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Bad AI. Good Online or Multiplayer game!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Very Good Graphics. Uses lots of tactics and spells from card-game. Real-time strategy mixed with a fighting game. AI is either too easy or way to hard ruining the 1-player experience. Multiplayer and Online rule though!!!

Review from non-player

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've never played any of the Magic series games before. I've heard this game doesn't bear much resemblance to the card game.
It took me over a year to buy this game because I thought it ONLY had online play. But now that it's in the discount bins it looked like it was worth a try.

It was more fun than I thought it would. I'm not a hardcore RPG fan and so the shallow gameplay elements was just right for me- all I was looking for is a simple-to-play DragonBall Z experience or a remake of the old PSX game Destrega. This game comes pretty close. The quests are short finite games that you can pick up and play and then put down- so it's great for people who don't have a lot of time to spend on a long RPG.

What I think worked in this game is that even though the gameplay rules are simple, there are sufficient strategic elements that make it interesting. I only wish there was a way to slow things down so I can watch the animation unfold. Sometimes combat becomes so frantic all you are trying to do is to spawn creatures as fast as they die.

Super Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have no knoledge of the card game this was based on but I purchased this game having my doubts that it was going to be all that the reviews hyped it up to be...I was so wrong...I have yet to play a different game...There are so many good things about the game...Graphics are great, game play very smooth, unless there are a lot of creatures on the screen at the same time, the charaters and creatures look great, the voices and phrases could have used a little more work...Some say the game needed more spells, but for now its enough...playing on xbox live is great and much better than playing some computer AI...If your into the super-natural, witchcraft, sorcery, demons, goblins and just down right kicking someone's butt this is the game to buy.

An excellent concept poorly executed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game provides entertainment, but is hardly worthwhile. Although the visualizations are enjoyable and the content is entertaining, the quest mode is absolutely inane and the gameplay directly contradicts the concepts of magic the gathering in several places.

Certainly there is give for making a game more action packed, Magic is by no means a fast paced game and giving it some life is welcome, but this game forgoes intelligent thought and strategy in favor of button mashing rivaled by fighting games. There is no time to properly form a plan of attack. When reading the rule book you begin to see numerous parallels between the game, such as respawn being equivalent to the end of a turn, however this is not the case, creatures lose toughness permanently until they die. This horrendously favors aggressive styles of play, and on top of that, being able to constantly cast one spell, over and over, completely eliminates the concept of "gas" where once you're out of cards you have to slow down. This is one of the primary concepts that prevents sligh(red) decks from being totally unstoppable, and indeed you learn in this game that raging goblin and goblin hero en masse means the game becomes stupid fast. By the end of the quests you will be harder pressed to exactly execute the only winning combination of buttons possible that you might be better off with a DDR pad, give yourself no illusion of intelligent thought.

Without going into too many more magic specific vocabulary, let it be known that this game is going to turn alot of magic players off, way off. it might even pull out your plug and cut the cord. I bought this game for 10 dollars, so my losses were minimal, but think hard before you purchase this title.

Beware!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I don't know much about Magic the Gathering, but I like strategy games so I gave this one a try.
For a video game based on a card game, Magic is pretty action packed. In fact, the game plays a lot like one on one extreme dodgeball. The action is fast and frantic. There are two opponents on seperate sides divided by a line. If you cross the line, you lose life every 3 seconds or something like that. You pick up power ups that can be used to conjure up monsters or to cast spells. The more powerups you have the more stuff you can throw at the other guy. So basically you pick up white balls off the ground and then you use their power to send monsters to hit the other guy. Unlike dodgeball, though, you could even run over to the other side to steal your opponents power ups, or better yet, join your little monsters in the beatings. I guess it's more like streetfighter/dodgeball. The game is action packed, and it's somewhat entertaining, especially when playing with friends. I wouldn't consider this a strategy or RPG, but it's easily worth its bargain bin price. With this game, you definately get what you pay for. If you're looking for a real strategy/rpg, I recommend Gladius.

good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If your tired of the teaditional fighting games and prefer to play a game that invokes your mind, try Magic the gathering

This game blows me away from buying it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 19
Date: December 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is certainly gonna be $20 pretty soon. If you want this game very badly, it's nothing much to be hyped over because the demo already sucks. This should just be like a happy meal toy from Mcdonalds or something, because I wouldn't give anymore than $5 for this. Probably be collecting dust if I ever bought it.

This Game is the Greatest!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: November 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Next to Halo this is one of the greatest Xbox games ever!!!Its bad points are when you cross your side you take damege ,and you should have more health this info is based on the demo,but over all this game is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!(-:

Only for online play

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Only buy this game if you love the card game, and want to play online. There are two single player modes -- Quest and Arcade. Both are terrible. Each battle is either extremely easy or extremely difficult -- there's no happy medium. You'll waste hours fighting the same battle over and over again, trying to beat it with the badly designed deck they force you to play, only to finally win and then clear the next 10 battles in fifteen minutes. It's far too frustrating to play, and I can only imagine the limited number of cards won't give it much replay value even online.

magic review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I think this is a great game but there are some flaws in it.The flaws are:you have to have really fast reflaxes because the games pace is very fast.It is great to play with freinds and it is superb on xbox live.The quest is hard but beatable.

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