Magic: The Gathering - Battlemage
Magic: The Gathering: BattleMage is a real time strategy game published in January 1997 by Acclaim for both PCs and PlayStation. It was also in development for the Sega Saturn, but this version was cancelled…
Magic: The Gathering - Battlemage is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Wizards of the Coast, released 1 February 1997 on PlayStation and DOS.
What Magic: The Gathering - Battlemage is
Magic: The Gathering - Battlemage is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Wizards of the Coast and released in 1997. It was published by Acclaim Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation and DOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Magic: The Gathering: BattleMage is a real time strategy game published in January 1997 by Acclaim for both PCs and PlayStation. It was also in development for the Sega Saturn, but this version was cancelled in mid-1997. In addition to the real time strategy game, BattleMage has a head-to-head mode. It is set on the continent of Corondor, where a planeswalker named Ravidel forces the most powerful mages to fight each other, so that he can eventually destroy them and conquer the land. The game had a poor critical reception due to its unfair AI, unfriendly interface, and unbalanced gameplay.[citation needed] Spectrum Holobyte filed a lawsuit after Acclaim published the PC version in January…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and warfare. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Magic: The Gathering series
Magic: The Gathering - Battlemage is the first of 18 entries we hold in the Magic: The Gathering series. The next entry was Magic: The Gathering in 1997.
What it launched against
Magic: The Gathering - Battlemage launched on 1 February 1997, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII (1997), Theme Hospital and Money Puzzle Exchanger.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII (1997), Theme Hospital, Money Puzzle Exchanger.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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