Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds

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Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds is a real-time fighting/strategy game in which players use Magic: The Gathering cards to combat each other. Three possible types of spells can be played: creatures, sorceries and enchantments.

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Average score: 66% (based on 26 ratings)

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Average score: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 16 ratings with 3 reviews)

They had the nerve to even create this piece of junk...will they ever learn?

The Good
Another Magic: The Gathering PC game? Sounds suspicious. Why so? The first Magic: the Gathering game I played was Magic: The Gathering - Battle Mage on Play Station 1 and later on PC. Boy, did that game suck big time. Thankfully, they came to their senses with just the original deck game without fancy ideas of trying create a "real-time" action game out of a turn-based card game.

The basic foolish idea of the game is try to create a real-time planeswalker (read=wizard) battling another opponent with a deck of cards. Did they even bother to review the failing success of Battle Mage I wonder....hmmm.

The good stuff? Honestly. None.

The Bad
Prepare for some brutal words.

WHAT IN THE NAME OF GAMING HISTORY WERE THEY THINKING? And Gawd, terrible 3D graphics. I installed the freaking game, and boy do those graphics go "leap frog". If you remember bad 3D graphics, boy does this game made an understatement of that. It was total chaos: the lighting, the movement. Dang, even the menu was slow. The tutorial suck big time, had to press each button on my keyboard to figure out what the dang keys were. I honestly have never felt so INSULTED by a game before in my life. This game makes the 3D idiocy of Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor look like a genius award. I'm totally handsome in the morning after a hangover compared to this game...honestly what were they thinking. I'll never buy a game from this "Secret Level" company again, that's for dang sure.

I don't know if my PC was fully equipped to handle the total heavy requirements for this game...it worked though...barely. But that isn't an excuse for a paying consumer.

Maybe the X-box version fares better? Not likely. But you never know...(not)

The Bottom Line
My vocabulary capabilities limit me for truly expressing the total frustration of the pure idiocy to even call this A GAME. For the love of Gawd, don't even breath near this one.

Windows · by Indra was here (20756) · 2004

A great new look at Magic: the gathering.

The Good
Where to begin? I really liked how fast action and strategy were combined. Just like in the cardgame, you have to think up some strategies - although they're not as complex as in the cardgame, but much simpler combinations of cards. There is also the possibility to play online, and there should be downloadable content soon, too.

The Bad
The mechanics for unlocking stuff are a bit wobbly. You unlock new arenas and colors to play with in the Quest mode, but new characters to play with are unlocked in the Arcade Duels - which get virtually impossible to win near the end.

The Bottom Line
A great game for all MtG fans!

Windows · by Qlberts (58) · 2004

A game that is okay compared to other games

The Good
The variety of spells are amazing and are really cool to cast. The graphics were awesome even though there wasn't really any talking (moving mouths while the characters were speaking).

The Avatars were well done and made the game more interesting to play and made the bosses way cooler to face in the game. The hidden characters were really cool to get and play with.

It was really fun to play through and the arcade feature was fun to do. the layout of the game play was different from other games i have played so it was really fun to play.

the variety of spells meant there were many different combinations to kick ass. such as the annoyance of blue and red (blue with counter spell and red with spawning small creatures fast) or the power of green and white (getting more mana with green and getting more white creatures out until you can hit your opponent with large creatures such as the Avatar of Might.

The Bad
THE BLUE SPELLS ARE CHEAP but that is just how blue is in the game (counter spell and such)

the story line (to me) made little sense and also had no effect on the gameplay what i understood is that you have an artifact to collect color gems and master the colors to gain more spells and such to get cooler things such as more characters to play as.

It would have been better ( i would think) if they decided to go along with the story line of the Magic: the Gathering books, but than again, it would be a bit to long.

The online is cool and such but, THERE IS NO ONE ONLINE TO PLAY! if there were more people playing this game, it would be way more cooler to play.

The Bottom Line
if you want a game that is different from the rest that you have played over and over, this is defiantly the game for you.

Xbox · by Todd Bello (28) · 2006

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The Cabal Patriarch was originally intended as a playable duelist, but was left out for unknown reasons (he can still be seen in early trailers).

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Game added by Qlberts.

Additional contributors: Patrick Bregger, Kennyannydenny.

Game added December 31, 2003. Last modified April 19, 2023.