Sorcerer King: Rivals

[code]Game bought in a bundle or at 75%+ discount, or received at a public giveaway[/code] [b]Abandoned, crashing to desktop, buggy, with an awkward interface and missing some basic features.[/b] It's hard to tell, if this game could be an interesting clone of HoMM and AoW, because playing it is just too much of an unrewarding chore to be able to see, how it fares later in campaign. I've had multiple CtDs. All the random quests, that I've got so far, have created quest locations, that are just empty (or maybe misplaced on the map). There are wandering enemy units on the map, which just make my units move like 15-20 squares away from them, when I try to attack them (misplaced?). Choosing a single unit to move away from a stack often causes it to "pull" with itself some other units from this stack. I've also had 1 battle in which I had Interface is awkward and badly explained. For some unexplainable reasons the Sovereign menu is hidden in the orb used for distributing magic points. I can gain wisdom, courage, intimidation, persuasion and so on points, but they are explained only as "influencing future quests" and their totals can't be seen anywhere. Also, only after searching the forums I was able to find out, that if 2 armies are already on the same square, it's impossible to merge them or swap units between them - for a merge you need to move both of them to another square, making sure that total units in the new square are not exceeding your single army unit limit. All of this I've got from playing the very beginning of the game, and I'm pretty sure, that I would find more getting into the mid and end game, but I just don't think, that finding more of the bugs and inconveniences would be rewarding enough for the effort of getting to those stages. Oh, and don't expect to 100% it, as this would require winning the campaign 8 times, once for each sovereign type.

The performance... this game is unplayable.

Good if you like turn based strategy with fantasy elements.

Real fun stuff. I played for a few hours.

Good entertaining game that i frequently return to. Diffrent tactics regarding your character selection. Enyoj it very much!

i like it

Great game , as was legendary heroes, previous game made first. I liked this as well if not better. The reason being is a lot of spell scrolls added and crafting. Highly recommend making as many blizzard scrolls as you can. A lot of battles can be won with there use. Crafting items and equipment add a lot of fun to the game as well. Another thing graphics are better too especially on the battle fields.

I kind of like this game, but it isn't good, interesting concept, but the gameplay is pretty shallow really