A review of 'Empire of Magic' can be found at SciFi Game Reviews today.
Since there's no numerical rating, we'll have to serve you the conclusion: The game has its moments, particularly the well-developed background story and plot twists, which set it apart from other scripting cannon fodder. Boil away the narrative framework, however, and what remains is a failed attempt to graft the complexity of a turn-based game onto something that looks graphically much more like a real-time engine. One wonders, in fact, whether the game might not have worked better in real time after all. |