to equip better gear and learn spells. However some skill categories seem inherently better than others. And while the game technically allows to create hybrid characters that is a terrible idea for the most part. So wrong skilling is possible and no respecc. Best to stay in one category. Now all I said is bad but that is how I am. Overall it is a good game. If you can see past the flaws listed above you can have a wonderful time and many adventures in Eos.
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