Disciples II: Dark Prophecy

Outstanding in every way. All of the story elements, fantasy fiction races, and winning design elements have been retained, albeit in greatly enhanced forms that make everything feel fresh.

DP is addictive. Sitting down to play through a few turns can easily suck hours from your life as a "few turns" becomes 50 turns.

[It] impressed me mightily.

For well-crafted turn-based strategy with stunning artwork and powerful AI, Disciples II is the way to go. [Apr 2002, p.70]

It provides simple, addictive gameplay for the novice with enough depth for all but the most spreadsheet-crazed war gamer.

A satisfying, complete, and reassuringly familiar gaming experience.

Titles such as "Etherlords" have blown the genre open, and in comparison Disciples II seems markedly dated.

This is a great turn based strategy game from back in the day. You know, when games didint have triple A turd ratings and came with zero bugs. So what you get here, grimdark setting, gothic art style, 4 factions, interesting story, Great game. Boggles the mind how a similar game hasn't been made until now A thousand curses on akella and calypso for making the travesty called disciples 3. May you suffer of diarrhea for eternity

Best Disciples game ever made. So unique and different from HoM&M titles. Overall visuals and atmosphere are outstanding :) Still enjoyable to play even to this date.

Disciples 2 is not as well-known as Heroes 3 but in my opinion it is at just as good and in some aspects even better. I can still play campaign/quick match 15+ years after its initial release and have a lot of fun.

Неплохая альтернатива Героям, но точно не их замена.

Combat is the best aspect of this game, a few carefully balanced units that after many battles become extremely strong. Unit tree development is also well thought out. However you need so many battles to make your units strong enough, that you can play with only one army - you won't have the time to train another one. Once and if your army is defeated, you're good to restart the campaign.. Cities are ok, maps are confusing and poorly drawn, even for a 2003 game. Campaign is only a pretext. Maybe MP has an interest, but I'm not into it.