He releases you and sets you out to find the cure, lest the world falls into chaos. But never fear! The leader of a new religious group announces that you’re in fact the one meant to save Eo from this plague. The city’s residents are killed anyway, and now you’re sentenced to death for killing fellow soldiers. This doesn’t go well with you, and after a fight, you end up killing some of your unit to try to stop the slaughter. At least until a plague breaks out and the Wolf Guard is given the order to destroy an entire village to ensure it doesn’t spread. Naturally, many people are unhappy with this chain of events, but you make the best of it. He’s nearly caught, but manages to leave you behind, his child, whom he was going to sacrifice for…reasons?Īnyway, jump ahead eight years and you’re now a member of the Wolf Guard, enlisted so as to hopefully make up for your father’s crimes against Eo. Naturally, this has sparked something of an outburst and the mages rebelled, with a man by the name of Isano Tahar at its helm. Apparently, mages are naughty, vile, evil people that need to be destroyed. Everyone’s at war, this time against mages (getting a slight Dragon Age kick here). In terms of story, Spellforce 3 is more than a tad generic, I’m loathe to admit. One thing I wasn’t expecting was these gorgeous cut scenes. What I can say from my own personal experience is that I didn’t like how Spellforce 3 handled this side of things, but as this is a review I’ll be getting more into that later.
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So when it comes to ranking the RTS side of this game I’m at something of a loss for how to go about it in terms of comparing it to other games of this caliber.
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Although to say I’m not a fan seems unfair, the fact is that I just don’t play very many of them. Now, fair warning, I’m not the biggest fan of the RTS genre. That’s not exactly bad, but it can be jarring. It’s balanced, but the game shift is obvious enough to almost warrant a record scratch at each transition.
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More often than not the player will find themselves switching between the two at random. Because this is intended to be a melding of genres, both are present, but to say they blend would be disingenuous. In Spellforce 3, the RPG genre meets RTS in yet another vastly detailed, fantasy-rich environment. I took Spellforce 3 hoping to be proven wrong, and I was. Yet to have such a vast world be lacking in finer details and laden with combat issues made me really doubt whether or not they could manage to impress me if given a second chance. Clearly, sprawling RPGs are their thing, if only partially. If I’m going to be honest, THQ Nordic was on my poop list after Elex.