To make sure you get the ins and the outs of the mechanics, the game offers you a rather excellent tutorial that introduces you to the nitty gritty of the rather nuanced mechanics one at a time, while also familiarizing you with some advanced tactics. In that regard, it’s a very well done TCG video game. The game gives you access to a lot of cards, so you will never be left wanting as far as true deck building goes. The initial deck you get will of course be limited, but over time, you can build it by getting booster packs. What kinds of cards you have access to, at least to begin with, is limited by which of the five factions of the Might & Magic universe you chose: Inferno, Necropolis, Haven, Stronghold, and Sanctuary. Battles are turn based, and involve a healthy element of strategy. It certainly plays like a good old card game too.
You play in battles online, not just with other PC players, but also with players playing on their iPads – Might & Magic is the first Ubisoft title to support cross platform play. You begin with a base set and then, just like in real life, supplement your deck by buying new booster packs with real money.
It’s a well done, online, free to play card game. Just look at Ubisoft’s Might & Magic: Duel of Champions. It’s probably why Trading Card Games translate so well into video games. It’s kind of perfect: modern videogaming distilled to its purest, down to buying a base product, supplementing it with DLC, and the social features. Then buy booster packs, get better cards, trade them around, and build an even better and more powerful deck. Even if you never got into one yourself, you know the gist, don’t you?īuy a basic starter deck to play around, maybe get a feel of the game and the rules. The point is, you know how a trading card game works. I’m sure most of you did: maybe it was Magic: The Gathering. In all likelihood it was Pokemon. Maybe it was something else entirely. If you've missed the many excellent cross platform board / video games released in recent years, we've got you covered with a list of nine entries well worth checking out.I don’t know how many of you ever played Trading Card Games while growing up.
There's plenty more beyond Gwent though, with even the Souls-style Bloodborne having a card game in the works (jokes abound across the net of every card reading “You Died” or “Prey Slaughtered”). The biggest news lately on that front is that Witcher III's in-game tabletop card experience Gwent getting its own standalone release. There are plenty of instances where the two worlds collide and are in fact completely intertwined, like Pokemon in its digital and physical card game versions. Clearly the folks hanging out down at the local gaming / comics shop picking up anime and playing a few rounds of Magic: The Gathering are also going to be interested in games like Pillars Of Eternity or Witcher III (we're also those people filling your Facebook feed with Game Of Thrones memes and arguments from Sunday night through Monday morning). It's obvious why there's so much overlap between the two groups. Even before there was a Final Fantasy, there were gaming enthusiasts gathered around tables rolling dice and moving miniatures across boards. There has long been a crossover between the digital and tabletop mediums, even though the PC/console-focused sites tend not to mention it all that frequently.