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Sierra in it's finest hour!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Lords of Magic is one of Sierra's best games. It's a mixture of collecting resources, protecting your stronghold and great temple, exploring, and defeating death. This game never gets old. It is hard to start out. You should read parts of the manuel like how to move and what you should do first. But it is a good game to learn as you go. I don't want to give away all the game's secrets, so I'll just say that this game is totally awesome. I defenitly recomend it.

looking forward to LoM II

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: October 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Lords of Magic is a very ambitious game. It has great graphics and sound, and it is quite different from all of the Warcraft clones out there.

Unfortunately, the game has many problems. The AI is seriously flawed in combat, and when bartering with computer players. Also, the game is just too easy. It may take a while to biuld up your forces, but you can win the game without ever encountering serious opposition. Sure, the marauding parties are a constant nuisance, but they usually never accomplish more than taking over a brewery for a day or two before you eliminate them.

Despite its flaws I really like what the game tries to accomplish. With a little more variety and much better AI the next Lords of Magic could be the best fantasy-strategy game available.

A descent game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: March 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

After playing Lords of the Realm I was pretty excited for LoM. I was slightly disapointed when I started playing it. It is pretty difficult to get started. They start you of with a warlord and three other types of warriors. But, to purchase new warriors it is too expensive. So, you take your time trying to collect resources, then an enemy army attacks and kills you real fast. To the upside if you actually get passed the first part of the game it starts getting fun. It really gets fun when you take over other villages and can make new types of armies. Even though I wasn't really impressed by this game I have played it a lot.

The Demo

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: May 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I first started out playing the demo I found it very difficult because there were so many limits so when I got The real thing it was very easy so biginners should start with the demo.

Not as good as I had hoped

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: April 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Lords of Magic looked like a pretty good game when I read the back of the box in the store but I found it to be extremely frustrating when I played it. It seems as though the computer is starting out with many more resources because I could never catch up to my neighbors in terms of units and resources. Waiting times between turns is way too long, as is waiting for a unit to heal. Also the lack of a small map on the bottom of the screen makes it really hard to orient yourself in the bigger picture. Also, the map stays basically the same no matter how many times you play. Sometimes a few things move but basically it's all the same.

Good game, not the finest

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: May 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I remember getting this game a while back when I was younger. The game was difficult to master, which I attributed to my young age, but I loved to play it because of the nice atmosphere it gave; beautiful, fantasy surrounding, pleasant music, pretty landscape (the 3D terrain had an enhancing effect over other strategy RPGs I had played on the PC before). Overall, I enjoyed the game a lot.
Moving back to the present day, I had lost my copy and was itching to play it again, having all but forgotten what the game was like. My girlfriend and I had gotten hooked on Age of Wonders, and I wanted to investigate similar games for her.
I ordered LoM SE on Amazon not too long after. After installing and playing the game for a bit, I was a little dissapointed. I was still the game that I remember, but it seemed deficient in ways I hadn't noticed before.
For example, the graphics did not age well. I can go back and play much older games from my childhood such as Quest for Glory I & II (SCI engine) and still marvel at how beautiful the graphics are despite only 16 available colors and a screen resolution of 320x240. This is double edged, because while I feel that LoM has pretty graphics, they still seem to work out poorly in the long run.
Secondly, I still find the gameplay to be difficult. I'm not a kid anymore, and I have since mastered other fantasy RPGs, but the system in LoM seems a bit awkward and difficult to master. I couldn't play it for more than a half hour.
Overall, I think it's a good game. Even though it's not my cup of tea anymore, I can see that lots of other people really love it, so if you like the genre then I give it a good recommendation. The price tag is very cheap, and it's well worth a grab.

Fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Great game:

Music: 5/5. Great soundtrack, 2nd to none.

Gameplay: Fun, good strategy and unit placement=victory. 5/5

Graphics: Good for its time, 4.5/5

in other words, this game is really good.

One weakness- Net play. Its net play takes wayyyy too long- but other then net play, one of best games ive ever played.

Classic Strategy RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Try this game out. Even though it's old, it's worth a look. One of my all time favorites!

Lords of cRacK!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I can't sToP pLAYinG.!!! I rediscovered this game after running into a mod site (got google? Keyword mantera gs5 impz xorgate lomse) and downloaded the mod and more importantly MODIFICATION TOOLS that allows access to the game's engine to edit spells units artifacts and other aspects of the game's engine.

Fundamentally, the game is still the same, with that unique ability to barter and beg 6 wildcats for 1 Xena from other, more clever AI players that makes it so unique among these types of games. However the mod (and you need to get this game if only to check out the mod and aforementioned mod tools), changes things in such a way to correct bugs left over from the final Special Edition release and the later LOMSE.exe beta patch and added a few extras such as AI security for capitol and the temple.

Even without the mod this game is slamming!!!.

Load times for dungeons and encounters are quick on the XP Pentium 4's and though the mouse moves way to fast for overland and combat scroll, the keyboard arrow keys work just fine.

After 8 years LORDS of MAGIC did not get older, it got better.

UPDATE --A fan "finished" the game with release of a 3.02 patch that corrects some problems from the earlier released 3.01 beta patch (use keyword search as described above to find both patches).

I like classics

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is an old favorite that I cannot leave behind even though graphics and sound are dated. Gameplay is quite addicting and guess what? It runs smoothly on Windows XP even though it was created ages ago. Most oldies I like to replay I have to run on my old Windows98 machine that I keep around just for this purpose. But LoM sits comfortably next to Civ4 and Heroes of M&M V on my XP machine.

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