

"War is a nasty business and you just have to make the right trade off."

Each tile on the game's map is moddable, and players can even replay battles to learn exactly why their hero died. After creating a lead character, players will conquer and transform inhabitable land as they explore. It is old school, but for people who have busy schedules and can't commit to spending two hours a night."Īge of Wonders 3 includes more than 150 units, six races and classes, and up to six heroes per army. "And play whenever you want - you might have ten games going on. "These games going on for sometimes a couple of weeks," Sas said. According to Sas, it's the kind of mode meant for players who have 15 minutes here and there to play. Once a player takes their turn, an email is sent to the other player, alerting them of a new round. In addition to its single-player mode, the game features an email-driven campaign that works similar to its regular multiplayer, but slower. Players command armies while conquering new lands and races and establishing an empire. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Age of Wonders 3 features turn-based strategy that can be played several different ways for those with varying amounts of free time, Triumph Studios director Lennart Sas told Polygon during a GDC demo.Īge of Wonders 3 is the first title in the series to be released since 2002. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition.
