Lords of Magic: Special Edition (1998) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Lords of Magic: Special Edition

Urak, once peaceful, is now a land of darkness, chaos and death. The people yearn for a champion to drive away the forces of evil. That champion is you.

70 30 September 1998 ESRB E

What Lords of Magic: Special Edition is

Lords of Magic: Special Edition is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Impressions Games and released in 1998. It was published by Rebellion Developments. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Lords of Magic: Special Edition holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 31% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 1998 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz Processor, 1 GB RAM and NNVidia/ATI 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 with Hardware T&L support (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.

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What it launched against

Lords of Magic: Special Edition launched on 30 September 1998, within three weeks of Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition, MediEvil I, Dance Dance Revolution and Guardian's Crusade. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition, MediEvil I, Dance Dance Revolution, Guardian's Crusade.

Lords of Magic: Special Edition — frequently asked questions

When did Lords of Magic: Special Edition come out?

Lords of Magic: Special Edition was released on 30 September 1998 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Lords of Magic: Special Edition?

At minimum, Lords of Magic: Special Edition needs 1.8 GHz Processor, 1 GB RAM, NNVidia/ATI 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 with Hardware T&L support (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended) graphics, 600 MB available space of storage.

How many GB is Lords of Magic: Special Edition?

The PC version needs about 0.6 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("600 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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