Elemental Preview from Game Stooge

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Game Stooge has put up their preview of Elemental: War of Magic!

“Elemental: War of Magic is shaping up to be a seriously deep and thrilling 4X strategy game, going beyond what its spiritual predecessor Master of Magicaccomplished and trying to build a living, breathing world (which can be randomly generated) to try to conquer. The game will be released on PC on August 24, so keep an eye out for it in the next few weeks.”

Read the full preview at Gamestooge.com.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

That is an excellent preview! If the game lives up to that billing, Stardock has outdone themselves! \o/

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Wish they had larger pictures, would love to be able to see that first one in fullscreen....not a great preview really. To be honest, if I didn't already know a lot of the game this article wouldn't make me very interested.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

This is a excellent preview, this game will be amazing.. roll on the the 24th Aug.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

A simple preview that doesn't give that much about the game away, nor does it explain or elaborate on much of anything. Still, it's a preview and it's one of many which have been popping up as of late. Hurray for the spreading influence of Elemental! May it grow bigger and reach even further in the future!

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Good preview, too bad they weren't able to grab the original license. If they make combat more engaging, than i agree it will be awesome, if not it won't.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

A very excellent preview indeed. :)

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Paragraph four is kinda confusing me by explaining mechanics I haven't seen or heard of previously. For example, the bit about the Knights being available without Iron and the Scholar being attracted by reputation and research might. It'd be great if those exist but, somehow, I doubt it.

Looking forward to being more pleasantly surprised then I already am...

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Folcik009, reply 8
Paragraph four is kinda confusing me by explaining mechanics I haven't seen or heard of previously. For example, the bit about the Knights being available without Iron and the Scholar being attracted by reputation and research might. It'd be great if those exist but, somehow, I doubt it.

Looking forward to being more pleasantly surprised then I already am...
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I'm actually hoping we can't just crank stuff out without at least having "Some" of the resources needed. Of course we've got the whole global economy thing, but, being able to make Iron Plate Armor without having even one Iron Mine just seems kinda...I don't know...wrong, maybe?

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

I hate Stardock ...

They alllllways publish games that you have/want to buy.

 

How about making a game that sucks?

You can't always make good games and I am waiting for the game I don't want to buy :P

 

 

Oh and good preview :D

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

Bad preview. The author makes mistake after mistake and instead of explaining things in a detailed/structured way, he justs glosses over things a little....

 

"While Master of Magic was almost a reskinned Civilization with spell research"

What???   If he seriously believes that Master of Magic and Civilization are almost the same then he's on my idiotlist. He would probably say that Command & Conquer Generals is a StarCraft clone (like the fans on the official C&C boards do.)

 

The worst preview this far.

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Campaigner, reply 11
Bad preview. The author makes mistake after mistake and instead of explaining things in a detailed/structured way, he justs glosses over things a little....

 

"While Master of Magic was almost a reskinned Civilization with spell research"

What???   If he seriously believes that Master of Magic and Civilization are almost the same then he's on my idiotlist. He would probably say that Command & Conquer Generals is a StarCraft clone (like the fans on the official C&C boards do.)

 

The worst preview this far.
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I beg your pardon. I've played MoM for the last 15 years since its debut in '95, and it's a reskinned Civ. Granted, the individual factions now have unique units rather than shared, but it's Civ to the core.