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I waited 10 years for MoM 2 and this is what I get!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: September 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

To compare Age of Wonders to any game other than Masters of Magic is ludicrous. This game is blatantly an MoM clone with deprecated gameplay and better graphics. Granted MoM was a terrific game, but surely Triumph Software could have improved on more than the interface. The few improvements over MoM are:

- better (barely better) graphics - a couple new races - a few new spells (most spells are exactly the same as MoM) - tactical combat inside monster lair locations - simultaneous turns - game doesn't end when someone researches the mastery spell.

Its list of features that are lacking from MoM are:

- brutally simplified town management (is this a shooter?) - can't build new towns - no town growth - an 'upgrade' option to replace individual building - one player per race - confusing diplomacy that changes round to round - no improvement to combat, identical to MoM - no improvement to heroes, identical to MoM - no improvement to magic system, identical to MoM

Perhaps I shouldn't be so hard on this game. Other reviewers and friends say that the simplified interface is a blessing. That the micromanagement of MoM was tedious. But what is wrong with having an AI do your town management for you if you choose? In all fairness I have, and will, be playing Age of Wonders for hours. Buy it for MoM with a facelift, but it is not MoM2.

Age Of Wonders

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a very good game. I think this one of the best games in the world. It can get boring for people that like action. If u like fantasy go fo this game. There are plenty of levels to keep you busy. If you like just doing fights and making armies it will last you forever.

good gamw

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Iv'e Only Played the demo but I lovre that and the real game will prpobly b better when I get 20 $

Wonderful!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love dthe game, it is much in the style of heroes and masters of magic, but original enough to be entertaining! Besides which it is highly addictive! Even my boyfriend enjoyed it and he's tough customer!
Only negative thing I can say is that I wished it had had an instruction manual for game play. It installed easily, played well. Good graphics, sound encountered some problems on both our machines. Music wouldnt play on my newer Pc and battle effects only were garbled on his. Great title! It made me go order the sequel lol.

Age of Wonderous Gameplay

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Having played the demo before playing the full version, i had a slight idea of what to expect from this game. Now that i have had access to the full features of the game, i'm happy to say that i will keep playing this game, because it has endless possibilities. The only problem i had with this game, and the reason i gave it four stars instead of five, was the fact that the campaign didnt end very well. It was pitiful. I happen to be a huge fan of movie endings and qualities of them.....this game had potential, till the end. Also, not a very taxing game on the systems (the gameplay isnt that much graphic driven). It is a content based game, and chooses to wow you with its gameplay than with its graphics, which is fine with me. In conclusion, Age of Wonders is a great game for any strategy type fantasy gamer.

Almost, but not quite

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: October 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Playing this game, you never think "Boy, I wish they had included..." because they did. This game has everything a lover of fantasy and strategy could want. Upon first playing, it seems to pick up the mantle left by Master of Magic and run with it. But the more you play, the more it just doesn't catch you. I never found myself looking up and seeing daylight with this game, as with other great series (Civ, HOMM, MoM, Warlords). Something is missing that you can't really put your finger on. Rather than wanting to play just one more turn, you instead have to force yourself to keep through each senario. No one I know who has the game played for more than a couple of weeks before getting bored with it. Somehow, it doesn't have the mistical fun factor of a truely classic game. It is an excellently made game, and will perhaps fill the void somewhat, but I am still waiting for a true successor to MoM.

What a disappointment!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: May 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is Civ II meets D&D. Its horrible. One of my five LEAST favorite games.

My 5 cents: MAGIC EFFECTS ARE GREAT!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Say nothing of the gameplay, been there done that, (except, of course, the over-complicated way-too-gossamer diplomacy). The magic effects are marvelous, albeit sacraficing, more than a little, individual unit graphics. If anyone out there disagree with me that the magic effects are "cheap", or "just like MOM", try casting geyser or winds of fury. Not POWERFUL spells, granted, but only AOW has the graphical detail and mentally affectual entrapment of sending a rival hero 50 feet into the air, and crashing down spinning. The graphics for the spells are marvelous, and, in my opinion, the only pinoneer characteristic of this much-competed genre of TBS.

I am now dumber for playing this game...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: July 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I give it to you straight. This is the worst game in my collection. The graphics are horrible, not even as good as Master of Magic that was published fiver years earlier. The music isn't good enough for an elevator and the game play couldn't be any worse if it tried.

You can't build new cities, you have to pay to bring items with you...The whole game is stale and unimaginitive. The map editor is hard to work with too. They pain, the pain... It just won't stop. I haven't played this "turkey" since the first week I bought it six months ago.

Disappointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I thought that would be an enhanced version of "Master of Magic".
This is not a half as good as old MoM was!
The most frustrating thing is that you cannot build a new city and the old cities can not grow.
By the idea this game is closer to "Heroes of Might and Magic" rather than to MoM, but it's not as good as HoMM either.
Does anyone need one more clone of HoMM, though not as great as the original was?
About the quality - nothing oustanding. Same as millions of other games on the market. And same boring.

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