GlassDeviant

We'll see where it goes. If they had even bothered to lift their hands to create a barely passable in-game tutorial, it would have gone a long way towards making it less of a deep disappointment. As for mods, well, if the game cannot stand on its own, no amount of mods is going to make it any better. Mods are fine when you've gotten everything you can out of a base game, but if there's nothing there to start with it would take a feat of wonder for a mod to make a game w

So far what I have seen of this game is a very bad merger of some of the basic ideas of Master of Magic with a cheap copy of Civilization III, much more Civ3 than MoM. Given all the hype that has preceded this game, I find that I am regretful of the $40 I spent on it. I had thought from the evidence of SoaSE that Stardock had improved its game development skills since the days of Galactic Civilizations II, but unless there is something much more to Elemental than what I