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Elemental: Fallen Enchantress is now available

Elemental: Fallen Enchantress is now available

Stardock announced today that the long-awaited fantasy strategy PC game, Elemental: Fallen Enchantress, is now available. Fallen Enchantress offers players an immersive new world to build or destroy as they try to conquer the land and its inhabitants. Enter the world of Elemental and create a sovereign with unique talents and abilities along with a faction to align yourself with in an effort to bring the world under your control.

The land is not simply waiting to be claimed, it must be conquered. The lands of Elemental are teeming with monsters, bandits and ancient creatures who will not willingly give up their hold on the world. In addition, other factions are pursuing the same agenda at the same time raising the stakes.

Highlights include:

  • A new game every time. Players can choose the world conditions and have a world randomly generated with randomized opponents, monsters and quests.
  • Unique factions to play with or against. Each faction has its own special units, abilities and powers that require different strategies to achieve victory – or to resist against.
  • Massive scale. Players can zoom in and see individuals working in their cities or zoom out to see the known world presented in a real-time cloth map in one smooth transition.
  • Computer players that get better the more you play. The multi-core AI makes use of the character, factions and units players create in previous games.
  • Custom Scenarios. In addition to the epic sandbox game, Fallen Enchantress also supports custom scenarios. The game includes the scenario “The Fallen Enchantress” to introduce players to the backstory.
  • A strategy game in an RPG world. Fallen Enchantress introduces elements normally found in role playing games such as quests, loot drops, moral dilemmas, unit customization and much more.
  • Unique Locations. The world generator will randomly place one of several unique areas that contain special resources to use. These “Wild Lands” have their own powerful guardians who must first be defeated before the treasures within can be exploited.
  • Multiple paths to victory. Players can win through diplomacy, questing, sorcery, or good old fashioned military conquest.
  • An interactive tutorial. To introduce new players to the world of “4X” strategy games, Fallen Enchantress includes an in-depth tutorial to ease players into the Elemental world.
  • Advanced modding tools. The game ships with a rich array of modding tools including a map editor, tile editor and particle editor to provide players with the means to create new races, quests, spells and scenarios which can be easily shared with other players.
  • All-star development team. Fallen Enchantress reunites Stardock’s Galactic Civilizations team and is designed by Derek Paxton, the author of the acclaimed Civilization IV mod “Fall From Heaven”. The Fallen Enchantress scenario was created by the Civilization V designer, Jon Shafer, and the lore, backstories, and dialog were written by fantasy author Dave Stern.

Fallen Enchantress is $39.99 new and free for those who purchased War of Magic in 2010.

It is available direct from its home page (www.fallenenchantress.com) as well as on Steam, GameStop, GamersGate and elsewhere.

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Reply #27 Top

Quoting Cavil, reply 26
The game is only available from Steam etc. or there is a retail version too?

You are correct it is digital only. From various sources, Stardock directly, Steam, Gamestop, think a couple others also. I'd say either steam or stardock directly is your best bet though.

Reply #28 Top

It's a 3.5GB download (for Stardock anyway) so, not too much time to wait.

Reply #29 Top

I was a real fan of GalCiv with all it's expansions. As such I had had high hopes for Elemental, getting into the Beta and all. Disappointment followed. I completely forgot about the title and the series. Then I noticed, hidden away on Gamersgate, the release announcement for Fallen Enchantress.

 

I logged into my long forgotten Stardock account. And behold, there it was, as promised nearly two years ago - the free copy of Fallen Enchantress.

 

I haven't had time to play it yet, but let me say that: First admitting that Elemental fell short of expectations, then promising fans to give them the game they were expecting for free as a consolation and finally delivering on that promise - awesome! 

I can't wait to give it a try, even though I'm a bit miffed about not being able to redeem the code on Steam.

Reply #30 Top

Having played through Beta I've been really happy with how FE has developed.  Congrats on making a much better game than Elemental, and not giving up due to the failure of the latter.

Looking forward to the first patch fixing some of the stuff that sprung up after release.