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Master of Magic Reincarnated

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The best way to describe this game is Master of Magic 2002. The developers no doubt borrowed HEAVILY from the classic turn-based strategy game Master of Magic. So if you enjoyed M.O.M, this game is for you.

My only gripe with this game, is that there is no random map, or random game. You can customize your wizard and choose your own race in the senarios, but you cannot modify your opponant wizards, they are set in each senario. But overlooking these two negatives, the game is very fun and colorful.

Each civlization has it's own strengths and weaknesses, and builds it's own unique units. The civilizations and units are largely based after Tulkiens races Orcs, Dwarves, Humans, Goblins, Elfs, Hobbits ect, and the game adds a few new ones such as Tigrens(cat people), Frostlings, Undead and Achrons. There are also many cool mystical combat units, much like Master of Magic.

Also, just like Master of Magic, you get to pick which sphere of Magic you want your Wizard to be apart of. Earth, Water, Fire, Death, Life, Air, or a combination of all 6.

The soundtrack to the game is also nice, and the female wizards are hot as hell!

Good news for me, but I wasn't expecting them

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 19
Date: March 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When the first Age of wonders was released, there were many different opinions about the game, some players claimed that they didn't like the graphics, others said that the game interface was amazing, and so (In other words, a 4 stars game)... but after I checked the images offered for viewing in "Gathering of Developers", all I can say is that, in the world map, the game interface stayed the same (Or at least something very similar) to the first game, but the graphics of the combat scenes are greatly improved. Also (Just to feed your curiosity a little) the lands varied from peaceful green-forests with calm rivers, to turbulent ash land with lava surrounding blackrock castles.

This game rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I saw some pretty poor reviews which prompted me to put in my two cents in. Who in the heck wants a random map generator when the game is geared towards PvP. The wealth of strategies available for the different races really brings the game to life. The depth of the AI really hit home after I released the "Fire Domain" spell which harms all enemy units within my territory. The AI counteracted with a force of about 24 Monks (healing each other like mad) and left two cities in their wake. The Scenarios are well thought out and if anything a little unbalanced - leaning more to the extremely challenging side. The beautiful graphics and sound track included are just a bonus!

Good game, but campaign mode is difficult

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I would recommend getting Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic over this game. It is basically Age of Wonders 2.5 and adds its own campaign with an easier starting gradient as well as new units, races, spells and balance tweaks. All of the single-player downloadable maps for AOW2 are still available and useable for Shadow Magic as well as new maps just for it.
Oh, and this is a turn-based strategy game if you didn't know already, kind of like a complex boardgame (think Fantasy version of Risk times 5) where the computer takes care of all of the complicated stuff.

Enjoyable, but flawed

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Building on the original Age of Wonders, it's an enjoyable fantasy strategy game.
Unfortunately, it suffers from graphical glitches with some graphics cards, mine included (GeForce 4 Ti4400, 30.82 drivers); the only remedy is to turn off DirectX acceleration, which costs a moderate amount of performance and eye candy.
Given that this glitch is still present after the 1.20 patch ... not so impressive.

Finally played it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

As I clear the back log of games to be played, I was surprised that I enjoyed the game. I play AOW and didn't really care for it. There were different races but they all felt the same to me.

AOWII changed that. There were definatly strength and weaknesses to each. You get to find them as you have to play each in the game

The underground made for some planning as the enemy could double back and attack lightly defended rear cities.

The main character(you) isn't all powerfull on the battlefield. I found it was best to put Merlin(could there have been a better name?) in a town with a level3 tower and farcasting ability and let him rain death from afar. At times it carried the battlefield.

Probably the hardest level was Death 1. You could not build up forces on a defense war. Starting out attacking didn't help either. I found it was best to pull a "Shermans March" and build up a few bone dragons, leave some forces and to delay the enemy and march and look for Meander. As I found a town with a tower, I took it sold off they tower and the champion builds and moved on. Maybe I was lucky.

The finaly battle I did find the AI to be a little stupid with Juliach. She would come in with superior numbers and I with one Red Dragon and she would use two hell storms and wipe out her army. Red dragons carried the day.

Many spells to choose from. Didn't get to use them all.

Overall I played for many hours and was happy to see it finished. Though the final movie could have been more.

Hopefully an AOWIII will happen!

VERY buggy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: August 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am an avid fan of Turn-based strategy games. I also adored the original AOW. Naturally, I rushed to buy AOW2. Sad to say, it was a mistake. The game locks up, is very quirky on map transitions and the technical support from the website seems to consist of the phrase "Have you tried reinstalling?" Lest someone think I am playing on some esoteric, exotic machine, I am not. It is a 3 month old Dell Dimension that plays almost all of my games flawlessly and didn;t even quiver over Neverwinter Nights, which I am told is near miraculous... Anyway, I cannot recommend this game simply for the bugs, technical glitches, lock-ups and total invisibility of tech support.

Very disappointing compared to the first AoW

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Age of Wonders I was certainly one of my all-time favorite games. Highly customizable hero with fantasy creatures under your control in a beautiful fantasy realms. It had high replay value and kept my interest for many months.

This sequel did not live up to my expectations. The leader customization revolved primarily around magic spheres, as compared to specific abilities, which was possibly the coolest feature in the original game. The magic sphere customization system was not reminiscent to the first game, and definitely not as fun.

This may be worth getting if you're just looking for another fantasy RPG/Strategy game, but if you're looking for a sequel, you will be very disappointed.

Sorry, Can't play it.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: December 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I immediately bought this upon it's release mainly due to a review on pcgamer.
What I was looking for was, of course, a updated master of magic; everything I had read was indicating that while not exactly the direct heir of MOM, it was close enough to be enjoyable.
So I bought it, installed it, checked it out...then uninstalled it.
The Random Map Generator which had been heavily praised on the pre-release version wasn't there; just standard scenarios. Gameplay-wise, If I wanted to play the standard scenarios, I would probably just whip out the AOW1 CD and play that. Sure the gameply is a little better, the graphics are a little cooler, but without the Random Map Generator, this is just a upgrade to AOW1, not the game at all I was lead to believe it was.
So, I check back to the AOW2 website occasionally, and look for the RMG....and as soon as it's available to download, I'll play the game; If they try to SELL it as a expansion, I'll probably sue them.
If you haven't played Turn based strategy before, ever, it's worth your time, I'm sure...But it's not the game they advertised it to be.

Good graphics and sound..but worth your time?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: November 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It had nice graphics and music, and I played about 10 hours on the same map trying to get a better feel for it as well as to see the new and different units. It's fun to control/meet fairies and unicorns and other fantasy characters. But it took too much time to do even the basic city management.

Maps were filled with lots of places to visit and explore..but on the other hand, that only draws out the battle to a point where the player is thinking, if this one small map takes this long, how will i ever finish this game? Consider my statement above that I spent 10 hours on the first single player non-campaign map that I tried. I didn't even finish it totally since that would take several more rounds to gather my armies for the big fight at the one last remaining enemy town which happens to have a big army on it; I just played it to the point where I knew I would win.

It reminded me too much of Kohan, which I enjoyed much more and took less time to play because it was RTS instead of turn-based.

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