If you played Age of Wonders or Heroes, and enjoyed them, you will definitly enjoy Disciples II: Dark Prophecy.
User Rating: 8.8 | Disciples II: Dark Prophecy PC
Disciples II: Dark Prophecy is a marvelous strategy game that follows the gameplay of games like Age of Wonders and Heroes of Might and Magic. The Graphics and Sound are great. The overview map has a great landscape, ranging from snow to lava. In general, the overview map does a great job of giving the game a great feel, while not being too distracting. However, the battles are where the graphics truly shine. Numerous characters from 4 different races, all with different upgrades have great animations, and great effects for attacks. Look at some screenshots if you want to see just how good they are. The game plays similar to other games like Age of Wonders and Heroes. You create different heroes which have different skills and can only lead a certain amount of people (0-5), and then send them out to conquer land, take over resources, explore, then complete whatever mission you were assigned. The game is turn based of course, and really the only complaint about it that can be made is that sometimes the enemies turns take forever. Naturaly if you hate turn based games, you're not going to enjoy this game. As with most strategy games nowadays, most things can be upgraded. You're starting base can have numerous buildings added on, which will allow you to build different type of units and upgrade other units (when they reach the next level), as well as buildings that offer you new abilities (healing, spells). All of your units can be leveled. Normal units sometimes have new abilities but usually it's just a hit point increase and a damage increase (or whatever their major abilities are). Heroes, in addition, gain a new ability, such as farther walking difference, can have more followers, and use more items. I really can't tell you how much I enjoyed this game, despite the fact I rated it an 8. It does get kind of boring after awhile, but for the most part, it is a truly enjoyable strategy game. 
