There’s really very little that can be done if the trigger happens at the wrong moment and more often than not, it’s the wrong moment. The problem with that is, the undead are still advancing, there are still plenty of civilians on the map and they move more slowly than the undead. At that time, Elhant dismisses his entire army for story reasons and orders them to retreat as well. Eventually, you get to advance through the level close enough to the origination point of the undead that something triggers. Civilians are running away from the undead and Elhant, the hero and protagonist of the game, is supposed to save them. It’s just isn’t really explained to you what you’re supposed to do. I installed it, but couldn’t watch the intro because the videos don’t play on my machine. I bought the game on GOG.com because it was heavily discounted and I got the itch. It’s all the way at the end of the trailer, and it’s short, but it hints at it. Heck, even the trailer for the game was giving hints of aerial combat with actual, modern airplanes in a fantasy world.
I’m pretty sure there was a part in one of the missions I played, where an actual, moving, in-game tank was fighting off a horde of rats or goblins or something. I may have even been playing a demo, for all I can remember. I can’t find a great video on YouTube, but this one shows the intro to Heroes of Annihilated Empires, so it should show you what I’m talking about.īack then, I watched that video several times and played through the first mission or two. It freaking sounds like a tank rolled out of the portal and turned on headlights! There’s a portal opening behind him, a noise, followed by a strange metallic sound and then a click of electric lights turning on and illuminating the skeleton. There’s a lone skeletal warrior wandering around the battlefield. What is remarkable and what piqued my interest in the first place was what happens after the battle. It looks cool and all, but it’s nothing remarkable or unseen. None of the videos in the version I bought off of GOG.com are willing to play on my machine, so I’m speaking purely from memory (and YouTube). That’s the intro I watched back then, mind you. The intro starts in an epic fashion, with an elven civilization fighting off an army of the undead. I can’t say for sure, but considering Heroes of Annihilated Empires was released in 2006, and that was still well into the age of piracy for me, I can pretty confidently guess I gave this game a shot as soon as it was released. Now, years later, I can honestly say I was completely wrong. It had this original and rarely used theme that I really wanted to explore fully.
Heroes of Annihilated Empires was a game I played for a bit years ago and kept thinking about playing again ever since. I was tricked! There is no other way to say it.