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As a massive Spellforce fan, I was really looking forward to Faith in Destiny. However though it was fun to play, it left me a little disappointed. At a glance, everything about this game should mean I loved it. It was classic Spellforce. Except, it wasn't.

Firstly, unlike the other incarnations of Spellforce, I could not create a female character, and there doesn't appear to be a reason for this (no male only references in the storyline etc).

Secondly: It was short. So very, very short. I felt like the story had barely got going before it was over. The whole game feels like a demo for Demons of the Past, not a game in it's own right.

And finally: The extra scenarios. After paying for a game that was almost insultingly short, I was offered 3 extra scenarios. For a fee of course. No thanks, I've forked over enough of my cash already.

It breaks my heart, but unless it comes up on sale, I cannot recommend this game, and I think my journey with Spellforce ends here. I certainly won't be paying full price for the next one.

This game is actually not worth it's price. It has what made the Spellforce franchise great, but it's short and i'll risk to say that it has the worst story of all the Spellforce series, based on the cliche that you have to do everything "because it's your destiny". However, if you like Spellforce mechanics you can still find this game enjoyable, and if you like the single player free mode it will be worth it for you.

Beware, however, that you won't be able to play with your friends if they own this game because the servers exist no more. You may try to find a way to play online with a program like hamachi, but I can guarantee that it won't be easy.

Very average for the Spellforce series 57/100

SpellForce 2 - Faith in Destiny is a sweet RTT/RTS-RPG game. Though I can't say I was fully satisfied by the whole of the experience but I really had fun playing it and its features nevertheless.


For an expantion based on a 2007 game they are pretty cool. You get sweet nature designs, accurate animations, fire-lightning-smoke and other effects. Not too bad water material for lakes and seas. Legit logic of terain designing combined with natural effects colors and mood.
The characters are also neatly done, you can see weapons and gear with enough details and light effects and you can even notice various cute details like smoke and sparks when gear hit against each other during fights.
The engine is kinda like a sweet magor upgrade from what the old RTT/RTS games used to be.


Nothing really extraordinarry. I haven't played any Spellforce games before so I had to do some homework in order to understand what was going on.
The background of what's going on is pretty cool, however the game itself doesn't really give you a good story-telling sequence during the game and doesn't let you get too enthusiastic about it. Though there are a couple of dialogue and cut scenes that help the game stay in the avevare mood.


Not much to say. The units are pretty pretty sweet and there's an appreciated quantity and quality of units.
Heroes are nice too. Was happy to see some basic voice acting that helped me enjoy the game [though i eventually removed all acknowledgement effects cause i was a tinny bit irritaed of them due to playing with many clicks I guess :P ]


It was ok. All features were sweet with the exception that there's unfortunatelly a bad balance between RTS and RPG.
Eventhough there are some good RPG ideas [gear upgrades, cool skills, skill tree etc etc] the averate taste in my mouth was that there was a bit more RTS than RPG going on.
Also the game was kinda short. No not from the average gameplay point of view. It took me around 20 hours to do the cempaign while exploring every inch of the maps. However the story goes on through some very few basic sequences and after a few maps that's it, you are done with the campaign. And your only hope for more gameplay is skirmishing and downloading custom maps. I know the cost of adding more maps in the main campaign is too big compared to skirmish maps, but 2 or 3 more maps in the main story would make it feel a lot more satisfying!


Average neatly designed music additions with a bit of epic character. Nothing original.
One thing though is that I REALLY loved that the developers never missed to concentrate on the details regarding sound effects. You can hear your units' footsteps or wingflapping while they move when you zoom close to them and not by an average generated effect but by individually generated sound.


It's a cute game. Don't keep high expectations about it and you'll have enough fun.
i'd say it's above 6 cause it keeps you happy but bellow 8 cause they could have added some extra material and a better balanceed RPG experienced so I say it's a 7/10 for me.


PS: I got it on a special offer. I strongly suggest you grab a similar chance to buy this on a better price ;)

This is quite fun, though the campaign is very short; if they'd fleshed out the single player aspect I'd have no problem recommending this, as it is - the RTS/RPG cross is quite novel and I enjoyed this.

