Majesty Gold - Windows

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Product Details

• ASIN: B001MIQ46S
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,074 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

Product Description

Product Description

Take on the challenge in these two addictive,real-time strategy games



This Special Edition of Majesty contains both, the main program as well as theNorthern Expansion Pack.

Build a thriving, magical kingdom in this epic fantasy. There are add-onfeatures with 13 additional questions, 16 different hero classes, each with itsown traits, along with advanced artificial intelligence allowing heroes to makedecisions on their own.

These two real-time strategy games await you!

• Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim
• Majesty: The Northern Expansion

Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim

As King, you will have to manage your resources and complete a variety of exciting noble quests. 

Each quest requires you to determine your own strategy, build your tax base, collect money, explore, and most importantly, vanquish your many enemies.

Ardania is a land both majestic and ancient. It is filled with a variety ofpeoples, and its wilderness is ripe with strange creatures - some curious, manydeadly. The magic that flows through this land both enriches and complicates thelives of its inhabitants. From the desolate Northern Reaches to the pleasantCentral Plains, Ardania is a land of shifting aspect. Many forces are at workhere, and where magic is involved, there are few limits to what ispossible.  This tendency toward constant change comes at a high price;Ardania is a land without unity. While some kingdoms share relations and haveestablished treaties, these, too, tend not to last. Ardania is without a centralauthori

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Strategy Game - freezes on XP, August 18, 2009

By	Happy Reader (Northern California) - See all my reviews

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

My husband gave me the original "Majesty" years ago, I bought the Gold Edition when it came out. I love this game, but, unfortunately, it freezes a lot on my XP PC.

This is why this game is perfect for me: It is a strategy game but divided up into discrete packages. Each quest is separate and you are measured not just in whether or not you can accomplish the quest, but in beating your prior time, as well as anyone else playing the game (it saves for multiple names/questors). Each quest is different and needs a totally different game plan to win. Plus, in each quest, there is always some luck involved, too, and things you have no control over. Unlike a big war sims game, Majesty is a very fine combination of puzzle and war. For example, your quest can be to find and rescue slaves held in three slave pits. The luck is that you have no idea just where in the Majesty world to look first, and the locations change every time you play. The strategy comes in because there are many types of heros to recruit, there are many types of incentives to use, there are many types of enemies you'll face, and finding the right combination of heros for the enemies who show up is important. (And for me, sometimes takes many many tries!) You have limited gold, so should you build an armorer first, and to what level should you take the armorer? Or should you build marketplaces or fairgrounds or a library or add to the castle or guardposts or magician towers. What skill set will help you most? Berserkers, magic, stalwartness, sneakiness, thievery, healing powers, ability to raise the dead, high defense, low morals, poison, etc etc. It is an absolutley wonderful game for a middleaged woman without the reflexes for straight shoot-em-ups but a love of figuring out what's the best strategy.

I eagerly await Magesty II, coming out next month. I hope they kept the best about the original, because it's a fantastic game for what I would call the thinking and older gamer. It is, for example, a game where I can still beat my 15 year old.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Addictive Game Play, September 2, 2009

By	Thomas Marushia Jr. (Union, WV) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

Majesty is a real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world with you as King or Queen. Your goal is to establish your kingdom and try to expand it. Majesty's interface is easy to understand. You click on a building, character, or item to get information about it and act upon it. Acting upon a building means repairing and upgrading it. In several cases, such as with a guardhouse, marketplace, or blacksmith's shop, you conduct research into areas specific to that building, such as weapon and armor level upgrades for the blacksmith and additional types of goods for the marketplace.

There are 18 scenarios included in the game. Four of them are secret and require you to complete one or more of the other 14 before you can start them. The others are independent, and there's no cohesive story or campaign linking them together. Some of the scenarios are designed for beginners as a means of introducing the various elements of the game system, while some are rated as advanced, and a few are designed for expert players.

This game has great replay value, and even after all these years since I purchased this game, I find myself installing it back onto my computer and doing it all over again. It gives you a sense of power, as to what and where you are gonna build and whether or not you will attack the neighboring kingdom.

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple, playable fun, October 9, 2009

By	Vitor (UK) - See all my reviews

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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The game is a straightforward example of the genre, but well executed with a simple, intuative interface. It's highly playable and has enough possible strategies in each scenario to keep it fresh. The "Northern Wastelands" expansion (included with this) doesn't add much; the new buildings are somewhat pointless and some of the new scenarios are irritatingly & pointlessly hard. But still a classic and worth getting.