Its suprising, an RTS game with an touch of RPG style.

User Rating: 8 | SpellForce: The Order of Dawn PC
This is my first time to encounter a game which has a mixed variety of gaming genre. The result of this RTS/RPG combination in Spell Force: Order of dawn is quite amazing. The Avatar is considered to be your primary hero that can be equiped with weapons and spells and even gain experiences to level up just like an RPG. The rune monuments are considered to be a primary base that produce a variety of units and workers to build additional units for your encapment considered to be an RTS gamplay.

One downside of the game is the adjustment to the controls. I have encountered some difficulty in taking control of the avatar and the perspective view of the game, but its tolerable. The overall gameplay is considered to be quite difficult to handle. Your primary focus is your avatar cause he's the strongest character through out the game. At first I thought that the avatar only gain experience if he directly engage in battle, Iam wrong. He also gather experience through the kills of other units as well. Other heroes that can be summoned is also very helpfull but unlike the avatar, it doens't gain experience to level up. Casting of spells with the avatar together with the heroes is quite difficult.

The graphics is awesome, you can have a top view upto zooming it to a 3rd person view which I like most. I love to watch the battle in a closer view and moving my units further in top view. Quest rewards are sometimes usefull, its better if all of the rewards are very fitted to the class of avatar you build up through out the game.

I recommend this game especially for those people who want to experience an RTS/RPG combo gameplay, But it will require you a faster system to enjoy playing on its optimal performance. Overall the downside are minimal control and gameplay difficulties, graphics are great, and I can consider this game worth of the price.

note: Pardon me if I have a bad english