Gaming Retrospective - Rage of Mages
Rage of Mages is one my favorite old school ARPG/RTS games, game was released in 1998 and was developed by the Russian studio Nival Interactive. Rage of Mages was not your typical ARPG and with it's distinct art style and atmosphere, this game was one of the most played games of that era. At the first glance this game looks like a Real Time Strategy game, but once you start playing it you will notice that RTS part comes later in the fairly lenghty story campaign. Story takes us in a fantasy world where all sorts of magical creatures, monsters and warriors of great skill exists. We the players take the role of a new adventurer and start moving up in the world and with time we will have a whole group of hired mercenaries to help us kill increasingly tougher enemies later on.
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You can pick several types of classes like Fighter, Archer or Mage. Combat is happening in real time, so it is very important to be quick with the commands or your character would die very often, it is a very common occurrence to be surrounded by group of enemies very fast, you will end up as a bag of loot very fast if you are not careful. This is where mage area of effect skills help greatly and having a party with strong mage is a must. Every one of those tough enemies would drop tiers of loot, and this is where another great part of this game comes to light, there are literally dozens of metal types in the game, for example there are iron, meteoric, adamantium and even crystal armor and weapon types that look great and feel strong when you are using them. Enemies would also scale with new armor and weapon types and would be increasingly harder to kill as they also receive new abilities and stronger attack and health pools. I got to say that Rage of Mages is one of those full package games with great immersion that would keep you occupied for days until you finish it.
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It is a real old timer
It sure is, I still have nightmares from purple ogres :)
Man, it's crazy how many ARPG's I missed out on growing up. The only one I ever got into was the Diablo series. This looks like it would have been a fun one. Especially because I dig the art style quite a bit, haha.
Art style in this game was among the most unique ones I've ever had a chance to experience. Loved every minute of it.
this sounds like a good game to try... Do you think i can find it free? if not it's probably only like ten bucks... i gotta check it out..Thanks....
Search it out, I'm sure it can be find one way or the other ;)
i will. Thank s.. They don't seem to make offline rpgs anymore... and this old computer can't handle any newer games... Enjoy your Summer...
Best game ever :)
A ne prijo!
Great old classic and cool to see. Thanks for the memories. Have you considered using the #retrogaming tag for these kinds of posts? I feel this would fit in perfectly.
Sure, I will start using that tag.
That's so old haha! Looks a bit like Runescape though. Or should I say that Runescape looks like this haha!
nice post @moon32walker
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thank you for writing this @moon32walker,I will check the game out .
I would also like if somewhere in your reviews you could also put a video gameplay. Thanks again and steem on!
At the first glance this game looks like a Real Time Strategy game, but once you start playing it you will notice that RTS part comes later in the fairly lenghty story campaign. @naz722