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Customer Reviews of Warlords Battlecry 2

If you like real time strategy games, this one is virtually flawless. It has better-than-average pathfinding, SIMPLIFIED resource gathering (yet still with some tactical gamesmanship involved), extremely varied and challenging races, outstanding pre-scripted AI choices you can assign to each unit (e.g. guardian, aggressive, stand ground, fallback after losing down to 25% of hit points, and scout to name merely a FEW) and adds a role-playing element by having your armies led by a hero who has special abilities, unique skills/classes, and who gains levels and abilities as the game goes on. You can even choose different "modes" for your hero, like Ironman (2x experience, but if he dies, your game is over!), Bronzeman, Tinman and regular. Want to know what those are about? Buy the game and find out. If you like RTS, you won't be disappointed, especially at this new lower price.

Highs: better-than-average pathfinding, streamlined resource-gathering, genuinely varied races (and the chance to eventually lead each race regardless of what race you choose initially), RPG-like heroes, ability to carry high-level units (that you can name yourself) from one battle to the next, many different objectives as you play through a campaign (not just always "kill everybody"), catchy -- but not intrusive -- music, good voice acting in the "audio responses" of your units (barbarians are hilarious), difficulty level adjustable at any time, many "modes" of play to choose from such as Ironman, etc.

Lows: No backstory (doesn't really need one), "just another" RTS -- though one that refines all the aspects of that genre to perfection (still if you don't like RTS, you won't like this one either).

very well developed
This is a very well developed real time strategy game, and I have yet to see the flashier games produce such a well rounded product.

With each side having various advantages & abilities that make them different, the strategies you could try out shift with each race. Among the most interesting are undead with their ability to upgrade into more powerful forms, which heals them of damage. This allows you to upgrade a group of undead from skeletons to wights in the middle of a battle, making them more powerful and fully healed.

Each unit can also be assigned a behavior, such as running around the map looking for a fight, guarding another unit, or using magical attacks. The units use their spells and weapons with a decent amount of intelligence, so you rarely find yourself annoyed at your army for making dumb mistakes.

In addition to this, each side also gains a hero, a character who picks a class and levels up in it. The classes start with Warrior, Rogue, Wizard, Priest, but then branch off into interesting subclasses that range from the common illusionist and demon summoner to the merchant, who gets upgrades for cheap. There are a ton of spells to try out as well.

Every race also gets a titan, a super unit that is either the ultimate warrior or defender. This creature, if allowed onto the field, can usually finish up a drawn out battle in minutes.

Also, the overall AI is really well done. For example, as the human side I summoned my titan (a giant with a flaming sword) to defend my base, but decided I could use the giant knight to kill off some pesky dwarves nearby. Once I was far enough away that my return would be too late, the daemon Titan flew in with her army to savage my base. By the time I returned, death was inevitable. I had to bow out to a smarter computer opponent, and so I'd say this is the best AI I've seen in an RTS.

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This is the best game ever! It is awesome, and the graphics are great.