Laugh satire in the chain of Orion. Review Game "Orions: Legends of Wizard&quot

"West is West and East is East.

And they do not come together ever

While Earth and Sky do not mess up God

The day of his Court.

But there is no East and West -

They will merge into one,

When we consider two mage each other's eyes,

Sinking to the bottom! .. "

Rudyard Kipling



Above you a huge dome of your balloon. Up here, a fresh breeze. It is quiet and peaceful. There is no destruction and bloody battles, there is no loss of friends and associates. Down there - Antaviya once beautiful and powerful state, where magic, people, poetry, light and darkness were in balance. Torn and fragmented after years of strife, it has grown into a network of air island chain Orion, each of whom got into the possession of the forces of darkness or light. No more former power. No single force. Such ugliness is unacceptable. It is time for grand unification. All under heaven. For it is said: "At the head of Orion should stand alone." But who? There, the balloon floats away your mighty opponent and waving his red flags. At stake is everything. At stake is everything. And literally everything, and literally at stake. In Orions: Legends of Wizards of Moregames Entertainment you conquer the island, guided Maps and enter the fray, using a deck of magic cards. Do not be afraid to dull the similarity already beaten to a pulp Solitaire. Will not be known and copy of strategy games. And - Hurrah! Not a hint of Tetris and group them into a line, its amplitude in the swing. Storytellers Moregames Entertainment original in every way. With their peculiar combination of role-playing and strategy genres, easy to get lost in time. With confidence I can say that domestic igrodely not pumped up. Yes, yes, Moregames Entertainment - Russian company. However it is not why I carry the game to one of the best. It is interesting and original, it is remarkably thought out, balanced and well-drawn. This is a real fairy tale where you are - the main character.

Playing the game

You start the game on its own island in the chain of Orion as a supporter of light or dark forces - at your request. The path to power is through the wise management of their resources and prudent strategy in the battle. At first, the magician you are fairly mediocre abilities. One after another, you have to retake the island of Orion, increasing his own power, and providing themselves with new elements of the crushing strength for the next battle. Together with you, a fantastic world inhabited by fauns, satyrs, mermaids, demon, demons, ghosts, sorcerers ... Total - 74 characters. Some of them get up under your banner at the beginning of the game, others will choose the direction of the enemy, while others prefer a morally unstable path of mercenaries. Along with you on the other end of the chain of Orion, one after another will grab your opponent island. You both have to overcome many obstacles to the revival of a single powerful state, and of course - the last and decisive battle for the new Antaviyu.

Displacement and time.

All of your island marked by green flags, holding your opponent on a large map shows the red flags, and the islands neutral - white. As soon as you will win one of them in a fierce battle, the flag will change your color. The more time you lose, the bigger islands have time to win your opponent, gaining strength. Clicking on the balloon, you see the arrows showing the possible directions of movement. The green arrow shows the path to their own island, the red will refer you to a territory occupied by another magician. Here you will battle. To track their location and volume of occupied territory may be on the map in the lower right corner. Blue dots are indicated by the island that you've already won, and red - your possession of the enemy. In one game day, you can make one economic action and to participate in one battle. After - have a rest (the button with a balloon).The next day will begin with the opponent's turn.

Lock, Stock ... Minerals

Each island of Orion you'll have to win in a fight where your strengths are maps. By its very vitality of card game in something comparable to chess in the fairy tale about Harry Potter. Map here - game characters, as described above. They sends on each other's spells, come together in the fight and take away your life energy. There is also a map - spells that can also be used in combat. Each player in the pack - 4 cards in each of six schools: the schools of four elements (fire, earth, water and air), the school of life and death of school. Total - 24 cards. Depending on the current characteristics of your character, each school early in the game represented a certain level, which determines the amount available for each course maps. With each course level increases by one, although some cards allow you to cast and with this figure. All cards have the characteristics that define their fighting ability. In the lower left corner indicated the destructive power of maps - the number of points, which she takes on the cards of the opponent in front of her, or from the player, if the cell in front is empty. The vital energy of the card itself, the character shown below right. And finally, right at the top - level maps - the number of points which need to dial in each school so that you can use this card. Some of the cards have the ability to send spells (the button Cast). Be careful with the cards in certain situations in the game, some of them might be fatal to you. Always check the magical ability to move cards, double clicking on it with stylus. Your initial deck is quite weak, so that the powerful rulers of Orion will be difficult to win. However, we can build up its military might, using mercenaries and activate your new spells. It needs to build a number of buildings: barracks, temples, altars, tombs ... Before we rush headlong into his first fight, it is advisable first to take care of military buildup on its own island. The main construction material on the island are the crystals: krisoli (crysols) - the cheapest crystals derived from sunlight, sulmury (Sulmours), goldity (Goldius) and rare eraktusy (Eractus). For their production to build:

• Garden krisoley (Crysols Garden)
• Recycler sulmurov (Sulmours Convertor) - turns 5 krisoley 3 crystal sulmura
• Recycler golditov (Goldius Convertor) - recycles sulmurov 5 and 10 krisoley 2 crystal goldita
• Recycler eraktusov (Eractus Convertor) recycles krisoley 20, 10 and 10 sulmurov golditov one eraktus

With a good set of circumstances, very soon you will be able to buy the services of mercenaries (the button Upgrade Deck). However, please note - the number of possible mercenaries is limited. Furthermore, if the curse, and soldiers of your standard deck, you can use any number, the services of mercenaries is only available once.

