Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne Official Strategy Guide [Paperback]

Rick Barba (Author)

Book Description

Series: Bradygames Take Your Games Further | Publication Date: June 11, 2002

BradyGames Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne Official Strategy Guide provides detailed strategies and area maps for the challenging scenarios in the game. Complete unit list and rundown of the Spheres of Magic to help players defeat enemies. Tactics for customizing magical skills and abilities and how to specialize in each. Tips for building intimidating defenses including training grounds for armies and more. Multiplayer tips and strategies.

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BradyGames Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne Official Strategy Guide provides detailed strategies and area maps for the challenging scenarios in the game. Complete unit list and rundown of the Spheres of Magic to help players defeat enemies. Tactics for customizing magical skills and abilities and how to specialize in each. Tips for building intimidating defenses including training grounds for armies and more. Multiplayer tips and strategies.

About the Author

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., headquartered in New York City, is an integrated global developer, marketer, distributor, and publisher of interactive entertainment software games and accessories for the PC, PlayStation® game console, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Game Boy Color, Sega Dreamcast, PlayStation® 2 and the Xbox™. The Company publishes and develops products through various wholly owned subsidiaries including: Rockstar Games, Godgames, TalonSoft, Joytech, DMA Design, PopTop, Global Star and under the Take-Two brand name. The Company maintains sales and marketing offices in Cincinnati, New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Munich, Vienna, Copenhagen, Milan and Sydney.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: BRADY GAMES; 1st edition (June 11, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0744001544
• ISBN-13: 978-0744001549
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,844,435 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good, particularly for a newb to game, June 22, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

Compared to most strategy guides, which are usually just re-hashes of material in the manual, this guide is chock full of strategies and interesting info about a very deep game. Some of the strategies will be obvious to seasoned vets, but for newcomers they'll be a great help.

There are more than 200 pages, most in very small print meaning the author has crammed a lot of material in. There are errors here and there, probably a result of the book being written before the game was 100% complete. But all in all a good effort.

5.0 out of 5 stars Very well-done strategy game, May 24, 2003

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A. Richins (Salem, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

This game not only has great graphics and music, it's also very challenging! The first few times you play you'll get tottally worked by the computer even if you're very used to the genre(even on the easiest level).

The big debate: is it master of magic II or not? Well, the main difference is that in AOWII you don't bother with food, and there is less room for expansion. But AOW also has many other elements that MOM doesn't have, such as quests to appease Gods, Wizards towers, and stronger AI.
Some gamers hate the fact that there's no ramdom map, but there are plenty of senarios, and trust me you WON'T ever play them all unless you tottally have no life.