A vile defilement of a marvelous turn based strategy series. I consider Age of Wonders 2 Shadow Magic to be the best medieval fantasy TBS ever made. However, AoW3 takes the series gameplay and dumbs it down so much that what remains is tasteless, unsatisfying and utterly bland and boring husk. Party unit cap is reduced from 8 to 6, unfunny leader's class system, all interesting and funny mechanics like random hit chance, possibility to hit friendly unit with range weapon and many other have been removed . Since 3D graphics are much more expensive than 2D I can understand inclusion of 6 races only but this adds to how boring the game is. The only good thing is possibility to customize look of the player's leader, overwhelming majority of games does not allow any customization.
