Malgrimia

[MistWeaver]

Here is another TBS, Heroes-like game. First part of this game came out in 2004 (as I remember.. or 2005) second is planed on first Q of 2007

Most players would say that its Heroes clon. Well.. its close to that but still there are some diffrences. Town building is much more complicated, not to mention that you can build towns yourself (if you have enough resources and peasants). Also hiring creatures is more like H5 training - i.e you train them from peasants.

bad sides of first part are:
- just one faction (haven-like) (though there are many neutral fantasy creatures)
- no campaign


good sides:
- its 2d
- it has some fresh ideas

BTW sequal is going to be much better.

some screens:
http://www.malgrimia.kh.ua/img/necr_2209_3.jpg
http://www.malgrimia.kh.ua/img/town3.jpg
http://www.malgrimia.kh.ua/img/map_2.jpg
http://www.malgrimia.kh.ua/img/malg_scr_2310_2.jpg
http://www.malgrimia.kh.ua/img/malg_scr_2310.jpg

[Kristo]

Looks interesting. Do you know if they have a webpage in English?

[MistWeaver]

Looks interesting. Do you know if they have a webpage in English?

No .. their webpage is in russian only http://www.malgrimia.kh.ua/

[Meandor]

Will it have english version?

[MistWeaver]

Will it have english version?

I dont know yet.

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UPDATE

I asked on official forum. Yes, they are planning to localize the game.

[Caradoc]

Looks good to me. Is there a battlefield?

[MistWeaver]

http://www.ag.ru/screenshots/malgrimia/157389/big

[vhilhu]

on one screenshot i read "geroi malgrimi". this is quite directly linked to heroes then.

the adventure map was bad, overcluttered with trees and stuff. same problo as with h4.

[Caradoc]

I agree. Scale seems to be a widespread problem with games today. Buildings and armies are so oversized that everything looks overcrowded. Even chess pieces are spread out more than we see here.

Obviously, they are doing this to provide more graphic detail. But I would be willing to sacrifice a lot of that to get things back into proportion. I am perfectly happy to move icons across a map. For 3D, I'd say Battle for Middle Earth got it about right.

[Metathron]

Looks a bit too wooden, if you take my meaning, and not quite colourful enough.