Published on August 2, 2010 By Island Dog In Elemental News

GameZone has posted their preview of Elemental: War of Magic.  This is a great overview of the game, along with some quotes from Stardock’s Brad Wardell.

“There are a lot of things you can say about Elemental: War of Magic. But the most important thing might have come from Brad Wardell, the President and CEO of Stardock, and the Executive Producer of the game. “In most [strategy] games, it’s really about your empire, your kingdom, your civilization,” he said. “In Elemental, it’s about you. The first question you’re asked in the game is, ‘Who are you?’”

“The story elements,” Wardell added, “have been something I’ve been working on for over a decade. It was originally intended for a trilogy of books but when the opportunity came to make a fantasy strategy game, it made perfect sense to bring this fleshed out world to the game.”"

Read the full preview at GameZone!

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Comments
on Aug 02, 2010

I note from this:

Whereas your descendants are born with that magic, so there are some real advantages to being fruitful and multiplying as much as you can.”

Is this not enabled in Beta4?  My children don't seem to have an Essence score.

 

on Aug 03, 2010

The campaign mode will contain several tutorial elements. “[But] in terms of an interactive tutorial where it’s like, ‘Now click on this,’ we’re staying away from that. I know some people like it. But it really drives me nuts. In my experience, I really just need someone to say, ‘This is how you play the game,’ so I’m not lost, and that’s what we’re looking to do.”

Oh noooooooo!

At least, put all those mechanism descriptions in the manual Age-of-Wonder-style, or in some associated PDF!

All that seems intuitive to someone isn't necessarily to someone else especially first-timers.

on Aug 03, 2010

Did i read it right, that if you buy the book, you get an additional campaign?

on Aug 03, 2010

Shouldn't such a important preview have NEW images?

on Aug 05, 2010

Well, I am just looking forward to getting my hands on the game... managed to come too late for the beta, eventhou I pre-ordered some days ago.

All in all, I am looking forward to see the city building part, meaning how customizable it is, and how much you can influence this during the game.

on Aug 05, 2010

Dead link. 

 

==Edit== Link is intermittently dead.