Age Of Wonders is turn-based fantasy strategy game taking place at land of the ancient races. Each of the races (Human, Elves, Undead, Dwarves, Orcs and others) has it's own specific units with different characteristics. What I really appreciate is, that the races are well balanced, for example human units are weaker than the other races' ones but they're build faster. it is possible to upgrade every town/castle but only to the particular level, which makes you build the strongest units at capitols but also you must defend well the border towns. There are special air / fire / water nodes which can be used to cast deadly spells, so they're subject of all-time battles.

Another really cool thing on AOW is that there are two ways to fight particular battle. The first is 'do it fast' way, where all the participating units appear in special slots on the screens and strike each against other ones. You can skip to the end of the battle by pressing one button, so you really don't need to watch all the animations and battle is finished in few seconds. The second possibility is slow, but great for the people who want to have control over as much as possible. It's like the all units move to the small world showing the place where the battle takes place, and now here you can control every unit separately, like in Civilization game, but this way of battling takes a couple of minutes.

Age Of Wonders is not breakthrough title, but it pushes the aspects of turn-based strategy playing to the limit. In the pack you will find one big campaign consisting of several continual scenarios, or you can select one from many single scenarios playable on single computer, or as a multiplayer match on IPX or TCP/IP (Internet).