Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic - Gameplay with Commentary

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More information about the games factions, features, gameplay, units: http://aow2.heavengames.com/

You can buy the game from Good Old Games here: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/age_of_wonders_shadow_magic

Note that the glow surrounding the cursor in this footage is produced by my recording software, not the game itself.

My website: http://davidmcmurdo.com/

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[madclowntapia]

yes it's a simple game... but the AI was STUPENDOUS!!!

that was 1 of the high points for me....

have you figured out any way to make warlords 3 DLR or RoH play on windows 7?

what about heroes of etheria.... is it good? compared to 3 that is

[TheFinalHighlander]

@madclowntapia I don't have Windows 7 yet so I couldn't say, but I can't imagine there would be much of a problem. In a lot of ways Windows 7 is better at backwards compatibility than XP. Heroes of Etheria is awful, it was universally hated by fans. I thought it had a few nice ideas like hero retinues that could be taken from game to game, but in every other way it was bad. Like, if you lose your capital city then it's game over, even if you have a million cities standing.

[madclowntapia]

@TheFinalHighlander

thanks for the heads up

i decided to dl and try heroes of might and magic III

it works... crashes occasionally.. but auto saves so u don;t lose anything much.

but it sucks...i'm convinced there's some glitch towards to computer

[TheFinalHighlander]

@madclowntapia I had the same experience. I bought it from GOG to try just recently. I get the feeling that it's one of those games that you really had to play back in the day, because I just can't get into it at all.

[AustinKay]

I've been playing the original Age of Wonders for almost like 10 years, are the newer ones as good?

[TheFinalHighlander]

@AustinKay I bought the original game as well just to have it but I haven't played it much. The community over at Heaven Games only really focusses on Shadow Magic now and even releases unofficial patches for it so I take that as a sign that it's regarded as the best but I don't know enough to say either way myself.

[kalashnikov96]

YOU REMIND ME OF THE BABE.

WHAT BABE?

BABE WITH THE POWER.

WHAT POWER?

THE POWER OF VOODOO.

WHO DO?

YOU DO.

DO WHAT?

REMIND ME OF THE BABE!

[sirmoglok]

i don't at all like heroes of might & magic 5. but i LOVE heroes of might & magic 3!! still play it!

[bludshedx]

Awesome video, thanks! I always wanted to play and enjoy one of these turn based strategy games. For the likes of me, and I don't know why, I just could never get into HOMM3. There was just something about it that kept putting me off it. Just bought a copy of this on gog.com (50% off this weekend for anyone interested) and hope this is my foot into the genre!

Could not agree more with you more on the graphics. Some genre's should be kept 2d and refined artistically rather than go full 3D, IMHO!

[fetteforskrudd]

You cannot judge every "Heroes of Might and Magic" just from "trying" Heroes 5 (which is the WORST in the series). My opinnions: Heroes 3 is by far the best. 1 and 2 is also very good. 4 is meh, 6 is bad.

[godlessCommie7]

Great commentary! This games on sale on Steam and this pushed my other the edge to pick it up.

[darthbandon10]

@Danny6984 Dawn of War II i guess? Don't know why people are such graphics whores, if they're functional then gameplay\AI\balance is more important surely?

[Warcheiftin]

i played the original was lots of hours of fun :)

[ghjgdjgyd]

@hamerschy did that too xD never heard of this game b4

[DeZxSNiiPeR]

Nice i had this game a wil get it soon and subscribe

[ObsidianHellWolf]

The only reason why I'm favouriting this is because of your accent. <3

[Danny6984]

Is there any game like this one but more advanced in graphics? I've been loking for a game like dominating a map type of game(RTS) but I would like to be in the battles. For example I send a army and theres like a ''hero'' in it but I can actually play the hero maybe in a first person combat. I dont know something like that

[hamerschy]

thumbs up if minecraft sign near minecraft logo at start is written age of wonders is better and u searched it :D