The Bottom Line
Battle for Wesnoth is a rich and enjoyable strategy game with a fantasy theme.
Pros
- Play alone or choose from several multiplayer options.
- The fantasy theme stimulates your imagination.
Cons
- The graphics are 2-D.
Description
- Platforms: GNU/Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Windows, MacOSX, BeOS.
- Graphics: 3.5 stars. Not 3D but performance is good. Terrains are beautiful.
- Audio: 3.5 stars. Civilizations have different background music that adds feeling to the game.
- Gameplay: 4.5 stars. Figures move around nicely. Things make sense, stimulating, not boring.
Guide Review - Free Game for Linux - The Battle for Wesnoth
The Battle for Wesnoth is a medium-paced strategy game with a fantasy theme (elves, orcs, humans, and ghosts and skeletons). The player builds and moves warrior units, and develops strategies in order to regain the throne of Wesnoth. One person can play this game, but it is Wesnoth’s multiplayer options that make it popular among players who enjoy playing computer games with real people. Whether they are worlds away but connected through the Internet or sitting side-by-side with you using the same computer, playing with real people adds excitement.
When using a multiplayer option, the players take turns to move their own units, and or make more units, etc. When you are done, click the END TURN button on the screen. Through "fighting", the units can be transformed to more advanced levels, with more powerful abilities, weapons and spells. For example, if an Elvish Archer kills two enemy units, it evolves into an Elvish Ranger or Marksman. A unit can evolve several times before reaching the highest level.
Players who enjoyed similar fantasy themes in other computer games, such as "Age of the Empires", should also indulge their inclination by giving Wesnoth a try.
