![]() After this quick raid, you go on a quest for help. This cliché is fortunately avoided your blood-sister is slaughtered, but you immediately revive her with some of your blood (a special Shaikan ability that is integral to the plot). Normally in an RPG, your hometown would be destroyed, all your friends and family would die, and you’d go off on a quest for revenge. The story opens with an attack on your hometown. This is based on a curse within the bloodline sometimes the Shaikan lose control of their mind and are possessed by an evil ancestor named Malacay. Your people are reviled by all other nations due to your tendency to deceive and betray. ![]() You are a Shaikan: you carry the blood of a dragon within you. While the game is certainly not error-free, the improvements from the first game to this new title are so drastic, I have to begin this review by emphasizing that anyone who chose to avoid this game based on the problems of the first game ought to let go of all previous assumptions and give this new game a chance. It seems that the developers at Phenomic have learned a lot since they first released SpellForce and its two expansions. All this time, however, I had been wrong. ![]() I won’t name names, but I saw a lot of large sites giving the game praise praise which I thought the game was likely receiving for corporate reasons rather than the game’s actual merits. My apologies to the readers.īefore I began my run through the game’s campaign mode, I did some quick research to see what others had said. These preconceived notions, I admit, are one reason why I spent so long avoiding the game. Second was that it would probably still be filled with glitches and errors. First and foremost was that I wouldn’t like it. It was no surprise, then, that when I first received SpellForce 2 I had many pre-conceived ideas about the game. That, and the game was ridden with glitches. We at RPGFan dismissed the game as a failure to combine two genres: RPG and RTS. The first SpellForce title was quickly ignored by the American audience, while it sold fairly well in its native Europe.
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