Lords of Magic: Special Edition

"A good computer game that you just can't leave alone."

When I first played this game, it was from, a demo of another Sierra game. I played it even though it sounded like a game I wouldn't like. When I played the demo, I hated it. But then I played it a little more and started to like it. I bought the game and it was some much better. This is now one of my favotire games and I play it almost every day.

Gameplay- It is really easy to learn how to play this game. The are really easy to know how to do. Once you play the game for a while, you can learn how to use more advanced things in the game, like learning just what some sort of spell will do, how to use artifacts, and using theives to steal and spy. There are eight different faiths in this game and you can control all of them. All of them are very fun to use. This game also lets you play ''Legends of Urak'' on it. It's like Lords of Magic, you use the same kind of people and some of the faiths are in it, but the a different task you must do to beat it. I don't use it that much because it isn't as fun as ''Lords of Magic''. 10/10

Story- The god of Death, Golgoth, brings Balkoth, Lord of Death, to take over Urak. The seven other faiths in Urak: Life, Order, Chaos, Water, Fire, Air, and Earth, try to stop Balkoth and the rest of the Death faith to save Urak. I really liked this story, very interesting. 10/10

Audio/Video- Both the graphics and the sound are very good. I music for each faith (espailly life) are great. Each person in the game is done with a lot of detail (espailly The Lich, Legendary Creature of Death). 10/10

Challenge- The challenge in this game can be for both people that are bad at this game and good. Easy mode is kind of easy, medium is kind of hard, and hard is very hard. Not many games make games hard when you just start playing it, and can still stay hard once you get very good at it and have been playing for a long time. It is also a good challenge to play on hard and control the faith of Air, a VERY WEAK faith. 10/10

Overall- This is a very fun game that seems to never get old. Every part of this game is done very well. If you don't have this game, go buy it very fast. It is totally worth the money. 10/10

Reviewer's Score: 10/10, Originally Posted: 08/07/01, Updated 08/07/01