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User Rating: 6 | Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic PC
By Evilmeanie | Review Date:
There are plenty of reviews here, so I am not going to burden you with the details about the combat system.

I have a single problem with AoW:SM - as you work through scenarios, you are forced to reload saved games. Constantly.

Why? Sometimes you miss something important due to the fog of war. And these are not little things - you can miss entire towns! You can take the wrong path or route, you can run into some powerful units too early, you can basically outpace the planned structure of the scenario and find yourself in trouble not because you are a bad player - just because you are curious or daring.

So the biggest challenge to AoW:SM is simply determining how to pace yourself and to develop some rules to prevent the game engine from screwing you over. For me, this made the game tedious and boring. The campaign is on rails - but the rail line has spurs that dead-end.

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