The problem with the campaigns is that they're too linear, and the accompanying storyline appeared to be (at least to me) rather dull. The storyline mostly consists out of "go towards your objective with your hero while eliminating enemies that will block your way and collecting resources on the map in pseudo-HOMM manner". Since the objectives are pretty much the same for each mission in each of the campaigns, little is left for imagination. But here's where the core of the game is revealed - all fighting in this world is done by playing cards, very much like in Magic: The Gathering, or Pokemon. And it's the progressively harder cards game that keeps you coming back for more – not curiosity as to what will happen to your Synthet hero in his campaign. But then again, for this cards game you'll probably forgive the developers their over simplification of the adventuring component of Etherlords 2 – that's how drawing it is.