![]() ![]() ![]() The entire diplomacy element of the randomized, user-generated games has been removed from Warlords IV, meaning that you're automatically at war with all other players in singleplayer or multiplayer mode. Heroes no longer cast spells, though a new unit we'll discuss later can. For starters, quests have greatly been simplified. Let's begin with these, since Warlords veterans might be more surprised by what's been left out of the game, rather than what's been added to the mix. It might almost be called Warlords Back-to-the-Basics not because it's a return to the original title I reviewed, but because of the elimination of a few major improvements found in Warlords II and III. It's also the first developed after SSG split down the middle, with the fantasy-oriented products going to Melbourne-based Infinite Interactive. Warlords IV is the fourth in this series. They built upon this, and were eventually able to infiltrate our American defenses with its successors, Warlords II and Warlords III: Darklords Rising. While other SSG titles didn't make much of a dent in the United States, the Australian developers easily established a strategic beachhead with Warlords. But it was a very pleasantly applied skin, and drew enough attention from reviewers and players for everybody to note the exceptionally strong AI. It was, of course, only skin deep once you looked beneath the surface, Warlords still showed its board strategic warfare board game ancestry in its unit values, combat mode, stacks, and hexes. There were plenty of turn-based, combat-oriented strategy games for the PC before Warlords, and some were even fantasy-themed but none of them quite caught that atmosphere. What set that original Warlords apart from its companions was the addition of attractive fantasy trappings. I received the first one as part of a review package of SSG games around that time most of the others accompanying it were either complex arcade titles, or war-based strategic combat. Warlords has been a turn-based, combat-oriented strategy series since 1990.
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