I've waited so much to play this and chugged this in three weeks once I finally can. It's an old game yet it didn't run good on Linux until recently. This game is one of my all time favourites. Kind of a unique blend of RPG and RTS. It's a fantasy setting where you control humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, trolls and dark elves. 3 light and 3 dark races. There are campaign missions where you control 3 races at once which was quite fun.

Surely it needs quality of life improvements as today, some aspects didn't age well. It is expected from a 21 year old game though. For example, the whole world is connected and if you forgot to activate the teleportation stone on a map, you have to walk there again from the last one you have activated (or the closest one). The maps are gigantic and every map has 3-5 of these but none of these activates automatically. While this manual-ity is sometimes painful, you'll find this useful time to time, since enemies can de-activate these monuments by attacking them. You can scout the map before setting your camp there, all thanks to it being manual. Because once you set your camp, enemies will start sending scouts and will sending soldiers to you eventually. Without a camp, you're basically a ghost. Another thing is, since this is an RPG, you'll return to the maps you have conquered for doing side quests. Well, almost every RPG game has this, right? The problem here is the walking speed. Even with the stones you bind, it is still painfully slow to walk anywhere. Imagine walking without teleportation. :)

While not so useful, this game has a third-person camera angle and it's like playing World of Warcraft, and it's older than WoW. Pretty nifty and good for taking screenshots.

There are 3 campaigns (though the second one kinda felt like a filler). In the last campaign, you can import your character from the first or the second campaign. It is the direct continuation of the main campaign and and importing was a good option.

Also, I might have cursed to the level designer of the second campaign a handful times. In the last mission where you fight the dragon, you can only attack by range. My character was melee, the race you control on that map is dwarves which they only have one ranged unit and that unit cannot reach the dragon's range. So I had to use a side character that my character can summon. It took minutes with only his shots, my army can do it under one minute probably if that fight was melee.

Well, there surely were some painful moments but overall the game was pretty fun with a good RPG story. Oh, almost forgot to mention. Every interaction is voice-acted.