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Myth 2: Soulblighter

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Myth 2 is a great real-time strategy game. It has a good story line and challenging solo player levels, and a large number of multi-player (competitive) playing options. The game is set in a quasi-medieval human-centric world familar to anyone who has ever played dungeons and dragons or read Tolkien or any other sword and sorcery fantasy literature. The story is a little less coherent or immersive than Myth: The fallen lords, but there are a number of features added to Myth 2 which make it just as (or more) enjoyable.

In the solo levels you battle the forces of evil in an epic campaign. The different missions occur in a variety of settings each with it's own goal. You get to control human soldiers and archers, berzerkers (think braveheart), dwarfs (who throw explosives), and warlocks. Your enemies include zombies, spear throwing flying souless, exploding pus corpses, tough pig beasts, giants, ghols (kind of a cross between monkeys and dogs), and other creatures.

What makes Myth so fun? Maybe the answer to that is to identify how Myth is different from the other combat & strategy games.

Firstly Myth is a "Real-Time" strategy game. There are no turns where one player makes a turn then the next player responds, everything happens in real-time - simultaneously. The battles are what Dungeons and Dragons battles would be like if you didn't have to keep rolling the dice, consulting charts and calculating numbers.

Unlike first person shooter games like Quake or Unreal, Myth puts you in charge of several units/troops at a time. You can give your troops orders independantly or have them work together, but you have to think about more than just one character, as you can have dozens of troops under your command at any one time.

Unlike combination resource building/strategy games that emphasize long-term planning and in which a single decision made early on can have disastrous consequences much later on - so that battles are more the result of how many and what types of weapons you have accumulated rather than on how good a commander you are, in Myth, the focus is on a player's strategy _in battle_ and immediately before battle.

When playing competitively against other players each player has (generally) the same mix and numbers of troops so that winning a game is not determined by who has accumulated the most toys, winning depends on using various types of units effectively, using terrain to your advantage, knowing when to fight and when to retreat, how to use troop formations, set traps, etc.

Although Bungie no longer provides the free bungie.net game server for Myth players to play with/against each other, you can still play Myth on a local network, directly with another player over the internet, or through use of one of the newer free Myth Game Servers (mariusnet.com or www.playmyth.net).

Myth 2 is very addictive fun. Myth is an old game at this point, but I would still recommend it. Die-hard fans still play the game regularly online and fans still create new competitive maps and solo missions which keep the game fresh. If you do get this game and want to play it online, you will need to download the latest update to the game which is available for free at www.versiontracker.com. [You still need to BUY the game, the free update only updates the game, it does not work on it's own] You can also find lots of Myth related info and strategy guides at the Myth Graveyard - mythgraveyard.mything.org

Having played Myth 2 (and the original Myth - The Fallen Lords) since it's release back in 1998 I still find few games today who can match the fun and mayhem that Myth 2 offers. The solo levels are fun, well designed and the story interesting and well thought out. But it's online where Myth II really shines. A wide variety of maps and game types make for intense multiplayer carnage that remains addictive even today. On top of that this game has one of the most dedicated and mature gaming communities I've ever encountered. Considering how [inexpensive] you can get Myth II for nowadays this game is a real bargain. Stay tuned for the upcoming installment in this series: Myth 3 - The Wolf Age.

The camera controls might be tricky at first, but after awhile they become the easiest thing to do, just like breathing no thought required, you just do.


People may say that Myth is limited and boring because you don't have buildings but thats a load of ****, the thing about Myth 2 is that it comes with a fully working Plugin system, fancy playing the American Civil War?

Download the Blue & Grey plugin from www.projectmagma.net

Want to play with troops from ww2, download one of the hundreds of ww2 plugins for Myth.

Myth can be everything, and is constantly growing with new plugins and expansions being created all the time.

You may need to download the latest patch for Myth 2 before you start playing online, but it's well worth it. Go to www.playmyth.net for the latest patch.


