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Stardock Unveils Fantasy Strategy Game Elemental with Spore-like Mod Support
by Chris Faylor, Nov 04, 2008 9:26am PSTSins of a Solar Empire (PC) publisher and The Political Machine 2008 (PC) developer Stardock today revealed its next major internal project, Elemental: War of Magic (PC).
A turn-based 4X strategy game focused on exploration, expansion, exploitation and extermination, Elemental sees players cast as the "only person in your kingdom with the ability to channel magic," allowing them to engage in traditional kingdom management, such as crafting new cities and spells, political negotiations, or exploring dungeons.
A variety of "ground-breaking" multiplayer modes will be included, such as a persistent universe mode in addition to the traditional skirmish modes.
Similar to EA Maxis' Spore (PC), Elemental includes integrated modding support, seamlessly delivering new maps, creatures, items, spells, and so forth to other players when they start the game and connect online.
Like all Stardock releases, Elemental: War of Magic will include no on-disc DRM when it arrives in Q1 2010 at $49.95, with a public beta beginning in spring 2009.
Comments
This looks great and will hopefully fill the void left when Age of Wonders stopped being produced.
For those looking to play other similar games in this vein and genre, here are (probably) your best list of choices:
Disciples series
Age of Wonder series
Master of Magic itself (of course)
Heroes of Might & Magic (5 is quite good, imho)
Dominions series (pretty good despite the crappy graphics and presentation quality)
Enjoy!
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Let's hope it's as good, since HoMM IV and V never really managed to improve upon the old formula in my opinion.
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I don't like the art style, though.
I <3 StarDock!!!
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I'm not really sure that I like the art style, but at least it's different looking. Stardock makes pretty consistently good games, and I'm sure I'll pick it up when it's available.
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