Fantasy Wars returns to the roots of the strategy genre with decent gameplay but lacking in production values.
I can hardly remember not playing a strategy game not using a hexagonal board and even a classics like Dune 2 and Command & Conquer use it.
The genre of turn based strategy games has all but died and only the Heroes of Might and Magic series is thriving mostly on it's past laurels instead of creating a hit in the, nowadays, much "faster" market.
Fantasy Wars is.. not so great. It does everything exactly right but I still can not see the difference between this game and, say Fantasy General from 1996.
It's a nice game for a rainy Sunday afternoon but it lacks ambition, storytelling, animation. In general: production value.
The first time you hear your "instructor" talk, you can not help but wonder if French creator of this game has a clue how people talk English in a decent manner.
I'll go back to the game now but I'm sure I'll load up a disk with an old Battle Isle and see how a game like this should be done... right