There is nothing Myth can't do, and when you find that out for yourself, you'll be hooked for life.

I am amazed at how some people hate the camera control in this game. When I first played Myth I, I was sure that the freedom of the camera would become standard in every Real-Time Strategy game. Sadly, only Myth II took advantage of this cool camera. Sadly, almost every RTS these days has a stationary camera, locked above with no way to zoom in or out, or get better angles. For me, this ruined Warcraft III. I hated being a static observer, not able to enjoy the game because of the lack of camera control. Warcraft III is still a fun game, but Myth II still stands above all.

P.S. - Try playing the tutorial three or four times. It should help you acclimate to the camera's controls
P.P.S. - If you liked Myth II, don't bother with Myth III. It's a lot worse

This game needs official support and advertising. It is quite frankly the best RTS game out there and better than that, the best tactical game out there. There's none of the building an enormous flood of units that overwhelms the enemy here. You get the units you start with and sometimes a couple reinforcements at critical points in the game, but that's all. The game has an amazing storyline that would rival the LOTR if it were fully extrapolated on and is entirely enthralling. Furthermore, it carries with it an incredible physics and graphics engine that is, to this day, far more sophisticated and capable than the newest RTS games out there. And it keeps growing! It's eight bloody years old and doesn't even have official support or servers, but it keeps on growing! New modifications and levels, new units, new updates, new effects...and they're good!

i first bought myth II back when it first came out in 99 then when the servers got shut down in 2001 i was a sad panda. 7 years later i decided to install it and play it again, even to this day it still impresses me.
unlike most stratagy games were manageing your resorces is the key part winning and build what u can as fast as you can this game removes all of that. it gives you a set amount of units and pretty much tell you good luck like one mission you get 5 guys and have to assinate 1 guy who has hundreads of body guards and if you use the suroundings you can kill every unit and not get hurt at all or you can blunder it up and die really fast.
like real life arrows do not alwas go stright and not always hit same in this game, wind rain and gravaty effect and down hill gives you range advantage. bombs sometimes dud out on you when you need it orr you can screw up and kill your own army like in real life.
this game takes brains to play and a real know how for your units and micro manage is super easy.
the biggest shock is there is still a server http://www.mariusnet.com/ has patches and updates for the game and lots of people still play. some are even new to the game. this game is 100% worth getting if you are a fan of hard thinking stratagy games, but remember it is old so do not compare it to games of today cause this is their grand daddy

This game kicks azz

Your army fights evil armies up and down terrain. 360 pan of the action allow many angles. The controlls are simple 2 button to rotate view and mouse to select troops. Some throw bombs some shoot arrow some chop with sword.

This game is one of finesse, since you troops move at different rates and can be separated[bad for slow moving troops] Enemies are numerous and results of chopping and gerandes is bloody.

learn what a yrkridia and a trow are :)

This game is awesome! You can tell the developers put A LOT of thought and work into this one.

Oh my, the eerie orchestral music, the anime-esque cutscenes, the story, the narraration, are all so superbly done! A+

This game is the equivalent of gaming to reading a novel by H.P. Lovecraft. The story deals on so many different levels of reality, time, space and myth.

Not to mention, the gameplay is great. This is a strategy based tactical real time game and you better know about weapons, line of sight, movement, formations, and battlefield tactics in order to survive. Great game and grossly engaging and just fun.

This is definetley one of the best PC games out there still to date. It involves tons of war stragety. It didnt go big beacuse it was confused with Myst and Myst 2. but give it a shot you wont be disapointed.

When i bought it back in 1999 it was one of the best RTS avalible and it impress pepole even today. In the begining it was quite amazing (COOL grphicks, nice style, good story line) but fter a time it began to be boring becouse you dont have one of th most basic elements of an RTS game: BUILDINGS. You cant build anything you can only move and attack. So if you like that style of games than go ahead and buy it but trust me evntually ou will get board of it.