I picked up the PC version of Magic The Gather... the PC version of "DotP" a few weeks back, after I watched a "WTF" episode from Totalbiscuit about it that sparked my interest. The game looked nice and clean, with mechanics that were easy to understand but looked to have a lot of depth and opportunity for strategy and intricate tactics.
Way back when I was a kid in school I dabbled a tiny little bit in playing Magic, but I was never really grabbed by the game due to its lack of loud animated explosions or women getting nekkid.
Since then I have grown older. and my voracious appetite for undressed females and things going "boom" has been bountifully tended to, which means that I am now in a better position to take in the simpler joys of a card battling game.
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| It may not look as adrenaline fueled as a game of MW3 but when the cards start to fly things get real intense real fast |
DotP offers a few different ways to get your card battles on. You can play through three different campaigns, which pit you against different opponents with different decks of cards. As you pummel these troublesome spell slingers into submission you'll gain access to their decks, thus building up your Magic card arsenal.
The campaigns also present a number of "challenge" scenarios, in which you are tasked with winning a match in a single round from a given position. These challenges start off easy enough for even the most dim witted Harry Potter wannabe to win, but soon you'll be ready to snap your magic wand in frustration as the difficulty ramps up and the puzzles get increasingly fiendish.
