First of it's kind.

User Rating: 9.3 | Warlords Battlecry PC
You get your rts, take some rpg and mix them up and end up with a great game. Patch to 1.04 before playing.

A Fantasy based strategy game with a twist, you get to make your own hero to lead your army of choice into battle.

You start with hero race and as you advance the first few levels through battles get to decide on a basic class and then a specialization. With many varied options from the basic Warrior, Priest, Mage and Thief to suit all play styles.

Once you reached specialization the options open up a lot more, added loot leads to some diversity and nasty suprises for the unaware.

The heroes allow for handicaps, a highly skilled player could take a lower hero against a high hero, lower skill player. The game lobby also allows for handicapping and the choice of certain build/unit limitations.

It has everything a rts needs to be good, plenty of races to choose from, even though some share units they become unique with the race upgrades so an Undead skeleton becomes far more powerfull to a Dark Elf one in the late game.

With standard graphics and sound but can have a troubled online multiplayer experience, especially if you don't patch it up properly.