NICE GRAPHICS. The spell effects, the terrain, the weather, the nice fog-of-war fade effects and the units are all very well done. The sheer amount of perspective in the game is awesome.
NICE SPELLS. Haven't gotten very far yet in those, but the ones I've played with are nice. Plus, I'm a sucker for "Chain Lightning" spells.
NICE TOUCHES. Idle Peons (and how many there are) are listed on your screen so you don't waste time hunting for them (clicking on their icon takes you right to the idle peon!). Multiple peons can work on the same building to construct it faster. Magic-using units autocast spells until they run out of mana... priests auto heal, etc. Very nice.
NICE... PERFORMANCE? Well, I have a dual 800 G4 tower with a GeForce 2MX and a gig of ram... so it's not the bottom of the rung. I'm also running it under OSX. The graphics card could use replacing, I suppose. But I have everything turned up all the way and the only that that I've noticed is that the cutscenes stutter a tiny little bit. Maybe I'll turn some things off to test. Or just get a GeForce4. I've had one crash so far trying to go into a new level, but that's it. And I just noticed a 1.0.1 patch, so I'll give that a try tonight.
OVERALL: NICE! It's cool. It's a nice advancement from Starcraft / Broodwar. If you enjoyed them, purchase this game now! (And email Joe and make him get it too.)
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