Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds

The Good
Where to begin? I really liked how fast action and strategy were combined. Just like in the cardgame, you have to think up some strategies - although they're not as complex as in the cardgame, but much simpler combinations of cards. There is also the possibility to play online, and there should be downloadable content soon, too.

The Bad
The mechanics for unlocking stuff are a bit wobbly. You unlock new arenas and colors to play with in the Quest mode, but new characters to play with are unlocked in the Arcade Duels - which get virtually impossible to win near the end.

The Bottom Line
A great game for all MtG fans!

The Good
Another Magic: The Gathering PC game? Sounds suspicious. Why so? The first Magic: the Gathering game I played was Magic: The Gathering - Battle Mage on Play Station 1 and later on PC. Boy, did that game suck big time. Thankfully, they came to their senses with just the original deck game without fancy ideas of trying create a "real-time" action game out of a turn-based card game.

The basic foolish idea of the game is try to create a real-time planeswalker (read=wizard) battling another opponent with a deck of cards. Did they even bother to review the failing success of Battle Mage I wonder....hmmm.

The good stuff? Honestly. None.

The Bad
Prepare for some brutal words.

WHAT IN THE NAME OF GAMING HISTORY WERE THEY THINKING? And Gawd, terrible 3D graphics. I installed the freaking game, and boy do those graphics go "leap frog". If you remember bad 3D graphics, boy does this game made an understatement of that. It was total chaos: the lighting, the movement. Dang, even the menu was slow. The tutorial suck big time, had to press each button on my keyboard to figure out what the dang keys were. I honestly have never felt so INSULTED by a game before in my life. This game makes the 3D idiocy of Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor look like a genius award. I'm totally handsome in the morning after a hangover compared to this game...honestly what were they thinking. I'll never buy a game from this "Secret Level" company again, that's for dang sure.

I don't know if my PC was fully equipped to handle the total heavy requirements for this game...it worked though...barely. But that isn't an excuse for a paying consumer.

Maybe the X-box version fares better? Not likely. But you never know...(not)

The Bottom Line
My vocabulary capabilities limit me for truly expressing the total frustration of the pure idiocy to even call this A GAME. For the love of Gawd, don't even breath near this one.