Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne is about a young wizard named "Merlin". The world is unbalanced, and Merlin must fight against other powerful wizards to gain control of all the different Spheres of magic to bring back the balance.

This game is the sequel to the original Age of Wonders, released in 1999. It is a turn based strategy game, and is more like Master of Magic than Heroes of Might and Magic. Some new features in the game are the "Pioneer," which lets the player to build new cities, and the "Teleportation Gate" that allows units to teleport to any friendly city.

Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne is focused on magic. The leader is a powerful wizard, and for the most part of the game he stays in his "Wizard Tower," a powerful structure built in cities. This wizard has a certain range, or "Domain," in which he can cast his spells. To aid him are individual heroes, which can carry items and gain experience. There is also a wide variety of units to choose from, including the "Glutton" that can swallow his enemies whole, and the pretty "Nymph" that seduces her enemies.

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Alternate Titles

"奇迹时代II：巫师王座" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
"AoW2" -- Abbreviated name
"Age of Wonders II: Tron Czarnoksieznika" -- Polish title
"Age of Wonders II: Der Zirkel der Zauberer" -- German title

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Part of the Following Group

Age of Wonders series

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne	Windows	$6.95
	Age of Wonders		$5.99
	Age of Wonders 2: The Wizard's Throne		$9.99
	Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne
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User Reviews

A great game, just as the first one.	Grov (647)
A very hard game, but enjoyable to say the least.	Luke Wheeler (2)	unrated

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The Press Says

Game industry News (GiN)	2002		90
PC Gamer	Sep, 2002	90 out of 100	90
GameSpot	Jun 17, 2002	8.8 out of 10	88
Gamigo	Jul 30, 2002	8.7 out of 10	87
PC Games (Germany)	Jul 23, 2002	84 out of 100	84
Game Captain	Jul 21, 2002	83 out of 100	83
PC Zone Benelux	Aug, 2002	80 out of 100	80
ComputerGames.ro	Jul 05, 2002	80 out of 100	80
Gameguru Mania	Jul 01, 2002	80 out of 100	80
Krawall Gaming Network	Jul 23, 2002	79 out of 100	79

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Trivia

Archons

The race "Highmen" in AoW was renamed to "Archons" in AoW 2: The Wizards Throne. Reason? The devs didn't like that the sound of the word "highmen" is quite similar to another English word, which means something completely different....

Nymphs

During final testing it was discovered that the Nymphs' nipples could actually be seen at 200% zoom. The Nymphs were given some more clothes in the final game....

Portraits

The hero portraits are actually remade pictures of the developers and some other people. Here's a list (made originally by Martijn Holtkamp) :

Torgal: Lennart Sas

Winger & Jack: Arno van Wingerden

Joseph: Josh Farley

Federick: Menno Sas

Avernus & The spirit of Order: Arnout Sas

Wazzz: Martijn Holtkamp

Khitan: Mao lin Liao

Ham Binger: Raymond Bingham

Morrandir: Djurre van Dijk

Petrog: Peter de Groot

Taberu: famous actor

Belendor: famous actor

Arcos: Jaap guy (don't ask me)

Elme: famous actrice

Dana, Shenga, Chanta, Estra: The Triumph studios women.

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by Grov

(647) on Jun 13, 2002.