Technical

• Native Windows® application with DirectX support, runs in a window or full screen.
• Easy to use point-and-click interface with tool tips and online help
• DirectPlay and Play-by-email (PBEM) support for multiple players on a single PC or over Internet, LAN, modem, or direct connection.
• Choice of Round Robin or Simultaneous turn schemes for multiplayer games. Simultaneous turns greatly speed up multiplayer games!
• 16-bit color, 640x480 SVGA graphics, with support for resolutions up to 1280x1024.
• Story-driven, nonlinear single player campaign with multiple endings.
• Easy to use scenario editor and tools for the creation of custom heroes and artifacts.Rich, orchestral soundtrack and digitized sound effects.
  
  
  

• Twelve playable races, each with their own personality, tendencies, strengths and weaknesses.
• Wide variety of strategic decisions involving siege units, heroes, magic, immunities, stealth, and loads of special abilities - not just a war of numbers!
• Huge, detailed maps including subterranean areas, terrain interaction and dozens of special locations.


• Exciting magic system including spell research and over 100 spells spread over 7 spheres of magic.
• Dynamic maps allow for powerful terrain modifying spells and abilities.
• Choice of automatic (fast combat) or turn-based tactical combat.
• City sieges which require breaching of the city's outer wall. 
• In-depth racial relations with city and unit morale paradigms. 

 

• Experience system allows units to advance in power. Hand-tailor your heroes as they grow in experience and power.
• An unfolding story (in the single-player game) in which player decisions influence the outcome of the entire fantasy realm. 
• Explore mysterious places: loot monster lairs, castle ruins, and crypts, and free prisoners from dungeons. 
• Hundreds of items to uncover and spells to wield.