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This game is wonderful. Really.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 74 / 82
Date: November 19, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is going to be on my hard drive for a long, long time. The only thing it lacks is a random map generator, which I think will be added in a patch or an add-on later. If you're a turn-based strategy fan, this game is a must have. It blows Heroes of Might and Magic (an already superb series) out of the water with more detail, better combat, and just plain better everything (even better MUSIC, which was very hard to beat!).

If you don't love this game, you're not a gamer. (Either that or you're just a twitch gamer, which is allmost as bad. :-)

In all my years of PC gaming, this is my favorite turn-based game (tops Master of Magic and even X-COM! those two games held the "longest on hard drive" awards up until this one came along, and I know it will unseat them). It might actually be my favorite game of all time, bar-none, but that remains to be seen in the test of time.

Buy this.

A terrific turn-based fantasy strategy game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: May 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the most recent turn-based fantasy strategy game and is arguably the best of them. The game includes two full campaigns (choose between good guys and baddies) and several single scenarios. You control one main hero with the option to recruit units and secondary heroes. Each race you control has 4 levels of units unique to each race. Heroes improve through experience in the campaign, gaining spells, higher stats and unique abilities. Units can also improve gaining better stats with experience. Heroes, units and magic items are carried forward to the next scenario subject to a points maximum. Unlike Heroes of Might and Magic, your heroes actually fight in battles (finally!). If you liked Master of Magic or the Heroes of Might and Magic series, you'll love this game.

The good parts: Multiple races (all controllable through capture even from opposite alignments). Simple intuitive interface. Deep strategic battles, where each unit has srong and weak points. Improveable heroes with spells, magic artifacts, and a large number of unique skills. Units and Heroes carry forward to the next scenario you get to select which ones. Superb replay value (many races to play, two branching campaigns, scenario editor included). Rock-solid stability (haven't had a crash since I installed it a month ago)

The bad parts: If you didn't have much of a life before, you'll have even less after you buy this game.

A great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: December 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is simply a great game. Easy to learn but lots of play value. Combinations of strategies make it sort of a "rock, paper, scissors" game where no unit (except maybe for heroes) can always beat any other unit. Hero development also has a new twist bringing ability development closer to role-playing games. Simply a great game!

A review from one of the average people

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: October 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm in no way a hardcore gamer. Just an average teen who has an interest in turn based strategy and fantasy.

If you never played the very much talked about MoM on this page, and are intending to buy AoW, then I can tell you that it's extremely good. Don't tell me to buy MoM, 'cause I'm satisfied with AoW. Plus, my pocket money doesn't stretch that far.

What is Age of Wonders? Age of Wonders is a turn-based game combining the best elements of strategy, adventure and role-playing. It features 12 unique fantasy races, over 50 different heroes with upgradable abilities, dozens of spells and scores of locations to explore. In this game of conquest, players employ strategic and tactical skills to command troops in capturing vital locations and defeating enemies in a captivating single player campaign or compete with friends in multi-player scenarios.

It's blurb: Welcome to the Age of Wonders, once a time of magic and peace. An age swept into the ravaging gale of chaos by the arrival of a single, uninvited race: the Humans. The fragile balance that existed between the ancient races, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs and others, has changed into a struggle for power and survival in the wake of the turmoil the Humans have brought to the land. Prepare for an adventure where you will uncover wondrous ancient artifacts, awesome magical power, and the secrets of a shattered empire. Ally with the forces of light or darkness to determine the fate of the earth in the AGE OF WONDERS!

Well, that's my piece. AoW is definitely worth it!

Epic fantasy war gaming at its best!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: July 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought "Age of Wonders" when it first came out. The game, in my opinion, is the best computer fantasy war game that has ever been made. With the option of twelve different races and seven different spheres of magic, there is definitely plenty of diversity and replay value in this game. The spell effects are charming, and the musical score is beautiful. The single player campaign has a great story line, and the multi-player aspect of the single scenarios is well developed. Heroes are very customizable, and if you so choose, you can actually have a hero represent you on the playing field as well (though if you die, you lose). There is only one thing that I would change about the game and that is some of the unit icons; to be honest, the artwork on some of the icons is a little lacking like they were rushing to get this product out the gates. All in all, "Age of Wonders" is an awesome game, and I am definitely looking forward to "Age of Wonders 2".

Finnaly, Turn-Based Fantasy that Does Everything Well

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: March 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Take it from me, i have been playing games of this type all the way back to the days of Kings Bounty (which still rules and fits on only one disk) I spent hours playing Heroes 2 and 3 as well as with the Warlords series and this takes the best from them all, thrown in some of its own unique charecter and ends up with one of the most well balanced, downright fun games to come down the turn-based pike in quite some time.

Computer fantasy wargaming as it should be!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: March 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First of all, let me say that I this is one of my favorite fantasy/strategy turn based wargame of all times. The game offers plenty of diversity with twelve races each of which has contains it's own unique units. Granted that there are units in each race that are roughly the same like the swordsman, but each swordsman has slightly different statistics that makes it different from a swordsman of a different race. There are over 100 spells split into seven different spheres, and the spells have great animations that I never grow tired of watching. Heroes in the game are very customizable so that no two heroes need to be the same as often found in other games of this type. Game play/control is not complex and is easily learned. The musical score is enchanting and very well done. Graphics are excellent; the landscape is simply beautiful. There is only one problem that I have with the graphics and that is that the unit figures leave a little to be desired. All in all... this is one of the best games I have played in a long time. Few games can keep my attention for extended periods of time, and this is definitely one of those games.

wow... this is FUN

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is plain fun! The atmosphere and graphics are compelling (if you remember it is a game), there is room for story telling in the game, the AI is decent, you have 12 sides to choose from, loads of magical spells (the effects are fun!), ships, the whole nine yards.

I love that you get a game editor with it and can create your own magic items and heroes and story-line. The game is very well balanced and involves actual strategy.

The simplified economy is a BIG PLUS over MOM which was micromanagement hell and why I gave it up eventually.

There are little details of hte game that go pretty deep, such as the weaponry needed to hit a Wraith or a Dragon, how the alignments and races interact and sometimes desert your army, how best to attack a fortified and walled-in town (loads of fun), choice between tactical and strategic combat. And overall, it flows just so much smoother than MOM ever did. I actually get lost in the story and details much more than I did at MOM, and the AI is not as much of a push-over as the MOM AI was if oyu factor out cheating...

I can't believe I overlooked this game and glad I found it!

14 Reviews!! Ack!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

14 reviews for one of the best turn-based strategy games ever published? Well... needless to say I wasn't overly impressed with this game when I first played the limited demo version. But this is a game that grows on you. It's beautiful images and graphics lull you into a land of epic-fantasy. This game owes it's origin to Microprose's Masters of Magic, so if you played that game 10 years or more ago and like it - you will love this modern day adaption. Can't wait for the sequel - Coming in 2002.

The genre's not dead after all......

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

After losing what little social life I still had, thanks to this game, I have to say it is hands-down the best strategy game I've ever played. The graphics are not real flashy, but they are pretty and they work well with the game type. Age of Wonders is not the most original game in the universe, but it's a lot more so than much of what's been on the shelf lately. I must also admit I am obsessed with elves, so this game naturally appealed to me. All that aside, however, it has the one thing that makes a game great, and that is that it's FUN. The most beautiful graphics in the world, and the best soundtrack, not make a mediocre game good. Age of Wonders has that great, addictive gameplay. (Which, come to think of it, is probably why I nearly failed math....)

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