Magic the Gathering: Battle Grounds

by Atari

Product Features

• Real-time, fighting-strategy game with epic one-on-one battles
• Over 70 different spells from 5 spell books
• 9 battling wizards, 16 epic arenas
• Online content--spells, wizards, and assorted extras--for player download
• Comprehensive, single-player quests, allowing duelists to acquire spells and artifacts

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009MGVG
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 18, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,688 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Think like a wizard. Fight like a warrior. Magic: The Gathering: Battlegrounds brings the Magic world to life, as a real-time, fighting-strategy game for the PC. Combatants take control of powerful duelists in epic one-on-one battles, using strength and sorcery to survive. With single-player quests, experience the world of Magic like never before.

Features:

• Over 70 different spells from five spell books, providing near-limitless fighting combinations
• Nine battling wizards, 16 epic arenas--all based on the Magic: The Gathering universe
• Online content--spells, wizards, and assorted extras--updated regularly for player download
• Comprehensive, single-player quests, allowing duelists to acquire spells and artifacts

Product Description

Magic The Gathering: Battle Grounds lets you prove your skills as a magic-user by entering an arena to battle your equals. Choose your mana and your proxies - then use skill and strategy to become a champion duelist!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Magic the Gathering this is NOT, May 1, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Magic the Gathering: Battle Grounds (CD-ROM)

MTG Players take heed, this is not MTG, but is Mortal Combat with MTG themes and words. If you are looking for an online MTG (similar to the one offered for Win95/98 a few years ago) this ain't it. Save your money.
If you want Mortal Combat and a few hours of frustration, this is the game for you.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, if you own a game controller and lots of patience, January 29, 2004

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"edzeamba" (Phoenix, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magic the Gathering: Battle Grounds (CD-ROM)

First of all this is an arcade game. Players of the card game be warned. This is nothing like "magic the gathering" but rather a quick-paced button-clicker that relies mostly on your reflexes to succeed but has a fair amount of strategy to it as well. Oh and, the "spells" your wizard uses have names that will be familiar to you, if you played the card game...

I had to buy a game controller (only $15) to really appreciate this game, due to the extreme manual dexterity required to do well at all the fast paced action. Still it took me more than 15 hours of playing the "quest" and "arcade" modes before I really got the hang of this game. Up until that point there were some very frustrating "quests" that seemed impossible until I spent the hours to train my reflexes and learn the strategies.

Once you master the Quest mode however, it is a rewarding experience to create your own collection of spells then go online to compete live with other players. Playing against other people is a real challenge so expect to lose quite a few games until you adjust to the new strategies being used.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good game but make sure you have the PC reqs, December 4, 2003

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overlimits (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magic the Gathering: Battle Grounds (CD-ROM)

This game is good, but before you buy it, make sure you have the correct PC requirements or else it wont run well. I did not have enough ram to play the game so I had to upgrade my computer and now it runs just fine. MTG Battle Grounds is basically a fighting game, where you cast spells and creatures. Kind of like Final Fantasy, but theres no turn taking; you and your opponent both do things at the sametime There are five colors: White, Red, Black, Green and Blue. White is soldier/angel/gain life. Red is burn/fire/goblins. Black is death/disease/undead. Green is power/elves/beeasts. Blue is counter/water/air. You can pick one of nine avatars(only five are initially selectable) , and they represent the different colors. There are over 70 spells for each color, bringing the total to about 350+ spells, making the possibilities endless. In the game, you have to obtain "mana crystals", which add/regenerate to your mana. You need mana to cast spells. There are three types of spells: sorceries, enchantments, and creatures. Sorceries do a variety of things but last only 1 tutn. Enchantments stay in the field for the whole game. Creatures attack your opponent until killed by your opponent. To beat a level, you have to drain the opponents life from 20 to 0 before he does it to you.