- #Command to group units in warlords classic full#
- #Command to group units in warlords classic Pc#
- #Command to group units in warlords classic series#
Playing through a Warlord 3 level does not take very long. Each side usually starts with one or two cities, and a few units, and then quickly expands from there.Īnd quickly is the keyword here. Warlords 3 is a turn-based strategy game, with up to 8 factions fighting over a map with a limited number of pre-defined cities on it. They’re perfectly serviceable for the most part, although some can be a little bit annoying, particularly the deep drum sound that plays when some armies move.
It would probably have been better if they just let each track play in full.įinally we have the sound effects, and there’s not much to say about those. There’s a bit over 30min of music here, and it sounds coherent, but the game tries to switch tracks quite often, usually when it switches from one player’s turn to another, and the switch is not seamless. It’s probably not going to be anyone’s favourite, but it’s decent enough as background music for a game like this, with a more relaxing than action-focused tone. While the graphics look somewhat lackluster, even for a game this old, the music is quite decent. Every unit has its own image, and they do a far better job at giving a feel for what the unit is than the unit sprite These are generally quite inspired, and look like something you could find on a Magic the Gathering card from that era. Every unit has a unique image, every hero class has two (one male, one female), the campaigns also have a few, as well as a few other things like the victory screen, or when you chose what to do with a city you’ve just conquered. It’s far more noticeable on screenshots than when you’re actually playing, but it still does not look quite as good as it could have.Ĭredit where it’s due though, the artists who worked on this did a great job with many of the images that are shown through the game. Also, something that will bother some people is that this game, stretches to fit the screen, giving it a slightly stretched look. The maps also don’t look very detailed, and rely heavily on repeated tiles. The game is viewed from an overhead perspective, and units are small, barely animated sprites. This game was released after Heroes of Might and Magic 2, a far better-looking game. The original version of Warlords 3 was released in 1997, and even for a 1997 game, it’s not great looking. The story sequences in Warlords 3 are just plain text with a small image Graphics & Sound The stories, or even the setting, never feels particularly important, or fleshed out. The story is told in the form of a paragraph or two of text between each level, with an accompanying picture, and a few paragraphs at the start of the campaign. In the Darklords Rising version of Warlords 3 there are 5 campaigns in total, detailing the return of the evil Lord Bane, and his attempt to take over the world. Well, maybe the two-headed dwarf mutant, but just barely. It has most of the popular fantasy creatures in it, elves, orcs, dragons, daemons… There are 95 units in the game, representing the different races in Etheria and their armies, and not a single one of them feel very original. A fantasy world that really takes the kitchen sink approach to world-building. Warlords 3 takes place in the fantasy world of Etheria. The fact that I’m struggling to even remember the name of the setting, despite looking it up just 5 min ago should say something about how memorable it really is. This is actually what the game looks like in action Story & setting
#Command to group units in warlords classic full#
Just for full disclosure, I did play Warlords 3 when it was relatively new, but it was never a game I owned. This review is for the GOG-release of Warlords 3.
#Command to group units in warlords classic series#
The main Warlords series was finally re-released digitally on GOG in late 2019 (all apart from Warlords IV). It might not have had the same impact on the industry as those other games, but there are still people who hold it in very high regard. Yet despite this, Warlords 3 did well enough for itself.
#Command to group units in warlords classic Pc#
1997 was probably a tough year for a PC strategy game to be released in, as the tail end of 96 had given us Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and Command & Conquer: Red Alert, and a few months before those, we got Civilization 2. Warlords 3 was originally released back in 1997, under the name Warlords III: Reign of Heroes, and an updated version was released a year later, called Warlords III: Darklords Rising, which added a bunch more content. And quite often, these old games end up feeling clunky, unintuitive, limited and frustrating. Sometimes you find a game that’s just as good as the day it was released, in a few rare cases the games turn out to be even more fun to play a few decades later than they did at release, because you’re no longer going in with the expectations you would have had back at launch. Playing old games can be an interesting experience.
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