Spellforce 2: Gold

Spellforce 2: Gold

SpellForce 2 - Gold Edition presents the award-winning SpellForce saga hits: SpellForce 2 - Shadow Wars and the add-on SpellForce 2 - Dragon Storm for a spectacular game experience.

The "SpellForce" series stands out from the other sequels in the series as one of the few releases attempting to fuse the role-playing game and real-time strategy genres; similar games include Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard and Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.

The role-playing game aspects of SpellForce 2 parallel games such as Diablo, Diablo II, and Sacred in character development, skill trees, equipment customization, and top-down isometric viewing. However, the capacity to control multiple heroes often makes the gameplay comparable to that in the Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights video games.

The real time strategy aspects of SpellForce 2 mirror the Warcraft fantasy real time strategy games. These include the ability to control several separate factions such as "The Realm" (humans, elves and dwarves), "The Pact" (dark elves, gargoyles and shadows), and "The Clans" (orcs, trolls and barbarians). Each faction has its own individual troop and building types.

SpellForce 2 has several game modes, including campaign mode (expositional), skirmish mode (real time strategy based), and free play (similar to campaign mode but without an overarching plot). SpellForce 2 can also be played cooperatively or competitively in multiplayer mode.

Users can only save their progress while playing in campaign mode.

The tactics for SpellForce are common to those used to successfully complete other role-playing game and real time strategy games. RPG character development requires a player to obtain experience as well as high-quality armor and weapons. In campaign play, these rewards are maximized by completing optional side-quests.

Real time strategy portions of the game usually involve building a camp, which is most often defended in its infancy by the characters, then typically involves marshalling the maximum number of troops to a point of conflict. While army composition does matter, unit micromanagement does not appear to be a major factor in real time strategy success.

The player can control up to six characters, and will also have the opportunity to be accompanied by one or more non-player characters. The main character, or avatar, can get to level 30, while other party members can only get to level 24.

Minimum System Requirements:

• OS: Windows® 2000, XP, Vista 32Bit
• Processor: Intel Pentium® 4 1.5GHz
• Memory: 512 MB RAM
• Graphics: 3D Graphics Card with 128 MB RAM (compatible with GeForce 4 Ti or higher)
• DirectX Version: 9.0c
• Sound: DirectX® compatible
• Hard Drive: 5GB

Recommended System Requirements:

• OS: Windows® 2000, XP, Vista 32Bit
• Processor: Intel Pentium® 4 2.5GHz
• Memory: 512 MB RAM
• Graphics: 3D Graphics Card with 256 MB RAM (compatible with GeForce 6600 GT or higher)
• DirectX Version: 9.0c
• Sound: DirectX® compatible