Heroes of Annihilated Empires
GSC Game World · 2006 · Strategy, RTS, Fantasy, RPG, Dwarves
PC
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About Heroes of Annihilated Empires
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Lead thousands-strong armies into epic battles or go solo as a powerful hero wielding magic and artifacts in this hybrid RTS-RPG set across a sprawling fantasy world. Command one of twelve unique heroes with customizable abilities and spells, blending real-time strategy with deep character progression across massive campaigns with up to seven players online.
Heroes of Annihilated Empires - is a fantasy-based game from GSC Game World in the genre of RTS vs RPG for PC.
A new proprietary 3D-engine is used to power the game. Episode one is set on Atlans island, the historical homeland of elves. The world of the game is living and huge, full of magic, mythical creatures, heroes and powerful forces involved in a large-scale conflict dating back to the past. The gameplay enables the player, controlling one of the heroes, as to lead thousands-strong armies into battle, so as combat with the hero alone, making use of the entire arsenal of possibilities and powerful magical spells. The possibility to upgrade your hero, improve his abilities, find artifacts and get random quests serves to hugely diversify the gameplay.
A new proprietary 3D-engine is used to power the game. Episode one is set on Atlans island, the historical homeland of elves. The world of the game is living and huge, full of magic, mythical creatures, heroes and powerful forces involved in a large-scale conflict dating back to the past. The gameplay enables the player, controlling one of the heroes, as to lead thousands-strong armies into battle, so as combat with the hero alone, making use of the entire arsenal of possibilities and powerful magical spells. The possibility to upgrade your hero, improve his abilities, find artifacts and get random quests serves to hugely diversify the gameplay.
- Innovative opposing of two genres in one game - RTS vs RPG
- New 3D engine
- Detailed game world, including support of 5 novels from Europe-renowned writer Ilya Novak
- Mass-scale battles of thousands-strong armies
- Four unique races, individual skills, spells and artifacts
- 12 heroes, 12 neutral races, 100 units and 150 various buildings
- Excellently developed character types and impressive unit animation
- Over 150 magic items and over 100 spells
- Original and involving story of the campaign
- Classic multiplayer over LAN or the Internet, up to 7 players in a game. Mix of two genres in the game: RTS vs RPG with a possibility to blend or choose in between during the play.
- Original card system of magic spells, equally interesting to both hardcore gamers and newbies. Over 50 spell cards
- Involving process of character level-ups throughout the entire game
- Stunning intros and cut-scenes. Comics in-between missions to give a deeper story insight
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This game is a forgotten gem. A great blend of RTS and RPG with some pretty good balance, one very respectable campaign with 16 missions (around 20+ hours of gameplay), four races and a Skirmish mode. It goes for a very cheap price and is a lot like the first Spellforce game, albeit with a better story, good voice-acting and on a signficantly larger scale. It genuinely feels like armies fighting each other. Before anything, it's worth mentioning this game has multiple issues you need to fix in order to run it. Firstly, make sure the game is set in compatibility mode for Windows XP Service Pack 3. Then you need to make sure the game runs using only one CPU core, otherwise it WILL crash OFTEN. I'll link the basic guide I use but there are other ways of doing it online as well. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3661843453 It's from a different game but it works for ALL old games with the issue. Just search for engine.exe , the game's executable. Last on the list of big issues, the game's cutscenes stopped working after Windows 8. Fortunately staticsnake compiled them all here for our convinience: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3328544605 …7 found this helpful
Would love to get other factions campaigns. Great RTS with RPG elements.2 found this helpful
Old-school gem. RPG+RTS style similar to SpellForce series. Campaign is worth it on its own.1 found this helpful
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I have played this many hours on other platforms and back in time. I really wish this was a more popular franchise. I really enjoyed it.
This game seems really fun, and I thoroughly enjoyed the few missions I was able to play. But the frequent crashing just got to be too much for me. I made do with it by setting the autosave feature to "every 1 minute" but it only keeps a single autosave, and when it crashed at the end of a mission, the autosave didn't restore the triggers to end the quest.
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