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[BigJMoney]

Drudge, everyone has made comments mostly similar to what I would make. I will only add that by not getting this game, you are doing yourself a disservice unless one thing is true: You are extremely picky about human-like Artificial Intelligence. You see, the Dominions SP game is challenging, and it is rewarding; there is no question about that. The only thing you need to realize is that it has a few limitations. One of the biggest ones has actually been corrected in Dominions 3, and that's great news, because you seem to be ineterested in purchasing the game when Dominions 3 is brand new!

If you are a fan of fantasy strategy, this game has your name written all over it. It's so good, it will even give you new things to like about the genre. If you don't want to play MP, it doesn't matter. (But don't sell yourself short...there are a lot of us here who play MP casually -- we aren't experts -- but we like to dabble).

=$= Big J Money =$=

PS -- What strategy games do you like? I'd have to say my favorite of all time would be Heroes of Might and Magic IV. Now, if that's not diversity, (going from that game to this one) I don't know what is.

[Endoperez]

Wait for the Dom3 demo. If the demo is similar to the one they put out in Dom2, you'll only have from 5 upward nations to choose from (all with their own units, although most have units filling some of the roles of light and heavy infantry, archers and cavalry, and the differences are sometimes just cosmetic for human nations), and you can only research magic up to level four in the 8 schools of magic. That'd be about 250 spells if I didn't make any major mistakes. They aren't all usable for all nations, and especially the level 0 and 1 spells can sometimes be just barely better than nothing or even too situational to be of any use at all, but it's still 250 spells. And in Dom2, you'd also be able to forge about 150 items, few more for Dom3.

If the AI is able to offer any kind of resistance, you can probably enjoy just discovering the game. And then you can choose a different nation, and do it all over again. Perhaps even in a different age, so that the enemy nations have also changed.