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IGN also got a preview of Elemental recently, and they give initial thoughts and impressions on what they saw. “Why the excitement? Well, there's the fact that 15 years after its release there still hasn't been a fantasy strategy game that matches of Master of Magic, or MOM as it is affectionately called. Some franchises, such as Age of Wonders, have come close, but they didn't quite capture the gameplay, random maps, and replayability of MOM. If you never played MOM, it could be... [read more]
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GameSpot Takes a Look at Elemental
The folks over at GameSpot take a “first look” at Elemental: War of Magic, the recently announced fantasy strategy game from Stardock. The time they did spend with Elemental seemed to leave quite an impression. “Elemental: War of Magic is one part Master of Magic, one part Civilization, and one part Total War, with a dash of The Lord of the Rings fiction sprinkled in for good measure. And from our brief first look at the game, Elemental is also one of the more p... [read more]
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Design elements of Elemental discussed
From around the net I've gotten a lot of questions regarding Elemental. Here are some of the questions and answers that have come up: Quote: I understand if some stuff is being kept internal, but here are the things Im wondering abou... [read more]
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Gamasutra Interviews Brad Wardell About Elemental: War of Magic
Gamasutra.com recently sat down with Stardock CEO, Brad Wardell, to talk about "Elemental:War of Magic" that was announced just today. "There's stuff in Civilization that we've taken; there's stuff from Master of Magic, Heroes of Might & Magic, Risk, Populous -- you name it," he said. "I have no shame when it comes to borrowing and being inspired by other games." Despite the range of influences, however, the game owes perhaps the most to the Simtex-develope... [read more]
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Edge-Online takes a look at Elemental
Edge, one of the leading game industry magazines has taken a look at Elemental. They have some exclusive details on the multiplayer aspects coming up that include both the on-line skirmish mode as well as the persistent world games in which the Impulse cloud hosts games. Stay tuned for more details. [read more]
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GameSpy has a preview of Elemental up on their site. It discusses some of the background plus a number of exclusive game play elements not found anywhere else. Check it out. [read more]
Dev Journal
We are so excited to finally be able to talk about the "fantasy strategy game". Here are some answers for questions we suspect will come out. Regarding the title... We wanted to just call it Elemental but but trademark reasons we needed to come up with a sub-title. We wanted to give it a sub-title that was a bit corney to harken back to the classic 4X days when game names were a little more generic. Screenshots... The graphics seen in the screenshots are still very early on... [read more]