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After a few hours with the preview code, I’m still not entirely sure how the long-game will play out, or how much variety there will be in repeated campaigns, but I’m perfectly happy to be perplexed and to put in more hours when the game releases on the 19th because the process of discovery is entertaining. Following Warlock, which switched out Master of Magic’s turn-based tactical grid battles for Civ V style unstackable warmongering, Fallen Enchantress followed with its own hero-focused take on mystical world-seizing.įoolishly, I wasn’t expecting Snowbird’s Eador to fall too far from the tree but from the moment the surreal and spectacular sight of the shard map is seen, more science fiction dream than fantasy cliché, the Broken World sets out to confound. I am, however, happily bearing witness to the arrival of a new Thief and, more pertinently, a group of fantasy strategy games that look back to one of my favourites. I’ve been typing ‘master of magic’ quite a lot recently in between bouts of describing moody rogues, but fear not, I haven’t been moonlighting as Criss Angel’s press agent. The place has done a magicsplode and is separated into shards, each now adrift in space and glittering like a jewel, presenting just the sort of challenge that demands the conquering attentions of some sort of strategic master of magic. More accurately, I should say that it may well involve some of those things, but the bigger issue is one of total physical collapse. The particular way in which Eador’s world is broken does not involve a history of imperialism, and a present of corporate colonialism and financial malfeasance. Is it more of a King’s Bounty than a hero’s swordsmanship and spell-biffing, or is it something entirely different? I’m still not entirely sure, but I’m looking forward to finding out. Eador: Masters of the Broken World will be released into our very own fractured realm later this month and I’ve spent a few hours with a preview copy and had many of my expectations defied.
![Eador masters of the broken world astral energy cheat](https://kumkoniak.com/16.jpg)