Spellcross [PC]

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I'm just wondering if I'm the only one in the entire world who have discovered this veritable pearl of a game? I just got my hands on a comp with win 98 on, so I can once again play my old DOS classics.

Several years ago, I found it at a store back home that practically gave away lots of stuff due to water-damage related. The game case, being wrapped in plastic and such had suffered a few minor damages, so I decided to buy it, at unless my memory fails me, roughly 3USD.

I came home, installed without problems, and instantly fell in love.

From Wikipedia:

The graphics are rough, but the game is old after all. Also, it's bloody HARD. I haven't beat it yet, and I can't even imagine how I could beat anything in the later levels without resorting to cheats. The hordes of undead, demons, orcs, wizards, dragons, harpies, demonic war-machines, golems, you have to face on each map with your marines, rangers, tanks and hummers (of which you can eventually upgrade into Hover-soldiers, Elmag-tanks, Lazer-troopers, paranormal-infantry and all kinds of cool hi-tech units) are extremely overwhelming.

Even more, you have to remain prepared that your demonic adversary will try to reclaim maps you've conquered with even more cannon-fodder. So you have to actually plan which units to send into enemy territory, while leaving sufficient troops stationary, to be capable of holding a defense in newly aquired land. It's sort of like a very advanced game of risk.

While the wiki-description may make it sound much like any other strategy game, involving research, strategy (d'uh), economy, etc. it is VERY different. I'm not even sure how I can explain it in an understandable way.

Only thing I would do, is implore you to download it and see for yourself, as I can hardly imagine finding this in online stores anymore. I haven't tried searching, but given the non-existant marketing behind, aswell as the producer being a unheard of Slovakian company, I wouldn't be surprised if they have dissolved completely.

[edit: Slovakian! Not Polish ]

 

I've never heard of it. It's probably just not in the US though so thats not surprising.

 

Ye gods, that sounds like the most awesome idea EVER.
Looking for it now.

 

This game gets very difficult very quickly. All I can say is, range is your friend.

 

Friend?

Only hope, more like it. Accompanied by patience, and lots of it!

I'm amazed though! I was half expecting not to hear more in this topic, even less expecting to find another person that has played it!

Share with us your experiences will'ya? I wanna toss around some long overdue marketing for it, as it IMHO deserves it far more than many other newer games!

 

Haven't played it for a long while. I think I got up to the bit where you fight dragons. Then it got a bit overwhelming.

 

I Don't have it. I had never heard of it, and I love the idear. I was a gigantic fan of Arcanum though (still am ) and this sounds like something I would enjoy. Do you get to play as other teams or are you just the techno humens?

 

As far as I know, you play just the humans. I haven't beat the game, so I can't say it with 100% confidence, but I've gotten far enough to say that I can safely assume that you will never play the enemy.

Your army gets "spiced up" with a battalion of renegade orcs at a few maps, but that's all I can recall from my last playthrough. There's no multiplayer mode either, so unless there's a change late game, I hardly think you'll be the extra-dimensionals laddies.