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Urak, once peaceful, is now a land of darkness, chaos and death. The people yearn for a champion to drive away the forces of evil. That champion is you.
Lords of Magic: Special Edition is a strategy, rpg and dwarf game
developed by Impressions Games
and published by Rebellion.
Released on December 03rd 2015 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 497 reviews of which 460 were positive and 37 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.66€ on Instant Gaming.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10
- Processor: 1.8 GHz Processor
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: NNVidia/ATI 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 with Hardware T&L support (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended)
- Storage: 600 MB available space
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Some things that appear simple are not so simple as they appear. For instance, chess. Or Lords of Magic Special Edition. The basic game is straightforward: pick one of seven religions, and either a warrior, thief, or mage as your leader. Try to survive the upcoming war of conquest waged by the Death religion to sacrifice non-believers and bring the God of Death to the world of Urak. Each religion's units have different strengths and weaknesses. The mages of each faction have spells that fit their ethos. For instance, Fire has Meteor Storm, Life has Resurrection, Chaos has Reincarnation, etc. Main gameplay is turn-based strategy and overland movement, but combats/encounters are real-time with a pause button. At the release of Lords of Magic Special Edition, a critical typo cripples one of the factions, Chaos. Since then, a LOMSE 3.0.2 community patch corrects the defect. Players can choose to play the game unmodified, with the community patch, or enhance it with ManTerA's GS5R3 mod, which make it possible to click on the spells in your faction Report to see the details of what each spell you own does. It also changes the spells so that Meteor Storm changes the terrain type to Lava on the square where it hits, and Earthbind actually binds non-Air flying creatures. There are a number of other changes, but gamers usually either love the GS5R3 mod, or they hate it. Community mods can also add werewolves to the Chaos faction, for those gamers that have a background in Werewolf the Apocalypse table top RPG. Originally, LOMSE had 640x480 resolution at its original 1997 release, so LOMSE is a game which can benefit from dxwnd to change its graphics resolution. By default, LOMSE will open fullscreen, making it kind of blurry on modern monitors. LOMSE's engine can only handle 16-bit audio. However, a community member updated and re-mastered soundtracks to eliminate audio hiss and update from 8-bit to 16-bit audio. Where is the replay value? After you beat the Death religion, you can play again as that faction. There are also five (5) legendary campaigns from the history of the world of Urak. On the community side, the GS5R3 mod includes 8 maps. Community modders also created another 53 other maps. LOMSE also permits playing interactively with other players across the internet, across LAN, or a null modem cable. Where did they go? Most of the team worked on the game Pharaoh(1998). - Lead Designer Chris Beatrice went on to Lead Design of Pharaoh(1998), Zeus(2000) + Poseidon(2001), and Caesar IV(2006) - Programmer Dave LeCompte was later Principal AI Programmer for HareBrainedSchemes' BattleTech(2018). - Artist Ron Alpert went on to create art for Pharaoh, Caesar III(2000), and Heroes of Might and Magic IV(2002). - Artist Adam Carrullio worked the same projects as Ron Alpert, then Rock Band 2&3 (2008&2010) and Dance Central 1&2 (2010&2011), - Musicians Keith Zizza and Henry Beckett are credited both as Musicians on Pharaoh + Cleopatra and with Original Music on Pharaoh: The New Era, the Unity remake of Pharaoh - Voice Actor Fran Brill is also better known as Zoe on Sesame Street. After 544 episodes of Sesame Street, she retired in 2021. - Voice Actor Ralph Byers has imdb credits from 1977 to 2020. He went on to voice Oswald Dunbar (Blackwater police chief) in Red Dead Redemption II (2019, Windows) - Voice Actor Keith Charles has imdb credits from 1951-2003. In 2001, he was onscreen as the Royal's Lawyer in the Royal Tenenbaums. - Voice Actor Thom Christopher has imdb credits from 1951-2017, including 71 episodes of One Life to Live and 11 episodes as Hawk in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1981). - Voice Actor Edmund Gilbert has imdb credits from 1963-2011. Ed also appears in the 1998 video game Baldur's Gate. He's been a guest star on television shows and cartoons, including The Wild Wild West (1965), Three's Company (1981), and DuckTales(1987). He's in 66 episodes of taleSpin(1990-1993) - Voice Actor Sam Freed has imdb credits from 1975 to 2020, notably the Judge in American Gangster (2007).
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I played this for the first time in 2024 so the following review is not biased by any nostalgia for the game. However, it is biased by a fondness for retro games and the fantasy genre. If you enjoy retro fantasy games like myself, then this game is for you. Lords of Magic is an easy to learn, turn based strategy game with real time combat in which you develop your buildings, build up your army, and go out to conquer your enemies while exploring the world of Urak. The artwork and audio is stereotypical of the dark, ominous portrayal in which fantasy was represented to audiences of the 70's and 80's which creates a wonderful ambience to the game. The artwork is particularly reminiscent of the Heavy Metal franchise if you are familiar with that reference. Unfortunately, the gameplay is quite shallow. After one playthrough, there is not much more to experience. Nonetheless, I can see myself coming back in a year or so to relive the joy of playing this game. But even if I never play it again, I definitely got my money's worth as it currently costs less than a cup of coffee. Gameplay tip: the pause feature is one of the greatest tactical advantages you will have in every fight. Updated edit: I noticed some of the negative comments talk about bugs. I have no doubt that some people may experience bugs with a retro game like this however, I did not encounter any bugs or problems running the game during my entire playthrough. Also, if you are familiar with gaming in the 80's and 90's, you will know that one did not rely on in-game tutorials. Rather, one learned the game by reading the manual, and that's the case with Lords of Magic which comes with a 242 page manual rich in lore. I wish I had bought this game back in the 90's just to get my hands on a hard copy of the original manual.
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This strategy turn-based builder game is what I consider the pinnacle of the Lords of the Realm series. The interface is bulky, and some aspects are redundant once you encounter a new aspect, but it is a game from the mid 90's. This game was built to last, and has lost very little of it's charm. Especially considering the fact that it is a game released bug-free.
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Old school graphics, but the sounds effects, game play and strategy are still a lot of fun!
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I love this game. If you do as well, you can get a WORKING Version from GOG website. As this one is broken if you have windows 10-11. I don't have another version of windows so I cannot tell you if it does work just with a earlier version. That said, I do have a laptop with the original CD of the game, purchased back when I was a little kid. That does work and the version of windows I had back then was Windows XP.
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12
Developer
Impressions Games
Publisher
Rebellion
Release
03 Dec 2015
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