It's rare for me to get excited about a new game but, god damn it, I'm excited about this one. Remember Majesty? It was an excellent RTS style game from 2000 where you hired heroes and got them to do things for you by offering them gold. I actually discovered this game about a year ago and aside from the poor graphics and ridiculously fast scroll speed I really enjoyed it.
Now, the second factor in this equation of awesome is a company called 1C. You might know them from the Space Rangers series or the remake of King's Bounty. They're essentially a mad group of Russian developers that make amazing games, I don't know too much about the guys themselves but their work shows a real passion for gaming that you don't often see.
Anyway, mix these two things together and you get a game called Majesty 2. That's right, these guys got hold of the license and made a sequel and it's good. It's damn good. I mean I only have the demo which has two missions but when I keep going back to those missions over and over, you know you are onto something special.
Games of this type have had a hard time in the past. Mostly because it was hard as hell to tell what was going on sometimes. Hit calculations and damage rolls, magic scores, it was all a bit too complicated to properly express when the pixels were as large as your head. This game fixes all that.
It's now clear what's going on, nearly every one of your guys looks unique but best of all it's done all this while remaining very close to the game play of the original. It's essentially a remake with a touch up in all of the important areas. You could maybe assault them for lack of originality but they are remaking a completely unique game so I can't fault them. It's addictive, looks great, runs on my laptop and just has a great spirit to it. It's light hearted and affectionate to the original and I just can't wait to get my hands on the full version.
If you haven't played the original, give it a go, or just grab the great demo of this version. It's rewarding and fun, 1C, please make dungeon keeper 3.
One more day!!!!!
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