The stories, or even the setting, never feels particularly important, or fleshed out. The story is told in the form of a paragraph or two of text between each level, with an accompanying picture, and a few paragraphs at the start of the campaign. In the Darklords Rising version of Warlords 3 there are 5 campaigns in total, detailing the return of the evil Lord Bane, and his attempt to take over the world. Well, maybe the two-headed dwarf mutant, but just barely. It has most of the popular fantasy creatures in it, elves, orcs, dragons, daemons… There are 95 units in the game, representing the different races in Etheria and their armies, and not a single one of them feel very original. A fantasy world that really takes the kitchen sink approach to world-building. Warlords 3 takes place in the fantasy world of Etheria. The fact that I’m struggling to even remember the name of the setting, despite looking it up just 5 min ago should say something about how memorable it really is. This is actually what the game looks like in action Story & setting Just for full disclosure, I did play Warlords 3 when it was relatively new, but it was never a game I owned. This review is for the GOG-release of Warlords 3. The main Warlords series was finally re-released digitally on GOG in late 2019 (all apart from Warlords IV). It might not have had the same impact on the industry as those other games, but there are still people who hold it in very high regard. Yet despite this, Warlords 3 did well enough for itself. 1997 was probably a tough year for a PC strategy game to be released in, as the tail end of 96 had given us Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and Command & Conquer: Red Alert, and a few months before those, we got Civilization 2. Warlords 3 was originally released back in 1997, under the name Warlords III: Reign of Heroes, and an updated version was released a year later, called Warlords III: Darklords Rising, which added a bunch more content. And quite often, these old games end up feeling clunky, unintuitive, limited and frustrating. Sometimes you find a game that’s just as good as the day it was released, in a few rare cases the games turn out to be even more fun to play a few decades later than they did at release, because you’re no longer going in with the expectations you would have had back at launch. Playing old games can be an interesting experience.
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