WARHAMMER:DARK OMEN DEMO

                  Review by Michael Raven.

For the uninitiated, Warhammer is a tabletop adventure game that
has been carrying on cheerfully for many years now. Started by a
couple of people that sold 6 games to their friends, Games
Workshop now has at least 70 shops in the UK alone, (and these
were from an old magazine - they now probably have well over 100!)
with paintable miniatures.

The solution for people that aren't into the painting of the
miniatures, or don't have many people to play against, is Dark
Omen. The computer gives you a pile of ready-painted (albeit on
the screen) miniatures, and you fight computer created monsters of
evil.

In this demo, you control the brave Empire army against a
slavering undead horde. There's nothing quite like having a
cavalry force charge into the flank of a huge melee, surrounding
the enemy on all sides. Or having an undead pack charge at a
battered group of infantry, only to have a wizard blast a few
fireballs into the middle of the undead lot and make them run!

Great game, very exciting.

PRESENTATION 83% Very good, nothing that special though.
PLAYABILITY 95% Simplicity itself, just click on a group, and
click on the enemy that you want them to fight. They then fight!
GRAPHICS 94% Animation clips shows up throughout the battle to
tell you just how well you're doing.
SOUND 83% Good, but a bit of background music could have been
nice.
LASTABILITY 43% (Note this is for the demo) only 1 battle to
fight.

OVERALL 94% Considering it's only a demo, this is VERY good!


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