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The Plaguelords, a nation of mysterious swamp creatures offered towering Hydras and electrocuting floating eyes, while the Swarm came equipped with an array of bees, giant ants, scorpions and crushingly powerful scorpion men. As with all the Warlords games, your troops are led by a hero whose sphere of influence gives nearby units combat bonuses. And of course, we mustn't forget to mention their incantation-packed spell books that can play a major role in swinging the outcome of a battle.

Although they're yet to be added, we've also been promised 30 new spells and three new spheres of magic , bringing the total to an impressive You can also look forward to an all-new hero development system, which we can happily say is far more intuitive than before. You'll have countless new attributes to develop too, while gaining levels is now quicker and easier.

What's more, you'll be able to take your hero all the way up to level 50 and then use them and their ever-growing retinue in multiplayer games. From what we've seen of it, there's a wealth of gameplay under the ugliness here - despite the dated visuals, it's looking like fans of the senes won't be disappointed. In fact, Battfecry III is just like that close, opposite-sexed, pizzafaced friend of yours.

You'll want to spend loads of time with it, but you wouldn't want to shag it. Browse games Game Portals. Warlords Battlecry 3. At some point you will need to confront the enemy that has also been building up. Combat in Warlords is extremely simple.

Units are placed in stacks, so that multiple units can move together and fight together. A stack can attack an enemy stack or city by moving to the enemy. The game then switches to a combat screen and the combat occurs. During combat, the game takes the first two units in the stack and determines a winner, there is no need for the user to intervene although some options, such as surrender, are available during combat. It is a simple point and click interface that is extremely easy to learn and use.

Most actions that an army or hero needs to perform are accomplished simply by moving the cursor over the appropriate location and clicking. The game determines what needs to be done and handles the rest. There are also a small number of icons on the screen that provide easy access to all commands available to you. Fawkner has also added a great tutorial for those new to the series. Each Darklords Rising disk can support two players via spawning. In non-email games, the game reverts to simultaneous movement, which does take a little time getting used to, but is a great game engine for those who would rather avoid real-time gaming.

Even though Darklords Rising uses the same engine and shell as Reign of Heroes , this is not a cheap knock-off add-on designed to empty the wallets of poor unsuspecting gamers. SSG has seriously delivered the goods here. The most glaring omission from Reign of Heroes , an editor, has been taken care of with a very powerful game and scenario editor. While gamers can not create their own units which you could in Warlords 2 Deluxe but the complexity of Warlords 3 animations makes an unit editor a non-starter , gamers can do everything else, including creating specific items for their own games and scenarios.

Want to re-create the Sword of Shannara? Without question the most clear, clean and self-contained set of editors in the business. The second cry from gamers was for more campaigns Reign of Heroes came with one campaign only, though that was tempered by the random map generator.

There are four new campaigns two long and two short , plus fifteen new stand-alone scenarios PLUS all the scenarios from Reign of Heroes and the campaign from the game. As a reference point, one of the scenarios, Illuria, represents the entire game from the original Warlords and alone will kill a week or so of your life. Gamers, especially those who were spoiled by the unit editor in Warlords 2 Deluxe , wanted more heroes and more units. SSG delivered by giving gamers 31 new armies for a total of 95 and five new hero types for a total of fifteen , all of which have their own special skills and attributes.

The biggest game complaint towards Reign of Heroes was the unstrategic vectoring option. Basically, it allows armies that are built in city A to appear in city B after a few turns the time it takes to vector from one city to another. The problem was that the game did not differentiate between cities right next door to each other and ones a few continents away. The game vectored everything in two turns.

In Darklords Rising , vectoring time is dependent on distance. Cities a long haul away can expect delays of three, four or five turns, a much more fair and realistic idea. Gamers also have the option of turning vectoring off altogether. Another game complaint was the inability to rebuild razed cities. In many games of Reign of Heroes , your opponent human or otherwise would initiate a scorched earth policy and destroy all nearby cities, effectively killing off your ability to compete.

Darklords Rising adds an option to rebuild razed cities at the cost of gp. Just in case gamers thought that there were not enough spells, skills and abilities in the game, SSG added a few more 19 new spells and 9 new abilities for a total of 35 spells and 25 abilities.

New animations have also been added for combat, such as an exploding skull undead and acid hitting a helmet. SSG also added a whole rack of random map control parameters and game types, as well as new victory conditions. Finally, just in case nobody was paying attention, Keating improved the AI even more. Keating already is at the top rung of game AI programmers, and Darklords Rising just adds to his legend.

While the AI naturally does not play as unpredictable or as challenging as a human, its pretty damn close. I played a game where the AI just went after my heroes, which really pissed me off. Another time it did a totally human move - it sent its hero off to explore all the ruins and gave the city capturing duties to any allies it picked up. Though I am older now and the AI does not humble me as much as it used to, I still shake my head sometimes at how intuative and deceptive it is.

A big part of the popularity of the Warlords series is due in part to Keating's AI, and once again he has upped the bar. The best AI in strategic gaming just got even better. If you have never played Warlords 3: Reign of Heroes , then Darklords Rising is beyond a must-have if you have never played any of the Warlords series I have to question your gaming credentials.

But what if you already own the previous chapter? Most definitely. I'm not sure of the answer but I hope that this is possible. Darklords Rising gives gamers everything that was present in Reign of Heroes and adds everything that gamers screamed for. A more customizable AI so newbies can play with grizzled veterans.

New armies, heroes, skills and abilities and spells. The ability to rebuild razed cities and to set aside quests. New game types, new victory conditions, new terrain types and an improved AI already a Keating trademark. Most importantly, a game and campaign editor. On that note, you can sign alliances with others and work together to dispatch the enemy.

As well, a nice feature is the items you can collect, and the quests you can be assigned. You recieve stat boosting equipment for completing these quests, and can kill other heroes to loot what they've got. Often, players may become extremely angry at the luck the computer has in battles.