Spellforce 2

List Price: $39.99 Discount Price: $0.95

Features:

• Choose from over 100 Avatar skills, allowing players to develop individual characters and gameplay styles with a great variety of spells, items, weapons, and armor.
• Lead one of three fractions(The Realm, The Clan, or The Pact), and build bases to gather resources and rally troops consisting of infantry, cavalry and flyers in order to be prepared for epic battles.
• Explore highly detailed and lush fantasy worlds
• Conduct a single-player campaign with more than 50 hours of gameplay sest in a persistant game world that is wrapped in a continuou, gripping storyline and a wealth of sub-quests.
• Prove their skills through more than 30 multiplayer maps with different multiplayer modes like player vs. player and player vs. Al/monsters and special quests for co-op multiplayer.

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Great, BUT?????? [Posted on 2007-09-22]
I love this program and play it as much as time allows, (20 hrs. wk.), but there is one problem that I run into all the time and that is that after about one hours worth of play, the sound of the dialogue goes off and the written dialogue passes by to fast I don't have time to read or respond to it. Don't know why, but it is not so good.

One of the Best RPG/RTS game. [Posted on 2007-09-24]
A must play RPG/RTS game. This game is so much fun, very well designed, and I loved playing every minute of it. It is hard to find a sequel lives up to its predecessor but Spellforce 2 truly a remarkable game.

The game has almost has all the right ingridients that needs in RPG. Group of heroes leveling and upgrading weapons and armor doing exciting quest and great story line. Optional quest like building your homeland and side quests are very fun to play as well.

If you are a RPG fan, you must play this game. Needed to say I bought the sequel, "Dragon Storm" as well? And this was anoter excellent expansion that you must play. I just love this game.

RPG portion got better, RTS worse [Posted on 2007-09-28]
First I'd like to say Spellforce 2's distributor Aspyr failed to include CD-Keys in the US copies. I would post it, but iono if it's legal... In order to get one you must go to the support section of Aspyr's website. Provide a copy of your receipt and serial code and you should be able to play within two to four days. But I don't know if its worth going through the mess.

Spellforce 2 presents a vast improvement in their storytelling compared to the original. It convinces you with the use of pre-introductions for maps, good cinematics (thanks to stronger graphics,) and nice voice talents.

Presentation became more graphic. Icons for spells and gear look as good as Warcraft 3. Ability distribution became less complicated with the use of 2 tech trees, combat and magic. Its visual 3-D graphics are superb. You can be at birds eye view at zoom out and zoom in all the way between your avatar's breasts (I'm just joking, but you can do it.) The dawn light hitting off of metal armor can be blinding.

What really hits me was the mal-evolution of its Real Time Straetgy. What happened to the 6 separate forces? You're reduced to three now, each consisting of three races (guess who's with the humans). You lost many of the best units in the first game for a new, condensed army. Civilization bonuses, resource multipliers and unique resource-regenerative buildings/workers (such as foresters and wheat farms) are lost. I rather have my elven forest combat bonus back. Plus I think the cover of night is not as strategically helpful as the first game.

Overall I say its a good game with both positive and negative changes. You might want to save yout money for a compilation. Spellforce 2 expansion Dragon Storm is out in Europe.

1-st version was alot better [Posted on 2007-11-21]
I'm very unsatisfied of that game. Too slow, even on my fast computer, slow and hard to control gameplay, lack of usefull shortcuts, too much info on screen - no space for the action, interacting with characters is difficult and often leads to leaving them just to do what computer decides!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bottom line: DO NOT WAIST YOUR TIME !

No Key [Posted on 2008-01-31]
Warning this game does not have the needed CD key in about half of it packages due to poor quality control. Don't buy

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