Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne (Windows)

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Description

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" -- Simplified Chinese spelling
• "AoW2" -- Abbreviated name
• "Age of Wonders II: Tron Czarnoksieznika" -- Polish title
• "Age of Wonders II: Der Zirkel der Zauberer" -- German title
• "Age of Wonders 2: The Wizard's Throne" -- GOG.com title

Part of the Following Groups

• Age of Wonders series
• Fantasy Creatures: Dragons
• Fantasy Creatures: Dwarves
• Game feature: Hexagonal map
• Games that include map/level editor
• Green Pepper releases
• Sound engine: AIL/Miles Sound System

User Reviews

Flawed, but still a rather rare type of game that I'm glad I played	Cavalary (11242)
A great game, just as the first one.	Grov (667)
A very hard game, but enjoyable to say the least.	Luke Wheeler (2)	unrated

Critic Reviews

Gameplay (Benelux)	Jun 29, 2002	90 out of 100	90
Game Vortex	2002	90 out of 100	90
Deaf Gamers	2002	9 out of 10	90
Svenska PC Gamer	Jul, 2002	88 out of 100	88
Gamigo	Jul 30, 2002	8.7 out of 10	87
GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands)	Jul 24, 2002	85 out of 100	85
GBase - The Gamer's Base	Mar 06, 2005	8.5 out of 10	85
Gameguru Mania	Jul 01, 2002	80 out of 100	80
Electric Playground	2002	8 out of 10	80
GameStar (Germany)	Jul, 2002	77 out of 100	77

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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.

Related Web Sites

• Age of Wonders 2 Patch (A page with a direct download of the latest patch for this game. No registration required.)
• Age of Wonders 2 Tips (A page with general tips for successful play. Includes links to specific attacking and defending tips.)
• Age of Wonders Heaven (The best and biggest fansite for all AoW games.)
• Age of Wonders II | The Wizard's Throne (The official Age of Wonders II site)