Construction

To manage resources of the island, click on it with stylus and transferred to him. At the bottom toolbar, select the button building (the button with a house), note the desired type of facility, select Build, denotes the place of construction (should be green) by double-clicking the stylus. In one game day can not build more than 3 buildings. Here you can check the status of the production of crystals (the button with the tower). Finally, if enough resources and facilities, the third button allows you to fill your deck with the help of mercenaries. Push the button out of the island (in the upper right corner) and again find ourselves on the map. It's time to get a baptism of fire. Click on the red arrow and the race towards the battle, swinging his sword above his head.

Battles

So, we - the front of the hostilities. During his turn, you can add one more card on the field, or conjure the spell. To select a map to click on the icon and select the appropriate school character / spell among the available ones. If you decide to use your character, you must also specify a cell to contain it. Situation card is important - it will have to fight with the character of your opponent in a cell opposite, so carefully calculated power: do not waste powerful forces on the weak character of the enemy and vice versa. Hosted map begins to attack during your next turn, while card-spell effect immediately. Some cards also have the possibility of further increasing the level of school during each move - this will allow you quicker access to more serious force. Prior to the completion of course you can also use hex characters, already deployed in the field - for this simply press the button Cast. Complete their actions should be pressing the transfer speed. Immediately after this, all your cards are attacking their immediate rivals - Stardust is a pillar in the air rush dying screams, flying around the numbers of vital energy, is heard chomping demons, devouring the flesh of magic ... And when after the coup in the air suddenly goes through the spell of the enemy, destroying several of your cards on the field, imbued with a true hatred for otherworldly forces. After each victory, you get a certain number of points, which you distribute among the characteristics. If they do not allow you to move to a new level, the opportunity to get a trophy - a card in your opponent's deck. Pleasure is not free - would have to sacrifice one of their cards. Good strategy is to rapidly fill its cells. If the card is not opposed to any enemy forces, their attack power will directly act on your standard of living. Once it reaches zero - you lose. But do not worry, even if you are defeated in battle, you are regularly revived back to life. Only in one case you are perishing forever ...

Characteristics of the character

In the game you enter as a novice magician, who has a bright future. The level of your abilities and capabilities determined by four main characteristics:

• Strength (Strength)
• Intelligence (Intelligence)
• Power (Power)
• School (Speciality)

Power - is your main characteristic that determines the standard of living before each fight. Initially she was 4, the equivalent of vitality 30. For each additional point in the Force you will receive 5 extra points of vitality. Intelligence randomly can increase the number of maps available at each school. For example, if IQ is 10, you probably will have the opportunity to receive an additional 5 cards in one battle. Might determines the number of possible mercenaries. Each additional point in this category to buy another card for another game. School. This feature shows you the magic of the region in which you are particularly strong. After receiving the additional number of points in this category, you get access to more cards in this category in each battle.

End Game

Destroy your opponent, you can by winning his native island, from which he started (with a large green flag). In this case, it will no longer be revived by the defeat in battle. Once you do it - you - the winner. And vice versa - as soon conquered your own island - be careful. Reincarnation is not expected.

Settings

When you start a new game (New Game) you can choose between a full game in campaign mode (Campaign), or a single fight - Duel (Quick Duel). You can select a duel with artificial intelligence, or with a real opponent to the device or through the network. In the latter case, you must install the server on the device with a real IP. In the case of the game with artificial intelligence, you can choose the level of complexity. In campaign mode you can also choose the size of the map. At any point in the game the current progress can be saved. At the same time, the game is saved with your name and time in the game. At any time you can return to the interrupted game via the corresponding button on the main menu (Load Game). With the help of advanced settings (Options) you can determine the volume of music and sound effects, expand the image 180 degrees, as well as to optimize the display of graphics, that will save you time battery life. Go to the menu you can also move during the game - for this purpose in the game interface, a button.

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General impressions.

I do not recommend. You stop working. Forget about food and sleep. So you face dismissal and ram his beloved wife. Seriously though - the game deserves attention. Close. It is undoubtedly one of the best games I've ever played. Well spent, great invented, gambling and unusual. Sure must try. Especially because she is more than available. As reported by the company itself - its price will be only 200 rubles. 74 characters, magic spells, battle between good and evil, the flight of Pegasus, laughing satyrs, mermaids attractive .. Whole story. Just the other day. Get ready.

• Price: $ 19.95 (for Russia, the estimated price 200 rub.)
• Platform: Windows Mobile 2003 (SE), Windows Mobile 5.0, support for VGA 640x480
• Link to Orions: Legends of Wizard in the directory HPC.ru
• Developer: Moregames Entertainment
Other games Moregames Entertainment

The authors, translation:

Vladimir Ghukasian