You can choose from pregenerated runesmith, necromancer and alchemist builds, or create your own by bodging together two or three schools of magic from those on offer.Įxpanding your tower and performing various rites and rituals requires resources, furthering your need to explore the world and find new sources of stuff. Having recently inherited the aforementioned tower from your mentor, whose disappearance provides an important story thread, you set about establishing your credentials as the hottest thing to hit the magic circuit since white rabbits. It’s like being the quest giving NPC in an RPG, camped out in your tower doing nerd stuff while you send out a bunch of jocks to do the heavy lifting. Instead of sending forth mighty armies to conquer territory, you’re dispatching heroes to track down artefacts and magical secrets. Rather than world domination, your mage is something of an academic, only interested in researching the secrets of the Allspark - sorry, Allfire. It all looks very 4X-like, and all four of the exes are present and correct in varying amounts - but there is one significant departure from the formula that Wagner was keen to emphasise. While the game was in a pre-alpha state, it was already looking pretty swish, especially the rather lovely (and lovingly hand-crafted, I later discovered) world map. It’s a fresh, turn-based take on the series which casts the player as a wizard attempting to further their mastery of magic.Īhead of the announcement, developers Owned By Gravity invited me to take a sneaky peek, and I was treated to a hands-off demonstration from producer Jan Wagner. SpellForce the video game series isn’t that it’s a trio of RPG-RTS hybrids which, by the time you read this, will have had a new entry announced in the form of SpellForce: Conquest Of Eo. It conjures a mental image of a kid’s TV show where some, possibly sentai-style, superheroes learn about the importance of spelling and grammar. I love the name "SpellForce", mid-word capital letter and all. SpellForce: Conquest Of Eo is a strategy RPG with 4X DNA and "do or die action" A new vibe for a classic series
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