SpellForce - Platinum Edition

SpellForce: The Order of Dawn is a 2003 real-time strategy and role-playing video game, developed by Phenomic Game Development and published by Encore, Inc for Microsoft Windows. First released in Europe on November 11, 2003, the game takes place within a high-fantasy world in the years following a devastating cataclysmic event, with the game's main campaign focusing on the plight of an immortal warrior who seeks to investigate growing troubles amongst some of the islands that have formed. The game combines traditional role-playing elements such as taking on quests, equipping characters and improving them with levelling up, alongside real-time strategy elements that focus on gathering resources to construct bases and train an army of units to help in defeating opposing forces, with the game featuring a selection of factions to control. Alongside the game's story campaign, players can also engage in skirmish battles using any faction against the AI, and multiplayer matches against online opponents. Order of Dawn received favourable reviews from critics for its style of gameplay and its graphics, though with criticism for the voice-acting and plot choices for players. Despite this, the game proved popular and went on to form the SpellForce series, with Order of Dawn receiving two expansions under JoWooD Productions that featured stand-alone stories and new features: SpellForce: The Breath of Winter in June 2004, and SpellForce: Shadow of the Phoenix in November that same year. Two sequels were later released: SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars in 2006 and SpellForce 3 in 2017.