It took me around 12 hours to finish the single player, and that wasn't hurrying.

If you can get this for cheap, I'd give it a go. At full price I'd definately give it a miss.

Clocking in at 11 Hours, fair to say I´ve explored all nooks and crannies, but I am fairly disappointed, sadly the developers haven´t managed to capture the original Spellforce feeling which was still present within Spellforce 2 Shadow Wars and Dragon Storm. There was one mini game as far as I can remember everything else was just hack and Slash, go to a map build a base own everything due to the fact that your avatar (and the Dragon) kill everything on their own, leveling was too easy the army was a step ahead or on par in levels with the Nameless. Poor excuse, might change with DLC´s but I am not gonna buy any of them. My recommendation: Buy Spellforce Platinum and get some real RPG/RTS gaming done then compare it with this.

A bit of a let-down compared to other Spellforce entries. While this one is more difficult than Dragon Wars and the core game, the campaign is EXTREMELY short. This iteration also introduces scenarios; which are paid DLC maps for little snippets of story and gameplay. Fun... but probably should have been included in the core game.

While I do recommend the game for those looking to continue through the Spellforce storyline... I would probably wait until it is on sale. This truly does feel like a "primer" for the next expansion.

A few postives though:
- Better camera control. No longer have to use the console to fix FOV
- "Very difficult" difficulty setting is actually somewhat tough compared to that of prior releases. Finally a challenge
- Story is good, albiet very short.

Quality wise, campaign is awful. Free game mode is bugged and broken. Network issues mean that port forwarding isn't enough, you need to be using some sort of virtual lan software.

Spellforce 2 is a favourite game of mine and I highly recommend it. Just not this version.

Get Spellforce 2 Gold instead.

Faith in Destiny is one of two standalone story expansions for SpellForce 2 and if you, like me, did not find SpellForce 2as good as the first game, FiD will not convince you otherwise. It is a direct continuation of story from SP2 and Dragon Storm with a few addition such as new demon race and the fact that you can ride a dragon, albeit in a very lackluster manner. While it is a nice try, these additions do not make it any different than the standart SP2 and story is far to short to consider this a worthwhile purchase. If you get this in a package with all of its scenarios, you can possibly squeeze some solid playtime from it, but overall, the game is just a fraction of the SP2 which also wasn't very good.

Pros:
+ New playable race
+ Rideable dragon
+ Voice acting is not too bad
+ Due to the game being so short, the leveling and obtaining new items is quick and smooth
+ Scenarios

Cons:
- Main storyline
- Side quests
- Length
- Bugs
- All of the problems from SP2 still persist
- The fact that scenarios are not free

I really liked Spellforce and Spellforce 2, so when I started up Faith in Destiny I expected at the very least more of the same, if not an improvement on 2's single player campaign like what happened with Dragon Storm. Well...that's not what this is.

Faith in Destiny feels like it was hastily cobbled together in a scenario editor with a month-long deadline for a finished product. The campaign has no voice acting and doesn't even bother with the illusion of choice like the previous campaigns did, instead just outright forcing you to play a male character. The campaign AI doesn't even pretend to play fair, instead spawning in units at set intervals because reasons, out-numbering you 10 to 1 and never actually doing anything but waiting for you to attack. Many map triggers and quests are broken, making the plot make even less sense than it would otherwise. You only find out why you're bothering to do any of what you're doing in the minute-long cut-scene after the final mission.

As to the multiplayer (never one of this series' strong points, really), the new race (the Nameless) have their buildings, units and tech tree designed in a way that makes it obvious they're meant to be played only by a cheating AI, though if you're allowed to actually climb their ridiculously overpriced tech tree you'll end up with two titans and a host of overpowered units and towers that there's really no counter to in competent hands.

The stand-alone scenarios are a little better in terms of both writing and gameplay (the AI doesn't cheat as hard), though broken scripts still abound, periodically making missions unwinnable because you climbed a hill from the left instead of the right. All in all, don't bother with this, even if you liked the previous games, you'll just end up disappointed.